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TWO DECADES OF WTF

Welcome to the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of insane, tragic, misguided, dishonest, inexplicable, and darkly hilarious comments by public figures. This is where reality comes when it wants its mind blown.

  • March 10, 2017

    "His tweet speaks for itself...If this happened, this would be the greatest abuse of power and overreach that's probably ever occurred in the executive branch."
    -- WH spokesperson Sarah Huckabee on Trump's wiretap accusation

    "You keep saying 'If, if, if.' The president of the United States said it was a fact...He said 'Just found out...' That's not an if..."
    -- Martha Raddatz

    "...Look, I think he's going off of information that he's seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential...He's talking about 'Could this have happened?' 'Did this happen?'"
    -- Huckabee

  • March 09, 2017

    "Trump has a pair of twos, at best. The IC has a royal flush."
    -- anonymous member of intelligence community, to a reporter

  • March 08, 2017

    "An act of mercy."
    -- House Speaker Paul Ryan on repealing Obamacare and replacing it with the GOP plan

  • March 07, 2017

    "There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land."

    -- HUD Secretary Ben Carson

     

    "Immigrants? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! Muthaf***a PLEASE!!!"
    -- Samuel L. Jackson in response

  • March 06, 2017

    "The publishers are presenting The Camp of Saints as a major event, and it probably is, in much the same sense that Mein Kampf was a major event."
    -- Kirkus, in 1973, reviewing the French novel in which Third World immigration leads to the end of Western Civilization

    "It's been almost a Camp of the Saints-type invasion into Central and then Western and Northern Europe."
    -- Steve Bannon, 2015

    "The whole thing in Europe is all about immigration. It's a global issue today... It's really an invasion. I call it the Camp of Saints."
    -- Steve Bannon, 2016

    "[The book] is shockingly racist, and to have the counselor to the president see this as one of his touchstones, I think, says volumes about his attitude."
    -- columnist and Fox News analyst Linda Chavez

  • March 05, 2017

    "Bad (or sick) guy!"
    -- Trump on Obama

  • March 04, 2017

    "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found."
    -- Trump

  • March 03, 2017

    "People hate it, but now they see that the end is coming, and they're saying, 'Oh, maybe we love it.' There's nothing to love. It's a disaster, folks."
    -- Trump on public support for Obamacare

    "I know we're now in a world of 'alternative facts,' but look at the facts in Kentucky...Three years after implementing the Affordable Care Act, our uninsured rate dropped from over 20 percent to 7 percent. Our uncompensated rate for providers dropped from like 25 percent to less than 5 percent...Not only is it working, it's creating jobs. It created 12,000 jobs in the first year..."
    -- former KY Gov. Steve Beshear

  • March 02, 2017

    "I never considered the question even a possibility. I thought, 'Oh, gee, I don't have the experience. I don't know enough.' And now I'm thinking, 'Oh.'"
    -- Oprah, when asked if she'd ever run for president

  • March 01, 2017

    "Boy, that is just not good."
    -- Trump, on viewing a slave auction block at the National Museum of African American History and Culture