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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.

  • April 26, 2016

    "Obama has made a bold-faced effort to drive a wedge between the races. He paints a picture of envy to our black citizens and the envy drives hatred. And then he says to them, 'You've got it coming for free. These rich people owe you.' And on top of that he gives them free stuff, too. And that is just anti-American..."
    -- FL GOP Congressional candidate Mark Freeman

  • April 24, 2016

    "Even if Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he still can't go to the girl's bathroom."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz

  • April 22, 2016

    "People who get on the Trump bus are people that are very, very frustrated with their government as it's been. It doesn't matter what kind of person is the exterminator, they want the raccoons out of the basement...They give us a guy like Obama, and we've got to tolerate incompetence, we've had to tolerate his biases...[Obama is] a man who in every respect looks like he despises America. And this is disgusting."
    -- NY Trump campaign honorary co-chair Carl Paladino

  • April 21, 2016

    "Running for president is a significant sacrifice...There is almost no personal time...Time with my family is non-existent... Health and sleep are limited... The constant attacks never stop...My days are no longer my own..."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz in a fundraising email

    "Two words: Boo hoo."
    -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren in response

  • April 20, 2016

    "The Donald Trump campaign is incapable of running a lemonade stand."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz

  • April 19, 2016

    "We've lost our jobs. We've lost everything."
    -- Donald Trump on the U.S.

    "The Ayatollah Khomeini wants nuclear weapons to murder us."
    -- Ted Cruz on foreign policy

    "I don't think there is any long-term permanent peace solution. And I think pursuing that is the wrong thing to do."
    -- John Kasich on Israel and the Palestinians

    "Fear is taking over American politics. And the world is not far behind."
    -- Howard Fineman

  • April 18, 2016

    3/5
    -- Portion of calls to the IRS help line that went unanswered during last year's tax-filing season, according to Harper's Index

  • April 17, 2016

    "A sleazeball."
    -- Donald Trump on G.B. Trudeau

  • April 16, 2016

    "Billy Nye is as much a scientist as I am."
    -- Sarah Palin

  • April 15, 2016

    "I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a mosque? Very sad that he did not go."
    -- Donald Trump