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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.

  • February 28, 2017

    "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."
    -- Trump

  • February 27, 2017

    "@realDonaldTrump is busy meeting w/governors of the nation. You know, people that actually get things done, not just pretend to and in costume."
    -- former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson, responding on Twitter to Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel tweeting "Hey @realDonaldTrump u up?"

  • February 26, 2017

    "Everything that you're reading."
    -- Reince Priebus on the biggest misconception about the Trump Administration

    "I think if you look at...how they portray the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, and how they're portraying the administration, it's always wrong."
    -- Steven Bannon on the media

  • February 25, 2017

    "Fake news media knowingly doesn't tell the truth. A great danger to our country. The failing New York Times has become a joke. Likewise CNN. Sad!"
    -- Trump, on banning particular major media organizations from a press briefing

    "Obamacare covers very few people."
    -- Trump, the same day

  • February 24, 2017

    "This is an all-star Cabinet."
    -- Sen. Ted Cruz

    "The best Cabinet in the history of Cabinets"
    -- Reince Priebus

    "If you look at these Cabinet nominees, they were selected for a reason, and that is deconstruction... of the administrative state."
    -- Steve Bannon

  • February 23, 2017

    "When you say 'the inner cities,' are you going to include the CBC in conversations with your urban agenda?"
    -- April Ryan, WH correspondent and American Urban Radio Network bureau chief, at Trump press conference

    "Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours? Set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus. I think it's great."
    -- Trump in response to Ryan, who is black

    "Hi Donald Trump. We're the CBC. We sent you a letter of January 19, but you never wrote us back. Sad!"
    -- CBC tweet the next day

  • February 22, 2017

    "You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this?...They took in large numbers [of refugees], they're having problems like they never thought possible."
    -- Trump

    "Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?...Last year there were (approximately) 50% more murders just in Orlando/Orange [County] in Florida, where Trump spoke the other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad."
    -- former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt

  • February 21, 2017

    "Like, lots of things are done with uranium."
    -- Donald Trump

  • February 20, 2017

    "The press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy."
    -- Nixon to Kissinger, 1972

  • February 19, 2017

    "The media lies."
    -- Trump, 1/5/17

    "Media is fake...Dishonest."
    -- Trump, 1/9/17

    "A lot of the media is actually the opposition party...They're very dishonest people."
    -- Trump, 2/1/17

    "The public doesn't believe you people any more."
    -- Trump on media, 2/16/17

    "The fake news media (failing New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS, CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"
    -- Trump, 2/17/17

    "If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press...The first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator, I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history."
    -- Sen. John McCain, 2/19/17