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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 07, 2017

    "We're going to have a very, very strict ban."
    -- Trump, 1/28, on executive order

    "It's a 90-day ban."
    -- Sean Spicer, 1/29

    "This is a ban..."
    Kellyanne Conway, 1/29

    "First of all, it's not a travel ban."
    -- Spicer, 1/31, annoyed at a reporter's question about "the ban"

    "Everybody is arguing about whether or not it is a ban. Call it what you want..."
    -- Trump tweet, 2/1

  • February 06, 2017

    "I like a lot of books. I like reading books. I don't have the time to read very much now in terms of the books, but I like reading it."
    -- Trump, on books

    "I like bullets, or I like as little at possible."
    -- Trump, on his briefing papers

    "We have some big enemies out there."
    -- Trump, on what he's learned from briefing papers

  • February 05, 2017

    "The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous...Many bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country."
    -- Trump tweets re judge temporarily blocking travel ban

  • February 04, 2017

    "[Celebrity Apprentice is] a total disaster...I want to pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings."
    -- President Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast

    "Hey Donald, I have a great idea. Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV, because you're such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job. And then people can finally sleep comfortably again. Hm?"
    -- Schwarzenegger in response

  • February 03, 2017

    "I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre."
    -- Kellyanne Conway, referring to an event that did not occur

  • February 01, 2017

    "Today I am keeping another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court to be of the United States Supreme Court."
    -- Trump announcement

  • February 01, 2017

    "One of my proudest moments was when I told Obama, 'You will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.'"
    -- Sen. Mitch McConnell, 2016

    "Apparently there's a new standard now, which is to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all. I think that's something the American people simply will not tolerate."
    -- McConnell, 2017

  • January 31, 2017

    "If you are part of Team Trump, you walk around with these gaping, seeping wounds every single day."
    -- Kellyanne Conway on being criticized by the press

  • January 31, 2017

    "At present, I am not convinced that...the Executive Order is lawful.... The Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the Executive Order, unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so."
    -- acting attorney general Sally Yates in a memo on Monday

    "[She] has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States."
    -- White House statement on her being fired that night

  • January 30, 2017

    "It's working out very nicely."
    -- Trump on his executive order barring refugees and travelers