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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.

  • January 29, 2017

    "Fake news!"
    -- Trump on the New York Times

  • January 28, 2017

    "Anger? There's plenty of anger right now. How can you have more?...The world is as angry as it gets....The world is a total mess."
    -- Trump, asked if suspending immigration from some Muslim countries will cause more anger among Muslims around the world

  • January 27, 2017

    "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while...The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work."
    -- chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon

  • January 26, 2017

    "There are millions of [illegal] votes, in my opinion."
    -- Trump, citing a Pew study

    "As I've noted before, voting integrity better in this election than ever before. Zero evidence of fraud."
    -- Pew study author David Becker, tweeting in response

    "He's groveling again...I will say this: Of those [illegal] votes cast, none of them come to me...They would all be for the other side...We have a lot to look into."
    -- Trump in response

    "All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake."
    -- Trump's attorneys, in December, arguing against recount efforts

  • January 25, 2017

    "Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak' into the public...Are we living in Nazi Germany?"
    -- Trump tweet

    "They sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."
    -- Trump on the media, speaking at CIA in front of Memorial Wall

    "People [who were listening to Trump] spend their lives trying to figure out what's true, so it's hard to make the case that the media created a feud with Trump. It just ain't so."
    -- CIA veteran John McLaughlin

    "He used the scene as a prop for another complaint about the media and another bit of braggadocio...That Trump made no mention of those whom that wall memorializes, made his performance doubly offensive."
    -- Paul Pillar, former National Intelligence Officer in charge of the Middle East and South Asia

    "What self-centered, irrational decision process got him to this travesty?"
    -- CIA veteran John MacGaffin

    "Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!"
    -- Trump tweet

  • January 24, 2017

    "I believe that we have to be honest with the American people, but I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts."
    -- White House press secretary Sean Spicer

  • January 23, 2017

    "We have a lot of smart people. I tell you what, one thing we've learned, we have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled."
    -- Trump

  • January 22, 2017

    "I have a running war with the media.They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth...We had a massive field of people [at the inauguration]...One of the networks showed an empty field and it said we drew 250,000 people...It's a lie...I love you."
    -- Trump speaking at the CIA

    "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period. Both in person and around the globe."
    -- WH press secretary Sean Spicer

    "A blatant, demonstrably false, lie... Not spin, or misrepresentation, or cutting a fine line. It's a deliberate lie."
    -- Jonathan V. Last in the Weekly Standard, on Spicer's statement

  • January 20, 2017

    "A national moment of celebration, but not a celebration of victory, a celebration of democracy."
    -- Sen. Roy Blount on Trump's inauguration, in his opening remarks

    Zero.
    -- number of times Trump used the word "democracy" in his inaugural address

    "At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America..."
    -- Trump 

    Zero.
    -- number of times Trump mentioned the Constitution in his address

  • January 20, 2017

    "I look forward to tomorrow. We're going to see something that is going to be so amazing."
    -- Donald Trump, last night