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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • December 28, 2016

    "I have an absolute way of defeating ISIS."
    -- Trump, during the campaign

    "ISIS will be gone if I am president. And they'll be gone quickly."
    -- Trump, during the campaign

    "I know more about ISIS than the generals do."
    -- Trump, during the campaign

    "All I can tell you, it is a foolproof way of winning."
    -- Trump, during the campaign

    "I don't think they have a strategy. I think that what they know, which is important, is that they are going to need a strategy."
    -- adviser Newt Gingrich, on Trump and transition team's plan for defeating ISIS

  • December 27, 2016

    "You have the CIA, the FBI, the Director of National Intelligence, now a number of Republicans, saying it's clear that the Russians hacked."
    -- John Dickerson to Kellyanne Conway

    "I'll tell you what the un-intelligence briefing we all know is;  Hillary Clinton and her team spent $1.2 billion, lost an election they should have won. Didn't see us coming."
    -- Conway, in response

    "This wouldn't have happened if Hillary Clinton didn't have a secret server."
    -- RNC communications director Sean Spicer on Russian hacking

  • December 26, 2016

    "She has to go to jail."
    -- Trump, on Clinton, before election

    "Nah, forget it. That plays great before the election, now we don't care."
    -- Trump, on Clinton, after election

  • December 25, 2016

    "[The CIA. FBI and the Director of National Intelligence have reached a] strong concensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election."
    -- CIA Director John Brennan memo

    "Where is the evidence? [They should turn] over evidence to we, the American people."
    -- Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway

    "They should stand in front of a camera and make the case."
    -- RNC chair Reince Priebus

    "[Intelligence agencies] are talking to the media. That undermines our national security, our intelligence operations."
    -- Kellyanne Conway

  • December 24, 2016

    "Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all."
    -- Trump to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski

    "There is not going to be [an arms race]."
    -- incoming Trump press secretary Sean Spicer

    "We have in incoming president who has the kind of maturity of a five-year-old, wrapped in a massive ego. And to have that just a second away from a nuclear trigger is very, very scary."
    -- Sen. Jeff Merkley

    "Nobody believed he would win except for us."
    -- Vladimir Putin

  • December 23, 2016

    "Drain the swamp!"
    -- Donald Trump, pre-election

    "Funny how that term caught on, isn't it? Somebody said, 'Drain the swamp,' I said 'Oh, that's so hokey. That is so terrible.'"
    -- Trump, post-election

    "If you had to put [Trump's promises] in a chronological order, drain the swamp is probably somewhere down at the bottom."
    -- Corey Lewandowski, Wednesday

    "He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore."
    -- Newt Gingrich, Wednesday

    "Someone incorrectly stated that the phrase 'DRAIN THE SWAMP' was no longer being used by me."
    -- Trump, Thursday

    "He intends to drain the swamp."
    -- Gingrich, Thursday

  • December 22, 2016

    "The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy."
    -- Trump, before election

    "The Electoral College is actually genius."
    -- Trump, after election

  • December 21, 2016

    "It's largely a rigged system."
    -- Trump, before election

    "You've been hearing me say it's a rigged system, but now I don't say it any more, because I won. Now I don't care."
    -- Trump, after election

  • December 20, 2016

    "Funny how that term caught on, isn't it? I told everyone I hated it. Somebody said 'Drain the swamp,' I said 'Oh that's so hokey. That is so terrible.' I said 'All right I'll try it.' So a month ago I said 'Drain the swamp' -- place went crazy...Then I started saying it like I meant it... I started loving it."
    -- Trump at "thank you" rally

  • December 19, 2016

    "You people were vicious, violent, screaming 'Where's the wall? We want the wall!' Screaming 'Prison! Prison! Lock her up!' I mean you were going crazy...You were nasty and mean...But now, you're mellow and you're cool and you're not nearly as vicious or violent, right?...Now you're sort of laying back...You're basking in the glory of victory."
    -- Trump at "thank you" rally in Orlando

    "Lock her up! Lock her up!"
    -- crowd, in response

    "Oh, that's so terrible."
    -- Trump