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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 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

  • January 19, 2017

    "I know the guys at Goldman Sachs. They have total, total control over Cruz. Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton."
    -- Trump, February 19, 2016

    "Trump Fills Cabinet with Goldman Sachs 'Villians'"
    -- Port Huron Times Herald, January 5, 2017

  • January 18, 2017

    "I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world."
    -- Vladimir Putin, on Trump and Russia's prostitutes

  • January 17, 2017

    "We're going to have insurance for everybody...Much less expensive and much better."
    -- Trump on his replacement for Obamacare

  • January 15, 2017

    "I believe in trying to work with people. It will be hard...I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. They helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton."
    -- Rep. John Lewis

    "Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime-infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk -- no action or results. Sad!
    -- Trump, on Lewis, a member of Congress since 1987

    "Definition of bad strategy; Trump saying 50 year fighter for civil rights John Lewis is 'all talk' over Martin Luther King holiday weekend."
    -- Matthew Dowd, chief political analyst for ABC News