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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • January 04, 2017

    "The so-called 'A' list celebrities are all wanting tix to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary; nothing. I want the people!"
    -- Donald Trump

    "This is not Woodstock."
    -- Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, on the difficulty of booking high-profile performers for the event

  • January 03, 2017

    "You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results...With all due respect, I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45-plus million people that follow him on social media -- that he can have a direct conversation. He doesn't have to have it funneled through the media...There's a new sheriff in town."
    -- incoming WH press secretary Sean Spicer, on Trump's intention to keep using Twitter to make major announcements

  • January 02, 2017

    "It is time for us to come together as one united people."
    -- Donald Trump, November 9th

    "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what do do. Love!"
    -- Donald Trump, December 31st

  • January 01, 2017

    "Thought it was going to be a smooth transition -- NOT!"
    -- Trump tweet

    "Oh, I think very, very smoothly. Very good. You don't think so?"
    -- Trump, six hours later, asked by reporters if the transition is going smoothly

  • December 31, 2016

    "In the little time that's left to me -- and I hope it will be months rather than years -- I just cling to the hope that the world doesn't turn upside down again as it did then, though there have been some ghastly developments, haven't there? I'm relieved I never had any children that I have to worry about."
    -- Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Joseph Goebbels

  • December 29, 2016

    "Obama has skipped over 50% of his intel briefings."
    -- Trump, in a false claim, Sept. 12, 2012

    "Fact -- Obama does not read his intelligence briefings nor does he get briefed in person by the CIA or DOD."
    -- Trump, in a false claim, Sept. 30, 2014

    "Obama has missed 58% of his intelligence briefings."
    -- Trump, in a false claim, Oct. 6, 2014

    "I am, like, a smart person."
    -- Trump, explaining why he skips most of his intelligence briefings, Dec. 11, 2016

  • 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