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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • December 02, 2016

    "I'm Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment... National Review and The Weekly Standard are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them as well. No one reads them or cares what they say."
    -- chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon, to a Daily Beast reporter in 2013

  • December 01, 2016

    "You are a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is visible in every way.... Parkistanis are one of the most intelligent people. I am ready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems. It will be an honor and I will personally do it...Please convey to the Pakistani people that they are amazing and all Pakistanis I have known are exceptional people."

    -- president-elect Trump in recent phone conversation with prime minister Nawaz Sharif, according to Pakistan-released transcript

  • November 30, 2016

    "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag. If they do, there must be consequences -- perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail."
    -- Donald Trump

  • November 29, 2016

    "Look, [Trump] will have an open mind about [climate change], but he has his default position which -- most of it is bunk."
    -- incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus

  • November 28, 2016

    "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
    -- Donald Trump

  • November 27, 2016

    "A fraud."
    -- incoming WH chief of staff Reince Priebus on Wisconsin recount

    "A scam...Just a way for Jill Stein...to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous effort."
    -- Donald Trump

    "This is all going into a dedicated and segregated account so that it can only be spent on the recount."
    -- Jill Stein


  • November 25, 2016

    "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, Satan. That's power. It only helps us when [liberals and the media] get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
    -- chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon, in a post-election interview

  • November 24, 2016

    "The edge quality of 'alt' is one of its strengths, in my opinion. It connotes grunge, electronica, punk rock, youth, and vitality -- and not fuddy-duddy conservatism...It was 'Alt' -- an attempt at a new beginning...a revolt against mainstream 'conservatism,' George W. Bush, and the neocons."
    -- Richard B. Spencer, who coined "Alt Right" in 2008 to rebrand white supremacy, and now heads the National Policy Institute, which is "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States, and around the world."

  • November 23, 2016

    "You may be upset Trump has signaled he will not 'persecute Hillary,' but... this was brilliant strategic positioning. When Trump looks at an apple, he doesn't just see the apple, he sees the soil and the tree and the farmer and the rain. Trust him."
    -- talk-show host Bill Mitchell

  • November 22, 2016

    "America was, until this last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us."
    -- Richard B. Spencer in final address of day-long alt-right conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday

    "It's not a group I want to energize, and I disavow them. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why."
    -- Donald Trump on neo-Nazi alt-right supporters