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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.

  • October 07, 2016

    "Badly depleted... Old and tired... In a really bad state... Totally unprepared."
    -- Donald Trump on the U.S. military

    "We are more capable, better trained, equipped, better led and more lethal than any other ground force in the world today... Our enemies know full well we can destroy them. We can destroy any enemy, we can destroy them anywhere, and we can destroy them any time."
    -- Gen. Mark A. Milley, chief of staff of the U.S. Army

  • October 06, 2016

    "He used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used, and he did it brilliantly."
    -- Gov. Mike Pence, on Trump

    "I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them."
    -- Donald Trump

    "I did all the tax preparation. He never saw the product until it was presented to him for signature... As far as I know, he didn't understand the code. Nor would he have had the time and the patience to learn the provisions. That's a lifetime of experience."
    -- longtime Trump tax accountant Jack Mitnick

  • October 05, 2016

    "You know what? The fact that somebody can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a foreign leader’s geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s way."
    -- Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, defending his unfamiliarity with world affairs

  • October 04, 2016

    "When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it."
    -- Donald Trump, speaking to veterans about PTSD

  • October 03, 2016

    "Are you the right person to level this charge [about Hillary Clinton's husband cheating on her]?...You have your own infidelity charge.
    -- NBC's Chuck Todd to Rudy Giuliani

    "Well, everybody does."
    -- Giuliani

  • October 02, 2016

    "She's nasty, but I can be nastier than she can ever be."
    -- Trump on Clinton

  • October 01, 2016

    "That was a big moment for me, and... probably will be something I will always remember. He really took the high ground where he had the opportunity to go very, very low. And I'm proud of him for doing that. I mean, I'm really proud of him for doing that...He could have just crushed her."
    -- Eric Trump, on his father not bringing up Bill Clinton's infidelity during the debate

    "If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller (which it will be anyway)."
    -- Donald Trump in The Art of the Comeback




  • September 30, 2016

    "Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents...Whatever you do...resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump."


    -- USA Today editorial

  • September 29, 2016

    "The Google just came out, and it was the first big post-debate poll, and we're doing very well."
    -- Donald Trump

  • September 28, 2016

    "Lester is a Democrat. It's a phony system."
    -- Donald Trump on debate moderator Lester Holt

    "Lester Holt is a Republican. How could [Trump] say such a thing that just, black and white, is factually incorrect?"
    -- journalist Mark Halperin to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway

    "We're asking why he lied about Lester Holt."
    -- Mike Brzezinski

    "He didn't lie. A lie would mean he knew the man's party registration."
    -- Conway