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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 13, 2016

    "We need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law. Because we've had eight years of a president -- he's an autocrat, he just does it on his own. He ignores Congress, and every single day we're slipping into anarchy."
    -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage

    "I believe that Hillary Clinton will set a standard in this country that will lead to more sexual assaults against women because she will be setting an anti-biblical agenda."
    -- former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann

  • October 12, 2016

    "The election is going to be rigged...The only way we can lose...is if cheating goes on."
    -- Donald Trump, 2016

    "This election is a total sham and travesty. We are not a democracy."
    -- Donald Trump, on the night of Obama's re-election in 2012

  • October 10, 2016

    "I am very embarrassed by it and I hate it. But it's locker room talk and it's one of those things... Frankly, you hear these things. They are said... And certainly I am not proud of it, but that was something that happened... But I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do... And they have respect for me."
    -- Donald Trump on 2005 Access Hollywood tape

    "He's apologized for it, and it seems to me we should move on."
    -- Rudy Giuliani

    "Every woman knows a version of Donald Trump."
    -- Lindy West

  • October 10, 2016

    "She has tremendous hate in her heart."
    -- Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton

  • October 09, 2016

    "We're not choosing a Sunday school teacher... I think the American people know exactly who Donald Trump is... He speaks from the heart."
    -- former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on 2005 Trump comments on women

    "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. I don't even wait... And when you're a star, they let you do it -- you can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."
    -- Donald Trump, 2005

  • October 08, 2016

    "The deplorables are starting to wonder if government has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew's intensity to make an exaggerated point on climate... Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims."
    -- Matt Drudge tweets

    "It's hit Haiti, so it's an opportunity for the Clinton Foundation, once again, to enrich themselves by another trip down there."
    -- Rush Limbaugh on Hurricane Matthew

  • 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