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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • September 21, 2015

    George Stephanopoulos:
    "Was president Obama born in the United States?"

    Trump:
    "I don't get into it, George...It's just something I don't talk about."

    Trump, 2012:
    "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud."

    Trump, 2012:
    "His mother was never in the hospital, they don't even know what hospital it was. His grandmother says he was born in Kenya...I'm not fanning flames."

    Trump, 2011:
    "I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding."

    Trump, 2011:
    "He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one but there's something on that, maybe religion. Maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don't know."

  • September 20, 2015

    "That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England."
    -- Sarah Palin on Ahmed Mohamed's creation

  • September 19, 2015

    "We'll have more of everything."
    -- Trump on his presidency

  • September 18, 2015

    New Hampshire man to Trump at event:
    "We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question: When can we get rid of them?"

    Trump in response:
    "We're going to be looking at a lot of things. A lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and a lot of other things."

  • September 17, 2015

    "There's a sophomoric quality...His visceral response to attack people on their appearance...my goodness, that happened in junior high. Are we not way above that?"
    -- Rand Paul on Donald Trump

    "I never attacked him on his look, and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there."
    -- Trump's response

  • September 16, 2015

    "Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't legally married and, ya know, her father..."
    -- Trump on his daughter Ivanka

  • September 15, 2015

    "Everybody who attacks me is doomed."
    -- Donald Trump

  • September 14, 2015

    "So up there in Alaska, across the way Russia. You know, there is a name for this taking advantage of America. There is a Russian name for that. And it is called 'fortushka.' And that means Obama's window of opportunity. So as Obama leads from behind the skirt of his right-hand man, Valerie Jarrett, then it's up to Congress to close that window. He may propose. You dispose, Congress. You gotta be in it to win it, because we want peace. With unapologetic red, white, and blue, we'll have peace."
    -- Sarah Palin on the Iran treaty

  • September 13, 2015

    "It's bigger than Air Force One, which is a step down from this in every way."
    -- Donald Trump, on his airplane

  • September 12, 2015

    "We'll have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning. Believe me."
    -- Donald Trump