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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 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

  • September 27, 2016

    "I have the feeling that by the end of this evening, I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened."
    -- Hillary Clinton

    "Why not?"
    -- Donald Trump

  • September 26, 2016

    "Trump averaged one falsehood every three minutes and fifteen seconds...Clinton averaged one falsehood every 12 minutes..."
    -- POLITICO on fact-checking everything the candidates said for five days

  • September 25, 2016

    "Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever."
    -- Donald Trump

  • September 24, 2016

    "We want to get on with the campaign."
    -- Donald Trump, asked why he had acknowledged President Obama's American birth, after years of birtherism