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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.

  • July 16, 2016

    "We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported...Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail...Monitor the mosques. If you're not prepared to monitor the mosques, this whole thing is a joke."
    -- Newt Gingrich

  • July 15, 2016

    "It's a little difficult because of where she is...because of, you know, it's a long ways away."
    -- Donald Trump on why Sarah Palin won't be attending the GOP convention

  • July 14, 2016

     "I would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend."
    -- GOP digital strategist Will Ritter, on skipping the party's convention

  • July 13, 2016

    "Well, I've been saying, even against me the system is rigged. When I ran for president I could see what is going on with the system, and the system is rigged... I can really relate it very much to myself."
    -- Donald Trump, asked by Bill O'Reilly what he would say to African Americans who feel the system is biased against them

    "Bernie's endorsement becomes Exhibit A in our rigged system."
    -- Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller

  • July 12, 2016

    "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out Black Lives Matter punks. Real America is coming after you."
    -- former Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh, tweeting in the wake of the Dallas shootings

  • July 11, 2016

    "You two wouldn't know how to write a good story about me if you tried. Dream on."
    -- Donald Trump to two NY Times reporters who had asked him to comment on his management style

  • July 09, 2016

    "Saddam Hussein throws a little gas. Everyone goes crazy, 'Ooh, he's using gas!'"
    -- Donald Trump, on the largest chemical weapons attack on civilians in history

  • July 08, 2016

    "[He] will not be attending the convention and will instead take his kids to watch some dumpster fires across the state, all of which enjoy more popularity than the current front-runners".
    -- spokesman for Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse on his summer plans

  • July 07, 2016

    "I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you'd be good and better and I'd be good and better."
    -- Roger Ailes to Gretchen Carlson, according to her recently filed sexual harassment lawsuit

  • July 06, 2016

    "[Terrorists] have dreams at night, and their dreams are that Hillary Clinton becomes president of our country."
    -- Donald Trump

    "You know what [Saddam Hussein] did? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights, they didn't talk. They were a terrorist, it was over.
    -- Donald Trump