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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.

  • June 04, 2016

    "Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you're a son of a bitch. Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won't be killed if you don't do anything wrong."
    -- Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte on the country's high murder rate for journalists, especially those investigating government corruption

  • June 03, 2016

    "There is no drought...They're taking the water and shoving it out to sea...They're trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish...We're going to solve your water problem...If I win, believe me, we're going to start opening up the water so that you can have your farmers survive. So that your job market will get better."
    -- Donald Trump speaking in California

  • June 02, 2016

    "I have a judge in the Trump University civil case, Gonzalo Curiel, who is very unfair...who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater...Totally biased...Who happens to be, we believe, Mexican -- which is great, I think that's fine...An Obama pick. Totally biased -- hates Trump."
    -- Donald Trump

  • June 01, 2016

    "I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president."
    -- Donald Trump, March 13, 2008

  • May 31, 2016

    "There is nobody less of a fascist than Donald Trump."
    -- Donald Trump

    "He's not Hitler."
    -- Melania Trump

  • May 29, 2016

    "Suggesting, actually lying in suggestions to the world that we were wrong to prove that we would eradicate evil in World War II. That America was wrong to respond to unprovoked deadly attacks on Pearl Harbor."
    -- Sarah Palin on Obama's speech at Hiroshima Peace Memorial

  • May 28, 2016

    "This opens the door with all kinds of issues with men deciding one day they want to be women and then switching back the next day."
    -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, on Obama directive allowing transgender students to choose which bathroom to use

  • May 27, 2016

    "I will be surprised if [Trump] puts [his tax returns out] -- I wouldn't understand them, so how are the American people going to?"
    -- Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort

  • May 26, 2016

    "Get him out. Get him out. Out, out, out, out! Don't hurt him -- I say that for the television cameras. Do not hurt him, even though he's a bad person. Is there any place more fun to be than a Trump rally?"
    -- Donald Trump, as protester is escorted out

  • May 25, 2016

    "I don't bring [Vince Foster's death] up because I don't know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don't do that because I don't think it's fair."
    -- Donald Trump

    "To be clear, the notion that this was a murder is a fiction, borne of delusion, untethered to reality and contradicted by evidence reviewed in at least six investigations -- one of them by Ken Starr, hardly a Bill Clinton defender. To say otherwise is ridiculous and frankly, shameful."
    -- CNN anchor Jake Tapper