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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.

  • April 05, 2025

    "Only the weak will fail!"
    -- Trump post, yesterday

  • April 03, 2025

    "There is a constitutional path. You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that's a high bar."
    -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked if there is a legal constitutional path for Trump to seek a third term

  • April 03, 2025

    "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."
    -- Trump, announcing new tariffs

    "The administration's tariffs have no basis in logic and they go against the basis of our two nations' partnership. This is not the act of a friend."
    -- Australian PM Anthony Albanese

  • April 02, 2025

    "We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%...[There's] a good possibility that we could do it without military force [but] I don't take anything off the table."
    -- Trump

    "How successful would anyone in the business world be if their opening gambit was, 'Hi, asshole. Sell me your company or I will send my goons to talk to your mother'? I guess that's what the young Donald learned at the knee of Fred Trump."
    -- Tina Brown

  • April 01, 2025

    "I'll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged."
    -- Trump

  • March 31, 2025

    "I'm not joking...There are methods by which you could do it."
    -- Trump, acknowledging that he might seek a third term

    "We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court."
    -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, on a way to push back against legal challenges to Trump policies

     

  • March 30, 2025

    "The birth rate is very low in almost every country, and unless that changes Civilization will disappear...Nothing seems to be turning that around. Humanity is dying."
    -- Elon Musk

  • March 29, 2025

    "The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over."
    -- Canada's PM Mark Carney

    "Our message to Denmark is simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland."
    -- America's VP JD Vance

  • March 28, 2025

    ABC News:
    "An unthinkable breach of national security."
    CBS News:
    "An unthinkable breach of national security."
    MSNBC:
    "An unthinkable breach of national security."
    CNN:
    "An unthinkable breach of national security."
    Fox News:
    "We've all texted the wrong person before."

  • March 27, 2025

    "I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"
    -- Trump, first asked about The Atlantic's Signal group chat story

    "You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes...This is a guy who peddles garbage."
    -- SecDef Pete Hegseth on Jeffrey Goldberg being invited into chat

    "It wouldn't surprise me if Goldberg sneaked his way in."
    -- Fox host Jesse Watters

    "This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater...."
    -- WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt