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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, 2015

    "Ridiculous...A disgrace...[Our negotiators] didn't read The Art of the Deal. Most people did. They didn't."
    -- Donald Trump on Iran nuke agreement

  • July 15, 2015

    "They will be in such trouble...ISIS, believe me, I would take them out so fast."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 14, 2015

    "People need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in."
    -- Jeb Bush

    46.7
    -- Average hours-per-week worked by full-time employees, according to recent Gallup report

  • July 13, 2015

    "I'm, like, a really smart person."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 11, 2015

    "I would do things that would be so tough that I don't even know if they'd be around to come to the table... I would bomb the hell out of those oil fields [in Iraq]. I wouldn't send many troops, because you won't need them by the time I got finished."
    -- Donald Trump on his strategy for defeating ISIS

  • July 10, 2015

    "Grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God...I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America."
    -- Pope Francis, speaking in Bolivia

  • July 08, 2015

    "I'm for paying some taxes. But if we tax you at 100% then you've got zero percent liberty. If we tax you at 50% you are half slave, half free."
    -- Sen. Rand Paul

  • July 07, 2015

    "There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 05, 2015

    "Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."
    -- SC Justice Antonin Scalia in his gay marriage ruling dissent

  • July 01, 2015

    "I would probably comb my hair back. Why? Because this thing is too hard to comb. I wouldn't have time, because if I were in the White House, I'd be working my ass off."
    -- Donald Trump, when asked what he'd do differently if elected president