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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.

  • March 30, 2014

    "Sending a message out to people saying, 'It's okay. Stay fat. Get diabetes...Everybody dies. Lose your fingers.'"
    -- Joan Rivers on Lena Dunham

  • March 27, 2014

    "Ambassador, dear, you are lying. You are calling white as black and black as white."
    -- Ukrainian official Vasyl Filipchuk to Russian EU ambassador Vladimir Chizhov

    "He reminds me of a character from Dr. Strangelove."
    -- Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia, on Chizhov

  • March 26, 2014

    "I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. So when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork."
    -- Joni Ernst, in U.S. Senate campaign ad

  • March 25, 2014

    "I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored. And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it, because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored."
    -- former president Jimmy Carter

  • March 24, 2014

    "I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous?"
    -- CNN's Don Lemon, asking Mary Schiavo, former inspedtor general of the Department of Transportation, if Flight 370 could have been sucked into a black hole

  • March 21, 2014

    "The Holocaust is an event whose reality remains uncertain and, if it happened, it's uncertain how it happened."
    -- Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader

  • March 20, 2014

    "It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's Ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?"
    -- Fox News' Bill Hemmer

  • March 19, 2014

    "I hope it's not working. Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don't survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy."
    -- billionaire Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, on populist appeals critical of increasing wealth disparity

  • March 18, 2014

    "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of work, so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
    -- Rep. Paul Ryan

  • March 15, 2014

    "The hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities...should all be taken out and shot."
    -- Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute