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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.

  • May 20, 2014

    "I believe I did use the 'N' word in reference to the current occupant of the White House. For this, I do not apologize -- he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."
    -- Wolfeboro, NH, Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who subsequently resigned

  • May 18, 2014

    "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that."
    -- Karl Rove on Hillary Clinton, last Thursday

    "No, no, no. Look, I'm not questioning her health. What I'm questioning is whether or not it's a done deal that she's running."
    -- Karl Rove on HIllary Clinton, yesterday

  • May 16, 2014

    "These accidents are things which are always happening...I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838...in 1894, 290 people died there. Take America, with all of its technology and everything. In 1907, 361 miners. These are usual things...In 1942, 1,549 miners died in China due to a mixture of gas and coal. Can you believe it?"
    -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on his country's worst-ever mining disaster, that killed 284 workers with 150 still missing

  • May 15, 2014

    "I haven't seen anything like that in quite a while. They were really going at it."
    -- Donald Trump, on NFL draft pick Michael Sam and his boyfriend kissing

  • May 14, 2014

    "I don't know why the girl had me say those things."
    -- Donald Sterling on V. Stiviano

  • May 13, 2014

    "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it."
    -- Sen. Marco Rubio, to George Stephanopoulos

    "I do."
    -- Rubio, when asked if he thinks he is ready for the presidency 

  • May 12, 2014

    "Has he done everything he can do to help minorities? I don't think so...He's great. But I don't think he's a good example for the children of Los Angeles."
    -- Donald Sterling on Magic Johnson

  • May 09, 2014

    "A mass exodus from government schools is the only way to preserve the souls and minds of children."
    -- columnist Cal Thomas

  • May 08, 2014

    "President Obama is going to do interviews with meteorologists all across the country about a new climate change report...I hope they ask him about Benghazi."
    -- Fox News host Dana Perino

  • May 07, 2014

    "I will sell them in the market."
    -- Boko Haram leader Abubaker Shekau on 223 Nigerian girls kidnapped by his group