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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.

  • August 28, 2026

    "What is the cure for measles? The cure for measles is chicken soup and Vitamin A, and neither of those things can be patented."
    -- RFK Jr. in 2021 in Lancaster, PA, where two people recently died of measles

  • August 27, 2026

    "She really liked me, I will tell you."
    -- Trump, on Dolly Parton

  • August 26, 2026

    332 million+
    -- number of books distributed to children for free by Dolly's Imagination Library over the last 30 years

  • August 25, 2026

    "It's a country that doesn't have a military... To think that they're going to go to go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the US, I think it's foolish on their part."
    -- Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy on Canada, whose soldiers fought in Afghanistan

    "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, in that we don't expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer."
    -- Trump

    "We've recognized from the start that America has changed."
    -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

  • August 24, 2026

    "The people of Washington DC, the greater Capitol Region, all love this idea... Everybody I've met has said, 'Please, please, do this again next year!'"
    -- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, on making the DC grand prix an annual event

  • August 23, 2026

    "Maybe at some point, but right now I think the situation is so good. But maybe at some point."
    -- Trump, on reopening negotiations with Iran

    "I know Kim Jong Un very well. And he's going to be fine."
    -- Trump

  • August 22, 2026

    "This grass is the highest quality. It was given, free of charge, by Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts. And Scotts is a great company. They actually contributed to my campaign."
    -- Trump, showing off new Marine One landing pad area

  • August 21, 2026

    "At the Department of War we do training, not trannies."
    -- SecDef Pete Hegseth

    "We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand."
    -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

    "I'm very good at flagpoles."
    -- Trump

  • August 20, 2026

    "Maybe at some point, but right now I think the situation is so good. But maybe at some point."
    -- Trump, on reopening negotiations with Iran

    "I know Kim Jong Un very well. And he's going to be fine."
    -- Trump

  • August 19, 2026

    "Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea."
    -- Trump