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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.

  • June 01, 2012

    "The most overrated political commentator of all time. Strictly third rate."
    -- Donald Trump, on George Will, 2012

    "This guy is totally overrated. A third-rate talent."
    -- Donald Trump, on Garry Trudeau, 1988

  • May 30, 2012

    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Kurt Anderson
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Rosie O'Donnell
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on David Letterman
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Les Moonves
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Karl Rove
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Ari Fleischer
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Sascha Baron Cohen
    "Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Gov. Ed Rendell
    "    Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Seth Myers
    "    Third-rate." -- Donald Trump, on Gloria Allred

  • May 29, 2012

    "A bunch of lying scum."
    -- Fox News president Roger Ailes on New York Times reporters

  • May 23, 2012

    "Come on, Mitt, think."
    -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, on Romney's assertion that Russia is the U.S.'s number one geopolitical foe

  • May 22, 2012

    "He was a happy-go-lucky guy. He was a leader of the prankster group. So what?... I think in terms of politics, if this is the worst thing that the American people find out about Mitt Romney in the next five months, he is going to be a very happy man."
    -- WSJ opinion page editor Paul Gigot

  • May 21, 2012

    "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine [of no more big government] in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and birpartisanship. It's enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons. Probably, it runs much deeper than that."
    -- Mitt Romney

  • May 18, 2012

    "I'm not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."
    -- Mitt Romney, standing by his earlier comment that Obama wanted to make America "a less Christian nation"

  • May 17, 2012

    "The long term goal of the homosexual movement is to get every little boy to grab his ankles and every little girl to give it a try. They will not rest until every one of our children at least gets to try, has the opportunity and maybe is forced to at least once experience homosexual acts."
    -- Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, also stating that Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage "lends some credence" to claims that the president is gay

  • May 16, 2012

    "We shall not have any course but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November. This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue."
    -- Ponch McPhee, editor of the Green County, Virginia, Republican Committee newsletter

  • May 15, 2012

    "To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do."
    -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager

    "It was vicious."
    -- Philip Maxwell, another witness

    "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a lot since then."
    -- John Lauber, the student who was attacked

    "You know, I don't, I don't remember that particular incident."
    -- Mitt Romney