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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.

  • December 12, 2024

    "Did you know, if somebody sets a foot -- just a foot, one foot, you don't need two -- on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America."
    -- Trump, misunderstanding what "birthright citizenship" is

  • December 11, 2024

    "Everybody on [the J6] committee... for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail."
    -- Trump, in interview

  • December 10, 2024

    "We're the only country that has it."
    -- Trump on birthright citizenship, which over 30 other countries, including Canada and Mexico, also have

  • December 09, 2024

     

    "I won on the border and I won on 'groceries.' It's a very simple word: 'groceries.' Like, almost -- you know, who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time."
    -- Trump

  • December 08, 2024

    "Joe Biden is a criminal and he's been a criminal for a long time. And you're a criminal, and the media, for not reporting it."
    -- Trump to Reuters' Jeff Mason

    "Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government."
    -- House Speaker Mike Johnson

    "If the FBI doesn't need to be cleaned out, what does?"
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham

  • December 07, 2024

    "We are going to do things that have been really needed for a long time. And we are gonna look at elections."
    -- Trump, upon being named Patriot of the Year by Fox

  • December 06, 2024

    "Donald Trump has never been about retribution."
    -- Rep. Jim Jordan, yesterday

    "If you put me back in the White House...America will be a free nation once again...And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state."
    -- Trump, March 2023

  • December 05, 2024

    "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as villains."
    -- Russell Vought, Trump pick as director of Office of Management and Budget, on civil servants

  • December 04, 2024

    "If the Democrats are going to play the pardon game then we should do the same thing. Trump can just blanket pardon all of us too."
    -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

  • December 03, 2024

    Zero.
    -- number of FBI directors who have been Democrats