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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 22, 2011

    I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election.
    -- Donald Trump, on announcing that he would not seek the presidency

  • May 21, 2011

    If the world does end tomorrow, alternate side parking will be suspended.
    -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his weekly radio address

  • May 21, 2011

    Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 B.C....This is going to happen. Millions will die. It's going to be horrible.
    -- Harold Camping on Judgment Day, which he says will begin today, exactly 7,000 years after Noah's flood, with a major earthquake at 6:00 pm PDT

  • May 20, 2011

    It's going to take a while for the news media to realize that you're covering something that happens once or twice in a century, a genuine grass-roots campaign of very big ideas. I expect it to take a while for it to sink in.
    -- Newt Gingrich

  • May 19, 2011

    In a stunning development one day after the release of Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama in not Eligible to be President, by Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farh has announced plans to recall and pulp the entire 200,000 first printing of the book.
    -- satirical piece in Esquire
    We are exploring our legal options...I don't know who Esquire's anonymous sources are, but I can only guess that their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
    -- Farah in response, thinking the story was serious

  • May 18, 2011

    Omar [bin Laden] wrote that he had lost faith in his father as a young adult in war-ravaged Afghanistan when Osama suggested that he and his brothers consider taking up suicide bombing in the Taliban's cause. The boys demurred; Omar never got over the request. "My father," he wrote "hated his enemies more than he loved his sons."
    -- from recent New Yorker article

  • May 17, 2011

    So, I make you this promise: that I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician's [sic] thoughts.
    -- Donald Trump

  • May 16, 2011

    Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama.
    -- Mike Huckabee

  • May 14, 2011

    SEAL Team 6.
    -- phrase for which Disney recently submitted a trademark application

  • May 12, 2011

    I had a major hand and play in this wonderful thing, getting him out of the mountains and down to the valleys. Someone had to get him out of there. That's where I came in. I scared the squirrel out of his hole, he popped his head up and he got capped...He hadn't been living [in the Abbottabad compound] for no damn six years. I absolutely flushed him out.
    -- Gary Faulkner, the OBL-hunting sword-wielding American arrested in Pakistan last summer, trying to make the case that he should receive some of the $25 million reward money