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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.

  • April 01, 2011

    Maybe it says he's a Muslim. I don't know.
    -- Donald Trump, on Obama's birth certificate
    Personally, I think it is brilliant.
    -- Trump advisor Roger Stone, on raising the birth certificate issue

  • March 31, 2011

    The reason Social Security is in trouble is that we don't have enough workers to support the retirees...Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion.
    -- Rick Santorum

  • March 29, 2011

    Are we at war? I haven't heard the president say that we are at war. And that's why I too am not knowing do we use the term intervention? Do we use war? Do we use squirmish? What is it?
    -- Sarah Palin

  • March 29, 2011

    I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [my grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
    -- Newt Gingrich

  • March 28, 2011

    I'm just asking President Obama to show the public his birth certificate. Why's he making an issue out of this?
    -- Donald Trump

  • March 26, 2011

    I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis -- O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) -- Shower it on the Admiralty!
    British Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill -- the earliest known use of the acronym

  • March 25, 2011

    Exercise a no-fly zone this evening.
    -- Newt Gingrich, 3/7/11
    I would not have intervened.
    -- Newt Gingrich, 3/23/11

  • March 24, 2011

    Palin's popularity falling in Iowa, but maintains lead to become supreme commander of Milfistan.
    -- Tucker Carlson, in a tweet

  • March 23, 2011

    It's infiltrated every level of our government. Right now we have many of these people that are advising the US military and State Department on how to respond in the Middle East, and it's like a farmer asking a fox, 'How do I protect my henhouse from foxes?' We've brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries.
    -- evangelist Franklin Graham, on the Muslim Brotherhood

  • March 22, 2011

    If the world gets crazy with us, we will get crazy too.
    -- Muammar Gaddafi