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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.

  • October 11, 2024

    "I have more complaints on grocery. The word 'grocery,' it's sort of a simple word. But it sort of means, like, everything you eat. The stomach is speaking, it always does."
    -- Trump, speaking to Detroit Economic Club

  • October 10, 2024

    "I'm basically a truthful person."
    -- Trump to podcast host, who burst out laughing

    "We won. We won. We did win."
    -- Trump on 2020, last week

  • October 09, 2024

    "A dirtbag of the internet."
    -- a self-description from Chase Herro, co-founder of World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's new cryptocurrency venture

    "A visionary."
    -- about Barron Trump, from WLF's promotional materials

  • October 08, 2024

    "If God came down from on high and said, 'I'm going to be your vote tabulator for this election,' I would leave this podium right now, because I wouldn't have to dispute. We wouldn't have a problem."
    -- Trump

    "We have plenty of votes. Stop the Steal!"
    -- Trump

  • October 07, 2024

    "To be a man and then vote for a woman just because she's a woman is either childish -- that person has mommy issues -- or they are just trying to be accepted by other women. And I heard this scientist say the other day, when a man votes for a woman he actually transitions into a woman."
    -- Fox host Jesse Watters

  • October 06, 2024

    "Forty trillion gallons of rain fell in total, the equivalent of one-third of the total volume of Lake Erie, enough to cover the entire state of Massachusetts in 23 feet of water."
    -- informed estimate of Hurricane Helene's impact on the Southeast

  • October 05, 2024

    "[Thieves are] walking out of stores with air conditioners and refrigerators on their backs... If you had one really violent day...one rough hour. And I mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know, it will end immediately."
    -- Trump, on how to end urban shoplifting

  • October 04, 2024

    "We won. We did win. It was a rigged election. That's why I'm doing it again. If I thought I lost I would not be doing this again."
    -- Trump, on 2020

  • October 03, 2024

    "I never supported a national ban."
    -- Vance, on abortion, during debate

    "I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally."
    -- Vance, 2022

  • October 02, 2024

    Walz:
    "[Trump] is still saying he didn't lose the election. Did he lose the 2020 election?"

    Vance:
    "Tim, I'm focused on the future..."

    Walz:
    "That is a damning non-answer."