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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.

  • November 29, 2023

    "We've got the weakest military that we've had in your or my lifetime."
    -- Sen. Tommy Tuberville

  • November 28, 2023

    "In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward -- except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom."
    -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy, whose own district in California was ceded to the US as a result of the Mexican-American War of 1848

  • November 27, 2023

    "Never forget: the press is the enemy, the press is the enemy, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy; the professors are the enemy. Write that on a whiteboard 100 times, and never forget it."
    -- Nixon to himself, on tape, after winning re-election in 1972

  • November 26, 2023

    "It ain't gonna be the dude from Mississippi that's gonna kick me, a New Yorker, out of Congress. No offense to people from Mississippi."
    -- Rep. George Santos on House Ethics committee chairman Rep. Michael Guest

  • November 25, 2023

    "I don't use that kind of language, but it's a free country."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, asked about Trump calling his rivals "vermin"

  • November 24, 2023

    "We're headed into nut country today."
    -- JFK to Jackie, November 22, 1963

  • November 22, 2023

    "We went to buy a turkey today. It was $90! It's all a choice by Joe Biden."
    -- former Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Fox News

  • November 21, 2023

    "2024 is our final battle...We will throw off the sick political class that hates our Country, we will rout the Fake News Media, we will evict Joe Biden from the White House, and we will FINISH THE JOB ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
    -- Trump

  • November 20, 2023

    "Every sane person without what they call Trump Derangement Syndrome -- Do you know what that is? It's a great honor. I had a disease named after me: Trump Derangement Syndrome -- wants to get back to how great we had it under the Trump Administration."
    -- Trump

  • November 19, 2023

    "I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing -- one -- that I can go campaign on and say we did. One! Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, 'Well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats.'"
    -- Rep. Chip Roy on the floor of the House, angrily