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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.

  • September 20, 2023

    "Two weeks."
    -- length of time Texas high school junior Darryl George has been suspended, confined to a stool in a cubicle for eight hours a day, because his hair is "too long"

  • September 19, 2023

    "Remember, it's a Democrat charging his opponent....That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my Attorney General and I say 'Listen, indict him!' 'Well, he hasn't done anything wrong that we know of...' 'I don't know, indict him on income tax evasion, you'll figure it out.'"
    -- Trump, on having been indicted

  • September 18, 2023

    "We surely hear that Mr. Trump says he will resolve all burning issues within several days, including the Ukraine crisis. We cannot help but feel happy about it."
    -- Putin

    "I like that he said that, because it means what I'm saying is right."
    -- Trump

  • September 17, 2023

    "If Donald Trump's the nominee, yes, I will support him. And if I'm the president, yes I will pardon him, because that will help reunite the country."
    -- Vivek Ramaswamy

  • September 16, 2023

    "One of the greatest achievements of mankind."
    -- Trump on the Covid vaccine, in 2021

    "Some friends of mine that are Democrats... very smart people, top people. They say, 'Why don't you talk more about the vaccine? It was one of the greatest things you've ever done.'...and I say, 'I'm not going to talk about it one way or the other.'...They said, 'You saved 100 million people' -- because it got done in nine months as opposed to five-to-twelve years...I'm not proud of it. I'm saying what Democrats think."
    -- Trump, recently

     

  • September 15, 2023

    Trump:
    "I'm allowed to take these documents...When I have them they become unclassified. People think you have to go through a ritual. You don't, at least in my opinion...All I know is I'm allowed to have those documents."

    Megyn Kelly:
    "But once you get a subpoena you have to turn them over."

    Trump:
    "I know this. [pause] I don't even know that! I have the right to have those documents, so I don't really know that. These are Democrat fascists that are there to interfere with an election."

  • September 14, 2023

    "Everything that is happening with Trump is the persecution of a political rival for political reasons....This is good for us in today's conditions, because it shows the rottenness of the American system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy."
    -- Putin

    "Putin has now officially endorsed the Putin-wing of the Republican Party. Putin Republicans and their enablers will end up on the ash heap of history. Patriotic Americans in both parties who believe in the values of liberal democracy will make sure of it."
    -- Liz Cheney

  • September 13, 2023

    "If the Biden administration refuses to stop the invasion of cartel-led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union...Does it mean civil war? No. It's about avoiding civil war. Is it secession? No, it's not secession."
    -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

  • September 12, 2023

    "I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe that he has gone MAD, a stark raving Lunatic...He is a mental catastrophe that is leading our country to hell...Thank you."
    -- Trump in video post

  • September 11, 2023

    "I am standing with President Trump. I am proudly supporting him. He can be a handful at times, but I thought he was a good president."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham