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Say What? Archive
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.
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August 01, 2023
"In the real world, folks, this is how things go. If other people want these things, go get them. Do the work to establish such a tradition in your family, if that's what they want to do."
-- investment banker Rob Longsworth, the seventh in his family to attend Amherst, defending legacy admissions -
July 31, 2023
"If you f*** around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before."
-- Trump in 2020 clip recently re-posted on his social media account -
July 30, 2023
"I don't think he needs a vice president. If there's ever one president who's so strong he doesn't need one, it would be him."
-- Kari Lake on Trump -
July 28, 2023
"They hate, hate on the outside, and are very aggressive towards Putin exactly because they want Putin to be their president."
-- Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on the people of Ukraine -
July 27, 2023
"We'll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn't Rigged and Stollen [sic]. THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!"
-- Trump -
July 26, 2023
"I think it's a very dangerous thing to even talk about, because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters, much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016."
-- Trump, on the possibility that he could be sentenced to jail -
April 30, 2023
"We've turned the Russian Army -- the second army in the world -- into what? Who the hell knows...What kind of army are we if we couldn't even manage with itty bitty Ukraine? It's a complete mess everywhere...Russia is on the brink of catastrophe. We need to stop deceiving the population and telling them that everything is fine."
-- Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin -
April 29, 2023
"The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy."
-- Trump, January 7, 2021"Listen, you just hang in. You guys are going to be okay...You've been through too much."
-- Trump, on Thursday, embracing convicted J6er Micki Larson-Olson and autographing the backpack she carried to the Capitol -
April 28, 2023
"People are not affecting climate change. You're going to tell me that back in the Ice Age, how much taxes did people pay and how many changes did governments make to melt the ice?"
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene -
April 27, 2023
"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife."
-- Trump, being shown a photo of W. Jean Carroll after saying in a deposition that she wasn't his "type"