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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.
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June 22, 2020
"Racial justice begins with Joe Biden's retirement from public life."
-- Trump -
June 21, 2020
"Look at what happened tonight. Law enforcement said, 'You can't be outside, it is too dangerous. We had a bunch of maniacs come and sort of attack our city.' ...They were very violent. And our people are not nearly as violent, but if they ever were, it would be a terrible, terrible day for the other side."
-- Trump at Tulsa rally -
June 20, 2020
"I think I've done more for the black community than any other President, and let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good although it's always questionable. You know, in other words the end result."
-- Trump -
June 19, 2020
"The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach [to COVID-19] has been a success...That's a cause for celebration, not the media's fear-mongering."
-- VP Mike Pence -
June 18, 2020
"We have never had a problem here in the South except in a few isolated instances and these have been the result of outside agitators... I personally have done more for the Negroes of... Alabama than any other individual."
-- Gov. George Wallace on segregation, 1964 -
June 17, 2020
"I always say, even without it, it goes away. But if we had the vaccine -- and we will -- if we had therapeutic or cure -- one thing sort of blends into the other -- it will be a fantastic day and I think that's going to happen. And it's going to happen very soon."
-- Trump -
June 16, 2020
"If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."
-- Trump on COVID-19 -
June 14, 2020
"I haven't decided on that."
-- Sen. James Lankford, on whether he'll wear a mask when he attends the upcoming Trump rally -
June 14, 2020
"This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will."
-- Fox News host Tucker Carlson -
June 13, 2020
"These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom."
-- Trump, on refusing to even consider renaming military facilities named for Confederate officers"The irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the United States, and for the right to enslave others, is inescapable to anyone paying attention."
-- retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director David Patraeus