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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 02, 2020
"One law and order. And that is what it is. One law. We have one beautiful law."
-- Trump, addressing the nation last night -
June 01, 2020
"Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and the most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That's when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. 'We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and good practice.'"
-- Trump -
May 31, 2020
"MAGA is 'Make America Great Again.' By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people. MAGA loves the black people."
-- Trump -
May 30, 2020
"Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work."
-- White House adviser Kevin Hassett -
May 29, 2020
"Just spoke to [Minnesota] Gov. Tim Walz, and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"
-- Trump -
May 28, 2020
"Mail-in balloting as the main way to vote would be very concerning, because you see the polls, you see the economic indicators; people want this country to open up...People are very proud to show up and go to the polls. They really are. I mean, they wait in line for a Georgetown Cupcake for an hour, to get a cupcake."
-- Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway -
May 27, 2020
"If he's not wearing a mask, I'm not wearing a mask. If he's not worried, I'm not worried."
-- maskless Alabama beach-goer on Memorial Day, crediting Trump as his behavioral inspiration -
May 25, 2020
"The Fake & Totally Corrupt News...are sick with hatred and dishonesty. They are truly deranged!"
-- Trump, tweeting on Memorial Day -
May 24, 2020
"We have it totally under control."
-- Trump, 1/22"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."
-- Trump, 2/26"I think by Memorial Day weekend we will largely have this coronavirus behind us."
-- Mike Pence, a month ago -
May 23, 2020
"... Henry Ford -- good bloodlines, good bloodlines, if you believe in that stuff. You got good blood [to executive chairman William Clay Ford]."
-- Trump at Ford plant, on Henry Ford, whose anti-Semitic writings were praised by Adolf Hitler, who awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938