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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.

  • April 22, 2020

    "I watched the protests and they were all six feet apart."
    -- Trump

  • April 21, 2020

    "Not everybody believes we should do so much testing... You don't need so much. The Democrats and some others... want maximum because they want to be able to criticize, because it's almost impossible to get the maximum number, and yet we've been able to do it already."
    -- Trump

  • April 20, 2020

    "America's testing capability and capacity is fully sufficient to begin opening up the country totally."
    -- Trump, citing "experts"

    "That's just delusional."
    -- VA Gov. Ralph Northam

    "Absolutely false."
    -- MD Gov. Larry Hogan

  • April 19, 2020

    "I call these people modern-day Rosa Parks. They are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties."
    -- White House adviser Stephen Moore, member of Trump's back-to-work council, on protesters opposed to social distancing, stay-at-home, and masks

  • April 18, 2020

    "You're going to call your own shots."
    -- Trump to governors on Thursday

    "Liberate Minnesota! Liberate Michigan! Liberate Virginia, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!"
    -- Trump on Friday

  • April 17, 2020

    "They were predicting huge numbers of people falling ill and dying, and that wasn't the case."
    -- Michigan anti-quarantine demonstrator Rosanne Ponkowski, on why stay-at-home and social distancing weren't necessary

  • April 16, 2020

    "Well, I don't know too much about it, but I understand my name is on there...It's not delaying anything...I'm sure people will be very happy to get a big fat beautiful check and my name is on it."
    -- Trump, asked why he had his name added to coronavirus relief checks

  • April 15, 2020

    "You are getting your money late because the president thinks it is more important that his name be on the check than that you are able to pay your bills on time. This is not a rhetorical flourish. The checks are delayed. Because Trump."
    -- Sen. Brian Schatz

  • April 14, 2020

    "When somebody's the President of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's gonna be. It's total. It's total."
    -- Trump

  • April 13, 2020

    "We didn't vote for doctors. We voted for political leadership that sees the big picture, the whole picture of America...At some point the president is going to have to look at Drs. Fauci and Birx and say, 'We're opening on May 1...'"
    -- Fox News host Laura Ingraham