Trump's History With the Word Sarcasm Is Littered with Excuses and Ignorance

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Trump’s History With the Word Sarcasm Is Littered with Excuses and Ignorance
When Trump uses the sarcasm excuse, it’s because he knows he’s gone too far but can’t bring himself to admit it
By Peter Wade



Last week President Trump went back to an often-used excuse he deploys when facing backlash for saying dumb things: sarcasm. But Trump historically has run into problems while attempting to bail himself out of trouble with the word, thanks to his inconsistency in using it correctly and how obvious and transparent it is that he’s lying.

On Sunday, Trump lashed out at the media on Twitter, incorrectly writing that journalists who reported on the Russia investigation should be stripped of their “Noble Prizes.” Twitter did what Twitter does and feasted on both the spelling mistake and Trump citing the incorrect name of the award given to journalists. The president misspelled Nobel Prize and confused the award with a Pulitzer Prize.

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Sunday’s presidential nonsense came just days after Trump tried to claim that he was being sarcastic when he pontificated about the possibilities of injecting disinfectant as a treatment for coronavirus patients.

As recently as last year, in August 2019, Trump deployed the sarcasm excuse after he said, “I am the chosen one” while speaking rather seriously about trade with China. Later that week, he complained on Twitter, saying journalists “knew I was kidding, being sarcastic.” At least, in this case, Trump appeared to be using the word correctly. But when someone makes declarative statements like the country faces problems that “I alone can fix,” which Trump did during the Republican National Convention, can he then complain if most believe he is deluded enough to think he is the chosen one?

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-sarcasm-history-990750/

[C_U_L8R]

1. And not once funny.

Deranged is more like it.

[tanyev]

2. Reminds me of his history with the word 'nasty'.

It's an odd word for one adult to publicly call another adult, but he seems to use it consistently. It comes out when someone, especially a woman, has criticized him. That somehow makes them nasty. Someone should create a Trump to Standard American English dictionary.

[PJMcK]

4. That would be the world's shortest book (n/t)

[Cha]

3. trump chose to be a clusterfuck

Assface.