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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump now says he was being sarcastic when he said he was being sarcastic.
He also said sarcastic means "I meant what I said."
gordianot
(15,245 posts)Wednesdays
(17,409 posts)Even for his supporters.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)thank you.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)He really did do what you were joking about in your OP.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)He called me for more ideas but i just kept repeating everything he said till he hung up.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)tell him to spend more time in Connecticut - he's doing a rally there (!) this weekend. Tell him to spend a full week there, and maybe a week in Massachusetts. Tell him to do a major ad buy in the Boston market.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)With plenty of unassailable footnotes.
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Whoever came up with the sarcasm excuse knows Trump's audience particularly well, and knows that right-wing authoritarians have extreme difficulty understanding sarcasm, irony, analogy and metaphor. The walk-back is designed to placate the offended and reinforce the beliefs of his own supporters.
Unfortunately for Trump, the law itself has a hard time understanding sarcasm. I think that is going to prove to be Donald Trump's undoing, and sooner than most of us dare to think.
Skraxx
(2,982 posts)As a virtual reality game because I was bored with infinite being, because it's the only explanation that makes sense.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)tblue37
(65,488 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/the-latest-trump-pondering-wet-foot-dry-foot-policy/2016/08/12/d21973a6-6043-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html
Edited to add this from another DU post:
Trump backs off his backpedal on Obama terror claim
Source: Politico
Donald Trump put his foot on the gas pedal again, driving home the accusation he had reversed himself hours earlier that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State.
Trump had eased off the claim Friday morning, blasting the media for seriously reporting what he suggested was a sarcastic comment. Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) the founder of ISIS, & MVP, Trump tweeted. THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?
He seemed to revel in the uncertainty his tweet created, boasting nearly 90 minutes later of pundits inability to figure him out. I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't! Trump declared.
But during an afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump said his initial remark wasnt that sarcastic, to be honest with you" <emphasis added>.
So I said the founder of ISIS, Trump recalled to the crowd, after accusing the president of being so weak and so bad that he allowed the Islamic State to grow. Obviously Im being sarcastic. Then but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-obama-islamic-state-sarcasm-226947
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)sort of.