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Nothing trump says ever means anything, except the most base, grossest gruntings about sex. Everything else - please ignore.
Unless he really does mean it and tries to play it off as a joke when the crowd turns on him
Nitpick; Trump never plays his statements off as a joke. His sycophants do, but never the man himself.
Remember everyone being shocked by, ‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing?
He says what he means, and he's quite literal. Major reason his detractors get confused. Yes, he said that. Yes, he meant it literally.
Sane people: "Politicians can't talk that way!"
Trump supporters: "He speaks truth!"
I kinda get the nut cases on this one. I've always wanted a politician that "tells it like it is", with cojones. I just don't like Trumps "truth".
Speaking of crowds turning on Trump, I gotta say, it was kind of amusing to witness how desperately he wanted credit for the COVID vaccines but had to stop talking about it because his plague rat base boo’d him for promoting vaccination at one of his own klan rallies.
The only thing stopping it from being downright hilarious was that, well, ya know… It was a deadly serious public health crisis being exasperated by god damn morons.
1 million dead Americans under his watch. Including my mother. I will never forgive, never forget. And now plenty more are dying for lack of being vaccinated, and killing the rest of us for lack of a fucking mask.
No way. His stupid ass tells you exactly what he’s going to do. When he says US won’t help, it won’t.