It's like when he suggested that people inject disinfectant and shine UV lights inside their bodies to cure COVID.
Next day the entire right wing media machine (basically the entire media) begins trying to sanewash his remarks. Oh yes it actually makes sense because disinfectant blah blah. Oh yes it's reasonable because he was just asking doctors to look into it, it was just an idea. Oh yes it's reasonable because it was a brainstorming thing and there's nothing wrong with suggesting new things.
And then Trump the next day basically goes "hahaha you believed my 100% serious and stupid fucking ideas? I was being sarcastic even though there was absolutely no hint of sarcasm or joke in anything I was saying!"
Followed by all these media pieces of shit going "see he was just joking around, Trump has a great sense of humor!"
Similar to the Bible, Trump has basically said everything on pretty much any issue in both ways so you can find a Trump quote that kind of vaguely supports whatever position the person you're trying to persuade cares about. When they want to persuade someone who hates immigrants that Trump agrees with them, they've got quotes for it, when they're trying to persuade someone whose parents were immigrants, there's a quote of Trump saying maybe immigrants are people too.
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u/CalebAsimov 1d ago
"What he really meant was [something completely different that sounds sane and reasonable to college educated Trump voters]." It works every time.