If he only had a brain..
Moments after Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday that he was “obviously being sarcastic” when he repeatedly called President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS,” he seemed to backtrack on backtracking, by adding, “but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”
Video of the comments from NBC News showed that Trump then accused the media of intentionally distorting his words, pointing at the assembled press corps and telling the crowd, “these people are the lowest form of life.”
As his supporters cheered, the candidate then executed another half pivot. “They are the lowest form of humanity!” Trump bellowed. “Not all of them, they have about 25 percent that are pretty good actually, but most of them.”
The meandering, jokey way Trump speaks, riffing on subjects like a stand-up comic working out his material live on stage, makes the task of reporting his comments unusually challenging.
The candidate himself even lamented recently at an appearance in Florida — where he assured the mother of a crying baby that she was welcome to stay before asking her to leave — that his own supporters sometimes think he is joking when he is serious. “I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking,” he told the crowd. “That’s okay, people don’t understand, that’s okay.”
Trump seems to have less sympathy for the members of the press forced to parse his improv act for a living,
After insisting for days that he had not been speaking metaphorically about Obama and ISIS, Trump finally explained to an NBC affiliate in Florida on Thursday that he blamed Obama and Clinton for creating the conditions for ISIS to flourish by withdrawing American troops from Iraq in 2011. “Instead of keeping some troop presence there, he announced a date that he’s leaving and then, very importantly, he took everybody out, all of a sudden,” Trump told WTVJ. “They just sat back and waited, and when we left, basically, ISIS was formed.”
More:
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/12/donald-trump-demanded-speedy-retreat-iraq-now-says-created-isis/
