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When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said I am the chosen one, at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a Messiah complex. They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just....
....having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH...And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!
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8:00 AM - Aug 24, 2019
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)I think everyone knew what you were implying by looking up in the sky and using the chosen one phrase. Every asinine thing you say is followed up the next day with "I was kidding" when you hear all the criticisms. Your stupid schtick is getting so old and boring.
area51
(11,909 posts)When he said he was "joking" about having more than two terms, I think he was floating a trial balloon. Possibly the "chosen one" was more of the same trial balloon.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Along the line of other jokes such as background checks, a middle-class tax cut, low-cost universal health care, infrastructure, NK denuclearization , and paying off the national debt, What comes next, Armageddon jokes?
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Looking up at the sky was just part of the gag. Yeah...right.
Seeing how he is the source of "fake news" which seemed to really have its advent with his fake presidency, (note: correlation is not necessarily causation...that's my joke!) they seem to go together like tiny hands in itty-bitty gloves.
Fake news is a dick-tater's power tool in this respect all questions about the veracity of certain media and sources aside. Who does he really think he is kidding there...well, other than his base of minions?
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)IcyPeas
(21,884 posts)turns out it wasn't.
How the hell can we tell when he is joking (lying)?
Initech
(100,079 posts)I'd really question whether or not he was joking.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)pit and now he is trying to dig his way out. Going to have to send Dumb Donnie a care package of new Ame's Shovels.
Initech
(100,079 posts)He quoted that far right white supremacist scumbag, how are we supposed to interpret that?
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Some of us have NEVER trusted you or anything that came out of your mouth.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)elocs
(22,578 posts)that we just couldn't tell.
I wonder, is he being sarcastic or joking when he feels the need to remind us of how great he thinks he is?