How Can You Tell If Donald Trump Is Serious?
The White House is making a habit of labeling outrageous claims “jokes” after the fact.
by David A. Graham
Mar 14, 2017
3 minutes
The Trump administration has been at the center of a few wild claims in recent weeks, but there’s an explanation. To put it in the native patois of Trump’s signature form, Twitter:
lol jk!
For two straight days, Press Secretary Sean Spicer has played off comments made by President Trump and members of his team as simple jokes. Monday saw Kellyanne Conway , a New Jersey newspaper, saying, “What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other. You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets—any number of
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