Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:01 pm
Donald Trump has blown up in Pennsylvania and changed his mind by claiming that he isn’t being sarcastic. Obama really did found ISIS.
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Video: Trump says he was being "sarcastic…but not that sarcastic" when calling Obama the "founder of ISIS" https://t.co/f4NxUZchdk
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Trump said:
When I said that Obama, and of course, I’m being sarcastic. They know that, because after I said that, I said he’s the MVP, he is going to collect his MVP award. So I said Obama is the founder of ISIS, the founder, and these dishonest media people they say did he mean that, and after that, I’d say a lot, in fact, they like him so much because he’s been so week and so bad. I mean, he let this happen. They had eight states. They had eight countries. They’re now in twenty-eight countries. They’re expanding. So I said the founder of ISIS. Obviously, I was being sarcastic, then, then but not that sarcastic to be honest with you.
Trump then went on a rant about the media being the lowest form of humanity.
Donald Trump can’t resist an applause line, and when the crowd applauded for his repetition of the lie that Obama founded ISIS, he had to walk it back. Trump’s denial that he didn’t mean that Obama founded ISIS lasted for less than 12 hours.
Trump has come completely unglued, and he is taking the Republican Party down with him.
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