Just Kidding? Trump Says His Election Delay Tweet Was Just a Ploy to Get 'Very Dishonest LameStream

[Nevilledog]

Just Kidding? Trump Says His Election Delay Tweet Was Just a Ploy to Get ‘Very Dishonest LameStream Media’ to Cover Mail-In Voting

https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/just-kidding-trump-says-his-election-delay-tweet-was-just-a-ploy-to-get-very-dishonest-lamestream-media-to-cover-mail-in-voting/

Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump followed up on his morning tweet suggesting the November election could be delayed — comments that drew immediate condemnation from both sides of the aisle — with another tweet seemingly dismissing the entire thing as a big 0l’ prank on the media.

Trump’s original tweet came as part of a thread complaining about the so-called risks of mail-in ballots — risks which he has highly exaggerated — and ended with a question about delaying the election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”

After several hours of criticism and reporters seeking comment from the White House, Trump tweeted that his real purpose was to “get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!).”

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Bullshit!

[Zoonart]

2. Double Secret Probation.

[usedtobedemgurl]

3. Mail In And Absentee Voting Are The Same Thing!! nt

[Kaleva]

4. Freepers have been saying Trump was just trolling.

[Mossfern]

16. Since when is it OK

for the President of the United States to troll the people.

Really now - he should be impeached for trolling then, or at least declared incompetent (on November 2nd).

[Kaleva]

24. Everything Trump does is ok with his supporters.

[underpants]

5. Oh. Great. He thinks he's doing a Andy Kaufman bit.

Frankly I’d trust Mighty Mouse with the nuclear codes even if it’s an animation

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Good analogy!

[underpants]

13. The joke is that the jokes on your for not understand that the joke was on all of us

from the beginning

Andy could pull it off though.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. That Donnie! He's such a kidder!

Yuk it up, Chuckles. The punch line comes November Third.

[ScratchCat]

7. Ahhh, the old "Rush Limbaugh Defense"

When there is no defense for what you just said in all seriousness, you were "just joking".

[Mossfern]

17. That's a typical

Narcissist response.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

8. OPPS. Last tweet didn't play well in overnight internal poll. n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

9. So I guess he's telling us that you can't believe ANYTHING he says because it might just

be a joke or just trying to get the media's attention.

What a joke he is. It would be funny if he wasn't destroying the country and killing us.

[Dave in VA]

11. Ovaltine Decoder Ring

Bet he used his Ovaltine decoder ring so that just his chosen people would be in on the "joke" from the beginning.

Just wondering...

[lettucebe]

12. Abusers always say, "Just kidding," and think it absolves them. It does not.

He said it, everyone knows he means it. Saying it was a joke is meaningless.

I cannot wait for the day our president does not constantly claim today that what he said yesterday was a joke. tRump IS the joke.

[2naSalit]

21. +1

[standingtall]

14. Nah it was a trial balloon

No one should take his walking back that statement seriously, because he will almost certainly bring it back before the election bank on it.

[MineralMan]

15. Lying once again. Once he found out that people from both parties

rejected his nonsense, he tried to walk it back. That's his standard practice.

Everyone should call Bullshit on that nonsense.

[jmg257]

18. As funny as when he talked about injecting disinfectants...just 'being sarcastic', ya know.

[BGBD]

19. Let's just

say that we agree and there will be no mail-in voting..... But, we will be having universal absentee voting availability this year.

[StarfishSaver]

20. LOL.

He got his ass handed to him yesterday.

[gratuitous]

22. One more time for the dimwit in the Oval Office

You're not some crank at the end of the bar muttering into your beer, you're the fucking president of the United States (for now). Grow the fuck up and act like a responsible adult, you asshole. In case you haven't noticed, 150,000 Americans have dropped dead because you're an incompetent jerk in over his head, and you're pranking the media.

And you can't figure out why people might not like you. You're a special kind of stupid.

[Bettie]

23. I think it was a ploy

to divert attention from an enormous drop on GDP.

And it worked.