So, Trumpenfurher trolls the press and they're such chunkheads that they don't get it.
Meanwhile, the release from Wikileaks demonstrate the press dutifully carrying DNC & Hillary water. So either they didn't get that they were being mocked, or are purposely floating a narrative that anyone who has been paying attention already suspects is false.
The whole mess is becoming dizzying surreal.
You don't get to say stupid things when you are running for president and just say the next day that you were just kidding. Too late. Now you don't seem presidential.
Donald Trump claims sarcasm, but damage on hack comments lingers - CNNPolitics.com
Donald Trump said Thursday that he was being sarcastic when he appeared to suggest that Russia should use espionage to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails.
But he's finding out that presidents -- and by extension, presidential nominees -- don't get that luxury when the topic is national security.
"Of course I'm being sarcastic," Trump said in a Fox News interview
The affair is a lesson for Trump in how every word a potential commander in chief utters is parsed and amplified, and can have significant political and diplomatic consequences. US presidents in the modern era have seen singular sentences and offhand comments define global perceptions on US policies and leadership.
It's nothing new for the outspoken Republican nominee to cause a firestorm with comments that he made in a press conference; he's been doing it for his entire presidential campaign, with any resulting political damage seeming to be offset by the media attention and appeal they have to his voters.
But when they step up to accept their party's nomination, candidates move into an arena where the stakes are higher and the bar for mistakes is much more unforgiving than the rough-and-tumble of a primary campaign.
If you can't run a good campaign, how you gonna run a good country. Excuse me, GREAT country. He's going to make us Great again. LOL.