Mr Trump’s exercise in self-awareness was a marked departure from his usual tenor on the campaign trail, where for months at rallies he would tick through poll numbers showing him winning as if they were sports scores of his favorite team. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?” he tweeted. “I tell the truth”.
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24 hours later, Trump changed his tone again, this time insisting he was being sarcastic the whole time.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus had privately expressed frustrations at Trump’s delay in endorsing House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary contest for re-election.
When asked by a reporter for WTVJ in Miami, Trump responded, “I meant exactly that”.
The Republican presidential nominee on Friday said he was being sarcastic when he called President Obama the founder of the terrorist group.
“You know they see how crooked she is I mean she’s crooked that’s why we call her crooked Hillary”, he said. Now, Trump’s trying to claim his ISIS mistake was sarcasm, but does he know what sarcasm is?
But a Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll released yesterday suggested support for Trump is eroding among voters in three battleground states.
The clarification raised new questions about the Republican presidential nominee’s ability to communicate clearly to the American public.
Yet on Thursday, he was reduced to citing a poll that showed him a few points behind Ms Clinton and arguing that the race was close.
Warrick also said that while some have blamed the Obama administration for ISIS’s proliferation, it’s not that simple.
US presidential candidates are not required to release their tax returns, but it has become a common custom.
Trump declined, refusing to back down.
Donald campaign officials said that Donald is going to give a speech on radical Islamic terrorism on Monday. Trump has said he would “knock the hell out of ISIS”, without offering details. “I give her too, by the way”, he added, referring to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
Almost one-fifth of registered Republicans now want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. “His, the way he got out of Iraq, that was the founding of ISIS”. “No, it’s no mistake”, he told Hewitt on Thursday about the self-created controversy.
Some Republicans have criticized Obama and Clinton for not being aggressive enough in attacking the Islamic State group as it was seizing territory in Iraq and Syria two years ago.
As recently as Thursday, however, Trump’s sarcasm was not exactly readily apparent.
The candidate himself even lamented recently at an appearance in Florida – where he assured the mother of a crying baby that she was welcome to stay before asking her to leave – that his own supporters sometimes think he is joking when he is serious.
“She doesn’t talk to reporters very often. It is parsed for the slightest change in meaning or motivation”, Medhurst said. “Instead of keeping some troop presence there, he announced a date that he’s leaving and then, very importantly, he took everybody out, all of a sudden”, Trump told WTVJ.
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He said he wants authorities to monitor the voting closely. “I think in any other context, these people would be paid consultants”.
