"Straight Shooter" Responds to Simple Question About Border Wall With Word Salad
Donald Trump has a reputation, among a not-insignificant portion of the American electorate, as someone who "tells it like it is." This is particularly ironic not just because evidence abounds that Trump is especially dishonest even for a politician, but because his most outrageous "straight talk"-type comments are in fact almost always accompanied by extensively self-contradictory, dissembling nonsense babble. The candidate's interview Thursday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham was a classic example of the genre...
Trump went on Laura Ingraham's radio show. She asked him why he claimed that he and Peña Nieto didn't discuss who would pay for the wall. Trump responded by totally clearing up the confusion with a straight-shooting, tell-it-like-it-is explanation. Just kidding! He said whatever this is:
"No, no, I didn't say—I didn't say that. No, no, I just saw it on television. Actually, I said, no, we did discuss the wall. And I actually said that and, you know, I guess it was a question that was asked. I said—they said, did you discuss the wall. I said we did discuss the wall. So the wall was basically discussed."
Wow—I hope you have your ticket, because the Straight Talk Express is about to leave the station and Donald Trump is driving it! "Actually, I said, no, we did discuss the wall. And I actually said that and, you know, I guess it was a question that was asked."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...n_border_wall_nieto_meeting_is_literally.html
Donald Trump has a reputation, among a not-insignificant portion of the American electorate, as someone who "tells it like it is." This is particularly ironic not just because evidence abounds that Trump is especially dishonest even for a politician, but because his most outrageous "straight talk"-type comments are in fact almost always accompanied by extensively self-contradictory, dissembling nonsense babble. The candidate's interview Thursday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham was a classic example of the genre...
Trump went on Laura Ingraham's radio show. She asked him why he claimed that he and Peña Nieto didn't discuss who would pay for the wall. Trump responded by totally clearing up the confusion with a straight-shooting, tell-it-like-it-is explanation. Just kidding! He said whatever this is:
"No, no, I didn't say—I didn't say that. No, no, I just saw it on television. Actually, I said, no, we did discuss the wall. And I actually said that and, you know, I guess it was a question that was asked. I said—they said, did you discuss the wall. I said we did discuss the wall. So the wall was basically discussed."
Wow—I hope you have your ticket, because the Straight Talk Express is about to leave the station and Donald Trump is driving it! "Actually, I said, no, we did discuss the wall. And I actually said that and, you know, I guess it was a question that was asked."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...n_border_wall_nieto_meeting_is_literally.html