It's always "just a joke" when it's discovered to be too appalling for him to claim it's serious.
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Dude has zero clue what the word “joke” means. Since when has making completely fucked up statements with no comic structure or punchline ever been considered a joke?
Although, to be fair, more often than not, Trump is completely serious and not claiming that he’s joking. It’s his handlers that lean the most on the “iTs OnLY a jOKe” bullshit
It's common for conservatives - their humor is pretty much entirely based on mocking or laughing at a marginalized group they consider lower than themselves.
He’s made this “joke” before.
Trump also proposed digging a water-filled moat and stocking it with snakes and alligators. If he was kidding, his aides didn’t think so, as they sought a cost estimate for the cartoonishly ludicrous proposal. Trump also wanted the wall to be electrified, and topped with spikes that could “pierce human flesh.”
8 year old boys come up with more fleshed out defenses
To be fair, Trump did say that he's the same as when he was 6.
Republicans don’t have “humor” they just laugh at disgusting statements
The joke is that it's happening to someone other than them.
While we're at it let's also put them in front of the capitol to eat all the Republican rioters.
I vote we house them in Mar a lago. just give them the run of the place.
Man it’d be terrible and sad if he accidentally was fed to a wood chipper feet first, haha joke! Everyone loves a good joke!
“Won’t someone rid us of this troublesome millionaire.”
No frickin sharks with frickin lasers?