If Trump's gibbering can never be taken quite literally (what, exactly, is he trying to say about sharks and batteries?), that shouldn't encourage us to dismiss any particular bit of gibberish as being unserious. The opposite: almost anything he says should be assumed to be some kind of threat.
If Trump's gibbering can never be taken quite literally (what, exactly, is he trying to say about sharks and batteries?), that shouldn't encourage us to dismiss any particular bit of gibberish as being unserious. The opposite: almost anything he says should be assumed to be some kind of threat.
I'm with Will only insofar as it's pointless for us to wait for a Trump speech in which he "finally" reveals his real intentions. His followers are not suddenly going to wake up and say, "Ah, now I understand what you've been warning me about!" OTOH I think he means what he said here.
If Trump's gibbering can never be taken quite literally (what, exactly, is he trying to say about sharks and batteries?), that shouldn't encourage us to dismiss any particular bit of gibberish as being unserious. The opposite: almost anything he says should be assumed to be some kind of threat.
I'm with Will only insofar as it's pointless for us to wait for a Trump speech in which he "finally" reveals his real intentions. His followers are not suddenly going to wake up and say, "Ah, now I understand what you've been warning me about!" OTOH I think he means what he said here.
I think he just did reveal his real intentions.