EricHiggin said:
It's either one of two things the way I see it. Could be either, maybe both, who knows, but I figured the second option. Either some of the UN members think Trump is a dummy and laughed at his boasting and statement of "America's so true" because they think Trump is full of it. Not only would this be quite rude at a big event like that, but to see Trump brush it off and go on with his speech no problem, says to me it didn't seem like an attack on him anyway. or Trump said it just because it was in the speech and he likes to poke here and there and didn't expect anyone to catch on, or he figured people would catch on that he's basically saying American news is fake news, which would make his statement of "America's so true" so funny, since it's him always pushing the fake news narrative. Trump is constantly put down by the media about how the economy isn't great, or it is but it's all because of Obama. I don't see it being coincidence Trump boasting about exactly that immediately after his "so true" statement. |
You very nearly didn't answer a single question I asked you. But you did answer the question "what's the joke?" for which I thank you. If I understood you correctly, the joke is that saying "America's so true" is supposed to tell people "American media is so false" which is an absolutely mind-boggling leap for me. Putting aside that I disagree with his fake news narrative, and even taking into account how often he goes after so-called mainstream media for being fake news, I STILL can't see a good enough connection between America being true and American news being fake for a joke to be likely. I haven't watched as much of Donald Trump as you have but what I have seen of his comedy is much, much less oblique. (And if you had to look up that word in the dictionary, that's basically what I'm saying people would have to do with his joke unless they were on the exact same mental wavelength already.) So basically I have to disagree with your conclusion about what the joke is.
So right now I have two things I still want to ask you.
1. Everything I asked you in #1 in the previous post, which you didn't address at all. You said you thought the background noise was unrelated, and I think I have a pretty strong case that it's related. The questions basically present to you my train of thought and ask you to tell me where we part ways.
2. If the joke is what you described, why did he say "Didn't expect that reaction", and then later say "that was meant to get some laughter"?
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