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Trump just said he's going to try to take Rosie O Donnell's citizenship away.

>>milton+(OP)
Do people still take his comments like that seriously?

>>phkahl+y3
> Do people still take his comments like that seriously?

Yes, because he has a pattern of staking out one extreme position and then doing something slightly less extreme; but both of which would have been unthinkable when laws and due process meant something.

And also, yes, because joking around is something you do on your own time and when you’re a child. Like not wanting your pilot to announce his intention to do some aerobatic maneuvers on an airline flight. Whether they carry it out or not is almost beside the point.

>>phkahl+y3
How are we to know which official statements repeatedly made by the President in public are True?

>>phkahl+y3
The people of Greenland do. I'm old enough to remember when that was considered just "one of his jokes".

>>phkahl+y3
Do people still downplay the seriousness of statements like this?

>>phkahl+y3
Yes? Nothing about the prospect of him revoking the citizenship of one of his longtime bugbears seems unlikely at this point. The fact that we're even discussing the "will he, won't he, who knows" right now should be alarming.

>>phkahl+y3
He's given us more reason to take him seriously than not at this point, you can probably measure it objectively. He's practically perfected "just kidding... unless"

>>phkahl+y3
The fact that people are willing to shrug and say he’s just joking is honestly pretty astounding.

>>phkahl+y3
Why wouldn't they? He's the president. As an official of the state he shouldn't say it if he doesn't mean it. The president isn't supposed to be fun or jokey

>>phkahl+y3
That's like asking: "Do people still take the elementary-school principal seriously when he keeps joking about having sex with the children?"

First, the situation itself is always serious, because because nobody in that kind of position should ever be "joking" about such a thing.

Second, this guy's not joking. A threat does not become a joke simply because it is weak/unlikely or delivered while chuckling.

>>phkahl+y3
If you only take it seriously when it'll be about you, it will be too late.

>>phkahl+y3
Do you not? Prefer not to believe your lying eyes, eh?