Ian decided to have a little fun and posted the following on Twitter.
“President Trump in Tokyo: ‘Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden'."
Ha! Ha!
You see, it's funny because it seems like something Trump might say, right?
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and CNN contributor Ana Navarro-Cárdenas didn't quite catch that "seems like" part and shared it on Twitter as something Trump said.
Uh oh.
And guess who was paying attention? Yeah, Donald Trump.
“People think they can say anything and get away with it. Really, the libel laws should be changed to hold Fake News Media accountable!”
Now here's the thing. Here is something Li'l Donnie actually said as at a news conference in Tokyo: “Well, Kim Jong Un made a statement that Joe Biden is a low-IQ individual. I think I agree with him on that.”
Bremmer initially defended the tweet, writing that he believed it was both obviously ludicrous “and yet kinda plausible.”
But he apologized Monday as media coverage grew, saying he had made the quote in jest.
“My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as President was meant in jest. I should have been clearer. My apologies.”
I don't know if Ted Lieu or Ana Navarro-Cárdenas have had anything to say but I would suggest they need to be more careful. I mean, Donald Trump says so much brazenly crazy, stupid shit, it can be easy to be tripped up by parody posts. It can be so easy to parody what Trump actually sounds like but it can also be difficult because Trump is such a parody of himself, sometimes the stupid shit people come up with to sound like Trump almost, as Ian Bremmer put it, "kinda plausible".
I have had to more than once do a double take on certain Twitter parody accounts to make sure that Donald Trump really didn't say something. The difference between real bullshit and fake bullshit is not always immediately apparent.
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