Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
When a WORLD LEADER™ says something, people tend to take it seriously. Say things about another country, and that country has no recourse but to take you seriously and at your word. Now, when you say something like Trump said, and then pull the Triumpian DoubleDown™, and you get this reaction from the relevant country itself, through diplomatic channels to your country:
What "double down"? He clarified his comments. Sweden got the explanation it asked for. This should be over now.

Yet if you turn on CNN right now, you'll find someone pounding their fist on the table wanting to know if Trump lied on purpose, or if the's just stupid.

The truth is, he's a little bit stupid. Words got mixed up in his head while delivering an impassioned speech. I don't like it. I don't think it's great that he does this. But we KNEW IT all along, and he still got elected. Harping on it now, after the election is long over, is only hurting America's interests on the world stage. Not just Trump's.

And it's a little disingenuous to say that this is important because it mentions another country. The reaction was the same with regards to crowd-size-gate, and electoral-vote-count-gate.