Maybe it was a joke? This is the eternal undercurrent of the Trump era: Does he actually mean what he says? Is he riffing? Is he joking? Is he serious? Is he exaggerating? Is he lying? President Trump’s conversations and statements and braggadocio all live in the same nebulous cloud encompassing all of those possibilities, a Schrodinger’s box in which the cat has no fixed state until you look inside — and even then you’re likely to be told that the very dead cat you’re holding is, in fact, alive. So we have a transcript from an interview Trump gave to the Economist magazine. Read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ar-old-phrase-but-why/?utm_term=.4d6785bd4f63
