Trump Explains His 'Obama Founded The ISIS' Claim as Sarcasm
The Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said with his repeated assertations that President Barack Obama is the founder of Islamic State.
In the previous commentaries and interviews of Trump, he labeled Hillary Clinton as the "co-founder" or "Most Valuable Player" of the terrorist group known as ISIS or ISIL.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, is thought of shaping the terrorist group into its current form. Therefore, Obama did not founded the Islamic State and Trump was just being sarcastic with his use of words.
New questions are raised about Trump's ability to communicate clearly to the public. It also put his surrogates, who have strained to defend him during a tumultuous stretch, in the awkward position of having to explain remarks that he might not mean.
On Friday morning, Trump blasted CNN and other media outlets and critics for not discerning his sarcasm.
In a twitter post, the GOP nominee said that "Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) the founder of ISIS, and MVP."
Trump also added (in all capitalization): "THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?"
On Thursday, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, a radio host, Trump was asked about his commentaries and whether he meant that President Obama "created the vacuum, he lost the peace", which started the conditions through which the Islamic State could emerge.
"No, I meant he's the founder of ISIS. I do," Trump said. "He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton," Trump added.
The latest difficulty comes as Trump has been trying to refocus his campaign on the economy amid declining poll numbers. In Michigan this week, Trump and Clinton showed a dueling economic speeches to the public for the presidential race.
Furthermore, On Friday morning, Trump targeted media personalities who were working hard and serious to try and figure out his personality.
"They can't", Trump concluded.
Some people scoffed at the Republican nominee's excuse as an additional evidence that he is unfit to be president of the United States.
"What I'm looking for is a president who has a good sense of humor about ISIS,
assassinations, and Russian cyber warfare," Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut
wrote, sarcastically, in his twitter post.
