So, when he said we need a complete and total shutdown on Muslims entering the country ... that's not what he meant at all? But I thought people liked him for his straightforward speech? But it isn't straightforward at all, because he never actually means the words coming out of his mouth, he means something totally different.
So, how do we know what that is?
So when he was calling for a complete Muslim shutdown, what he really meant was that most are good people and Islam is a peaceful religion, but we need to keep only the terrorists out?
Or maybe he was just saying he prefers cake over ice cream?
You can't apply the same level of logic, reasoning, understanding to what Trump says like you can a normal politician. Politicians in general parse their words very heavily, average people, non-politicians, in normal conversation, don't.
That's why you can't take what he says literally or think it means to him what it means to you.
There's a simple joke in my industry. A Contractor is hired by client to build a new office building that the client is in a hurry to get into. The client asks, "When can you get started?" The contractor answers, "Monday". Monday rolls around and the client arrives at the job site to find that the contractor hasn't showed up. He frantically calls the contractor and says, "Look, I'm in a big hurry with this project, we need to get in and operating as soon as possible, and you said you'd start Monday but you're not here. What's going on?" The contractor simply answers, "I said Monday.... I didn't say which Monday."
