You started off saying he said it sarcastically and now you are comparing it to "a mental flub"
It's absolutely fair to say Trump was serious when he said it and is now only backpedaling. If he was sarcastic, why didn't he clarify this at the time? Why is he only changing his tune when the backlash is so prominent?
Most importantly; if you were right about him being sarcastic (you aren't), do you think it's appropriate for the President to try out new comedic material in the middle of a daily press briefing during a pandemic?
Trump had to explain it was sarcasm because the left has become inept at picking up jokes. Between them being obsessed with canceling people due to edgy jokes and their purity tests, they have lost all sense of humor. Conservatives are now leading the way for humor. Nothing is funny to the left anymore. They lost their joke detection.
Remember when Trump joked about a disabled reporter? The left lost their minds. Yet, South Park has a disabled character that looks very foolish. The movie "There's something about Mary" had a guy in it who pretended to be disabled in order to get a woman. If you laugh at an able-bodied man pretending to be disabled as a joke in a movie, then why can't you laugh at what Trump did?
That movie would never be made today with the PC crowd.
This is the hill you want to die on. "Conservatives are more funny than libruhls". Good luck with that. And you have to be several different kinds of moronic to believe 90s comedies are the standard for presidential behaviour. Jesus fucking Christ you don't even know the difference between being a joke and telling a joke. I'll give you a hint; the world wasn't laughing at Trump at his address at the UN because they thought it was funny. He's the William Hung of global leaders as opposed to Weird Al, who at least is smart enough to not joke about coronavirus.
