Donald Trump: *makes controversial statement.*
White House staff: "It was a joke."
White House staff: "It was a joke."
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00:00I think the president was making a satirical point.
00:03He was having fun.
00:04He made a joke.
00:05Maybe you guys should get a sense of humor and try it sometime.
00:31And when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon,
00:35you just see them thrown in.
00:37Rough.
00:38I said, please don't be too nice.
00:41Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know?
00:46The way you put their hand over.
00:48I said, you can take the hand away, okay?
00:51Simply making a comment, making a joke, and it was nothing more than that.
00:54It wasn't a directive, it was a joke.
00:56There's a very big difference.
01:01Here's the bad part.
01:03When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases.
01:09So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.
01:13It was a comment that he made in jest.
01:15It's a comment that he made in passing, specifically with regard to the media coverage.
01:20Appropriate to joke about coronavirus when 120,000 people have died?
01:24He was not joking about coronavirus.
01:26I just said he was joking about the media and their failure to understand the fact that when you test more, you also find more cases.
01:43Come on now, that was tongue-in-cheek.
01:45It was a light moment.
01:52You got to get your governor to open up your state, okay?
01:57Lock them.
02:01Lock them all up.
02:27He wasn't doing anything, I don't think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all.
02:34He was having fun.
02:35The president was at a rally.
02:37It's a fun, light atmosphere.
02:43Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.
02:52I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
02:56Let's see if that happens.
03:06How can you accuse President Obama of obstructing when he was egging Russia on?
03:11He was joking at the time.
03:13You're up there.
03:14You've got half the room going totally crazy wild.
03:18They loved everything.
03:19They want to do something great for our country.
03:22And you have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news like that.
03:28They were like death.
03:31And un-American.
03:34Un-American.
03:36Death.
03:37And un-American.
03:39Un-American.
03:41Somebody said treasonous.
03:43I mean, yeah, I guess why not?
03:47Can we call that treason?
03:48Why not?
03:49The president was clearly joking with his comments.
03:51But what isn't a joke is that Democrats refused to celebrate the accomplishments of last year that has helped all Americans.
03:58I recognize that my dad's communication style is not to everyone's taste.
04:03And I know that his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered.
04:07But the results, the results speak for themselves.