Context is everything. Watch and listen to this video and think about what the phrase “I couldn’t care less” is referring to.
The transcript of the important part is:
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I’ll tell you something that’s gonna get me in trouble but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
Those on the political left interpret this as President Trump does not want to fix the country. Or, one person I know think he was answering the question, “Who could fix this country?”
I interpret him as saying he couldn’t care less about getting in trouble for saying the following words.
I will grant that I can see it being misinterpreted you only hear the first sentence as the complete response to the question. But in the full context it seems very close to unambiguous. Is this just my bias?
Yet, I see instance after instance of emphasis on the first sentence:
- Did Trump Say ‘I Couldn’t Care Less’ About Unifying America After Charlie Kirk Shooting? | US News – Times Now
- ‘I Couldn’t Care Less’: Trump’s Downplaying of Right-Wing Violence Continues Long Pattern – Democracy Docket
- ‘I Couldn’t Care Less’: Trump Rejects Chance To Unify Country In Wake Of Kirk Death
- Trump Defends ‘Radical Right’ When Pressed on Fixing the Country
- Trump Backs Extreme Right in Charlie Kirk Rant on ‘Fox & Friends’
Do they honestly believe that is a truthful interpretation of what he said? Are they all deliberately lying? I find both conclusions inconceivable.
More than ever, I just want to be left alone in my underground bunker in Idaho. People have gone nuts.
Lost in all the chaos is the Left wanting to make it about gun control means they want to ban antique bolt action rifles. Fudds beware
I am baffled at this right wing violence. Who, what, where, when? I see that expression as more gaslighting. In my opinion this mythical right wing violence doesn’t exist.
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I don’t believe this can be classified as “right-wing violence”. This guy’s politics were all over the board. I’d chalk it up to mental illness, just like Gifford’s shooter.
I can’t see either of them fitting into the standard left-right paradigm.
Of course people appear to be going insane.
We keep telling you it’s a spiritual battle, and if you don’t have any belief in the supernatural world, and only the the simple physical/material realm, then yes, it would be inexplicable.
On the other hand….
“People have gone nuts”
They’ve always been nuts, it’s just that now the signal is strong enough to overpower the noise so it’s no longer hidden.
Trump has figured it out. He knows that no matter what he says or does…or doesn’t say and doesn’t do…roughly one third of the country will be unhappy. So he simply doesn’t care what they think, feel or want. They are insane, irrational and if we can remove their power to vote they’d be irrelevant. The rest of us need to start feeling a bit that way. You simply do not allow your life to revolve around insane idiots.