.....Because they are not capable of taking seriously the words of a black man.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If justice isn't done to these criminals, these traitors, the country wont survive.

[ck4829]

2. Oh that jester Obama, joking about an unhinged mindjob and crook!

[spanone]

3. what a crock of shit.

unbelievable.

[Wounded Bear]

4. So they paraphrase what Pres Obama said...

and then claim it sounded like he was joking?

Talk about your alternative facts.

[Phoenix61]

5. He fired him!

If course he wasn't a fan. If they are so stupid to think that Obama was joking we are in even bigger trouble than I imagined.

[dalton99a]

6. Mercer & Bannon: "What do black people know about presidenting?"

[bettyellen]

7. That's their boiler plate response when DT says or tweets something outrageous- it's a joke or

It meant something different than the actual words.
Of course them saying this does sound ridiculous and possibly racist but it's their BS story for anything on record they can't explain.