Trump: You people really believed me?

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Trump: You people really believed me?

In a turn of events that shocked the political world and threw the presidential race into unprecedented turmoil, Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that he is quitting the race and endorsing Hillary Clinton.

Trump said the only point of his campaign was to show how stupid and gullible many Republican voters are.

“I’ve been a Democrat all of my adult life,” Trump told a packed and boisterous news conference. “But I knew if I ran as a Republican and said increasingly ridiculous, idiotic, racist and sexist things that I would get a lot of votes.”

But he said he had no idea he would be able to win the Republican nomination and poll 40 percent or better in a national race against Clinton.

“Did people really believe that I could build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and get the Mexicans to pay for it?” Trump asked, “and that we could deport 11 million illegal aliens? That’s ridiculous. How could we possibly do that?”

[tblue37]

1. Clarify that this is satire, even though the author didn't. nt

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2. Is it really necessary to state the obvious?

The article is dripping with satire. I am assuming a certain level of intelligence in DU readers.

[tblue37]

5. Poe's law makes certainty impossible. nt

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8. As it is now revealed to be satire

... think of it as an exercise to sharpen one's satire detector. To post a satire warning for a satire takes all the fun out of reading a satire. It is the delicious uncertainty that makes reading unlabeled satire so enjoyable.

Sorry if anyone was disappointed to realize it wasn't real...

[MADem]

6. I'd have thought "Loudmouth Apprentice Host to run for President" was satire a few years back. nt

[Brother Buzz]

3. Poe's law is strong with this one.

[nightscanner59]

4. If only reality was this sane.

Sickening to read the Faux-noise brainwashed commenters below the article lambasting duh "librul media".

[StrictlyRockers]

7. This isn't satire?

You know who invented satire? I did.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. It's getting increasingly hard to tell what is satire n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Some RWer's have *already* suggested that Trump is secretly a Dem ...

... out to sabotage the GOP.

[SCantiGOP]

11. Sent this to the few Trump voters I know

One texted back "This is satire you know"
I replied: "I knew that, but from your message it sounds like you weren't sure."

[lamp_shade]

12. I just this on facebook for shits and giggles.

[Native]

13. I'll have to post a link to this on Trump's twitter page. Thanks for the material.

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14. I do what little I can

[SCantiGOP]

15. Good to note

That this comes from the Charlotte paper- one of the tightest toss-up states.

[LAS14]

16. This possibility has actually flitted through my mind...

... now and then for months.