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Here’s What Trump Really Meant When He Said “I Will Literally Line Up My Political Rivals and Have Them Executed by Firing Squad”

Here we go again—the libs are panicking about another innocent, off-the-cuff comment from President Trump. It’s exhausting having to explain what Trump actually meant to a bunch of reactionary bedwetters every time he speaks his mind. Trump has already been President and barely even brought us to the brink of chaos, and you’re still not accustomed to his manner of speaking. Still you flip your lids whenever he expresses an opinion. Then people like myself are forced to waste our time helping the pearl-clutching left understand Trump’s true intention.

Of course he wasn’t actually talking about slaughtering Democrats, members of the media and dissidents in a hail of bullets. Do I really need to point out that “literally” doesn’t actually mean “literally” anymore? If someone says, “I literally died laughing,” you know they didn’t really die. In this case, Trump employed a clever metaphor: He was simply making the point that he would hold the enemies of freedom accountable for their ineptitude and corruption. The suggestion that he intends to initiate some sort of systemic purge of his domestic rivals is frankly pretty offensive.

Are you familiar with “The Weave”? That’s Trump’s term for the masterful way his monologues touch on a wide variety of subjects before he eventually connects the dots and ties everything together. What you’re alleging he said about the wholesale extrajudicial murder of his enemies was just one of many issues he brought up in a three-hour speech, and once again the radical left is cherry-picking, taking things out of context and losing their minds.

Furthermore, when Mr. Trump added that he would hold lotteries giving loyalists a chance to win a spot on the firing squads just demonstrates how creative he is with the English language. The fact so many liberals misconstrued that as well highlights how intellectually compromised the lot of you are.

I admit that President Trump’s language can come off as coarse at times, but he’s a tough businessman, not a bought-and-paid-for Washington insider. Enough with the hand-wringing about what he meant by this or that. We need to end these disingenuous witch hunts and let Trump exercise his First Amendment right to speak his mind and lead the country toward prosperity and greatness. Again. And maybe again after that, we’ll see.