Tellingly, John Checks Trump Statement — For “Plausibility”… Damn.

This is barely worth the time that it will take for me to dictate it… But I do want to note that Hinderaker takes several sentences here, to assess what he calls the “plausibility” of whatever the sitting president decides to write.

Imagine saying such a thing — when JFK was in the White House, or Eisenhower, or even Barack Obama.

But it is John’s concluding sentence that I most want to highlight: he makes a joke of what is purportedly a statement about an assassination threat, against Tangerine 2.0.

Note that were this serious president, there would be no jokes about assassination attempts… In this case, though nothing about this president is serious.

And John well knows it and regularly admits to it. Thus, he concludes with the joke because even he doesn’t remotely believe what Trump writes anymore.