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Originally Posted by Buster
There is a general requirement to take something Trump says, paraphrase or interpret in the most inflammatory manner possible
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I sort of agree with you, but...
First of all, everybody who speaks publicly gets a taste of this. As you said, lots of people love outrage. (I think it's safe to call them a loud minority, but it doesn't much matter in this context.)
Second, Trump has brought it on himself. His campaign to get nominated was mostly built on saying outrageous things for attention. So he kept saying things that were kind of outrageous, but also kind of vague (the whole "they send us their rapists, but I'm sure some Mexicans are good people" stuff is a great example). As many have noticed, at one point his talks were mostly just complete nonsense, if you looked at the words literally. None of that mattered, because what he was pushing through was his tone of "I'm nothing like you've ever seen".
When your message is various versions of "I'm saying things nobody else dares to say" and "I'm completely different" etc, it's almost literally an invitation to interpret his words in extreme ways.