Just Kidding! WH Officials Insist Trump Wasn’t Serious About Extending His Term

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One. (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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White House officials told the Washington Post in an article published late Monday that President Donald Trump was only joking about extending his term another two years.

Trump retweeted a post by evangelical leader and Liberty University chief Jerry Falwell on Saturday declaring that Trump should have an extra two years added to his term as “pay back” for “time stolen” by special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Now unnamed White House officials and people in Trump’s inner circle insist that POTUS wasn’t being serious.

This wouldn’t be the first time Trump “joked” about forcing extra time into his presidency. During a rally almost exactly a year ago, he suggested a similar “extension for the presidency.”

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  1. The plea of “I was only joking” is a total sham masking actual corrupt intent. It is getting awfully tiring.

  2. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope … just kidding!” [rim shot]

    Don’t quit your day job, Donnie. Wait … on second thought … this is the rare case where that would actually solve everything.

  3. :joy::rofl: Ha ha! That guy is such a jokester! :rofl::sweat_smile:

    He’s so playful and wry, barely a day goes by where he doesn’t lighten the national mood. Long after his term is finished, mirth will truly be his everlasting legacy.

  4. Trump should die thrashing in a rapidly expanding puddle of his own puked blood. Ha, ha, just kidding.

  5. Response: We need a POTUS who takes his job seriously. Obviously this one doesn’t.

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