How seriously we should take Donald Trump?

Anthony Scaramucci found a way to interpret Donald Trump’s most controversial comments while briefly serves as White House Communications Director during the president’s first mandate. “Take it seriously, but you don’t literally take it” was Scaramucci’s advice for journalists and the world in general.

That is a useful way to try to make sense of Trump’s surprising plan to “take control of Gaza, drag what remains, eliminate its Palestinian inhabitants and” develop it “in the ‘Riviera del Middle East’“, saying The night. But, will we have to use it for the next four years since the rhetoric of the White House and reality seems to be increasingly blurred?

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All the farrago is another example of what The New York Times described as “one of the most peculiar aspects” of Trump’s political appeal. Many of his followers “simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will.” A businessmen’s defender said that Trump’s recent call for “a really violent day” in which the police would take energetic measures against real estate crimes was “only a sound bite.”

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