Michael Knowles

That's what you're saying, Michael?

Michael, you're saying that the lesson of this whole episode is that you can't trust what Trump says.

Excuse me.

You can trust what Trump says.

if you know what he means.

You see, words have a tie to an objective reality, but they also mean different things depending on the circumstances in which they are said, and depending on who is saying them.

Because different people have different credibility, different people speak to different audiences.

And the way that Trump speaks

is as a New Yorker, someone posted last night on social media said, maybe it's just, you gotta be from New York to know what he, and I'll tell you what, it helps.

For years now, when President Trump uses quotation marks to mean boldface,

So, you know, he'll do that and say, like, we're going to destroy you or whatever.

But he really, a lot of people don't understand that.

My grandmother used to write like that.

New Yorkers of a certain age write like that.

They think the quotations mean a joke.

They mean mockery.

They mean verbal irony.

But actually, sometimes New Yorkers use it.

So it's true.

New Yorkers speak in a different way.