Serious question, and I doubt it.
After all “I was being sarcastic” roughly translates to “I was bullshitting you“; which, once upon a better time, was an impression you just didn’t want to give as an American president.
It’s par for the course now. Since January 20, 2017. And it’s totally unsurprising to hear from Donald Trump since for his whole life he’s been a bullshitter by trade.
Of course ”I was being sarcastic” was only a Squirrel!!! distraction anyway, a rhetorical bandaid meant to hopefully slow the bleeding from the enormous and self-inflicted “inject yourself with disinfectant” wound.
But it still yet again shows clearly how far we’ve fallen. The “presidential“ snake-oil salesman who supposedly “tells it like it is” instead is and has been peddling bullshit, laughing that you didn’t “get the joke”, and then ragetweeting about “Fake News” as a result of all of it. Then his most hardcore followers say “What’s the big deal?” His slightly-less-batshit-crazy supporters and allies say “Well at least he’s not a Democrat.” And most of the media says “Fuck yeah ratings/clicks!1!!”
All per usual.
While the rest of us and the rest of the free world looks on in disbelieving horror.
So… what can we do?
That and nothing else will stem this tide.