Speaking to an audience of Christian conservative voters recently, Donald Trump told them: “You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”
In typical Trump style, what he meant was not spelled out. Even given an opportunity to row back from his words on Fox News the following day, he refused to clarify his statement or deny it had suggested an end to elections in America.
Trump has a habit of making these sorts of vague and ambiguous statements – guaranteeing himself coverage in successive media cycles by generating column inches about what he may have meant. As one journalist wrote before the 2016 election: “The press takes him literally but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously but not literally.”
