From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
The “Fake News” had him speaking to Dr. Birx, or did our own lying eyes, since the whole thing was televised? Is he just as clueless about how tv cameras work as he is about, well, everything else? He also spoke to the “Laboratory expert” (I think he means William Bryan?), but you know what? This makes it clear that he was not speaking to reporters (especially ones that were not there) sarcastically. I’m not even 100% sure he knows what sarcasm means. I think he means when you say a thing that isn’t true as a prank but doesn’t get that if it were an actual joke, it would be because everyone would get that what was said was obviously untrue. But we don’t get that when Trump says something that’s obviously untrue that he’s being in any way sarcastic, because he says things that are wrong because he’s dumb as hell, and also, he lies a whole lot. He also isn’t known for his sparkling wit. Occam’s Razor: he’s just ignorant.
Dr. Birx herself tried to pull his ass out of the mire of his own making, explaining that he just likes to talk out new information as it’s received. A lot of people, including the shiny new White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, tried to say he was being taken out of context, before he was suddenly “sarcastic”. And really, how sad is saying he was being sarcastic? Right. He meant to do that.
Whatever.