He did say ‘laughing their asses off’.
I read his tweets on my phone.
They don't understand that the people they are targeting speak a lot more like Trump than they do the pink hat bearing crowd on their side.
Succinct statements of the Truth get through. What folks don't understand is that our brains are wired for common sense - it is an evolution/survival of the fittest sort of thing. You may be able to distort reality through propaganda and reprogram folks up to point, but there is only so much counter reality distortion the human brain can handle before you go insane - unless you take psychotropic drugs.