It’s a fine line. He didn’t say “she is nasty”, he said “I didn’t know she was nasty”. It seemed to come out of left field given the conversation. I’d like to know what was said before that video clip.
I think what he intended was that what she said was a nasty thing to say and it was.
Perhaps he could have expressed that a tad better but bottom line he should have clarified his meaning rather than deny that he said it considering it was documented and easily verified.
All in all though a spec of dust in the grand scheme of things.
It didn’t come out of left field, and it’s been deliberately left out-of-context to vilify the president. Like just about everything else spoken or written about him.
The reporter started out by asking if he knew that MM wouldn’t be meeting him due to taking maternity time-off, and that she hadn’t been very nice about him during the campaign. He said that he hadn’t heard that, and hoped that she was ok. They discussed MM’s threat to leave the country for Canada, were he elected and that she instead moved to Britain. (obviously...)
President then stated that he ‘didn’t know that she was nasty’, the implication clearly meaning that he meant the things that MM had said about him, not anything about her, personally.
And he went on to say that her new status in the “Royal” (barf) family was nice, and that he was sure she’d do an excellent job in her new role and hoped that all would work out well.
What a prick! /sarc
This sounds like the meaning of the word "is" is
"Whatever" it's a none issue.