I&#x27;m not up to date with the Trump stuff but what I thought was particularly disingenuous about the first example was that he said in advance that he was going to write something ambiguous that people would &#x27;misinterpret&#x27; and then he made fun of them when it happened.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, if you write something with the goal of communicating a particular idea to a particular audience then that&#x27;s what you said. It doesn&#x27;t matter at all what other meanings could be construed and whether they are more logical or not.<p>If I say something to a few people and I know that one of them will misunderstand it (the reason doesn&#x27;t really matter) in a way that makes the statement untrue then I&#x27;ve just lied to that person.