Puzzling President: Two reasons for saying something vulgar and racist in front of witnesses, including a member of the opposing party, and then denying it.

One possibility is that you believe most people, or at least your supporters, are vulgar and racist, so you are doing it to reinforce their support. You then claim not to have said it in order to baffle and annoy your opponents, and to increase your supporters’ admiration.

A second possibility is that you have a vulgar and racist alternate personality who was just speaking his mind, while the later denial was made by another of your personalities who would never say such things, and who either does not remember making those vulgar and racist remarks, or feels that it was the other one who said it, so he can honestly say that he, himself, never said it.

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