I mean I don’t like Trump at all but he’s very obviously kidding every time he does the Hannibal Lector reference (he makes this one pun over and over about “having you for dinner,” laughs, uses a sarcastic tone, and notes how the media gets upset) and he was pretty clearly kidding with the baseball comment too.
Cool, save a seat for Hannibal Lecter!
I mean I don’t like Trump at all but he’s very obviously kidding every time he does the Hannibal Lector reference (he makes this one pun over and over about “having you for dinner,” laughs, uses a sarcastic tone, and notes how the media gets upset) and he was pretty clearly kidding with the baseball comment too.
He only starts joking about it after he gets called out as a nutbag. This is how he plays it off.
But there’s no way to make his comments not make sense here— he talks about insane asylums, then brings up an iconic fictional insane person