So you subscribe to mchammer's theory that "countries" can mean virtually anything you want it to, a wild card if you will. Telling an American to "go back" to said awful country is a metaphor...for what? Why say "countries" and describe them as "corrupt"?
No. To me, "countries" means countries. Did he tell Americans to "go back," because he wanted to engage in some deep, white nationalist signaling, or did he tell them that because he's too stupid and careless to actually look and see where they were born? If we were talking about any other President, I'd assume the former. Because it's Trump and he doesn't think before he speaks or Tweets, I assume the latter.
Again, I wouldn't have said what he said. I subscribe to the idea that if your opposition is being stupid and self-defeating (as AOC and her clan has been), you close your mouth and let them do it. And if I was going to make a remark, it would have been centered on their beliefs, not on where they're from (or where their parents were from).
Not sure why conservatives are so eager to adopt all the warts of Trump as their own.
I think you understand the point. One of the reasons why the cries of racism and freakouts about Trump don't stick very well is is that pretty much every conservative has been called a racist at one time or another whether it was true or not. It has become so predictable and so shallow that it has lost almost all of its meaning.
Does that mean Trump has never said anything racist? If you ask mchammer and Garmel, they'd pretty much say he hasn't. I think he has (Judge Curiel comment), but that doesn't mean this particular comment was. And when every time the guy farts people are calling him a racist, it undermines those people's claims of racism when it might actually have some merit.