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The full quote:

> I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.

He seems to mean it literally. Or he's taking the metaphor way beyond it's reasonable limit.

I'd say that not including the full quote while attempting to defend is a "nasty trick".

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You think he actually wants to kill two people, behead them and put their rotting heads on pikes. One left and one right of the entrance of the white house. That is a completely reasonable interpretation of what he said?

It’s kind of hard not to have that interpretation when he prefixes the statement with “I’d actually like to…”. “

If he’d said “A part of me would like to” instead it probably would have been assumed to be metaphorical. But he didn’t, so here we are.

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