No, Trump wasn’t being serious when he joked he doesn’t read his executive orders

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President Donald Trump wasn’t being serious when he said this week he doesn’t read the text of his executive orders, according to the same reporter who led people to believe otherwise.

The New York Times’ Peter Baker tweeted Tuesday afternoon, “Trump signing his latest executive order: ‘There’s a lot of words. I don’t bother reading everything.'”

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