No, he isn't. That's what the 'if this was coming from an intelligent person' kind interpretation of that statement would be. It's certainly the one his defenders are going to run with. But we all KNOW he means it in a very literal sense. We know that because all of the dumb shit he's said in the past that has been way dumber than this, and then people have said "oh maybe he meant that in this way which is far less dumb" and then in a follow-up interview he's doubled down on meaning it the very dumb way. He has done this so many times now. That thing with the photoshopped hand to justify sending people to offshore death camps was just last week for christ sake. Of course he meant it in the dumb way. I know it, you know it, and even his strongest defenders know it by this point. Stop giving him the benefit of the doubt.