Well you’ve moved the goalposts quite a bit here (by now tremendously far away from “There's not a single person who would agree that the US president is handli

Well you’ve moved the goalposts quite a bit here (by now tremendously far away from “There's not a single person who would agree that the US president is handling this well”). Trump jokingly referred to the state department as the deep state department. Quite different from the accusation that he seriously referred to it as a department solely responsible for deep state operations. This was so obviously a joke to anybody except those willing to take even the most spurious opportunities to criticise him for anything. The question of whether there’s one or more groups of unelected bureaucrats working to undermine and obstruct his presidency is an entirely seperate matter. The answer to that question is also demonstrably and unequivocally yes. This was proven without doubt when the OIG released their report detailing a laundry list of illegal FISA abuses that were used to spy on his campaign, by the fact that the mueller investigation, which served no purpose other than to obstruct his presidency, came up with absolutely nothing, and by the travesty of the impeachment “inquiry”. Just to name a few instances.