I don’t blame him. Rather reminds me of 1955 Doc in Back to the Future thinking it was a joke that Reagan was POTUS in 1985. It IS a joke but not a funny one at all.

Man Rescued from Taliban Didn’t Believe Donald Trump Was President

A Canadian man rescued from a Taliban-linked group in Afghanistan last week said he thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump had been elected president of the United States.

Joshua Boyle and his wife, Caitlin Coleman, were kidnapped and held by the Haqqani network — whose leader is the deputy head of the Afghan Taliban — for five years and one day.

Boyle and Coleman were rarely given any information on the outside world during their time in captivity. They didn’t even know Justin Trudeau was prime minister of Canada, for example, until after they were rescued. But when Boyle was forced to participate in a “proof-of-life” video, one of the captors told him Donald Trump had been elected President of the United States. At the time, Boyle essentially took this comment as a joke.

“It didn’t enter my mind that he was being serious,” Boyle told the The Toronto Star.