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Donald Trump taking a cue from Weird Al Yankovic

"When I said that I'd be faithful When I promised I'd be true When I swore I could never Be with anyone but you When I told you that I loved you With those tender words I spoke I was only kidding Now, can't you take a joke?" Those were some of the words to Weird Al Yankovic's song, "I Was Only Kidding," from which Donald Trump appears to be taking his cue. In a recent interview with Wisconsin Fox affiliate WLUK, the GOP frontrunner defended his long (and continuing) history of sexist comments, saying, "Well, number one, I'm no different than anybody else, and people joke, and I joke." He added, "And I never knew I was going to be running for office. And you joke, and you kid and say things, but you're not a politician so you never think anybody cares." Lastly, he said: "Much of that I said in jest, much of that I said - although with the Fox debate, I didn't say that in jest at all. I said that 10...