Faith writes:
the surrounding context will define those words, and the writer's attitude in general.
There is no context to recording his words verbatim. None - he says what he says. He chooses the time and place to say them, then he says them.
Also, Trump's words are often taken out of context,
Verbatim means reporting it all. Then we have it.
No, the words themselves do not tell the whole story, not by a long shot.
The words are what we have. The rest is what you object to - people attempting to 'interpret' and 'put in context'.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.