^^^I agree it was most likely meant sarcastically, a tweak back at the folks who were crying "socialism" as loudly as they could, trying to make it stick those last couple weeks.
Similar to how my husband and I, when we walked into Starbucks to get our free coffee after voting on Tuesday, starting haranguing the staff just for the fun of it. "So you're just GIVING the coffee away to anyone who walks in here and asks for it? What's that, redistribution of the coffee?" And then when they handed us the coffee in their holiday cups, we launched into, "Oh! Of course! RED cups!"...
Yeah, we crack ourselves up.
