A common misconception about US citizens is that Americans en bloc cannot do irony.
This is known as stereotyping, i.e. people attributing a set idea they have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong.
The stereotyping was misproved (yet again!) earlier this week by the post below on the former social media site now known as X (mostly for the rating of its content. Ed.) in relation to the disgraced 45th President of the United States, adjudicated sexual predator, condemned business fraudster, convicted felon and compulsive liar, one Donald John Trump.
In the dictionary irony is defined as follows:
a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result.
Anyone who does come out with the ‘Americans can’t do irony‘ phrase needs to look up what a national or ethnic stereotype is. 😀