hardcorefornerds:

The influential but now mostly retired blogger Carles of Hipster Runoff also made liberal use of scare quotes, applying them even to apparently simple terms used in a literal sense, such as “website” and “understandable”. 

This usage is, on the face of it, closer to Mr Trump’s than the more familiar usage, where a minister might refer to “hard Brexit” in scare quotes, because he doesn’t believe the term is accurate but wants to be understood. 

When Mr Trump puts “hackers” in quotation marks, he does actually mean hackers, who he believes are genuinely hackers, and he isn’t obviously quoting someone else saying that. He just puts the important part of the sentence in quotes – like Carles.