Twitler To Address Nation At 9PM EDT Tonight

America still doesn't have the testing kits we need to be able to test people and constantly turns people away who need to be testing.

But I am sure he will claim it is going great.

I'll wait for the synopsis because if I watch I'll smash my tv.

I usually change the channel when Trump comes on but I am thinking about watching this one. However I will watch it with the sound muted and closed-captioning on, I can't stand the sound of his voice and the sound of his lies.

The first thing on the agenda will be how beautifully he banned a travel ban to China. Banned China. Banned from China. Banned a ban to and from China. A ban of China. Big, beautiful ban. All banned. And early. Banned beautiful and early. Saved a tremendous number of beautiful lives and put us on the good footing we're currently enjoying. Beautiful and early.

They told him he couldn't do it. He did it. Bigly. All traffic stabbed. Traffic stopped. Stabbed and stopped. They all went to him in tears and said, "Mr. President, no one has ever banned a ban to China and from China, Mr. President! In China. To and from. Stabbed and Stopped, bigly. It can't be done, Mr. President! It's never been done!"

He did it. He did it beautifully. And fast. Early. Fast and Beautiful and early, and tremendous. Tremendous, beautiful response. All the beautiful lives are alive today because of his beautiful ban. So many beautiful lives. From ban. Beautiful ban.

Then it will all go downhill and turn nonsensical.

My partner wants to watch his stupid speech for some reason. I don’t understand why. Nothing new is going to come out of his orange anus mouth.

I can't watch him when he comes on I turn the channel.

Eh. All he cares is being reelected. Whatever. Well, his resume will forever be tarnished by a stock market that tumbled the fastest into a bear market. it might be poetic justice that the tiniest microorganism would cause his downfall.

It's basically going to be rally-lite. He'll say his people are ahead of the pandemic, he'll allocate billions of dollars and emphasize the word 'billion' every time he says it (because he wants you to be sure that he uses the word all time, being a 'billionaire' and everything you know), pat himself on the back, issue travel warnings to try to blame it on other countries, and take no questions.

The only real thing he might do is free up disaster relief funds which is well, better than not freeing up disaster relief funds.

He's good at lying about things like how great his hotels are and how big his crowds are.

Making people feel better when things have gone bad is not in his wheelhouse

Seven minutes to go.

Thanks for the warning! I'll be sure not to watch!

Trump should just pass Medicare for All. Call out any republican that does not vote for it, so his mob votes them out of office. Then, resign during the general election campaign. He would be a cult hero. People would watch his shows, stay at his hotels and golf at his courses. More importantly, the ivanka wouldn't not be shunned, a social pariah. She may actually get to dump jared and marry up.

In short:

-Save the American People

-Cult Hero

-Ivanka

“My response to the virus has been perfect. Like the letter was perfect. Like the transcript was perfect.”

“The best response in history.”

Always match the color of your hands to the color of your face.

Oh yeah, this is very reassuring.

He's nervous AF and reading something Ivanka wrote

SNIFFFFFF

And we're only ten seconds in

in a voice you use as if you reading a document out loud versus giving a speech

His voice inspires such confidence.

To the right you see that creepy picture of him and Ivanka where he’s sticking his fat fingers under her sleeves.

It’s Europe’s fault!

The Best Anywhere In The World!

He sounds breathless.

"as the virus spread its horrible infection" -- what does that mean?

We have less cases because we have no test cases you fuckwad

Did Grampy wear his Depends for the big speech?

R24 He’s probably sedated.

He’s reading as if he’s seeing the speech for the first time.

All travel to Europe restricted for 30 days

R24 Maybe he's infected. Shortness of breath is a symptom.

Why is he addressing the nation about getting a cold?

He probably is R28. Ivanka and Jared just finished it

Billion. BEEELION!

Reading sniff reading sniff reading sniff

....

Nurshing homesh for the elderly

Go-ordinating

Monotone

The highest risk is for Fox News viewers

I thought this was all a DEMOCRAT HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!

HIGGGH GEEINE

He does not sound reassuring at all

Its too late to restrict travel from other countries. It is HERE, it is all over here.

We are we going to do to try to contain it HERE. You can't try to talk about scary people from other countries.

He's stopping it TODAY, so he doesn't have to stop it TOMORROW.

Wait? But isn’t the Coronavirus a Democratic hoax? I’m confused now, Donald!

MY administration. Presidents usually say this administration.

He sounds sick!

The Donald sounds drugged.

Our banks are the biggest and the best!

The greatest economy anywhere in the world!

Corona *pause* virus

Free money from the SBA!!!! God Blexh the Unnided Statesh!

He's wheezing and sounds congested.

Dare one dream?

Sniifffffffff

He’s squinting because he’s too vain to wear glasses.

YEs R51 -- he keeps saying it like he's mocking the name

So Presidential!

Corona *sniff* virus.

Dry mouth

I absolutely refuse to watch. But I admit I'll be interested to hear from those who did tune in just how much of an ass the motherfucker made of himself.

i'm waiting for Tony Fauci to rush in from stage right waving his arms.

We will heal the sick and RAISE THE DEAD!

What the fuck is he saying? It's one long run-on sentence read from a teleprompter.

Holy fuck.

Well, I feel reassured now.

"The best economy" a second time

He is saying reassuirng words with zero emotion "heal the sick LOL"

Why exclude the UK from the travel ban?

"We're all in this together..."

Fuck.

God, that was dreadful. If people weren't panicking before, they will be now.

You can hear Stephen Miller’s b.s. words in this speech. Same lines as his rally speeches. The only thing he left out was a reference to “Almighty GOD.”

[quote] MY administration. Presidents usually say this administration.

Remember he thinks the Federal Government belongs to him. Remember how he always refers to the military leaders as "my generals". The fat bastard thinks he's Nikita Khrushchev.

[QUOTE] Why exclude the UK from the travel ban?

Because they’re in his and Putin’s good graces thanks to Brexit.

We must stop the partisanship. Mother fucker, you and your party are the ones making it a partisan issue. You dumb orange buffoon.

When do we get to the reassuring part?

Maddow correctly noting that the omission of the UK from Euro travel ban makes little rational sense.

Even in a national crisis, DL has to be hyperpartisan?

It's good that the UK is exempt. It makes a strong statement that they are our friends and that unlike the Europeans, can be trusted.

It’s up to the individual states now.

[quote] You can hear Stephen Miller’s b.s. words in this speech

“Foreign virus.”

Nothing will reassure and unify the nation like a tired, congested, out-of-breath Trump reading in a monotone voice directly from a teleprompter.

[quote]reassuring words with zero emotion "heal the sick LOL"

Those are Stephen Miller’s words. Classic.

That was more alarming than I imagined.

This will go down in history as:

"If you are elderly, you fucked" speech.

So, if anyone from Europe travels to the UK, they can fly to the US, right?

[quote] It's good that the UK is exempt. It makes a strong statement that they are our friends and that unlike the Europeans, can be trusted.

No potato for you, comrade.

R4 You need to write Gertrude Stein/Donald Trump fan fiction. Bravo!

Chris Hayes correctly pointing out that Trump keeps talking about it like it's an external threat like a Caravan of Migrants that he can somehow keep out with a travel ban.

And avoids the fact that hardly anyone in the US has been tested.

[quote] Why exclude the UK from the travel ban?

Obviously they are whiter than the rest of Europe. It's hard to imagine that whites can spread diseases like the swarthier peoples of the world.

95 percent of datalounge is fucked, rip bitches,! May I have your stuff?

Why ban Europe instead of Asia?

The US is done as a super power on the works stage.

[QUOTE] When do we get to the reassuring part?

On January 20, 2021.

Fox 'news' must be spinning this into one big asshole lick.

Lots of people live & work in both the U.K. & US in the media & finance. We don't have that kind of relationship with continental countries.

Look how horrible the Italians managed the crisis. The UK is expected to be able to do a superior job, especially by comparison with Italy.

if you want to flee to Europe to have comprehensive medical care, you can't bitches.

Run Trump and his inner circle out of government with their heads on pikes.

This is INSANE.

Trump is either physically sick or cognitively impaired -- or both.

The Preshident's on my televishion talking about the Corona virush!

Well the stock market is not liking his speech. Futures actually tumbled down even more. And we all know the stock market is is his main concern.

[quote]Lots of people live & work in both the U.K. & US in the media & finance. We don't have that kind of relationship with continental countries.

Like the virus cares about those relationships.

Stop tbe partisanship? Who called this a "democratic hoax, Shitler?

What the fuck was that?????????

I really despise every single person who voted for Trump or stayed home in 2016. When all the deplorables die because their red state governors won’t do anything I will pop a bottle of champagne

[quote] The UK is expected to be able to do a superior job, especially by comparison with Italy.

London’s not doing any of the social distancing the rest of the West is.

[quote] Like the virus cares about those relationships.

It's not like 40 million people are going to come in here from the U.K. We can scan them at the airport, considering all Euripean flights are cancelled.

Deferred tax payments? Whaddya wanna bet the hotel industry will be one of the receivers of these deferred tax payments? And who owns hotels that are failing????? No need to answer the question, the answer is obvious.

Trump is either physically sick or cognitively impaired -- or both.

He’s obese, bloated and rife with inflammation. It has a tremendously deleterious effect on both the mind and body.

Euripean

Ok

Holy shit Tom hanks has Coronavirus

[quote] Lots of people live & work in both the U.K. & US in the media & finance.

No they don't.

Some DLers are among the world's lowest IQ homosexuals.

Maybe a couple of hundred people fall into that category.

Maybe.

Dear Rachel,

Look up "US UK special relationship"

R110 also decorates his office like Downton Abbey and refers to the shed-yule he keeps in his diary.

He announced his new running mate.

Did you notice his body language -- it's as if a kindergarten teacher (or someone around him) told him to fold his hands -- BUT did you notice how he kept twiddling his thumbs as if protesting what it was he was being forced to read? Twitler twiddling his liddle thumbies.

[quote] Maybe a couple of hundred people fall into that category.

More than a couple of hundred people who regularly traveled between the US & UK worked in WTC alone, rube

So if was going to fly out of France I can't come to the US, but if I just take a quick trip down the channel to fly out of Heaththrow to America it is fine.

Nonsense policy making to rile up his base that it is about foreigners.

[quote] Holy shit Tom hanks has Coronavirus

NOT OUR CELEBRITIES!

[QUOTE] Holy shit Tom hanks has Coronavirus

If this was 20 years ago, I’d be very upset right now.

This is not surprising R114

It is well know that he does not like to deliver bad news. He feels it reflects badly on him and like all narcissists, he has zero compassion for other people.

Trump may already have CV. He did seem ill.

Replacing Hail to the Chief

[quote] So if was going to fly out of France I can't come to the US, but if I just take a quick trip down the channel to fly out of Heaththrow to America it is fine.

Erm, no you can't. UK won't let you fly to US from Europe. It's the special relationship.

[QUOTE] Fox 'news' must be spinning this into one big asshole lick.

Oh yeah. I flipped to Fox as it ended and Sean Hannity, who now thinks the Coronavirus is a serious concern after weeks of dismissing it, lauded Trump’s commanding performance.

They have't posted any exception to this obvious loophole which I'm sure thousand of people immediately thought of. Nor have they posted who gets these special breaks from taxes (hint - hint: probably Trump's business friends and family).

I like to channel flip and I went back to Fox. Kevin McCarthy is on there and he’s blaming everything on China. That seems to be the strategy for both the Trump administration, Republicans in congress and Fox News: it’s all China’s fault.

You are just making shit up repeating "special relationshiop" ad nauseum all over this thread r122.

No one knows how this "plan" is going to work yet.

I guess this is a smart deflection, this Europe ban gets people talking and ignores the obvious that we have no plan here when it is already all over the community and not being contained.

It's smart "look over there" politics.

Who wants to start a betting pool on how many percentage points the stock market drops tomorrow?

Goodbye, retirement money.

I guess they got Trump to withhold announcing at his speech that Jared was in charge and still doing "research" on solving this crisis. But when he next speaks in front of a whirling helicopter, it's bound to come out without a teleprompter present.

Why can’t we blame China? Serious question

He's incompetent

swearing and asking for "white stuff"

Whoa, the NBA is postponing the season.

The first time he read the speech was live in front of the camera.

I'd bet my house on it.

We did blame China r130. Did you miss this back in January.

Nah, people see through the deflection -- it's about testing. We have relatively low numbers of cases here because they fucked up and haven't been testing people. News media need to focus on that pertinent point and not go to where Twitler wants to go.

[quote]Trump may already have CV. He did seem ill.

If he did have it, there's no way in hell they'd let us know. His schedule would say "Pesidential Time" for 14 days straight.

Special relationship = the bond that ties village idiots.

[quote] Obviously they are whiter than the rest of Europe.

Iceland begs to differ.

R128 Hopefully you have some money in bonds and cash? Markets come back eventually since people don't stop being greedy once they are less fearful. So don't sell stocks if you can avoid it when they are low.

[quote]I like to channel flip and I went back to Fox. Kevin McCarthy is on there and he’s blaming everything on China.

Instead, should he be blaming Paraguay or Eritrea or some other country that isn't guilty?

[quote] News media need to focus on that pertinent point and not go to where Twitler wants to go.

Andrew Cuomo just said on his brother’s show that people will be shocked once the testing actually ramps up and we see how many people are infected.

R138 I do have money in bonds and money market, so I should do okay. And I'm not close to retirement age, I was just being a snark-meister.

So Trump bans flights from Europe and suddenly their non-white according to some dlers? What the fuck?

To anyone who has said that quarantining is useless, I agree. It's too late with this many people. It's ridiculous to tell people to be careful when the virus can exist on surfaces and in the air for days. The best thing would be to let all the young people get it or not and focus on protecting just the elderly.

There is no indication that America will be able to ramp up testing to the needed levels anytime soon r140.

Which exactly is how Trump wants it, keep lowballing the number of infections. When you don't test people, you can't count them.

Tom Hanks and Rita WIlson have it. Shit, this is like AIDS for straight and gay people.

ABC medical correspondent said this could be as much as 10x worse than the flu. 20,000 people have died so far from the flu this flu season...

This sucks, I never even got the chance to get married.

I dont understand banning travel to all of Europe (except UK). Has to be country-to-country basis.

China threatened a supply shortage of medication to the United States But Those who refer to the virus as being Chinese is racist. Makes sense.

The NBA has suspended the rest of the season!

This is really fucking serious y'all!

Yes especially when there's big money involved -- let alone people have been dying already.

[quote]So Trump bans flights from Europe and suddenly their non-white according to some dlers?

They're not non-white. They're just irresponsible, useless and not in sync with the values of Americans. No offense to any European DLers.

I wonder how Varist Letty's tennis courts are coming along in the midst of this pandemic.....

Priorities!

R131 That is AMAZING.

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[quote]the NBA is postponing the season.

SUSPENDING, not postponing.

[quote] swearing and asking for "white stuff"

Yoo-hoo, Mr. President!

I thought the speech was supposed to stop the stock market bloodbath? But it has opposite effect -the stock futures are in free fall.

In fainess to Drump, I really think its because Tom Hanks has corona virus and the NBA suspended season.

Tom Nichols:

Dear @SenSanders - If you saw the President's address tonight, then you know we're in a national emergency. You have no path to the nomination. If you're still set on debates and arguing over policy you're wrong to do this. The only job now is to end this crisis of government

[quote] 95 percent of datalounge is fucked, rip bitches,! May I have your stuff?

Yes when I died I insist you take all my virus infected stuff.

The NCAA has banned tournament fans in the stands. No cheers, no yells, nothing but eerie silence for March Madness.

There goes the economic boon that cities thought they would get from having a host city.

Merkel said that around 70% of Germans will get coronavirus, so presumably that holds true for the population in other countries too. Of course, the vast majority of cases will be very mild with people not even knowing they've been infected, but the idea that there are only 456 cases in the UK - as official statistics show - is complete bullshit.

[quote]We will heal the sick and RAISE THE DEAD!

I’d recommend starting with John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.

[quote]Merkel said that around 70% of Germans will get coronavirus

She would rather have that than institute immediate border controls. Sick.

Calling it now -the word(s) of the year will be social distancing.

I think we can Mark today as the official beginning of shit hitting the fan.

I'm surprised Trump didn't blame the previous 2 presidents and Nancy Pelosi for this and the stock market crash.

Give him time R166

I think we will find out in the next few days that he is ill. He seemed kind of stunned and out of it. That was definitely wheezing.

R166, Obama and the Do-Nothing Democrats love their open borders for vicious murderers, rapists, thhhhugangs, look, you've seen it.

Corona, folks. Corona. Mexico. So we're building the wall, beautiful, and Mexico is paying for it. Don't believe the Fake News.

Wall Street hates the Corona and Sleepy Joe Biden. Corona Joe, many people call him. Loves those open borders, Corona Joe.

Vice-Prednithhhent, you know this, Vice-President Pence is working hard to get every American a shot. Right, Mike, a flu shot? Like the flu shot.

Thhhhank you.

But, he counted to 10 so quickly, r168!

R164 doesn't know what it's talking about.

I hope he doesn't address the nation again. Every time he addresses the nation, the stock market plummets, people hoard more toilet paper and water. and go into panic mode.

When Biden spoke-- even though he's not POTUS-- it was more comforting. That Orange POS is not a comforting presence.