🤥Lying POTUS🤥 Lying “Live” About “The Chinese Virus” Part III

Is anyone watcing the daily shitshow?

He seems drunk.

He’s going to “kiss you goodbye.”

what the F is this moron going on about??

Thank you, OP!

Pence has NO SHAME standing there listening to this dotard ramble and mumble on.

He can’t even read! Stumbling & fumbling along with the lame ad libs.

Fauci is not in camera shot, probably on purpose so we can't see the disdain on his face.

OH MY FUCKING GOD: Why do you torment us with this orange demi man?

He alternates lying with bragging — and often combines the two.

Bobblehead Pence

“MORE than South Korea!” He’s fucking obsessed with this.

Why is he going on about "fake news"? I read that some NPR affiliate is no longer air his briefings because of his bullshit/misinformation.

Pence ain't even human.

None of the coronavirus patients will board the ship, there's no isolation capabilities. Patients that are currently in the hospital w/o the virus will be moved to the ship allowing their beds to to be filled by the unfortunate COVID victims.

Fauci may be trying to stay 3 feet apart.

"We will bank wish this virus."

He's wheezing and sounds more mentally impaired than usual.

"We have to go back!"

People wanna go back to work, I hear that from everybody

“We have to go back.”

No, we don’t. And it’s not happening anytime soon.

He looks very tired today.

It's not up to him.

We had Mary Poppins from the England, Inspector Clouseau from the France, Boris and Natasha from the Russia, all great people, it was a great call, a perfect call, just like the transcript says, a perfect call. Well, maybe not as perfect as the call, but close to perfect. And congratulations again to Abbvie from Japan for a wonderful decision on rescheduling the games to an odd year. It will be incredible, just like his decision was incredible.

You can't even take this seriously anymore. It's officially become a clown show with Bozo leading the way.

Summary: "Get back to work, peasants! Stockholders demand this!"

God bless America.

Is that shortness of breath I hear from him? One can hope.

Can he not bear his full weight on his feet without leaning on the podium a like granny with a grocery cart?

Can he not bear his full weight on his feet without leaning on the podium a like granny with a grocery cart?

I only watch to see him say incredibly stupid things and blow up at reporters.

“Illegal trade which we don’t like.”

“BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars in tariffs!”

And he just publicly stated China is lying about their numbers.

He’s obsessed with fault today.

Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀 Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀 Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀

"I understand the restaurant business very well." Just like he understands the casino business.

He's fucking high on something.

R31 Trump Steaks!!

How is this fat turd NOT Covid positive? I think he is.

Oh my god....

“Nobody ever thought this could happen” is such an obvious lie. There have been warnings for years.

R32 Dementia patients have good days and bad days.

I wish there was a doctor in the audience to ask questions.

He hasn't had to enact the Defense Production Act? Hmm, ask Gov Cuomo how many ventilators NY has vs. how many they need...

Trump needs to be removed from office. He's killing Americans.

Who is the guy asking that question? Other than the haircut..

He's really trying to get his cruise line friend some of this money.

Reporter: “I’m with Bloomberg News“

Trump: “Oh. How’s Michael?”

Reporter: cringes

I have to say, this is the first one I've watched. It is fkin excruciating! Toe-curlingly bad.

I condole you, America.

I never want to see another sicko as POTUS.

They baited him into talking about the “Chinese Virus.” It’s like being back in middle school. He always takes the bait and gives them another sound bite.

They are always weird, but this one is weirder than most.

Remember Alan Arkin gasping and putting his hand over his mouth when he meets the South American dictator who starts talking as “Senor Pepe”? I always feel that way when I listen to Trump.

Perfect post, r22.

Not many people know this, but America is great, and the great American people want to get back to work. The Fake News won't report this, though. We've got to go back to work. I'm working hard, on the phone with many leaders, they don't all like me, but that's okay,

Great companies are getting it done, they don't need someone asking, I don't need to use the Defense Protection Act, scary, scary. Look, I inherited a broken system, but these great companies, we'll be stockpiled very soon.

People, many thousands, work on shore, filling these ships. I mean, you look at these ports, it's loaded. Big ships, bigger than ever existed before.

Tough business, airlines. We've got to keep them going. Airlines have always been very, very tough.

It came from China. They're paying us a lot of money in tariffs. Gave to our farmers, who are very happy. China took advantage but I blame the people right here.

Chinese virus. That's where it came from. .....Lyme, Connecticut. This came from China.

Iran would love to negotiate with Biden.

WOW... That answer re "China Virus" almost bordered on a concession speech of his losing the election.

The lying is reaching a new level.

He can never point to anything concrete he's doing about anything other than running his fucking mouth.

CNN ignoring Pence, but will show Fauci later. Lol.

Someone needs to ask Pence how much it cost to produce and mail all those blue and white postcards of his and could that money not been put to better use?

Aww, it’s let the grown ups talk now time. Trump left. CNN cut away to point out today was the deadliest day yet.

I think Trump was also ignoring the CNN lady repeatedly. Every time she started her question he said, no the other gentleman.

They also didn't show the whole group. Just Trump's fug face. We can no longer see Fauci wishing he was somewhere else.

Incredibly, Pence is an even bigger BSer than Trump!

Nothing but empty and vague claims, assertions, and alleged statistics.

If he holds up that blue and white folder again.....😡

Oh WOW, Amazon and pizza hut are hiring warehouse workers and delivery people. I’m sure that will fix everything!

They should do the opposite - televise the experts and cut away from him.

They just cut away from Pence. They’re going to cover the doctors.

CNN really doesn't give shit about Pence. They just ignored his "update". Haha.

This parody of tRump is fucking brilliant!!!! “tRump vs. God — who brings back more people on Easter?”

give you all credit. I can't watch him for more than 30 seconds.

It is, r62!

Dr. Birx looks a decade older than her 63 years (it's the neck).

Dr. Birx looks exhausted. Fauci is an energizer bunny. Wonder when he sleeps?

R64 That’s why the scarves.

I cannot believe that Fauci is almost 80? WTF?

Is Birx at all a trustworthy voice? She sort of sounds like she knows what she’s talking about but she’s totally partisan, right?

CNN cut away again the second Pence started to talk.

Good, everyone there should just tell everyone but Fauci and Birx to sit their ass down and STFU. Trump and Pence are not worth listening to, ever.

Trump is the only person I can think of who can kiss China and Xi's ass and still be called a racist. How would people react if he told the truth?

R68 There are quite a few doctors in the field that disagree with stuff she says. I prefer to listen to the docs working hands on with coronavirus patients than a member of the Trump administration.

I was watching a little bit of it and when he started about fake news my channel cut back to their mindless local yokel crap they normally have on. Even THEY'RE tired of him.

I did like his mentioning French president Emmanuel Macaroon.

The video at R62 is hilarious. I mute the TV then change the channel whenever trump comes on but I really do enjoy coming to DL and participate in the mincemeat made of the orange idiot.

I had to take a break from listening to the idiot today. Maybe I will try tomorrow.

I DARE ANYONE over the age of puberty and who is sane, if they saw trump some place any place and didn't know who he was and heard him talking about ANYTHING who wouldn't slowly step away from him and think "this guy shouldn't be walking the streets, he's a loon and a total idiot!"

Trump is scornful of Cuomo because he knows that even if he, Trump, delivered personally 40,000 ventilators, New York is Blue.

Not to mention Trump is a sadistic narcissist, enjoying every moment of this pandemic.

From what I saw of Cuomo's conference today, he didn't mention Trump at all. I bet ignoring him chaps Trump's hide even more.

Cuomo just was asked about it on MSNBC but didn't blow his cool.

The sociopaths at CNN are busy pitting Cuomo against trump with their taken out of context chyrons. Because who cares that trump will see that stuff and take it out on the people of blue states, right? It's all good for TV!

[quote] He’s obsessed with fault today.

Identifying a 'foreign' enemy is critical to his appeal to Deplorables. A "Chinese virus" or a "Democratic hoax" is his classic us against them clarion call to his base. They will be with him until they start dropping like flies.

The repukes are in large part a party of people with grievances, resentment, and ignorance.

I'm from a liberal family and a deplorable finally infiltrated us, the brother of an in-law. The guy is a sad sack, never made good choices, is in poor health and now dependent on the government for assistance. He's an amiable sort but a high school drop out. Always worked hard but at places that paid no benefits and low wages. Laid off from his last job he's now on gov't assistance. He's had past issues with addiction, still smokes like a fiend, but somehow now thinks the lying orange loser will save him. We think he and his roommate watch Fox news all day. He's been messaging friends and family, urging them to support trump. But, I'm not racist, sexist, xenophobic, angry, gullible, or vengeful so the words are quickly deleted.

The irony is that people like him place their faith in a liar and cheat who would pull the social safety net out from under their feet if he could. It makes trump and his cronies the most deplorable of all.

Trump Praise-a-thon in progress. He even made Fauci and Birx praise him for the Stimulus bill.

So Nancy Pelosi isn’t invited to the signing ceremony for the big relief/stimulus package. How petty.

she should show up anyway. just walk in. fuck him and the army he rode in on. or hold a spontaneous press conference at the White House Gates, and call him out for the asshole he is. do it, Nancy, just call him out for the petty bullshit asshole he is. TIA.

Now he's finally going to force GM to make ventilators via the defense act, not because it's the right thing to do but because they ticked him off because they aren't going fast enough. I wonder if he realizes that manufacturing cars and manufacturing ventilators are two completely different machinations. I work for bosses like that. They think that all they have to do is say it and it magically just happens when they don't have a CLUE about what it takes to operationalize anything.

I'm watching DeBlasio on CBSN, he is not properly praising and stroking Rump...this will unleash another round of spite and vitriol. I feel bad for Cuomo and DeBlasio they are between a rock and hard place with this asshole.

On the other hand here in FL DeSantis kissed his ass in his briefing today.

Florida citizens are in big trouble because of DeSantis not only allowing restaurants and other businesses to stay open, but encouraging it. He was very slow to close the beaches. He's as dangerous specifically to Floridians as Trump is to the entire country.

r88

I agree.

He's on.

Sounds short of breath and already said a few governors were "not very nice."

I'm not watching.

He wants to help other countries get ventilators now?!

Trump is certifiable. Seriously.

And now he's criticizing GM for doing exactly what his daughter has done: manufacture overseas.

He is emphasizing and repeating two points:

---NY was sent ventilators, but they didn't know it! Thousands!"

---"We will send ventilators to other great countries, like Italy, our friends, because we can do it and they can't."

Endless praise for "the Federal government"," and wants to be THANKED.

Now trashing Gov. Inslee (hates him) and Whitmer of MI. He wants them to “be APPRECIATIVE.” “All they do is complain.”

He told Pence not to call Inslee or "the woman in Michigan".

“These people (Pence etc.) should be APPRECIATED.”

and he just referred to Gov. Whitmer “the woman in Michigan.”

Lies lies lies lies and insanity

And those fucking accordion arm movements so fucking annoying

Same old song. “No one APPRECIATES me.”

Oh good, he’s going to VA tomorrow to see the hospital ship. Hope someone sneezes on him.

This is the first time I've watched him speak live during this crisis. He looks and sounds like he's about the keel over. Is this a new development?

“Would have been here a lot sooner had we not kept THOSE PEOPLE out.”

He's a fucking lunatic.

So he backed down on Easter?

No, r101.

And he just lied shamelessly about how our farmers are doing better, because China is buying from them. Not!!.

Lies about "stockpiling."

Thinks he's really with it by telling us that China had it first. He's explaining the concept of "time."

Called a reporter's question "nice."

We're supposed to be grateful that billionaires like Mnuchin and others (who??) aren't asking to be paid for their advice.

He’s ugly inside and out.

"We have to take care of our airlines, we have to take care of our country."

Boastful nitwit.

Here we go again with the best economy in the world is just going to explode when this is over.

Are any of the questions challenging?

R111 Nope. He’s pretty well got them trained to be docile.

Why doesn’t he have a press secretary handle these briefings? Or even Pence. Doesn’t he have enough to do?

Question from reporter - What would you say to children who are going stir crazy? Trump - We were attacked. I hope he never tells his grandkids bedtime stories.

R113 He wants to outdo Cuomo.

OMG.

"You call it a germ. You can call it a flu. Call it a virus. I'm not sure anybody knows WHAT it is."

He's in withdrawal from the lack of rallies so we are stuck with his daily bloviating.

de Blasio must have said something “nice” about Trump. Newsom too.

Inslee and Whitmer not so much.

R114, He said "We were attacked"?! Does he think the Corona virus are men in airplanes (pick your attack day)???

And that's what parents should say to their children?!

Sick. Psychopathic. Sadistic.

How do those people just stand behind him without any expression? Wonder what they’re thinking about?

Now he's added a full-arm chopping move to his asinine accordion movements.

R118 When he says so and so wasn't nice he means they wouldn't kiss his ass.

In the next short period of time. What does that mean?

Nothing. He’s an idiot.

His handlers are purposely scheduling these shit shows now after the markets close.

Then they give Dumpy his two scoops of beautiful chocolate ice cream because he's been such a good boy.

Governors have been telling him “we can’t believe you’ve been able to do this!”

"Don't be a cutie pie, ok?"

“Don’t be a cutie-pie. No one’s ever been able to do what we’ve done.”

Ahh, maybe we have to help the states. That’s encouraging.

Oh, now we had NOTHING in place when he took office.

Then how did he fire the entire Pandemic Diseases group?

Sundowning time.

He's ranting how everything was "broken" before he took office, "not just this, many things. There was no stockpiling, no nothing."

Oh, Peter Alexander. Butch it up, honey!

He wants to test the Malaria drug on the people who are dying.

Back to the Miracle Drug hydroxychloroquine. “We can test it on sick people right now. If they die they die.”

i dont know how you guys can watch him. i just can't stand the him - the sight, the voice, and all that lying.

President Mengele: Who cares? They’re dying anyway.

Trump is like OJ Simpson, and just as sociopathic: they can talk and talk and talk and.........

Logorrhea: associated with traumatic brain injuries. So is dementia.

He makes no sense. I normally don't watch this nightly mess. Can someone not contain him?

R133 Donald Josef Mengela Trump.

Talk and talk and talk and say nothing meaningful.

R135 Looks like we had the same thought.

R136 Many of the most powerful people in politics and business are sociopaths.

"Maybe we'll test the drug on twins. I've been told that Germany has had great success with testing medicine on twins, especially if they're just going to die anyway. We hope they won't die, but some don't make it. You know that, right? Many world leaders, and I've been talking to a lot, very nice calls, these leaders have told me that some people, not many, not many, but some, all lives are precious, and nobody has done more for lives than me, some of their people have sadly passed away from being attacked by this invisible enemy.

And that's what this thing is, an enemy. But America is great, America is strong, and we will win this war."

R142 Are you Trump’s speech writer?

Trump says of Pence: "He calls all the governors. I say, 'Mike, Don't call the governor of Washington. You're wasting your time. Don't call the woman in Michigan.' ... If they don't treat you right, I don't call."

Trump: "...this pandemic, this disease, this whatever you want to call it. You can call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. I’m not sure any body really knows what it is."

Reporter: Can everyone who needs a ventilator get one? Trump: “Look, don’t be a cutie-pie, okay?”

He's purposefully punishing Washington and Michigan cause their Governors aren't licking his ass. These are Americans, you dumb fuck. AMERICANS!!! Citizens of the country you were "elected" to lead, and you are punishing them cause they aren't bowing down and kissing your ring????? You aren't King John, you fucking prick! And have you forgotten that MI voted FOR YOU in 2016. You WON the state.

How has this insanity gone beyond insane. How in the fuck can the American people listen to this dumb shit and think he's doing a good job in handling this pandemic? Oh sure, it was the Black Guy's fault, cause he inherited a mess and WE'VE DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB. NO ONE HAS DONE THE JOB WE'VE DONE.

W.T.F!!!!

Did he really say that R142???!!!

After Donnie signed the stimulus bill into law, did he hold it up to show everyone his beautiful wonderful best signature like a good little boy, hoping for Daddy's approval on doing such a good job for signing his name?

Fucking pathetic piece of shit.

How do these people sleep at night....

"his accordion movements"

Oh, oh, oh, that is so perfect! Is he taking requests? Can he play Who Stole The Kishka?

R147, No, that was my impression!

Isn't it sad we have a walking parody as President?!

R149, They drift off imagining counting their millions......

FYI

CNN Poll of Polls: Trump's approval up amid coronavirus concerns

By Grace Sparks and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN

Updated 2:52 PM ET, Fri March 27, 2020

(CNN)President Donald Trump's approval now averages higher than his approval rating has been at any point in CNN's polling during his presidency, as 47% approve and 48% disapprove rating of his handling of the presidency, according to CNN's Poll of Polls.

The Poll of Polls is an average of recent national phone polling conducted among adults or registered voters.

Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak averages higher approval, standing at 52%, while disapproval stands at 45%.

His average approval for handling the coronavirus outbreak is sharply improved from CNN's first measure of that rating earlier this month, when 41% said they approved and 48% disapproved. Polling has historically shown a rally effect for presidents facing a crisis, where approval ratings rise whenever the nation faces a serious challenge. The recent increase in Trump's numbers may be due to that effect, but some presidents have seen higher increases, for example, President George W. Bush's numbers after the 9/11 attacks increased about 40 percentage points.

However, the duration of the bump in approval has varied, with some taking almost a year to recover while others have seen a more temporary boost.

The CNN Poll of Polls is an average of the five most recent non-partisan, live operator, national surveys on Trump's approval rating among either adults or registered voters. The Poll of Polls includes: The Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted March 22-25; the Fox News poll conducted March 21-24; the Monmouth University poll conducted March 18-22; the Gallup Poll conducted March 13-22 and the NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll conducted March 13-14.

The Poll of Polls does not have a margin of sampling error.

^Inexplicable

R151 It does sound EXACTLY like him.

R151 There really is no line between the two sadly.

People are dying but Rump only cares about having his ass kissed. I loved how CNN had a banner contradicting what he said.

At this point, CNN is simply there to poke the bear, and it's fucking HILARIOUS.

He actually told a reporter to not be a "Cutie Pie." Unbelievable.

R158 That’s what these daily updates have become- a room full of reporters trying to goad Trump into giving them a soundbite and becoming the latest ‘star’ reporter. And he takes the bait every time and gives them what they want because he can’t help himself. It’s a disgusting sad spectacle.

I think he blacklisted the CNN lady. The day before he ignored her several times and a day later she was no longer at the briefing, claiming she was practicing social distancing. I think Peter Alexander also disappeared for a while after he called him a terrible reporter. Guess his ego is really fragile. Instead he answers several softball questions from the Fox guy.

R160 No doubt. Sean Spicer is now a press pool reporter, along with that kook from OAN asking "Is it racist to use the term Chinese food"? If he had his way, all of the mainstream journalists would be lined up in back of the White House and executed by firing squad.

Trump is worried that Andrew Cuomo and other state governors will get the credit for leading the country through this crisis. He wants all the credit even though he's not doing anything other than lie about everything that's happening.

And here he is, sending off good ship Comfort.

It's the same ship that was sent to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Just a little trivia.

He may have to quarantine NY, NJ & CT, maybe later today, but he hopes he doesn’t have to. What does that even mean? Are they going to try to stop anybody who tries to leave those states? How?

R165: Trump is talking out of his ass, like usual. Besides, it is up to the governors, not him.

[quote]He may have to quarantine NY, NJ & CT, maybe later today, but he hopes he doesn’t have to. What does that even mean?

If it means shifting public perception from him and his incompetent performance then it's all worth it. Trump and his people, (many Republicans) must make someone else the villain, (the liberals/Democrats) while they try to build a scenario that Trump and the Republicans are all in charge and have everything under control. Just look at that picture at R149. No Democrats? This latest bill was Nancy Pelosi's bill. She turned that initial Republican monstrosity inside out. But, no credit must be given to others. What they're doing is the same old divisive politics.

In a similar vein to what R167 said, I received a CDC postcard in the mail the other day with advice on the CV. What does it say on the front in bold print: "PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES FOR AMERICA." Just an apparent attempt to brand this crisis and gaslight the dummies into thinking Trump knows what he's doing.

Can you imagine what the right would've said if the CDC sent out postcards like this when Obama was dealing with ebola or swine flu?

And, THIS is why he HAD to do the performance today.

R169 He is such a sham to anyone who has paid attention, but a bunch of clueless morons will see this ad and think "he's got this under control." We are living in the idiocracy.

Sensible doctors are predicting 3-6 months of "shelter in place" and distancing.

I think any opening will be dependent on getting a hundred million antibody tests out there. Obviously all the cured and immune can go back out there.

The US does not have the precision and cohesion to do surgical quarantine of infected people, 2, 3, 4 months from now. Meaning identifying anyone who turns up coronavirus poz and locking him/her down and tracing EVERY fucking contact and locking them down, too. It's not going to happen.

Trump lives in a deluded fantasy.

I hope it is 3 months! This would get very old after that - even if you can work from home and antisocial.

[quote]identifying anyone who turns up coronavirus poz and locking him/her down and tracing EVERY fucking contact and locking them down, too.

That’s what Korea did and how they got it under control. They jumped on it early and aggressively. Trump wasted a whole month claiming it was just Fake News when we could have been gearing up to fight it like the Koreans did. (Europe blew it too and now they’re paying the price.)

R173: Trump and certain governors are STILL jumping the shark. Even now!

A lady at the drive thru said we are going to have stricter guidelines on Monday.

R175: What type of stricter guidelines? Did she give any more details?

I just heard a a report on MSNBC (by Joy Reid--THANK GOD, she changed her hairstyle from this morning!) and she told of a man who had survived the coronavirus ordeal and who was still a Trump supporter and thought that Trump was doing a great job. So! What are we missing, folks?

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·

On the recommendation of the White House CoronaVirus Task Force, and upon consultation with the Governor’s of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, I have asked the @CDCgov to issue a strong Travel Advisory, to be administered by the Governors, in consultation with the....

...Federal Government. A quarantine will not be necessary. Full details will be released by CDC tonight. Thank you!

I honestly think that somewhere in his pea brain it is his goal to destroy the economies of the North East,

R176 a lockdown and the only way we could get food is from a grocery store.

Haha, sorry but "a strong Travel Advisory" is definitely not a quarantine. Cuomo and the others probably told him to go fuck himself and he had no authority to issue a quarantine for these states. Dumptard is trying to save face with this shit.

But, keep in mind R180, it's all about perception. Other Republicans are jumping on board (I'm sure there have been some conference calls) because Florida and Texas (both Republican Governors) have put restrictions on people from New York. Either we're no longer allowed into their states or we have to quarantine ourselves for two weeks.

It's going to be funny - sort of - when NY reduces the curve, Texas and Florida blow up - and NY does the same to them.

Please note that I said "sort of".

Mandatory quarantine has worked despite the Draconian aspect of it. I read that in Korea--they DO NOT play btw, kids--that houses were marked indicating the occupants have Corona. Again, extreme AF but motherfuckers didn't leave the house. I just don't see how a quarantine would work in places like NYC without some kind of enforcement.

You see? Trump and Republicans are in a race to get this off of them

Trump camp targets Obama’s Ebola czar--Ron Klain’s sharp criticism of the president’s coronavirus response has put a bulls-eye on his back.

By MARC CAPUTO

03/29/2020 07:09 AM EDT

Updated: 03/29/2020 07:32 AM EDT

Joe Biden has had limited success with his live-from-Wilmington coronavirus briefings. His longtime adviser, Ron Klain, is a different story.

The nation’s former Ebola czar recently cut a video for the Biden campaign making an animated case against Donald Trump’s handling of the contagion — a white board presentation that racked up 4.4 million views on Twitter alone.

Now, the president’s reelection campaign is drawing a bead on Klain.

Over the past week, the president’s allies have trained its fire on him, seeking to undermine his credibility and use Klain’s high-profile role as the face of Biden’s coronavirus response to bolster their own arguments about Biden’s own competence.

“Ron Klain is the puppeteer. To define Gepetto is to define Pinocchio,” said Michael Caputo, a former adviser to Trump, who pointed out the Biden campaign released the Klain video at the same time that Biden had gone dark during the campaign.

The attacks on Klain are driven by a sense of urgency. While a new poll shows a majority approves of Trump’s coronavirus response, it also reveals that Americans, by a 20-point margin, believe he initially reacted too slowly to the crisis — a central component of Klain’s public critique.

“Not one Trump supporter believes Joe Biden is capable of a coherent thought,” Caputo said. “But Ron Klain is.”

The Biden campaign dismissed the assaults on Biden and Klain as a misinformation operation to deflect from Trump’s record of making false and misleading comments about coronavirus, pointing to a recent survey showing a majority of Americans don’t trust Trump to be honest on the issue.

Having successfully managed the U.S. response to the Ebola virus in 2014, Klain is viewed as Biden’s most articulate and most trusted surrogate for what has suddenly emerged as the most important issue of the campaign: coronavirus response.

“Perhaps a video with 4.7 million views got their attention,” Klain, totaling up the social media traffic across all platforms for his video, said in an email.

No one is better suited to spearhead Biden’s coronavirus pushback than Klain, who has spent years questioning Trump’s very fitness to manage a pandemic — an issue he raised as far back as January 2017, just before the new president was sworn into office.

In the summer of 2018, Klain warned that Trump presented a “special risk” to contagion prevention efforts as the administration began eliminating the specialized White House pandemic office that Klain helped establish when he left the Obama administration in 2015. Klain has re-upped the criticism of the office’s closure but also misleadingly said Trump silenced a Centers for Disease Control official.

“When the coronavirus hit our country, no one on the National Security Council staff was put in charge,” Klain said in the video. “Instead, Donald Trump sent a message to the bureaucracy — this isn’t a big deal.”

The Trump campaign responded quickly to Klain’s criticisms, dismissing it as “misinformation” while disputing Klain’s characterization of the pandemic office’s fate. The Republican National Committee and conservative media outlets spotlighted Klain’s statements about Trump’s limitations on China travel (he called them too ineffective but said limitations were ultimately good) and his past use of the term “Wuhan Virus,” a description Klain used before scientists adopted the name coronavirus or COVID-19.

When Klain on Thursday blamed rising unemployment claims on Trump’s ineffectiveness in managing the virus response, the RNC labeled it a “disgusting take.” And the Trump campaign noted that Klain has praised “wise steps” made by the president’s health secretary.

Trump himself clashed indirectly with Klain long ago, at the height of the 2014 midterm elections. Back then, Trump was a private citizen and issued a string of 100 tweets trashing the U.S. response to the Ebola virus, calling President Obama a “psycho” and criticizing him for golfing.

“Obama just appointed an Ebola Czar with zero experience in the medical area and zero experience in infectious disease control. A TOTAL JOKE!” Trump tweeted at the time about Klain, who went on to win praise for his performance.

But Trump’s warnings of “mayhem” and “bedlam!” failed to materialize. He abruptly stopped tweeting about it six days after the Nov. 4 midterms, in which Democrats lost the Senate.

Klain went on to set up the pandemic office the following year before he left government in 2015. The summer before, Klain issued an apocalyptic warning that the “single most likely cause of such a nightmare scenario is not any ... oft-discussed security threats but an oft-overlooked one: pandemic illness.

Over the years of Trump’s presidency, Klain continued to second-guess his leadership and was one of the early inner-circle voices preparing Biden’s campaign for president. Klain’s imprint is on the campaign’s coronavirus response plan and its messaging.

Good luck to the tRump people in their feeble attempt to make this about Ron Klein. Won’t work. First, most people, save for Washington insiders, have no idea who he is. Second, he’s smart as a whip, and a formidable foe. I worked with him nearly 30 years ago during the early part of the Clinton administration, and he has a brilliant, strategic mind.

Perhaps they have nothing else to focus on.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·15 secs

Will be doing a press conference today at 5:00 P.M. The White House. People are working harder than I have ever seen people work. It is a beautiful thing to watch!

They're panicked. I guess the numbers are really beginning to register with them,

I wonder how he will put a possible spin on the vast increase of deaths. Has it been just letting people die who were going to die anyway so he can say it has peaked?

Fat Donnie sounds scared.

The louder he yells and blusters, the more terrified he is.

He's probably enraged that Biden us kicking his ass by 20 points.

3/29

Here is today's Lie Fest.

God he’s always bragging like he is responsibilitie for everything.

God he’s always bragging like he is responsibilitie for everything.

That's some comb over that he's sporting these days.

Ass kisser

DL pages don’t load like he should.

A crook is accusing people of abusing masks?

I thankful president for your great leadership is today’s slogan

[quote]I thankful president for your great leadership is today’s slogan

I wonder who instructs them to do that?

Thank you for your great leadership=hail Hiitler

R195 I was half-listening- what was that shit about masks disappearing? Does his tiny lizard brain think hospitals are lying about their shortages of masks just to make him “look bad”? What the F.

Paranoia indeed.

He keeps touching the microphone with his grubby, nasty hands.

I wonder if the selling point to these CEO's is the following;

"If you liked your tax cuts you had better do everything and anything to keep me in power..."

Why is everyone at the WH briefing starting their sentences with thanking assclown for his "great leadership". What a bunch of ass kissers?

Did the WH issue a requirement to thank the Orange fucker for his leadership or mention leadership in their statements? Ridiculous.

🍊💩 fuck him I’m not listening to more BS and Lies

what the hell is he talking about?

These are campaign rallies- they should not be aired live.

I watching on abc live on Hulu cnn is more entertaining they have banners that call him out on his bullshit

He wants to SAVE THE CORPORATIONS.

He looks exceptionally orange today, but his hair is almost white.

He just said someone mentioned to him today they had no idea we had 150 countries. I bet it was him and there're even more countries, dumbass.

I'm watching on MSNBC and throughout the day they update the case and death totals. Before today's clown show started, US deaths were 2396. Update a few min ago was 5114. Yikes.

"Someone told me that he didn't know there were 150 countries". Translation - I didn't know there were 150 countries.

God this fat fuck spewing those trite lines written by the same speechwriter that writes all his rally speeches is nauseating.

He doesn't believe the hospitals need so much equipment. Just send it asshole.

Oh Cuomo is going to be pissed. I can't wait to hear his response.

Trump’s hairdresser is obviously quarantining—his hair is almost all white.

tax deductions for business lunches!!! i was losing sleep over that one...

He just flat out accused Cuomo and de Blasio of lying about mask shortages. Or stealing masks. Or something. Says “you reporters” should look into it.

End of April will still be too soon to open everything. It will be pushed out further, I'm sure.

The military had no ammunition when he came into office and he got them ammunition. He is really demented.

MSNBC is now showing 2419 as the total US deaths.

R218 That “Sir we have no ammunition” story is one if his rally staples. That and the big strong men who come up to him with tears in their eyes thanking him for everything he does for the country.

He is short circuiting.

HA! Amazing how they are trying to change this scenario! "If I did nothing..."

I hate him so much. He thinks Easter will be the peak.

Who is this fucking sycophant "journalist"?

I can't believe he can still repeat these lies about inheriting a broken system with no testing and supplies in place. He is fucking lying and everyone knows it. Why can he still repeat the same shit over and over again with anyone contracting him and why isn't he required to present evidence for these lies?

It's too bad medical staff aren't there to ask questions.

And here’s his fave OANN plant asking him about networks refusing to cover his press updates because they want to suppress his record high poll numbers.

Somebody's given him rebuttals for all of the error laden claims and declarations that he made. "It was aspirational...."

He can't figure out why hospitals are requesting 200,000 masks when their usual order was 10,000 and reporters "should look into it." Hello...there are a shit ton more sick people coming in!

He’s a fucking delusional psychopath. He thinks if he repeats a lie often enough people will believe it’s true.

"You people" to a black reporter.

[quote]He just flat out accused Cuomo and de Blasio of lying about mask shortages. Or stealing masks. Or something. Says “you reporters” should look into it.

That's because CNN just interviewed Cuomo on-site with ventilators behind him and he couldn't answer why he wasn't shipping them to the hospital or the number. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

The ventilators are for the peak. New York hasn't reached it yet. They are distributing them as requested.

the peak will hit in two weeks ... write that one down

Why can't he just die already!

Trump has some goon in the audience yanking the mic from reporters when they ask questions he doesn’t like.

Yamiche is going in! MORE journalists of color! They ain't putting up with his shit!

Conservatives see the "peak" as a possibility, not written in stone. Dumb, but it's their philosophy.

Shameful how he treated that reporter. They should just all stop asking questions in solidarity.

Dr Birx seems more worried today.

[quote]Dr Birx seems more worried today.

She's aware of the press from her Christian Broadcasting interview and how her credibility is now questioned,

Birx is a Trump sycophant, no better than Hannity.

udo kier is back / i was hoping he was going to show up again

Since that confrontation with the black female reporter he is only picking reporters of color. He doesn’t want anyone to think he’s racist.

CNN chyron: TRUMP DID QUESTION WHETHER NEW YORK REALLY NEEDED THE VENTILATORS THEY ORDERED DESPITE DENYING IT

Governors are all happy with the job you are doing? Andy and Gretchen are doing cartwheels I'm sure.

Has any world leader in history had to make every other sentence about how exceptional he is and how everyone is so happy with him?

Now with the “No one’s ever seen anything like it” line again.

[quote]Since that confrontation with the black female reporter he is only picking reporters of color. He doesn’t want anyone to think he’s racist.

He'll have them all banned hereafter....

Someone needs to tell him WE tell you are doing a good job not YOU.

He obviously learned a new word - Aspirational.

He is on again this evening. Is it true that familiarity breeds contempt? In this case, it should.

Please, shut him up.

Omfg, this TURD! Talking about "mass suicides" and drug addiction during Coronavirus crisis.

Jehovah, can You please SMITE his ass now?

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.

CNN’s chyrons directly contradicting Trump’s lies as he spews them. “SOUTH KOREA AND ITALY TESTING 3 TIMES MORE PER CAPITA THAN THE US“

They need to stop broadcasting these campaign rallies. That's probably why his popularity has gone up. He's getting massive amounts of free advertising and he's spending most of it talking about how amazing he is.

His Tresemme Hair Spray is not holding up very well. Wonder if he ran out of #4 Super Hold and had to use #3 instead.

I love Udo but I can not watch the briefing. Trump is such an idiot. Idiots love him.

“CNN would never cover this if the ratings weren’t so high.”

Like we need to hear these rants about the FAKE NEWS at a time like this.

Oh my god, he is fucking insane. Why isn't CNN interrupting him? They should not air this fucking shitshow.

"Ride it like a cowboy"

Fuck. My. Life.

[quote]They need to stop broadcasting these campaign rallies. That's probably why his popularity has gone up. He's getting massive amounts of free advertising and he's spending most of it talking about how amazing he is.

Which just shows you how fucking dumb Americans are. That his popularity would go up from these psycho ramblings is unbelievable.

OH MY FUCKNG GOD! Why do you make us sit through the added torment of watching this orange dolt who wants us to Ride it! RIDE IT THROUGH!

Isn't Deborah 'Scarf Lady" Birx entirely too old to be rocking that horrendous vocal fry?

She gives me Loony Peggy Noonan vibes.

R264 some Americans, not all. Let's not pretend that America has an excessive number of idiots compared to the rest of the world.

Yamiche Alcindor is a journalistic hero. She does not back down, is tenaciuos and, like a shark, homes in on her target. I had the pleasure of meeting her and her husband on the street recently and found myself gushing how very proud I am of her and giving her a big hug in support in a grandmotherly manner.

Veronica Chambers is another one who donald cannot intimidate, try as he might.

Who is the reporter who passed on his occasion to ask a question in favor of Yamiche?

donald's worst nightmare: a Black woman with superior intellect to his own.

Resign, already.

Biden/Cuomo 2020

The people at Elmhurst Hospital are doing a fantastic job because there's a refrigerator truck full of black body bags outside?

That was his logical leap, an attempt at empathy.

He is COMPLETELY incapable of empathy, and it consistently jaw-dropping to observe.

^^forgot to add my own monicker @ R268

Jeremy Diamond, R268

MSNBC dropped the press conference.

Thank God!!!!!!!!

This is free publicity for this muther fucker. The networks need to stop airing these, it is enabling him and giving him free air time to lie and spread propaganda. They did the same thing in 2016--remember all of those news shots of the empty podium, building suspense until he gets done on the toilet and lumbers up to the podium????

Just fucking stop already, broadcast and cable networks. YOU are a big part of this problem.

Thanks, R271.

How man loads of Trump shit does VP Pence lap down his throat every week?

Good, Fucking. Lord.

He. Is. INSANE.

“If we can hold it down to 100,000-200,000 deaths we will have done a good job.”

Gaslighting muthafucka.

^^^WTF???!

R277 did he really say that??

R279 Better numbers than 1.5-2M, which he kept mentioning. So he'll spin it as this...

"Had I done nothing, we could have lost close to 2M Americans. Instead, because of the great job I did, reacting in a way no one has ever reacted before, fixing a broken system that we inherited, and yet get no congratulations from you lame stream media types for fixing it, the numbers were much lower, only 200,000 DEA-THSSSSSS. I can live with that number because it's much lower than 2 million."

And his sycophants will eat it up.

BTW, and this is a rhetorical question, how many of us will be surprised or shocked that, once this crisis is over (for the time being), Frump will say it was all due to him and him alone, his leadership and smart brain got us through this, and even though the Governors didn't cow down to him, he was able to defeat this invisible enemy.

If he wins re-election, he will build a monument to himself on the Mall.

Setting it up so anything less than 2.2 million dead is a “win”.

His press conferences are like a car wreck you can’t look away. With the rise of deaths this is no longer entertaining. This is going to be the last one I watch.

I hope people who didn’t like Hilary or didn’t bother to vote are happy.

Trump comes on everyday, for the free publicity. Theyvshould film them but onlyvshow the parts where he is saying something mean or ridiculous.

Not defending Trump but what do you expect him to do that would make material difference? Sometimes criticism is warranted but in cases like this where there is no perfect solution it’s disgustingly opportunistic to try to pin every new case or death on Trump because you hate him. Vote for Joe in November and hope for the best, but this blame game nonsense needs to stop.

One can only hope that American voters will forever associate this administration with pestilence and contagion and hurl the infection right out of office.

I think the media broadcasts him because they are looking for him to make an ass of himself and catch him in lies of which they do. BUT, the average viewer never catches it because they don't know the facts nor do they care. Therefore, it comes across to them that the media is attacking Trump. That's the problem in my book. The media should start allowing equal time to the other side (Biden and/or Sanders) to get the truth across. Or have these Governors on to confirm or deny Trump's statements.

His irrelevant, vacuous asides--peppered into whatever topic he is bloviating on--must have some psychological basis. Example: today he mentioned a meeting he'd had earlier, then veered off into a comment on the room it was held in..."It was a very nice room" or some such. He does this all the time. It would be charming from the thoughts and mouth of a child; from a President, not so much.

^ or a senile old man. Oh wait...

R278 Yeah, he said that.

[R285] They already are.

[R268] Or, in fewer words, a Black woman.

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ― John Quincy Adams

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - FDR

“If we can hold it down to 100,000-200,000 deaths we will have done a good job.” - Donald Trump

The media broadcasts these pressers for a few reasons:

1) Media is supposed to cover POTUS pressers 2) it's a huge, unprecedented national and global crisis 3) expectation that a POTUS will communicate at the level of a world leader.

AND

4) media does ANYTHING for attention and viewers, clicks, etc. Media is made up of for-profit corporations and highly paid media people

Unfortunately

a) public doesn't get the 3) expectation fulfilled, by idiotic Trump

b) #4 is irresolvable AND the media and Trump are in a mutually beneficial relationship for creating distraction, entertainment, and clicks, ratings and PROFITS

c) 50% of the population is too ignorant to think critically about what they hear and see

So, Trump and the Republicans are back to the demonize Nancy Pelosi strategy;

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats delayed the Workers Help/Stimulus Bill by over a week, trying to add real “junk” into the Bill. Got some bad things, having nothing to do with those affected by the Virus, included. Republicans need their votes until we WIN BACK THE HOUSE IN 2020!

Sounds like he just got some internal polling numbers saying the House is out of reach, r296.

Whatever he yaps about, the opposite is true.

Pelosi stopped the goodies in the bill he wanted so he's mad and internal polling shows her "winning" the war for public opinion.

It really is an art in how this fool can spin things. LOL!

Its infuriating because Trumps "art" is so heavy handed and transparent, dishonest, schizophrenic, really lowest common denominator, and it works.

This fucking illiterate can barely read his (extra-large print) speech notes.

Azar doing the requisite stroking of tRump's ego.

He stumbles and mumbles his way through every one of these spectacles.

So now he has bigwigs from Pharma stepping up to the podium.

"Things."

We are in a position to send ventilators to Italy and Spain? I imagine Gov Cuomo would disagree.

Fucking halfwit marking his place in speech notes with his finger.

So! Why has Azar shaved?

“Come on up, fellas” to the My Pillow guy (rabid Trump supporter.) This is a shitshow.

My Pillow Infomercial

My Pillow guy???

This My Pillow Guy is and always has been repulsive.

My Pillow urging everyone to pray the plague away.

We need Liza on HSN

Let us Pray!

Dump Corporate Robber Barons could have started this 6 weeks ago.

The My Pillow guy implores you to use this time to pray with yer fambly! (and probably molest the little ones, since you're all cooped up together)

"Founded by a MINISTER" - very important to mention apparently

R316 It’s what Jesus would want.

"incredible"

"great job"

"unbelievable"

"amazing"

"in the history of the world"

"a broken system"

A moratorium should immediately be declared on these words and phrases that have been rendered meaningless….FOREVER.

CNN stopped the live broadcast. Thank God. MSNBC should do the same. Fucking shitshow.

HA! Well this is just one big informercial for corporate America thus far.

Is that a full toupee?

OMG. "My Pillow," my fat Irish ASS!

Praising God for giving us Trump (the Anti-Christ) last November! " We were on the wrong path. God was taken out of public schools....Take this time to read the Bible...."

Tell everyone you know NOT to buy a "My Pillow"!!!

This Raytheon United Tech guy seems competent. Where was he 2 months ago????

Watching Trump try to control his hair in the wind was a highlight. Girl was scared those locks were coming loose and his shiny dome was coming on display.

A grateful nation thanks RAYTHEON.

Somewhere there's a scalding hot grease fire with the mypillow guys name on it. That was fucking sick.

Trump somehow can't find one physician or nurse to bring to the podium for his praise.

No kickbacks from them to the Trump Org.

And Scarf Lady Birx making her way to the front row, getting ready for her ass-kissing moment.

"Foot soldiers," you dumb bitch?! How about Captains and Generals and Commanders?!

R329 The medical community have hated him since day one.

What's next? The dump cake lady?

We actually should buy a mypillow and wipe our dirty asses on them and return for refund.

R329 great point

[quote]Why has Azar shaved?

Probably so his face mask will fit properly. Beards don’t allow for a good seal around the edges of the mask.

drivel drivel drivel drivel word salad drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel word salad drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel word salad drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel drivel word salad drivel drivel

This is getting off topic, but I've always wondered about how that My Pillow weirdo was able to afford all of the advertising on cable news. Pure speculation here, but is it foreign money laundering? I can't imagine that a cheap $12 pillow is all that profitable to pay for a huge ad budget. Maybe he is independently wealthy and doesn't care if his company makes any money.

I swore I wouldn't watch this again but had to see mypillow guy?

strippers. thank the strippers

I swore I wouldn't watch this again but had to see mypillow guy?

“He’s UNCONSCIOUSSS.” In a COMA.”

What a LOUSY actor!

What I can't get over is how, after letting loose the Corona dogs of war, these Administration Toadies think they deserve praise for now doing anything.

After making Governors beg. After letting sick Americans sit on an infected cruise ship. After telling Americans in foreign lands to find their own way home, or not, after stopping air travel.

After depleting our stockpile of ventilators and masks by shipping 17.8 tons of them to CHINA, AFTER the Administration was WARNED of our own future!!!!!!!

And then not bothering to replenish the supplies.

Somewhere, on a yacht, Putin is sitting pretty, content with his successful purchase of Donald, Mitch, Jared, and others.

Maybe he'll invite them over this July 4, too.

Tomorrow there will be dancing waters and free hot dogs.

“Other countries would NEVER be able to do what we’ve done.” More baldfaced lying. South Korea laughs at you.

Hot bed. Of piss. Hot bed of piss.

STOP REPEATING THE SAME SHIT ALL THE TIME. NO ONE IS IMPRESSED. LYING PIECE OF SHIT.

He likes Gavin Newsom a lot these days. Gavin figured out how to flatter Trumo’s fat ass to get what he wants.

Always about $$$$$$$$.

I can’t even imagine what it feels to lie all the time. When truth doesn’t mean anything. I wouldn’t like to live that way. His punishment is to live with himself every day.

Obligatory abortion question from wingnut OAN lady!

There’s the OANN plant. Unborn babies are dying every day!

Tomorrow Elizabeth Holmes will be present to announce the relaunch of Theranos. Incredible.

only shit dit that PLANT "reported" talk about how many babies are KILLED?

Dr Birx is basically saying we're fucked.

Insightful r351. But I wouldn't mind adding a we bit more.

Maybe something like the Rack, the Wheel, or the Iron Lady.

Fuck Dr Scarf

Because UNBORN BABBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Q: “Are we ‘doing everything perfectly’ to keep the death toll under 100,000?”

Birx: “Everyone is working REALLY hard and doing a GREAT JOB!”

R352 Thank for the info. I was thinking wt...? Why is she bringing it up? Anusmouth brought OAN into these, right?

So where is the head of the Corona task force, Mike Pence? Did he speak today or did Trump get rid of him now completely?

Well done Jim!!

R361 OANN has replaced Fox News as Trump’s fave. It’s his version of State media, like Putin’s RT.

R361 And her name (I am not making this up) is Chanel Rion. Everyone around here knows that is either a stripper or drag queen name.

Trump HATES it when the reporters read his words back to him.

CNN always knows how to piss him off.

"I don't know who you are"

Back to the MISSING MASKS and what is going on with that?

R365 Chanel Rion! LOL!! R364 I have never watched OANN but my understanding is it is totally nuts with its love with Anusmouth. No wonder he likes it.

Jim Acosta never lets me down with his "nasty" questions.

Now he's ranting and spreading conspiracy theories about masks going missing. He's about to say they fell off the back of a truck and being sold on the black market.

And the economy is going to come back very fast!

Call the men in white suits with the butterfly nets, please!

what did we learn?

R371 Yes and Acosta got his sound bite so yay Jim!

24h and no one could explain to dumbass that you have to change masks and gowns for every new patient contact and you can't compare this with normal times. What a fucking loser.

So he said to Acosta he could really panic the country if he wanted to. What is he holding back on?!

Rather than asking a legitimate question you should congratulate your great leader.

and the “broken system” he inherited is back again.

The population of Seoul is not 38 million, wrong again Orange Abomination.

R375 Aad to think someone has to explain it to him? Every adult should know it.

You should be saying congratulations.

snarky and nasty are the only adjectives he knows

He’s fucking insane.

Pretending the economy is #2 on his list. Hahahaha!

"I know South Korea better than anybody." Direct quote.

"Our testing is the best in the world. We inherited a broken, obsolete.......blah, blah, blah ."

Praising Hoffman-L.aroche, said corporate leaders "they should all be congratulated for fixing a broken system."

How dare that reporter bring up the fact that Korea is testing WAY more per capita (and way earlier) than Trump’s USA! USA!

Well, shows over. 3 string vaudeville. And now I'm hungry.

does trump know what "per capita means"?

"per capita" means

oh lookey! it's mr. pillow guy (who by the way is a former drug addict and a now "i found God" big time religious freak who actually believes and states that God sent trump to us and other loony nonsense!)...

I’m tired of this orange abortion babbling about how great he is every night. Fauci and Scarf lady would make a better Pres/V pres.

I'm surprised he hasn't demanded the entire country stand outside their homes and clap for HIM like they did in England for the caregivers at NHS.

What "masks" are going to be disinfected, by the way? I was unclear on that.

Is he talking about full face masks with the goggles and everything? The ones that take 2 filters? This sort of thing?

Yamiche knows how to get him to go away.

Because an N95 is a throw away flimsy product. Face shields he is referring to?

The masks the1% wear to their decadent black Mass rituals.

Bezos should offer Scarf Lady 10 million bucks to walk up to the microphone and read Trump to filth.

Oh I see!

No, r397; make it Dr. Fauci!

I like how CNN now opens some of the lies Trump told

In fact, r398, Venetian masks, particularly il dottore della peste, were eventually worn to keep "social distance" during the Plague.

Yes we know.

I would give every penny I have.

Lest you all forget just exactly how much Dirty Donald the Magnificent actually knows. He knows everything!

What the hell is wrong with that guy?

The propaganda piece Trump just tweeted 10 min ago

He said Seoul has a population of 38 million. It has 9.7 million people. However according to Google its ELEVATION is 38 m as in MILES. Dumbass read off the wrong statistics, apparently.

So right now the death toll in the US is at about 2,968. So while trump & co are doing such a "great job" they report at least 97,032 more will likely die in the coming weeks and months. And he's bragging about that? What a complete fool and idiot. As are his supporters. Fools and idiots.

Honey no city has en elevation of 38 miles

SMH....

Michael Reagan@ReaganWorld·Mar 29

I’ve never seen any POTUS even my father that could do a Q&A like trump and have a grasp of every questions asked without using notes..This is why we hired a business person to be president. Public Private partnership is going to save us

AND....

Melania Trump@FLOTUS·Mar 29

If you are able, try to take a few moments to get outside & breathe in some fresh air. Enjoy spring & beautiful nature! We all need to take care of ourselves so that we can try to help take care of others.

Someone should tweet that fucked up whore to go fuck herself, R409.

r498, maybe it's meters?

I can imagine this - Mr President why did you say Seoul's population is 38 million when it's not? I didn't say that. Why do you constantly lie? I'm not a liar, you're the liar.

He spouts this lie every fucking day. “We’re testing MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.”

[quote]”It's very much on par," Trump says when asked why US lags other countries like South Korea in per capita testing. [quote]As of late last week, the US tested about 200 people for every 100,000. [quote]Italy was at 600 per 100,000 [quote]South Korea at 700 per 100,000

OMG, I know someone will ask him about the 38 million and WE ALL know he will lie about it and claim he never said that.

Melanoma sounds like she’s offering to suck dudes off in the woods.

A quick Google search reveals that the population of Seoul is just under 10 million Trump you fucking dipshit.

Oh and this:

As of late last week, the US tested about 200 people for every 100,000. Italy was at 600 per 100,000 South Korea at 700 per 100,000

(no, we don’t “test more than any other country.”)

80% of South Korea is urban and that's about 40 million. Maybe 37 million live in some "megacity" collection of cities around Seoul. Maybe that's what the good friend to the North told Trump. Rocket man.

R338, you realize that those pillows are $100 a piece and not $12, don't you? I think they do the thing where they often sell them two for $100 but, considering they are probably using $0.17 worth of material, it's still a huge rip-off.

I abhor DJT and his press conferences are excruciating and embarrassing to watch, but I wonder what kind of answer a reporter can seriously expect when their question is basically, “How do you explain how you fucked up?” Not like there can be a reasonable answer, so do they imagine him crying “mea culpa”? Naturally he resents the questions.

yes I bought one awhile ago and started to get one recently the price had skyrocketed.

I worked for a narcissist who could do not wrong. (Nor anything correctly - except bullshit, lie, get jobs, and fail up.) When you put it bluntly - why did you fuck up, they deny deny deny deny distract distract project project project. But finally they break. It's horrifying and not even worth it. A year later, they are in a new situation and don't even remember their failures.

David Pakman:

Fox PANICS, Cuts Away from Trump's Horror Show

So Fox has a time delay?

R418 My bad, I had stayed at a friend's place and they had mypillows on the guest bed. I didn't check the price but it felt like a $12 pillow to me, a cheap, lumpy piece of shit so I assumed they were Wal-mart specials, ie., cheap garbage for the masses.

R409 Original tweet by Varist Letty:

Eef you are ayble, try to take moments to wash poossey and play on tennis lawn at White House. Have beautiful spring when I count ze money I get from pretend to love fat orange retard. Be Best!

This guy.... I read in some book that this is all he does all day (and, the gal too), is spending the whole day looking at press and polling

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·

I watched a portion of low rated (very) Morning Psycho (Joe) this Morning in order to see what Nancy Pelosi had to say, & what moves she was planning to further hurt our Country. Actually, other than her usual complaining that I’m a terrible person, she wasn’t bad. Still praying!

R426 Trump gives as hard as he gets. (I won't dignify his outputs with "good")

I suppose my point that I'm making is how Trump and his Administration are simply involved in the battle of perceptions. I'm listening to Mike Pompeo now and even he is whining how "this and that" doesn't receive enough coverage. For people who so HATE the MSM it seems as if their only interest is in controlling it and having it spew the propaganda that it wants.

If this were any other President, regardless of whether they stepped up from the first moments of hearing this was going to happen, they would have rallied the country and made it about us. Instead, we have a narcissistic incompetent buffoon leading the government whose sole purpose is receiving praise on his great job.

I sincerely hope, at the end of this (and it will eventually end), that the 60M+ who voted for his imbecile finally wake up and vote him the hell out of office. Naturally that won't happen since his base will never leave him, even if they lose loved ones to this horrible pandemic (they'd still blame it on anyone except Trump).

So the key is getting to those Rs who would have voted Democrat and the Is who would have voted Democrat and even the Ds who would have voted Democrat, to get them to vote blue from the top of the ballot to the bottom.

200,000 deaths is unacceptable and is not a sign of a job well-done. The fact that this even came out of his mouth is testament to his being completely over-his-head and incapable of any type of leadership.

We'll see what happens in November, I guess. My sincere hope is the American people telling him once and for all "You're Fired!"

R429, we’ll have 100,000 deaths and he’ll call it a victory. We absolutely MUST get every single possible voter out.

A bit OT but his clan sure trusts him. He can lie all day and every day and they believe his every word.

THREAD CLOSED.

Who are the trolls who are posting THREAD CLOSED on the Coronavirus threads? Because you’re trolls, in case you didn’t know.

R433 Boris and Natasha, no doubt

What doesn't get enough coverage is Trump's lifelong (literally, born into the game via his old man's involvement) association with the Mafia and then the Russian Mob.

Even KAConway's grandfather was a bona fide Mafia guy.

NOW they're going to try and pass an infrastructure bill, which will be the subject of today's rally for Dear Leader. I do recall him saying it was so easy to do, he'd do it in his second year.

Also, the GOP shot down any infrastructure spending the Democrats wanted to do, because it would've had to have been paid for by modest tax increases on the rich/corporations. Now that they're desperate, they'll just put that on the credit card too. I bet the debt will be 30 trillion by the time the fat orange one is done.

I still don't get where all this money is suddenly coming from. Yes, they can print money or add a couple of zeros in their computers, but isn't the Fed worried about inflation and this will implode at some point? Who will pay it back? Our grand grandchildren in 2150?

R437 They don't care about the future debt, hyperinflation, etc., the GOP is desperate to re-elect the fat orange blob. They are members of his cult now, too bad he just doesn't tell them all to drink the cyanide laced Kool-Aid.

[quote]NOW they're going to try and pass an infrastructure bill, which will be the subject of today's rally for Dear Leader. I do recall him saying it was so easy to do, he'd do it in his second year.

I actually think he got that idea from Miss Nancy this morning. However, this is why I believe that Trump and the Republicans are chomping at the bits for this; They know that the re-election of Trump and keeping the Senate is moving into the impossibility range. This might be the last opportunity for the 1% to again get a HUGE bite of the treasury (outright steal the money) without any consequences.

How many lies will he spew at his daily rally today? “We’re testing more than ANY OTHER COUNTRY” for sure.

What else?

If you watch on youtube, you don't need to watch the fox feed. There are others.

Nobody watching?

One of those "angry WH staffer" Twitter accounts said to watch today bcs Fauci and Birx will be giving new projections. That's the only reason I'm tuned in

I am but I am a masochist.

Military look on Dr. Scarf Lady

Ugh, my local news is now showing this crap. Give us our own local and state news PLEASE! Airing the Dump show is a waste!

I'm watching and trying to stay calm but that will not last.

Has it started? CNN is not showing it.

He seems to be playing nice today.

The sound of Trump reading works better than a sleeping pill.

He had a good call with Michigan Gov so he sent her some ventilators...

There is a fox feed live on Youtube.

Also a Guardian feed - here

Holy shit, CNN really stopped airing the shitshow live. Why is MSNBC still airing it?

Trump will be pissed. Americans can still watch it on MSNBC or Fox, but a lot of countries only have CNN so he will lose his international viewership.

New day new/same lies

vocal fry

Scarf Lady is hiding her neck today

R453 I am watching CNN and Anusmouth was totally ignored. They began coverage when Debbie began. Well done!

R453 He gave Jim Acosta and CNN a bashing yesterday so maybe it's a fuck you.

Birx seems nervous

I fucking love her scarf!!

EVERY person needs to follow the safety rules. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

Bastard is trying to copy Cuomo with their PowerPoint presentation.

You can see behind Pence’s empty evil eyes. Nothing kind in them.

foot on the brake? accelerator? no foot on brake? Huh?

April 30th will be a no go.

Pence with his fucking chart. He is totally useless.

doctors not on political podiums say summer.

Do you think Pence does anything? Besides get in the way of his team. And like POTUS ass?

I can't wait to read a good book about this in 2 years.

R467 That sounds more like it.

I still would love to backdoor Pence.

R471 Check your temp, you must be ill.

"At the president' s direction....bla bla bla" The same empty platitudes every day. He's really horrible.

100,000 - 200,000 dead IF we do everything right.

Pence's insincere hand movements remind me of Alex Moffat playing Eric Trump on SNL.

There is no way this is over 30th April.

They're just saying what Trump wants to hear. That should enrage every American.

Fauci and Debbie taking over. Cheeto not happy. His show his ratings!

8,000 deaths a month? How about 8,000 a DAY? That’s what we’re gonna see.

[quote]Fauci and Debbie taking over. Cheeto not happy. His show his ratings!

On the contrary, he asked the docs to give the numbers -- he doesn't want to give bad news.

Fauci talking about what he hopes to see vs. what he realistically thinks we’ll see. Because people are assholes and will do whatever they want/are allowed to do, not what they should do.

Trump moved away from Jim Acosta when he mentioned Florida not following the regs.

I wonder if he’ll go after Yamiche Alcindor again for the third day in a row.

Trump’s gut is getting huger by the day.

He’s foisting everything off to Fauci and Birx.

Chanel, where are you? We need to get Chanel’s important relevant question

R453 C-SPAN shows them too.

“Where ARE those “millions of tests” exactly?”

Haha good question. Has Pence squirming like a toad.

Pence is such lying piece of shit. We all know that new partnership with commercial labs means they're all stuffing their pockets and always blaming Obama for everything.

Birx just talking over Dump.

Trump you are a moron, STFU.

Oh, got it...those 27 million tests are out there but they’re just not being USED (according to Scarf lady.) How CONVENIENT.

government tests were shit. and yes they wanted companies to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Trump is saying 100,00 deaths is a very low number. Monster.

Back to his friend who’s in A COMA.

Trump is simpleton.

He talks without saying shit.

This press conference was actually pretty good when Trump was not talking. Now back to the usually bs.

“You can use a scarf.”

He talked to Putin the other day.

DeSantis is doing a great job not issuing a stay at home order to a state full of senior citizens? Also, home to cruise ship ports. Sounds logical.

“Some people THINK they need more ventilators than they do.”

I hate that Trump interrupts every time someone tries to ask a question. Just let them finish their question asshole. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

He sounds sedated.

"ansah" = answer - cute accent

"summah"

Mr. President - some have said you are one of the best looking men in the world, but I dare say you are easily the sexiest. How do you maintain such an impressive figure while working harder than anyone else in the world? Also, Obama is a Muslim who hates America and would make sure the Chinese virus killed all the beautiful unborn white babies.

“The military leaders are the BEST guests on the shows.“

Again with the military had no ammunition. So the military was his Oliver Twist, "Please Sir, may we have some more ammunition."

[quote]Military look on Dr. Scarf Lady

Interesting fact: Dr. Birx is a Colonel in the Army.

Where is the OANN chick today? She hasn't asked a ridiculous question yet.

Birx is a sell-out. She will search for ways to answer questions such that plain truth is secondary to protecting Trump.

And Pence is straight-up (haha, as if) LYING about airport screenings!!

Please stop talking Pence and licking the President's ass.

Fauci: "In a perfect world it would have been nice to know what was going on there (Italy, etc.)

BUT you did know what was going on there.

Pence is Trump's cheerleader.

Do these people have nothing else to do but yammer with the press?

Why do these 2 doctors lie for Trump?

It was “196 to 0” in the Senate.

what the hell is he going on about?

R465, Buying time while they pretend. No schools will re-open before August. No sporting events, concerts, swimming pools, festivals, picnics, travel, 4th of July fireworks and carnivals---

Summer is shut down, kids; it just hasn't been announced yet.

oh god its all pouring out of his big trap. Someone shut him up

This briefing should be Exibit A in his upcoming trial.

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna

He's in "I'm totally innocent" rant mode now.

So much for the sick and the dead.z

"i have nothing else to do." ????????????

can't the docs shoot him with a tranquilizer dart or something?

Trump actually just said,"I have nothing else to do," so the briefing can continue.

OMG.

Did not let her finish her question again.

The problem with “some people” (Cuomo) is no matter how much you give them it’s never enough. “He’s gotten more than anybody.”

he's gotten

On to his favorite topic after himself: DEATHS.

"Tens of thousands, 100,000--200,000" gives him a sick, sociopathic thrill, and I'm being very serious.

Asked specifically what CA Gov. Newsom has done: " A good job. They had spikes .. spikes.. Louisiana ..Mardi Gras...good job...."

R527 They did but need to up his dose. This man is severely mentally ill.

Man, Trump must wish he could go all Khashoggi on Jim Acosta.

He was “just trying to give people HOPE” all that time he was claiming the virus was just a big hoax.

OH MY FUCKING GOD! WHY do you allow this orange freak the ability to speak?

“I was just TRYING TO BE POSITIVE.”

People need hope AND the facts in this situation. Not lies and self praise.

"I don't want to be a negative person." WHAT?

^^He’s a POSITIVE PERSON.

Just. Resign. Already.

He’s an ignorant joker, but it’s not like he’s going to admit it.

Almost 4000 Americans are dead. You obviously did not a good job if even one person died. Get a fucking this you buffoon.

He's not capable to flip burgers at McDonald's let alone be POTUS. He needs to be removed from office.

Now he’s trying to crack jokes with Pence and Fauci (and they’e both staring straight ahead not having it,)

^grip

He has very many special people.

CNN cut him off after "He loves Jesus!"

Back to “you can use a scarf.”

Now he's playing to the "special friends" in the "Evangelical community." And claiming " many religious leaders support me."

OP, are you saying that President Donald Trump is lying on camera to his nation?

That's quite a shocker!

Fat fucking broke-ass circus clown in a stupid stinking wig

It’s important that he stays healthy.

Sick of tip-toeing reporters, hesitant to be blunt.

Trump’s getting huge. Like getting into morbid obesity range. You can really see it when they show him in profile.

1.5 hours

" we are socializing that" ????

They totally bungled the test. THE US. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. BLEW IT

I can’t decide who’s more loathesome, Dump or Pence.

Pence and Trump has equal IQ (low) but Trump is quite more cunning.

I sometimes think about how different this would be and feel if it were Obama instead.... and that just makes me sad and angry.

“I’ve had 3 governors call up who really don’t like me. They’ve all said what a great job I’m doing.”

🤦🤦🏻🤦🏼🤦🏽🤦🏾🤦🏿

I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top. I get a star. And I get an A. And I get top ratings. My ratings are top.

Birx and Fauci tap dancing around questions makes the whole thing even sadder and scarier.

He thinks Cuomo’s been very generous considering he’s a Democrat. And he thinks Coumo would like to run for President.

[quote]Mr. President - some have said you are one of the best looking men in the world, but I dare say you are easily the sexiest. How do you maintain such an impressive figure while working harder than anyone else in the world? Also, Obama is a Muslim who hates America and would make sure the Chinese virus killed all the beautiful unborn white babies.

Perfect

Is it over yet?

It was 2 hours and 40 minutes!

Ivana and Melania probably are happy that he Trump has something to occupy a part of the day. Cuts down on babysitting.

^^^^I'm guessing Hope Hicks is the "babysitter".

“You can use a scarf. a lot of people have scarves & you can use a scarf, a scarf would be very good. My feeling is if people want to do it there's certainly no harm to it.I would say do it-use a scarf if you want rather than going out & getting a mask”

This president is so great. Time for MSNBC Morning Joe in the morning, tweeting all day and 3 hour press conferences in the afternoon. Probably in bed by 9pm. Shouldn't he be doing other stuff in this situation?

hope hicks looks like a hooker mixed with a vampire... she should star in a c-level movie "attack of the government hooker vampires!"..

[quote]Probably in bed by 9pm.

If you follow his twitter you know he stays up tweeting until almost one in the morning many nights.

[quote] R501: DeSantis is doing a great job ...

How embarrassing to be evaluated by Trump. I swear I’d tell him just that, if he pulled that shit with me.

“Yeah, Einstein did a reasonably good job with quantum mechanics, incidentally.”

Don't forget 2 scoops r565

[quote] Trump:: “I was just TRYING TO BE POSITIVE.” 3/31/2020.

[quote] Churchill: “I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat’. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. (May 1940)

Trump has no idea how to lead. He couldn’t lead a one-man band. Still no sign of his acceptance of responsibility for anything.

Churchill. Start at 3:40.

"The rabbi who must praise himself has a congregation of one."

What we are seeing is a stupid man got elected by stupid voters. The stupid man is surrounded by yes people which is okay in normal circumstances but not in a crisis like this. I think Dr Tony and The Scarf Lady play along because of the greater good.

OP, will you be preparing a a Part IV Thread?

Please and Thank You.

Here’s the new thread

Today’s White House propaganda briefing about to start.

He's late, how rude.

MSNBC is reporting that the first CV emergency room doctor has died.

Looking like a police lineup right now.

“This horrible horrible virus. You see how bad it is.”

Social Distancing fail on stage today.

CNN says national stockpile of PPE is depleted.

Drug cartels!

Oh, today is military day.

New thread

Will all these military guys be thanking him for the ammunition he gave them that they didn't have until he came along?

R582, While I agree that the stupid fake prez elected by stupid voters is a travesty, I don't agree it's okay in normal circumstances. I think you will probably agree. This past three years have been a nightmare.

It's never okay to be governed by a stupid person surrounded by idiots and yes people, never. How some Americans seemed to miss that after the destruction caused by the last Bush presidency that dumb republicans, indeed any republican, is bad for this country and the world. Enough.

Why are they blathering about DRUG interceptions?!

And we don't care about your pathological attention to irrelevant details, such as types of ships and metric tons of dope!

STHU!

This is now a Trump campaign ad, without any pretense.

What. The. Fuck.

Word of the Day: Scourge

CNN & MSNBC cut away

Please continue here.

So, the purpose of today is to show that the Administration can walk and chew gum at the same time? And back to the borders theme.

We’re gonna get those dirty Messicans!

R585, Too many American voters think that Republican politicians will help make them rich.

Just as a stupid person cannot comprehend brilliance, so, too, can't a middle-class person comprehend the obscenely excessive wealth of the 1%.

So they don't mind giving the 1% even more, in their grateful belief that the, say, $1200 check from Trump is movin' themselves on up to the East Side.