Bigly Disrespected 🤥 Lying Liar War President 🤥 Lobbing Non-stop Big Fat Lies about "The Invisible Enemy" - Part 5

and why is she smiling?

Twittler should quit the overdone tan

Where does he buy his suits? He can't be using a tailor. How can the guy wear such crappy fitting suits? With his money, his suits could be re-fitted weekly.

"I don't know him" will be in-scripted on his tombstone.

R4 Also "I didn't see them"

R1

She actually looks like she’s horrified he’s going to grab her pussy.

R3

Abdul’s Carousel of Tents

R3 Those baggy oversized suits cover up his ever-expanding gut and giant ass. You can really see it when he’s shown in profile.

I’m watching “Chopped “ on the Food Network. I just can’t listen to it today.

Don’t worry, R10. It is just bullshit, bullshit, yay me. Bullshit.

R1.. i hear you! why is she ALWAYS smiling or laughing! like she's the hostess of a tupperware party!... she's a doctor, but she must be koo koo for coco puffs?!

Trump squints almost as much as Melania. Is the lighting that bad in the White House?

Today's word is "China-centric," boys and girls.

Will he fucking talk about closing air traffic from China for the next 6 fucking months now? Is this your only fucking accomplishment?

Now who is this puppet?

R15 Seema something. She's from Medicare. I'm happy to see Dr Tony has taken a seat. I couldn't understand how the man could stand for hours...His back must be killing him.

He was squirming while he was lying about having no knowledge of Navarro's report. Trapped!

Sorry, that response was for R16

The DEMISER? This is a word?

Bezos Time.

Just as an aside, Anderson Cooper's daily takedown of Rump in Chief are devastating and excoriating. Girlfriend really knows how to pile it on, stay on point, and in a more palatable manner, and feeling more grounded and substantial, than Rachel Maddow's style.

[quote]"I don't know him" will be in-scripted on his tombstone.

I think it was a little shout-out to Mimi.

They say they don't know why the African American community is affected more, but aren't they more likely to be overweight and/or diabetic?

I knew about it in February. How could he not know about it?

Oh, I forgot, he’s just a liar.

Is this piece of shit still on?

I was having computer trouble and was on the phone with a guy from India. I asked him about how their leaders were doing with the pandemic and ended up saying "Yeah, well, we have Trump" and he just laughed. I would imagine just about every other country in the world is saying "At least we don't have Trump".

Fuck the emojis, OP. Just stop it.

R26 Oh, he'll be on for quite awhile. He can't give this up in less than hour...

He came thisclose to calling a black woman articulate.

R24: She wasn't disputing the facts regarding underlying illnesses, just asking if the actual test result numbers based on demographics will be made public.

R30 It was code speak for saying "she spoke like a white person."

R30 Like Biden did about Obama?

R30: He insulted that "new fan" on so many levels. I was silently pleading for him to shut up.

Just resign already.

“The lines are through the roof!”

I LOVE his arguing with the reporters! He's losing it inch by inch....

Of course he hates voting by mail. Russia can't help him with that.

Mail-in ballots are bigly bad, except when I do it.

His new gambit is to fire questions back at any reporter whose question he doesn’t like. “What is the IG’s name? When was she appointed? How long has she been there?” etc. He’s very pleased with himself about it.

I just hate these Q&A. He always interrupts everyone and they cut their mic and he just starts lying about everything and they can't correct him.

Where is Peter Alexander? Some of these junior varsity journalists are not ready for primetime. A good reporter, like a prosecuting attorney, knows the answer to the question she asks.

Damn! Orange It just up and ran away! He will be back as soon as the minions show signs of stumbling (and the Adderall bump kicks in).

Ralph Kramden and Fatty Arbuckle's love child.

R1 because she knows he is full of shit.

Trump doesn't know the difference between those criminals who try to sign up voters at fairs and malls and then dump or alter the ones for Democrats; and actual real voter-requested mail-in ballots.

Moreover, he thinks HIS OWN mail-in ballot was somehow special.

Memo to reporters: Don't bother asking if he "supports" the Right-Wing Supreme Court.

[QUOTE] He came thisclose to calling a black woman articulate.

I think he pretty much said it. He pointed to who I presume was an African-American woman and was like, “She was African-American. Did I tell you that?” And why is it always such a big production of whether or not someone is a “fan” of his? It’s just disgusting. I had to turn it off. Nothing but lies.

And, of course, yet another infomercial for Hydrochloriquin.

R41 I agree. The A-Team reporters aren't in the room and these B-Team players are trying but they just aren't prepared. I do appreciate the fact that they are a little more aggressive than the A-Team who have been around long enough that they have a built-in respect for the position. The newbies have the advantage of not understanding 'respect for the position' so push a little harder.

That's what I'm talking about, Peter Alexander; ask if he was *briefed* about the memo when he claims not to have read it. The memo which, incidentally, was addressed to this president in its "To" line.

R46: Could be. I think the seasoned pros know his personality and how to word a question in a manner that his televised answer will cause him to dig himself into a bigger and bigger hole. I love how they sit back and watch him ramble. So no, not respect, but cunning.

Just my $.02.

R48 Cunning rather than respect. Yes.

Biden live today on CNN. Of course Trump will do an interview with Hannity at the same time.

There were supposed to be tests weeks ago. Now scarf lady is going on about the nonexistent tests. Where’s my damn test?

Oprah should be in charge of the fucking tests!

"You get a test! And you get a test! And you get a test! And even you all in the cheap seats get tests! Tests for everyone!"

And then Dolly can read out the test results at the next press conference. When she's done, she can sing "Jolene".

Then we will all be fine.

Jolene Jolene Jolene!

Jolene, bless your heart, you have the Coronavirus.

No questions about his connection to Novartis and his financial interests in the drug he keeps pushing?

"All mail-in ballots are frauds by Democrats, frauds, except for mine. Mine is the only perfect and tremendous mail-in ballot, because I'm here, not in Florida where I really live and have always lived, whatever your FAKE NEWS says.

I'm here working very, very hard to protect you when your Governors can't. Some are doing great, and we've had nice conversations with them, they thank me for helping and doing a great job getting them whatever they need, sometimes, many times, even a lot more. Sometimes it might look like we're in competition, but we're bidding to win so that we can then give it back to the states. It's very simple, really, but you make it out to be something bad, or wrong. Always looking to be negative.

Look, I want to be the nation's cheerleader. I want our great people who are faced with this monster, it's a monster, to have hope. We're fighting a war. So we need to open the country, get our people back to work. Light at the end of the tunnel, I don't know if you've heard that expression. That's why I'm building a wall, 151 miles and we're going to have 600 more miles soon. We're working very hard with Mexico and ICE to block any tunnels so the drug smugglers won't ever see light there again.

So let's keep America great, get back to work, try the hydroxychloroquine, light at the end of the tunnel."

For what it's worth, OP, I like your emojis. Makes it easy to find your threads.

R55 Are you one of Trump's speechwriters? You have his voice down pat. Beautiful job!

I also like the emojis, OP.

R57, 😊.

If this is a poll, I don't care one way or the other about the emojis. I'm just glad for the thread.

R57, I believe R55 is a direct quote from tRump.

I put the emojis so it's easy to spot. Also because Trump is a lying liar.

“The flu is nothing to sneeze at.”

Thank you, OP.

R63 TG no one laughed.

No, r61, it is not. I took some of his words, mostly from today, added my own, and wrote essentially stream of consciousness style. I've done this on other threads as well (I'm r377 on one).

It's called "parody." Par-o-dee. Not many people have heard of it, they don't believe me, but that's okay. I'm here to help the great, some say tremendous, American people fight this war. We're at war. I'm a war President. Easter is so important, so important. Some people call it a "holy day". I say "Happy Easter" but the Democrats, you know how they are, they don't want you to say it. Maybe they want you to say "Happy Bunny Day," I don't know. I've heard that, but I don't know. You should ask Crying Chuck Schumer, the disgrace. He's a disgrace.

r55

If SNL ever comes back, you should be writing Alec Baldwin's cold opens as tRump.

R66 I'll say it again: You could be writing for the asshole. You truly get the voice.

If anyone cares, he’s on the phone with Fox News tonight.

I really don't care, R69. But, I do feel that it is important that we watch and know everything that Trump and the Republicans are doing. It is absolutely unconscionable of how Republicans forced tonight's vote upon the good people of Wisconsin. It is my hope that Republicans LOSE this vote BADLY and no harm come to the voters. If that happens it will scare the SHIT out of the Republicans nationwide.

He just craves attention so much and Hannity doesn’t ask any challenging questions. It’s pathetic really.

[quote]Hannity doesn’t ask any challenging questions.

There is nothing legitimate about him, so why act as though you'd expect a challenging question? He's not a journalist. You'd sooner see penguins flying to FL than Hannity have any decency. He's a lying shithead.

Yes R72, but you cannot simply dismiss his influence. Hannity should have been gone long ago. These people are dangerous to the well being and health of the nation. I want to be clear that I am one who does not want to silence the voice of conservatives--whatever that is. I don't even know what that means anymore, but these people aren't conservatives. They're outright liars and thieves. They are willing to do whatever is necessary to get and maintain power. Here's the mission I see after (or, if), we can get past this Trump ordeal... SHUT THESE PEOPLE DOWN!

Trump said he hadn’t read that letter warning about the danger of the virus written in January, and I thought, “It’s not like you’ve been busy. You watch TV and you golf. You had plenty of time to have someone read this to you.” (because we already know he doesn’t even read his daily briefs.)

The Press should press him on this. “You said you didn’t read the memo, but you don’t read any memos. Did you have someone read it to you? Shouldn’t you have read it? Did Sean Hannity read it to you? Or Putin?” Something like that. The Press should stop treating him as if he’s well informed on everything and this one email missed him, inexplicably. If he didn’t know the contents of an email addressed to him, it’s his own damn fault.

And the next time he demands the Press answer a question about their own question, the response should be: “You’re here to answer our questions. We’re not here to answer your questions.” And “you should know this. You don’t know?”

[quote]we already know he doesn’t even read his daily briefs.

There was an article about that a couple of years ago. They show him pictures and bullet points because that’s all he can grasp.

Stop watching. Stop feeding the beast.

I will bet a roll of TP that Trump thinks that after this week, which he knows will be awful, that it’ll be all finished and everybody can go back to work.

That’s not the case, of course. We might get past peak medical resource-usage, but this is only because we’ve been exercising various preventative behaviors for weeks already, including [italic] not [/italic] working like normal. Going back to work next week would just ruin everything and set us back. Plus, peak usage will ramp down in a slope. Next week might be better than this week, but it won’t be particularly good, either.

I don’t think he understands this, based on the nonsense he spews, and I predict he’ll be really furious when it sinks in. I’m sure he’s been told, but doesn’t understand it, yet.

The deplorables are, after all, human and their shit-ometers will soon be alerted to alarm notifications of donald's increasing mental decline. They have loved ones serving on the Theodore Roosevelt who were exposed to the Virus as well as those who are in the direct line of attack as Covid races through the midland.

Biden describes his phone call with Trump about coronavirus response

Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he told President Donald Trump in their phone call that the federal response to the novel coronavirus pandemic is "about taking responsibility."

The call, which took place Monday, marked a rare moment of direct communication between the two political rivals. The President has harshly criticized Biden over a range of issues for months and the former vice president has repeatedly excoriated Trump's handling of the virus outbreak.

But while speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Prime Time" Tuesday, Biden said the two "had a good conversation."

"I laid out what I thought he should be doing. I laid out four or five specific points that I thought were necessary. I indicated that it is about taking responsibility, and being the commander in chief, taking on the responsibility. He asked whether or not we would not discuss the detail of what we talked about, just saying that we had a good conversation," Biden said of the call.

"He was very gracious in his conversation. So it was -- the President -- I had an opportunity to tell him what I would have done, what I thought, the lessons we learned."

Pressed further about what he specifically told the President, Biden said he suggested that Trump fully implement the Defense Production Act, appoint a supply commander to oversee it, ramp up drug testing and open up a new enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act among other suggestions.

"And he was very gracious," Biden said. "And that was the end of the conversation."

His description of the call echoed Trump's comments Monday where he called their discussion a "wonderful, warm conversation."

"It was a very nice conversation," Trump said. "He gave me his point of view and I fully understood that."

"He had suggestions, doesn't mean I agree with those suggestions," the President said before reiterating that the conversation was "very friendly."

The conversation came at the start of what the US surgeon general said would be "hardest and the saddest" week for "most Americans' lives."

"This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it's not going to be localized, it's going to be happening all over the country and I want America to understand that," Vice Admiral Jerome Adams said on "Fox News Sunday."

Still, Biden struck an optimistic tone Tuesday night, emphasizing the "soul of America" during times of crisis.

"I talk about restoring the soul of America. You're seeing the soul of America now. Look what Americans are doing, average Americans. They're not asking anything about -- they're not talking about divisions based on race, ethnicity or any of that malarkey," he said. "What they're talking about is they're reaching out and helping everyone."

Both Trump and Biden are so mealy mouthed. At least Biden is a decent person behind the bizarre speaking style.

r80, c'mon, man!

"The WHO called it wrong"

"They were months late"

Still projecting.

R74... nailed it.. if i was a reporter/journalist in that room, i would also state to trump "you do know you work for me, and for us, yes? we are YOUR boss! so as your employer you will wait until i'm completely finished with my question and then as my employee you will THEN answer it."...

if i was in that room i would also be bringing my own microphone so they can't cut me off and the trump flunkie with the microphone couldn't move away from me and get away with it!..

I think the problem with these aggressive questions is that they ban you immediately. Dump can do whatever he wants and lie and insult people, but he still expects respect for the office and for himself and would never allow these kind of questions.

He openly ignored one of the CNN reporters at a WH briefing and told her "no not you" and she was gone the next day and hasn't returned. Peter Alexander also suddenly disappeared. He will just ignore you and not answer any more questions from your network.

He believes he has a way to win;

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·2h

Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans. @foxandfriends

R84.. and how can this be? once again, he works for us, and it IS freedom of the press? how can any president ban a reporter for any reason? something is very very wrong here!...he trump already lost with CNN and costa got his front row seat again.

I’m sick of hearing about “warm, perfect, friendly” phone calls. What is a “perfect” phone call anyway? I get that Biden is a gracious man who respects the office of the President, but this CREATURE is not warm and friendly. He is a monster and I’d like to hear how completely out of his league he is from a trusted source. I’m sure that he completely bullshat his way through that phone call.

What is sad is that Biden is telling him how he should do his job. If he does heed Biden's advice, he's going to take the credit if it is successful.

Except he won't, R88.

He is as incapable of reason as a salamander, and one day he will be the dictionary definition of avatism.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

Bernie Sanders is OUT! Thank you to Elizabeth Warren. If not for her, Bernie would have won almost every state on Super Tuesday! This ended just like the Democrats & the DNC wanted, same as the Crooked Hillary fiasco. The Bernie people should come to the Republican Party, TRADE!

Wow, Bernie is unwilling to give up his delegates, and wants more of them! What’s that all about?

Can’t see AOC plus 3 supporting Sleepy Joe!

Is Trump really that much of an idiot? AOC has already come out in support of Biden.

[quote] R83: if i was a reporter/journalist in that room,

Reporter: President Trump , ...(difficult question for Trump )..

Trump: (interrupting) “...excuse me, excuse me, ...”

Reporter: “I’ll excuse you after I finish asking the question and you answer it...”

They’ll get banned, but it’s one job, for country!

Next, all the banned reporters need to inform the White House that they will hold a press conference in front of the White House, whether Turnip is there, or not.

Likewise, Biden should attend all the debates whether or not Trump shows. He could give a 20-minute speech, followed by a VP 5-minute speech. Then 30 minutes of questions,

Is the poster boy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder going to hold a rally today or not? I don't see anything listed on c-span.

^^^never mind, c-span just put up a 5:00 expected briefing....which means 5:15 or 5:30 or 5:45...

Yeah, CNN is just going with “soon” WH briefing.

[quote]What is a “perfect” phone call anyway?

He's very, old school, outer-borough NY and has dealt mostly with "ethnic" types his entire business life; that's why he talks like that. A lot of old school NYers do.

It's always hilarious to me how flyover/southern types think he relates to them solely because he's a racist and bigoted shithead like many of them, but really, someone like me knows him like the back of my hand - better than they ever could. He looks so down on them. He'd mock every last one of them, call them "retards" and "slow" and "fat" and "ugly." He hates NY now because he was rejected by us, but he will never not be one in his evil soul. Those dummies in the rest of the country need to understand one thing: When you're going off about Hollywood liberals, never forget that Trump would sooner be at dinner with every single one of them than any vet who served this country. If he had a choice between going to the Oscars or the Country Music Awards with his feedlot of supporters, which do you think he'd choose?

Keep worshiping someone who looks down on you, rubes.

More jive at five.

He's 30 minutes late. Trump you're a disgrace!

[quote]avatism

R89 I can't find a definition for that word.

Dr. Scarf is sitting on the side with Fauci today, guess she also got tired of standing for 2 hours.

Let the games begin...

Is that Pompeo on the stage?

They need to stop covering this lying asshole. I stopped watching about five press conf. ago.

Fist pumping religion...like he is one.

It's interesting how Chuck Todd (of all people) does not rush to turn the cameras over to the Trump press conference. It's obvious that he does this on purpose.

Yes, Pompeo is there and speaking now so he can go back to his important job.

Will a guillotine slice through Pompeo's thick fat neck like it was butter?

CNN is ignoring Orange fuck today. Wish MSNBC would do the same.

One reporter in the audience is wearing a bandanna over her face.

[quote]It's always hilarious to me how flyover/southern types think he relates to them solely because he's a racist and bigoted shithead like many of them, but really, someone like me knows him like the back of my hand - better than they ever could.

R96 You are a pompous prick. I live in a 'flyover' state and am used to shrugging off the insults but you, sir, need to be called out as the arrogant bullying fuck you obviously are. Not every 'flyover/southern' person voted for Trump. Get over the blame game, buddy.

Is it over already? I’m confused.

I get confused between Pompeo and Barr. One wears glasses, one doesn't. That's the only way I can tell the difference. Otherwise, they're both just white fat fucks who kiss Trump's ass. And Pompeo is really starting to sweat now!

Trump really didn't speak today. I wonder why?

R110 It's on MSNBC - CNN isn't covering

No, the orange one is letting Pompeo speak first so he can go back to work, Pompeo is taking questions now. Then Orange again, Pence and the doctors.

True, R109. Texas and Florida are filled with Hillary voters, FL was very close, in fact. We shouldn’t overlook that.

Pompey speaking first so he can go back to work, whereas Trump has nothing else to do but bullshit the press.

CNN: Awaiting health experts speak at WH briefing- Hahaha

No airtime for you, lying fuck!

I know many Southerners whose blood runs blue. I live in LA and am shocked by the amount of Trumpshits I've come across. BTW, all the local channels just cut off the briefing in the middle of Pompeo's near truths and pure lies.

R111 Pompeo is a religious zealot. He’s said in public that Trump was sent by the Lord to lead our nation or some shit. Barr is slightly less obsequious and has criticized Trump on occasion which Pompeo never has.

"Using fewer beds". Yeah, we all know why they're empty.

Oooooh, he's doing addition!

What surprises me is that with Trump and his people being such marketing mavens I have yet to see any video footage of all of these massive deliveries. We saw the medical ships dock and that has been it

Throw zinc out there!

Throw zinc out there!

Pushing that drug is so irresponsible to the point of criminal.

I’m watching it now, on delayed recording. In Chuck Todd’s intro, he said he’d jump in to correct any inaccuracies, “if veered off the truth lane.” It’s incredible that we just expect the President to lie in his speech! But at least the the TV people are recognizing it now. We just have to get the TV people to start calling them lies, as they are.

Oh God, I'm laughing so hard! He is in so deep today. And he looks beaten and orange-r than ever. He has no idea what he's reading. This is like watching my 6 year old nephew struggle through his homework.

He has “no time for partisan games.”

Have you seen his Twitter feed lately?

"We have to stop giving away the millions and billions of thousands of dollars to all these countries and allies and international agencies ... I feel strongly about that, you know this, .... millions and billions of thousands of dollars that I should be, and will be, overseeing. Okay?"

Cuomo on the other hand informs, advises, cautions, encourages, explains there will be a "new normal", orders flags at half mast....

NY gets wise, steady Daddy leading the family. Country gets demented, grifting Grandpa.

Every time he delivers what he considers a zinger he does that thing where he draws a breath in through his teeth, like a reverse hiss. His mannerisms get more odious by the day.

^^^ooops, I think it's actually NJ flying flags at half mast.

Interrupted by a fact check!

Oh now MSNBC has their own ‘Dr. Gupta.’

[quote]He has “no time for partisan games.” Have you seen his Twitter feed lately?

Something a journalist should ask him about.

R131 His mannerisms are so annoying. I can't imagine being near him in a social situation and not stare.

R135 Dueling Guptas!

Cheeto, this isn’t a competition between countries. The victory is to get this over, globally. No-one will think of you as a winner, outside your bubble anyway.

Oh for Godsakes! Now we're talking about the Tiger documentary!

Tiger King? Pardon? We live in a banana fucking republic.

^I'm so glad I'm missing this shitstorm so I can watch Dr. Phil.

Dr. Bird’s scarf marches her dress today. She wears the same earrings every day. No nail polish.

That last speaker (from the CDC) called Dr Birx 'Ambassador' Birx -- WTF? Was she also an ambassador?

Jim Acosta you must follow up on his lies. Don't disappoint me, push his buttons!

R141 Get back here! You can't leave now! We're all in this together!

Why do reporters keep asking him if he should have acted sooner? Of course, he should have, but he’s never going to admit that.

[quote]Dr. Bird’s scarf marches her dress today.

Were I Hermès I would have shipped her a box of scarves for her to model.

R132: It is New York Governor Cuomo who is ordering our flags be flown at half mast in honor of the stricken slain.

They should ask how many people came in to the US from China after he”closed” it down.

He seems a little subdued today. Still repeating his catch phrases over and over again, but not as frantically.

Go, Jim, Go! Push him!

How does he know we want to hurry back out into the streets and to work? If he were a decent president he would drag his fat ass to NYC, his birthplace, and speak to and with John and Jane Doe and experience our plight firsthand.

Sic him, Jim!

The trouble is he believes his own lies, so he sounds convincing.

[quote]He seems a little subdued today.

I think that he is quite aware that now that it is just he and Biden he is really aware that every word is bring scrutinized,

FINALLY! Someone is calling him out on the voter fraud lies

R153 I disagree. I think he sounds less and less convincing the more he stumbles.

He’s only convincing to people who want to believe him.

Dumpy's eyes look really porcine with that orange shit tanner and little pink rings around his eyes. Piggy eyes.

Do not take the bait, President Obama.

Today's new vocabulary word is: aspirational.

Now the Embalmed One speaks...

CNN is covering - Dr. Birx is speaking. MSNBC has dropped.

This is what I'm watching...

The Dick Cavett Show

1 HR 1972

GORE VIDAL, ROBERT KLEIN, ETHEL WATERS AND WILLIE MOSCONI • TALK

Gore Vidal, Robert Klein, Ethel Waters and Willie Mosconi are interviewed in 1972...

Yesterday he was touting his "wonderful" call with Biden. Today he is back to calling him "Sleepy Joe".

I can't watch him.

Instead I watched the most recent episode of My Brilliant Friend, plus watched the first two episodes of a Brazilian comedy on HBO On Demand called Todxs Nós.

I vacuumed.

And I made a sauce for pasta (tomatoes with roasted peppers).

When I watched the NBC Evening News with Lester Holt, I don't think any mention of the president was ever made.

It's like he's becoming The Irrelevant Leader.

I can't wait to see his big pumpkin head explode when Vice President Biden addresses him as "donald" on the debate stage (if not sooner).

I couldn't watch today. I hear the loans to small businesses has been bumbled. Wonder if the same is going to happen to the 1200.

How has Trump not caught this virus, he has been around multiple people who have tested positive, the Coronavirus must be as repulsed by Trump as I am.

R167, no doubt; however, his associates get tested. I don’t know how often.

I want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Are you listening?

Zinc!

[quote]I hear the loans to small businesses has been bumbled.

I heard the perfect website keeps crashing.

I went to buy nasal spray and it was sold out. Apparently it contains zinc, though I don’t know if that’s connected.

R162, I once upon a time adored Dick Cavett. Now I can't bear to listen to him, not his monologues nor his trying to one-up every single guest, like he was simply the wittiest thing.

And, look at this....

Pence's office blocks public health officials from appearing on CNN

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Updated 11:27 AM ET, Thu April 9, 2020

New York (CNN Business)Vice President Mike Pence's office has declined to allow the nation's top health officials to appear on CNN in recent days and discuss the coronavirus pandemic killing thousands of Americans, in an attempt to pressure the network into carrying the White House's lengthy daily briefings in full.

Pence's office, which is responsible for booking the officials on networks during the pandemic, said it will only allow experts such as Dr. Deborah Birx or Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear on CNN if the network televises the portion of the White House briefings that includes the vice president and other coronavirus task force members.

CNN often only broadcasts President Donald Trump's question and answer session, which sometimes includes the health care officials, live on-air.

After Trump leaves the podium, CNN frequently cuts out of the White House briefing to discuss and fact-check what the President had said. A CNN executive said that the network usually returns to such programming because of the extensive length of the full briefing that includes Pence, which can run in excess of two hours.

CNN did, however, air the vice president's portion of the briefing Wednesday night.

Regardless, Pence's office has declined to make the nation's top health care officials available to CNN for the last seven days.

"When you guys cover the briefings with the health officials then you can expect them back on your air," a Pence spokesperson told CNN.

Fauci, Birx, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Surgeon General Jerome Adams have all appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox during the last week, despite the fact that the broadcast networks have generally not covered the briefings that have included the vice president and health officials. But the Vice President's office has blocked all CNN appearances since last Thursday night.

Fauci appeared on the last five weekly CNN Town Halls, with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The Vice President's office has refused to make him, or anyone, available for Thursday's town hall. The White House has made two non health care officials available to CNN in the last week. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper appeared on "State of the Union" on Sunday and Peter Navarro appeared on Anderson Cooper's show on Friday and "New Day" on Monday.

Trump has also declined CNN's repeated requests for an interview, instead appearing only on Fox News for softball interviews multiple times during the national emergency.

A CNN spokesperson declined to comment for this story.

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the number of CNN town halls in which Dr. Fauci has appeared.

WELP! It is FAR too early to get hopes up and definitely not the time to stop working but I have heard two political pundits say on air.....

President-Elect Biden

I expect the Malignant Narcissist will be back to attacking Cuomo for being ungracious at his rally this evening.

In his briefing today Cuomo said "Federal Government is Purchaser In Chief" and also "War is Federal, individual states don't declare war." As he was walking away at the end someone asked Cuomo if he is confident in the federal response he said "Not that confident."

The comments I paraphrased start at around 32:00 although the whole briefing is worth watching.

I almost feel that the media is setting Trump up. "Let's get as much as we can of him saying this and/or that in tape and video the slaughter him!" Finally, the media is pushing back on his lies about closing the China border and being left with a broken system to handle this crisis.

WH briefing at 6:00 PM.

^^Oh I can't wait!! (Actually, going out for a walk. Have not watched one minute of the horseshit that streams out of the mouth of that idiot since his very first press conference about it - 'we only have 15 cases in the US and blah, blah, blah.'). Just hoping he catches it. And dies bigly.

R175, Coumo is going to be in sooooo much trouble!

Here we go.

Starts off with help for Airlines. Spoke to Putin and King somebody from Saudi Arabia.

Fauci, Birx, Pence and some other guy I'm not familiar with.

DJT just now: “We’re going to be opening up very soon, [italic] I hope”. [/italic]

Like the drug he’s shilling, if he’s just giving hope and aspirations, who cares? Then, his statements would be inconsequential.

Buy Pfizer! Buy buy buy!

Please give us no watchers details. I’m going to be eating and I’m sure I would lose my appetite.

“Gilead’s anti-rival medication.”

God he’s a fucking neanderthal halfwit.

CNN isn’t showing him. Much love for them for that.

"other guy" is Secy of Labor Scalia

Now we, the US, have millions of doses of that drug he’s shilling. Damn, this guy is a test case of what a president shouldn’t be or do.

He really does sound like a 5th grader reading a book report.

“If you look and you see there’s a lot of people affected.”

“Common purpose and shared resolve” blah blah blah. Same pompous fake rhetoric every speech.

He was reading fast. Speed?

[quote] DJT: “We had a very good call.”

I suspect he has so many calls where people yell at him for his sleaziness, that the “nice” calls are notable for their unusualness.

For those who want to watch...or maybe not "want" to watch but need fuel and motivation to get out and vote against this bastard in November....

“I’ve had good and proper feelings about many other things” (he “feels good” about the economy coming back.)

R186, he’s a highly respected person. Highly respected.

Millions. Billions. His favorite words that he uses a lot.

Aww, Ari cut off the dumb shit.

R195, I hate how he says “quickly”. Every promise he makes will be fulfilled “strongly” and “quic-kly”.

He's in such a hurry for businesses to reopen. Serial killer.

He doesn’t think widespread testing is necessary to “open up the country.” And Fauci and Birx sit there nodding and smiling and saying nothing.

R180, Those are the men who and countries that own Trump. Jared, after all, is complicit in the murder of Khashoggi.

He’s again talking about “reopening the country“. How about we get more testing done, first? Otherwise, we just don’t know where we stand. ..

I think I’ve heard Fauci talk today or yesterday about more testing and not being too eager to get prematurely restarted.

I'm sick and tired of these beasts with their sugar coated lies.

R201 see R199. Trump says widespread testing is “not necessary.”

It wasn't aired on any of the local channels in LA.

CNN is just completely ignoring this BS briefing. They just showed a tiny snippet and immediately fact checked him.

Will the Orange fuck lose interest when he doesn't get a daily platform? Fox's audience is mostly within the States, but without CNN he will lose his international audience.

r204

Link at r192 if you want to watch.

Fake sincerity from Pence.

R202, Poetically said. "Beasts with their sugar-coated lies."

Now Trump actually just said "we HOPE it's 100,000."

Now, his defenders would say he meant what we would mean: to keep it to the minimum prediction.

But that is not who Trump is. He said it as a hope, literally.

So now he's waxing about oil and tankers. That's his thing. Notice he's not tracing those words with his finger in a notebook. THESE words, about oil and money, Trump means.

[quote] Trump says widespread testing is “not necessary.”

Thanks, R303. We could be using the WHO tests, If our own CDC tests aren’t ready yet. We absolutely need to know two things before we get back to pseudo-normalcy:

Who’s had it, and gotten over it.

And can it reinfect people?

The lack of tests is one of the biggest governmental blunders in decades. I still don’t understand why there aren’t enough tests, or maybe I just don’t believe their comments about it.

Thanks r206 but I think I'll pass. I'd rather read about his stupid comments without hearing or seeing it come out of his orange crusted blowhole.

It sounds like Dr. Ruth Fisher Birx has toned down her fry voice.

Positivity rates:

11% positive, up to age 25, in 200,000 tests

17% positive, age 25-44, in 500,000 tests

21% positive, age 45-65, in 500,000 tests

22% positive, age 66-85, in 200,000 tests

But you have to show symptoms to be tested, so the rate of positives should be lower in the general population.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

The Wall Street Journal always “forgets” to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are “through the roof” (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News!

Angela Belcamino@AngelaBelcamino Replying to @realDonaldTrump and @nytimes

To clarify to you all why DJT is throwing a hissing fit baby tantrum... It's because the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's press briefings aren't helpful to the country. I agree!

The failing Wall Street Journal?

I once heard that if you run into 2 jackasses in a given day, then you’re the jackass. Trump encounters a lot of jackasses, like the WSJ, NY Times, WaPo, the judiciary, the media in general, crying Schumer, Nancy, “I call her Nancy”, that Navy Captain, etc., etc.

[quote] Dr. Fauci: “That means what we are doing is working, so let’s keep doing it”.

R199, that contrasts with what Trump has said.

Secy Scalia should not be allowed to do any further public speaking until he gets some coaching or watches some YT tutorials.

The percent dead, today, of confirmed US cases is 16,456 fatalities/459,873 confirmed cases, or 3.58%.

It wasn't yesterday either, r204.

[quote]But you have to show symptoms to be tested, so the rate of positives should be lower in the general population.

But it works both ways.

You also have to have a fever to get tested, and I know of two people who were denied testing (even though they were clearly sick with this for almost four weeks) because they didn't have the fever with their other symptoms.

So that would consequently bring the positives up higher.

I like the emojis OP. Anyone complaining is probably bitter Sylvia and Not Sylvia.

JUST THOUGHT I WOULD POST THIS, KIND OF OFF TOPIC BUT, it's shocking to me how many loons and trump supporters there are on facebook! been going round and round with them when one of them posted on my facebook page, video clips of joe biden hugging and being affectionate to various people, usually women and children and they are posting that he is a pedo!!!!!!!! this is their proof of biden being a pedo because of these clips! meanwhile the fact that trump is a PROVEN adulterer, who also hung up with jeffrey epstein doesn't faze them!.....some even commenting that being a adulterer is better then being a pedo! and once again, their 100% PROOF are these various clips! that's it! that's all they got! are they all truly THIS STUPID? BRAINWASHED? IGNORANT! OR SIMPLE PIECES OF SHIT THEMSELVES and either don't know it or don't care they are?

it's unbelievable to me! these are people out and about walking the streets!

Notable quote from today:

[quote]Trump says US doesn’t need to have a nationwide testing system in order for Americans to go back to work: “We want to have it and we’re going to see if we have it. Do you need it? No. Is it a nice thing to do? Yes.”

Because he knows more about this than the experts. He knows way more about EVERYTHING than the experts.

How can the testing still be so screwed-up?

Obviously, because Trumpy Bear doesn't want any more deaths attributed to COVID-19 - that's why. If a "real test" was never performed on a patient who either recovers or more heinously dies - these patients will not add to the tragic numbers that Trump wishes would just go away. The GOP scum bags will fight to the death to avoid mass testing (and mail-in ballots among thousands of other things). He lives in a world of lies and delusions, but this time he is having a more difficult time covering up the messes that he creates on a daily basis. He thought that it was cute to set fire to all of the great things that previous Democrat administrations created and fire anyone who stood in his path. Trumpy's inept and lazy handling of this pandemic (only addressed once it proved to destroy his one and only "positive" - the economy that Obama created and he just surfed into when he took over). Disgusting party of evil, cheating, lying, soulless crooks that GOP.. You can now add "killing" to this list.

I have never been on Facebook but I’m sure it has many Rump lovers but I’m also sure they many many Russian bots posting there as well. Over there they are not as smart as is being able to Point them out.

R224... nailed it!

[quote]I almost feel that the media is setting Trump up. "Let's get as much as we can of him saying this and/or that in tape and video the slaughter him!"

What a peculiar way of seeing what most people call "reporting," an activity that has been undertaken throughout this administration and, indeed, for quite some time prior.

"Setting Trump up" = "Giving him unlimited daily air-time to say whatever he wants."

How devious! How Machiavellian! Only Fake News corporations could devise such a propaganda ploy: to show Trump unfiltered, unedited, and in real time!

I do not understand why this admin should not be responsible for the managing of this health crisis and the imploding economy.

WH briefing at 1:00 PM.

Dr Scarf needs to take one of those, wrap it around dump's giant neck, and keep twisting.

[quote]WH briefing at 1:00 PM.

Netflix time.

The Orangutan's people need to just announce a window of time when he and his flying monkeys will be out to spew their lies in these briefings, like the window cable company gives, "Your Comcast/Xfinity Technician will arrive between 1-4 pm". Never does he appear anywhere near time announced, I know it's a power play but still annoying.

2 minute warning.

The pink tie again. Matches his eyelids.

“A tremendous amount of work and a tremendous amount of.. you can call it many things..”

Fucking functional illiterate. He can’t even form a full sentence that makes sense.

Absolutely sickening. And I mean it in the bad way.

GOOD FRIDAY: I had stopped paying attention to these for a while, but I had CNN on and the press conference started and I just left it on.

I hate that we have to have an inhuman moron for a president. I especially hate the way he slows down his speaking to emphasize the word *DEATH* like it gives him some kind of power. I'll have more to say later, but that's all for now. He's a piece of shit.

Almost 18,000 dead in this country in a short expanse of time isn't low, fuckface.

All his other ties must be stained from his greasy KFC paws touching them or Big Mac Special Sauce drippings for him to repeat so soon.

R239

Speculation said 2.2 million, but I only killed 17,000. Me good presnident.

“Tireless devotion of these men and women” same meaningless cliches that vile speechwriter keeps spewing.

“blood-based sereology tests” fucking moron.

2:06 pm Eastern time: First mention of *hydroxychloroquine* from the president in this press conference. Expect many more to come ... apparently there are no other ways to treat this illness, since it's rumored that he and his cronies have invested money in it.

Any other president would know this stuff and not have to read it word for word.

So much action is happening and yet those on the ground have seen very little of it.

Blah, blah, $$$, blah, $$$$.

“Think of it” *waves hands* “Biggest EVER”

"There's something good about to happen and I believe it will happen" -- yeah, it's the election of Joe Biden.

Cuomo said today country can NOT "re-open" without testing for all first. There aren't enough tests for everyone because Defense Production Act hasn't been invoked requiring millions of tests to be produced. As things stand, tRump "asking" manufacturers to produce tests instead of requiring them to do so by law results in only thousands of tests which isn't enough as we need millions and this shortage will result in a "second wave" of the virus if we re-open too soon.

I can see it but can't hear it. Who is the lispy guy who is talking now?

Sorry I said that backwards. I can hear it but can't see it. Who is the lispy guy who is talking now?

Dr. Scarf is creepy looking.

^^^Surgeon General/Pence's buddy

Dammit, my local station is covering the briefing today, and I missed Lauren Lake's Paternity Court. 😡😡😡

I missed it. My local news station is covering the speech by the governor of Virginia.

Oh my god, enough with all the mentions of Easter and the resurrection of Jesus. We get it, you are pandering to the evangelical Christians, and blatantly so.

He's asking for "nice" questions from reporters, it's Good Friday, be nice.

When is he ever nice to anyone?

Trump couldn't recite a prayer if his life depended on it.

"Like nobody has ever seen before." This is one of his pet phrases. I guess he is speaking to his moron followers who flunked American history class and don't know how to look up anything on the internet.

Trump's "bad boys" (Acosta and Alexander) were seated off to the side.

This OAN Nuisance Woman is a daily fixture, isn't she?

No mention of Passover?

Let's be nice ... "I hated OPEC..."

Is he headed to Mar a Largo for the holiday, hence the early afternoon briefing?

I was thinking the same thing r263, he is headed somewhere, DeSantis will surely cover for him in FL.

He can never give Jim or Peter a direct answer; it is so obvious they intimidate him and that he doesn't realize he exposes his Achille's heel* from the podium daily.

Resign, already.

* bone spur

I don't watch any of these things but I get from these threads he is still obsessed with his "ratings". He seems to think this is a tv show and not a serious job. Also, why do all these tv appearances? Is he having withdrawals from not doing his rallies? Do a press conference without the two baboons (Dump and Pence) and get experts from CDC on.

Trump Coronavirus Briefing Gets Fact-Checked On Live TV | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Trump loves to blather only about oil (today he added "LNG"---natural gas). Meet him say how we're so great. And lie a bout his ruination of the environment, especially now Alaska.

Time to put a total halt to these charades. No more daily media like he got in 2016.

Sic him, Yamiche! The All Stars are in the house today. Where are Kelly O and Kaitlin?

"Oh, no! I am not going to discuss the thriving and fully employed coloreds and their excellent health care ... Mr. Surgeon Attorney, please answer her."

"Lets him say....."^^^^

It's been over an hour, and while it has been all the regular bullshit lies and pandering, he hasn't yet gotten offended or lost his temper yet. But I expect that to happen any minute now.

They've all become Capitalist Running Dogs now.

R270; which of your replies are you editing?

Who's this jackass reporter who just said to Trump, "You, the United States,....." in a question about oil production?!

He really doesn't understand what Good Friday is all about.

"We'll be reimbursed my Mexico in a certain way...." What?? What way?

Notice how Trump never uses people's titles. He just said "Tony Fauci." And he always refers to the VP as "Mike."

Ignorant bastard.

R275 You are correct. He has no understanding of this entire weekend. He just wants to get out of DC for the weekend. Bye-bye. Thus the early press conference.

R276, By "we" he means "people named Donald J. Trump."

Yep R277. But everyone has to call him PRESIDENT Trump. The man has no sense of graciousness or propriety.

"Good, it's Friday! Golf!"

Friday is always a good golfing day, R275.

R273, r268. I thought I was fast enough!

I notice how he whispers when he said the word "China" -- it's very sexy! He loves saying it.

Did he just say Boeing makes aero-planes? Oh and now he's defending them and their terrible fiasco with the two Boeing Max planes that crashed. Ooooh, and now he's advising the company...

R277: And prior to pretending to be president, Orange It always insisted on being addressed as MR. Trump.

Time to revive "Spy Magazine's" favorite donald stinger, "short-fingered vulgarian" from the 1980s.

He took his mellow meds today.

R283, If Trump is ever in a Bruce Willis movie, Trump's catchphrase will be "I love seeing dead people."

Trump is feeling very 'in charge' and genial today. It's all about him and the reporters are letting him get away with it. Nobody's pressing. He's getting away with all sorts of shit today. Nobody's following up...

I want to see a picture of Trump watching a church service on his laptop. Prove it. Prove you're watching an Easter service for an hour. He doesn't have the attention span.

Some bigly hinky shenanigans.

Everyone is his friend today! Cuomo! Newsom! NJ's Murphy! Louisiana's John Bel Edwards who he calls John Bel because they are friends!

It only recently dawned on me why he doesn't like "that woman" in Michigan. Gov Gretchen Whitmer gave the Dem Rebuttal after his State of the Union address.

I really hope he can "re-open" on 1 May, just to fly around the country to his egomaniacal "Rallies for Deplorables" again, instead of holding forth at these pointless "Five O'Clock Follies"

The Rallies can thin the herd very nicely.

OMG. Whine, whine, whine. Trump's entire life, without one minute of exception, has been spent feeling aggrieved, cheated, and "gotten over", and so his entire life, without one minute of exception, has been spent in attempting to belittle, cheat, and con "the other guy" first.

CNN, China, Biden, WHO, NATO, Mexico, Obama, McCain, HRC, Schumer, Mueller, NYT, Rosie O'Donnell, MSNBC, Puerto Rico, .......

Side note: I don't do Twitter any more but when I did, actor/director Ken Olin (thirtysomething, Brothers & Sisters, This Is Us) would tweet tRump every Sunday and ask him "How was Church today?". It was great and as were all his tweets about the imbecile.

He's going to surround himself with the greatest minds. IN BUSINESS. Forget about all the experts he's fired, like his military! All his generals are gone and probably grateful to be gone. He listens to know one.

Back to oil.

In a briefing about disease, death, and health.

Now the Corona virus is a “GENIUS”??

Oooh, now Dr Birx is getting snippy with the press. Refers to all the models she's been showing them all week, as if they haven't been paying attention. Sweetheart, be kind to these people. I know you're tired but they're just trying to help you get your information out to the public.

"3M, GM, Holiday Inn: Say what?"

Orange D'Light.

He's having a good time today, isn't he? Let's see who gets tonight's pink slip and what else is in the Friday night news dump lineup.

"Staying at home leads to death" == He just said that! What an asshole!

“Staying at home leads to death also. It’s a different kind of death.”

Staying at home leads to death.

I’m off to Mara-Lago to save my family’s lives.

“BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars“

Finally! Jim Acosta is going after him.

Oooh, he's doing his whispery creepy voice with Jim Acosta. He'll be leaving soon because he's getting pissed. He had a very easy time today and now the pressure is on so he'll be leaving the room soon.

Excellent point re Orange It's Governor Whitmer animosity, R290! Thank you, thank you for the reminder.

My WWs don't always compute... que pasa?

For the past almost four years numerous reporters have mentioned his Jekyll/Hyde personality. I think it's the difference between taking meds some days and none the other days.

Is he dead yet?

R307 Not yet but he's getting there....

Blah Blah Me Blah Blah Biggest Ever Blah Blah Greatest Economy in the history of this country Blah Blah Me Blah Blah Me Blah Blah Me Blah Blah Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Blah Blah Me...

That about sums it up.

R307: "I'm working here, I'm working here!" Covid-19

R309 I watched for two hours and I think you did a brilliant summation.

Wake me when it happens r308. I'll do a jig. I just can't get over how incredibly imbecilic this orange shitstain is. My niece did drugs when she was pregnant with my great nephew, he wears dresses and starts fires and is still more qualified to be president than this Nero on a budget. Fuck.

I've noticed when he's on meds he doesn't say "you should be ashamed of yourself", "that's a nasty question", "CNN fake news" etc. When he's not on meds and being 100% the real Trump he says all of the above and so much more.

R312 Your great-nephew sounds very much like the prez except Trump also wears diapers.

r305

Got it, thanks and you're welcome.

And the Emmy for the most dismissive dramatic rendering of the word "Death" goes to ... donald a/k/a Short-Fingered Vulgarian.

Accepting in S-FV's absence is Mister John Barron.

“Staying at home leads to death”, lads!

-DJT

I know this is true but it’s nothing like the risk of this Coronavirus.

Beware the Ides of April (the entire month, actually).

Every year I kiss the May 1 page of my calendar as I turn the page from the fourth month. April is a bitch, historically, particularly within the week leading up to April 20.

And I'm an April baby!

Who is the woman in this earlier Coronavirus Trump press conference from February 28th? Or more importantly, why was she replaced by scarf lady; and why hasn’t this raised a fuss? I thought she was ‘highly respected”? I did once see her shake her head “no” while Trump was blathering on, in front of her. Was she fired, or did she resign?

She should have worn scarfs.0

R313 Or “You’re/it’s a DISGRACE.” No angry rants today. He’s definitely had his meds adjusted.

Or maybe he’s just having a good day. Dementia patients have good and bad days.

I suspect his lack of ranting and raving today is due to the fact he is getting out of town for the weekend. Perhaps Hope and/or Kayleigh will be joining him instead of or in addition to Vairst Letty....

Maybe the plane will hit some inclement weather.

[quote] R288: I want to see a picture of Trump watching a church service on his laptop. Prove it. Prove you're watching an Easter service for an hour. He doesn't have the attention span.

In 2016, Trump asked what religion he, himself, was. His Congressional rep, told him that he is a Congregationalist. After which Trump asked, “That’s Christian, right? ”

R318, I told you April was hard-core!

Asshole is too kind a word for Orange Shitstain. More like monster.

Omg They deleted the Coronavirus Freakout thread. Somehow that awful Sylvia is behind it. This one hasn’t had a post in 9 hours. Something sketchy is going on.

This thread has stopped to a halt. Is it because of the holiday weekend and there won’t be any rallies?

No rally today. Cuomo did however hold a briefing this morning, said he is Gov of NY and not going anywhere or running for any other office.

I'll just throw this in here....

'Liar': Trump Fact-Checked For Dangerous Coronavirus Claims | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Easter Bunny is a super-spreader! Get him, guys!

R327 Well this thread is about reacting to Dump’s press updates. No updates = no comments here.

Anyway, Dump just tweeted this:

[quote]Watching @FoxNews on weekend afternoons is a total waste of time. We now have some great alternatives, like @OANN.

His loyal minions at Fox have displeased Dump by daring to be critical. OANN is his new propaganda arm.

Let’s talk about his tweets in the absence of any ‘press updates.’

He tweeted this an hour ago, then deleted it.

Followed immediately by this:

[quote]The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board doesn’t have a clue on how to fight and win. Their views on Tariffs & Trade are losers for the U.S., but winners for other countries, including China. If we followed their standards, we’d have no Country left. They should love Sleepy Joe!

He’s in major Fake News grievance mode. No golf afternoons, fun TV appearances or AF1 jaunts make him a cranky Dump.

He’s getting worked up:

[quote]Mail in ballots substantially increases the risk of crime and VOTER FRAUD!

[quote]Cryin’Chuck doesn’t have a clue. Couldn’t care less about the American Worker!

Cryin’ Chuck and Sleepy Joe! Failing NYT and Fake WSJ! And now this, posted at the last minute (8:58 pm)

[quote]Will be interviewed by @JudgeJeanine tonight at 9:00 P.M. Eastern on @FoxNews!

[quote]Mail in ballots substantially increases the risk of crime and VOTER FRAUD!

We can't allow Republicans to get any traction with this.

Ari looks hotter than usual.

Why is every Republican a bad person? It just seems like a nightmare. Honestly, not one good thing between them, they are just evil through and through. Stop looking for some good in them, there is none.

R338, because some "moderates" and "liberals" and "independents" always want to give the benefit of the doubt to white males in particular. They get triggered when you say it, but it's true. A non-white person (regardless of political leaning - not even a consideration) so much as farts and they want to hold every one of them responsible, but example after example after example of corruption with conservative white males and yet still, these enablers try to rationalize their despicable behavior.

R331, Better it should be named ONAN.

Dorothy Parker named her canary Onan because it would spill its seed upon the ground.

I can’t imagine two more despicable people Rump and that horrible former judge lady. The video that everyone thought she was plastered what was shocking to me she was smiling and not hateful and yelling like usual.

I think it was Kellyanne's court-jester husband who said "You know you're in trouble when you've lost the Wall Street Journal editorial page."

R343 They’re all FAKE NEWS except OANN.

This guy is unreal....

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have been investigating CoronaVirus when it first appeared in China. Media played a big roll also!@dcexaminer

Bernie Marcus is 90 fucking years old and retired 20 years ago.

"Media played a big roll"

Kaiser, onion or parker house??

On bill Maher they said Rump`s dream is to be a dictator but he is even too lazy to do that.

Jake Tapper: Mr. President, these questions need answers

Cuomo held a briefing today, I'm surprised, thought he'd take the holiday off.

He just gets worse....

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!

He really wants to brag about this?

R331 And the retards at Faux will still kiss his ass.

His pathology gets more screamingly blatant every day.

way, why do we have to listen to Cuomo every single day? He gets an hour every day, I think that is absurd.

Sitting in front of the TV nursing his grudges and grievances on this Easter Sunday:

[quote]Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!

Really? He's not spending the day in prayer and reflection about Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? It's almost like he's a completely fraudulent piece of shit that every moron evangelical has decided is the bestest little Christian they ever did see?

[quote]I want to see a picture of Trump watching a church service on his laptop. Prove it. Prove you're watching an Easter service for an hour. He doesn't have the attention span.

I'm still waiting for some proof that he actually watched an Easter Service on his laptop like he promised at his last press briefing. Sounds like he watched news shows instead.

Oh no! He told us a lie at that press briefing? I'm SHOCKED!

He's in the deep-end again;

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·3h

Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!

· 2h If the Fake News Opposition Party is pushing, with all their might, the fact that President Trump “ignored early warnings about the threat,” then why did Media & Dems viciously criticize me when I instituted a Travel Ban on China? They said “early & not necessary.” Corrupt Media!

1h The Opposition Party (Lamestream Media) and their partner, the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, have put their political game plan in full swing. “Whether he is right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. Criticize ’Trump’ for everything, and don’t let the public see Biden. Hide him.”

1h Governors, get your states testing programs & apparatus perfected. Be ready, big things are happening. No excuses! The Federal Government is there to help. We are testing more than any country in the World. Also, gear up with Face Masks!

The Hill:

White House to skip coronavirus briefing for second day in a row

You HAVE to listen to him, r354?

[quote]White House to skip coronavirus briefing for second day in a row

Well, this makes total sense. It's Easter, which means the virus is completely gone! No need for a briefing!

Yep, R361, we all get a break because it's Easter. All the health care works can stay home, all the kids can go on an Easter egg hunt, and the extended family can sit 'round the dining room table and enjoy a great meal! Yep. It's like getting a 'Get Out of Jail' free card -- What a relief!

Dumpy is unhinged and can't even give people a break and shut his mouth on Easter.

How many times will he repeat the same lies? He has mentioned the travel ban from China and the superb American testing system a million times already during his live rallies. Time to come up with something new now, Orange dipshit. Even the most retarded deplorable must be tired of this shit already.

I still want to know about his 'attendance' at a virtual Easter service! Why doesn't he tell us about that? Who did he watch, did he watch it with Melania and Barron, was he moved by the sermon? Let's hear it, Mr. President. You told us you were going to watch on your laptop and you advised all of us to do the same.

Oh, Mr. President, please don't tell me you were lying at that last press conference!

Pence needs to be lambasted more than he is. Mr. Pious who won't eat a meal with a woman in attendance if his wife isn't also present yet he exalts and glorifies this POS.

[quote]Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!

How mentally-challenged must you be to think this 72yo tweeting in the first place, let alone such childish insults against anyone who challenges him, is someone to worship, emulate or think is presidential?

You must be such an ignorant, low-life with no dignity or self-respect to respect that pile of shit. Fucking losers.

[quote]Media & Dems viciously criticize me when I instituted a Travel Ban on China

this never happened

FYI (Maybe this will wake him up)

Stanley Chera, friend of President Trump, dies of coronavirus--The president had spoken of a friend who was infected.

WASHINGTON — A friend and donor to President Donald Trump who the president had said was in a coma and seriously ill after becoming infected with the coronavirus has died.

Stanley I. Chera’s death Saturday was reported by The Real Deal, which covers the New York real estate industry. The publication cited unidentified sources who have worked with Crown Acquisitions, the firm Chera founded and ran. Chera was in his late 70s.

A White House official on Sunday confirmed Chera’s identity and ties to the president. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details about Trump’s personal friendships.

Trump had spoken at recent White House briefings about a friend who had fallen ill with the virus, which has killed more than 20,600 Americans as of midday Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Trump first spoke about his friend as he described the “viciousness” of the disease on March 29.

“I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. He’s a little older, and he’s heavy, but he’s tough person,” Trump said. “And he went to the hospital, and a day later, he’s in a coma ... he’s not doing well.”

“The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right person, it’s horrible. It’s really horrible,” he said.

The president, who is 73, alluded next to having “friends” who were ill.

“I have some friends that are unbelievably sick,” Trump said. “We thought they were going in for a mild stay. And, in one case, he’s unconscious — in a coma. And you say, ‘How did that happen?’”

Trump had left the impression that having personally knowing someone who had become sick with COVID-19, the disease the virus causes, had influenced his decisions about how to handle the outbreak.

But asked at a later briefing whether his friend’s case had marked a turning point in his thinking, Trump said it had not because he had been seeing the statistics and the rising case numbers.

“He’s sort of central casting for what we’re talking about, and it hit him very hard,” Trump said April 1. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Trump called out his friend and campaign donor at a 2019 rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, describing him as “one of the biggest builders and real estate people in the world.”

“He’s a great guy, and he’s been with me from the beginning,” Trump said.

This is the Republican dilemma and why the truth MUST get out!

10 times Trump and his administration were warned about coronavirus

President Trump's tone on the coronavirus pandemic has dramatically shifted in the last month as the illness has swept across the U.S., which has now reported more confirmed cases than any country in the world.

Why it matters: Reporting from Axios, the New York Times, Washington Post, AP and other media outlets has revealed that Trump and his administration were repeatedly warned about the threat that the virus could pose to American lives and the economy. Earlier action could have curbed the spread.

[quote]“I have some friends that are unbelievably sick,”

"unbelievably."

Jesus fucking Christ. Even this must be exaggerated to a ridiculous level. Even. This.

as if he has friends

r368 - But asked at a later briefing whether his friend’s case had marked a turning point in his thinking, Trump said it had not because he had been seeing the statistics and the rising case numbers.

“He’s sort of central casting for what we’re talking about, and it hit him very hard,” Trump said April 1. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

OBVIOUSLY one has to be suspect of ANYONE whose friends with trump whether now, still or in the past...

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

The @nytimes story is a Fake, just like the “paper” itself. I was criticized for moving too fast when I issued the China Ban, long before most others wanted to do so. @SecAzar told me nothing until later, and @PeterNavarroUSA memo was same as Ban (see his statements). Fake News!

He's really panicking over this now. Imagine spending all day watching television news and reading reports about yourself.

[quote] R366: How mentally-challenged must you be to think this 72yo tweeting in the first place, let alone such childish insults against anyone who challenges him, is someone to worship, emulate or think is presidential?

I just learned that my 13 year-old great nephew is a Fox/Trump supporter. I blame his parents.

My other nephew, not the above’s father, is 24 and a Fox/Trump supporter. I also blame his parents.

It’s not been my place to speak with these nephews about this, but it makes me very sad. Aside from seeking parental approval, I think it’s the jingoism that appeals to them.

I expect a 13 yo to like him. He's got the mindset of one.

[quote]I was criticized for moving too fast when I issued the China Ban

this never happened

Trump lies so much, he lies from the time he wakes up tillbthe time he goes to bed...he really does not know the difference fromva lie and the truth, he is a true sociopath. You will never find a sicker individual. Someone should have murdered him years ago. He has hurt millions of people.

How can his children and everyone in his immediate environment respect someone like that though? If my parents would lie that much in public office (or in private) I would lose all respect for them. My father is at an age now (almost 80) were he often forgets things and always tries to get away with it by lying ("You did not tell me to bring milk from the store"). I call him out every time and tell him to stop lying. Dump's children should do the same, but I guess this only works if your offspring are honest people and not lying piece of shits themselves

R379, stop trying to correct your father. He is probably headed for dementia and doesn't need to reminded of it by having you call him a liar. Be patient and agreeable with folks like that. Unless, of course, your father is president of the United States.

Briefing/Rally scheduled for 5:00 today 4/13, which means 5:45 or 6:00. Are we taking bets as to whether Fauci will be there or not?

R381

Of course Fauci will be there. How else is Donnie Dumbnuts going to fire him on live tv.

Tony, you’re fired!

Brought to you by Trump Steaks, Trump Wine and Trump Hydroxychloroquine. Only the best.

I was surprised to hear a CBSN reporter say just now "It is well known the President does not like for anyone working for him to become a bigger tv star than him or to contradict him in public, Dr. Fauci has done both."

don't you think he knows though if he fires Fauci he is finished?

I doubt his base will care if he fires Fauci. Trump is the second coming after all.

He won't fire Fauci. He is probably the only one right now who is giving him and his sham rallies even a tiny bit of credibility.

R384

He doesn’t “know” anything. His handlers have to force him to wear pants and stop digging around “up there.”

[quote] don't you think he knows though if he fires Fauci he is finished?

Finished with his base?? You’re joking right?

R347, Stomach.

R386,He doesn't have to fire Fauci. Just could not have him appear with "the Team" again.

Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response

Fake news Fake news! Tony and me are best bros !

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·3h

For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect....

....It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!

Do you think Trump even knew Dr Fauci's name before this pandemic? Even knew him by sight? Ooh, ooh maybe he invited him to Maralago for a golf outing. That's the picture I want to see: Trump and Dr. Fauci on the fairway, just killing time.

I wonder: When was the last time Tony Fauci relaxed? My guess is the man just collapses into bed for 4 or 5 hours and then gets right back in the saddle.

Reuters:

President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci -White House

If I was Dr Tony just the statement he wasn’t going to get fired would make me angry.

Oh... so this is why Trump is flipping out. Cuomo is hosting a 5 State televised call with all of the Governors in the area. This is a BIG upstage of Trump

Are we in the beginnings of another Civil War? This North East Governors call was clearly a direct slap to Trump (re: R393) Gov Jay Inslee is now on MSNBC stating that Trump has no authority to close and/or reopen a State.

Bernie just endorsed Joe Biden

Expecting a MAJOR Orange Shitstain tantrum today. This should be fun....unless nukes are involved.

Please tell what time today’s rally will be. Central time . I get confused. I’m in my car and have to watch on my phone.

R379, if you’re Dad has been an honest man, maybe his more recent lies are just a way to save face? To keep some dignity, in his mind? It’s hard to go from being a tough young guy to a very fallible one. Especially to one he raised as a child, God-like, as parents are to the young. No offense, but maybe meet those lies with a smile. Not quite patronization, but let him keep his dignity.

I know it’s hard, btw. I just found my Gram’s bs to be incredibly charming. I remember yelling at her when she was eating a Christmas treat with nuts, which she was supposed to avoid. She clapped her hands and showed that they were then empty, while her mouth was full. I just laughed.

Bless you for trying, I know it can be exasperating. Try to treasure every minute. I miss my folks and guess I always will.

I don't think he will sack Fauci...not because he doesn't want to but because his people will spin it to him that keeping Fauci makes him appear "perfect" or something along those lines. He will however probably restrict what outlets Fauci can appear on. I read he won't allow Granular Scarf Lady to appear on CNN.

Dem governors band together and totally upstage Dump after his ridiculous tweet. Big fuck you to Dumpy. Haha.

This is true he hired his daughter and her creepy husband to devise a plan to get back to work ?

I can't stand watching the Pig but I'm wondering how this will play out at the briefing today.

R403 Maryland governor is a Republican.

Does this mean we will open up before May 1?

R404 Yep. Here it is:

^Thanks for posting a link to a malware site, idiot.

^^^John Oliver did a segment Sunday night on Larry Kudlow and his wife and her art. His wife was applying for SBA loan help for her art.

And she only paints his shirts and ties hanging up.

r411

Love John for spotlighting this b.s.

He just tweeted about the PC happening at 5PM/ET. I believe that would be 3PM/CT

No one cares. I haven't watched that orange fat cunt in weeks and I'm glad not to. I only want to hear that he croaked.

JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, but when trump tweets about how government works, does ANYONE think he actually KNOWS how government works, before and since becoming the prez? so who is literally standing over his shoulder telling him what to tweet?

OFF TOPIC, but coming from the grocery store just now and seeing half the people STILL STILL not wearing anything over their faces, not even bandanas or scarfs, what are the odds that all these people are asshole trump supporters? i'm guessing at least 99.9%?..

4 I believe. Here in Bumfuk it’s 339

[quote]does ANYONE think he actually KNOWS

Stop right there.

NO. He knows nothing.

R408: I will never be able to look at “Steven” Mnuchkin’s face without wanting to punch it.

somehow I do not think these people have the average American's best interests at heart.

I always thought it was terrible when they executed that entire Russian royal family. Wouldn’t be so bad if they did it to the Trumps.

FYI

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

First the Fake News Media said that it’s not fair for the President of the United States to be giving news conferences, but it is the only way I can reach the American People, as seen in the below poll.

Trump vs. Gov. Cuomo? Trump knows in his remaining functional lizard brain that that is not a fight he wants or could win, not even in a Tweeted-propaganda way.

R409 - kindly note and follow the precedent for responding to existing posts on DL. The ^^are used to edit your own immediately preceding comment, not add to or answer the comments of others. Type the number of your comment which you're correcting in the "posted by" box.

Use the original comment number (e.g., R___) at the top of your responding comment to same.

R409 you got caught. Now you have to stay after school and pound erasers.

Why don't you start a thread about DL etiquette, r423?

Whenever I look at Trump's tweet, the only thing I wonder is (because I don't really read his tweet): Who in the fuck is that loony Steven Spielberg-looking guy under every fucking tweet mentioning crypto bitcoin nonsense. Every. Fucking. Tweet.

Seems an excessive number of rich twats just to tell us all to get back to work and nobody cares if you get sick and die. Couldn't just one rich twat share that message.

R400 You are in your car and 'have to watch on your phone'? I'm going to assume you'll be parking somewhere....

Workers are expendable, r427.

For R408 and all you Mnuchin fans....

Has it started yet?

r431

No.

Dump says “I have the power to open the economy. ME!”

Cuomo on CNN right now: “You got a plan, Trump? Let’s see it.”

Andy C. is.not.playing.

"[R409] - kindly note and follow the precedent for responding to existing posts on DL."

Dickhead trying to lecture random people who did not give a fuck about his malware post. Go back to your basement now and suck your own dick.

What is the most he has been late? What happens to all the stimlus money if we go back sooner?

I hope the A team reporters are in the briefing today. Jim Acosta from CNN and ABC's John Karl (sp?) really piss off Trump, They know how to push his buttons without appearing hostile. It's so funny to watch Trump engage with them thinking he's going to win and then he's reduced to calling them names -- 'third rate reporters' -- or disrespecting their networks. Those two guys are great at bringing out the beast!

Where did the 'Trump is going to fire Fauci' rumor start? I'm reading about it but can't find the source. It seems very unlikely Trump would fire Fauci so where did this start, please?

That OAN "reporter"/gate crasher who looks like the oldest daughter on Modern Family will probably be there to soothe him with her propaganda questions.

[quote]Where did the 'Trump is going to fire Fauci' rumor start? I'm reading about it but can't find the source. It seems very unlikely Trump would fire Fauci so where did this start, please?

R438: Orange It retweeted a message this weekend that had #firefauci in the body of the message, hence the accusation.

R440 / R441 Thank you. So some anonymous asshole Trump supporter started the #firefauci and now it's an issue? Trump retweets EVERYTHING that's complimentary to him. He's so stupid he probably didn't even notice the hashtag. Of if he did, he's just using it to weigh his options. God, why do we fall for this shit? All this false drama - like we don't have enough to really worry about.

R439 I hope she shows up today. He can hardly control himself when she says "Mr. President." I'm surprised he can keep both hands on the lectern!

4/13

Fauci wearing some snazzy socks.

Now Fauci is walking back his statement that pissed off Trump (that lives could have been saved if mitigation had been pursued earlier.) I bet Trump leaned on him to do this.

Anyone defending Cheeto loses respect.

Fauci should have told Trump what he said was the truth. He would have been fired but he'd still have his integrity.

Fauci getting a little testy with reporter who asked if this was voluntary...

Anthony Fauci dancing a little sidestep.

Are Jonathan Karl, Bob Acosta, Peter Alexander, et al in the house? Sic 'em, guys!

He's full tilt unhinging.

"Everything I do is voluntary... don't even imply that" Fauci getting pissed at a reporter trying to call him out as a Trump protector. I don't think he is protecting Trump; he's just trying to explain his actions.

I believe him. I think he'd quit long before Trump would actually fire him.

Trump can try covering his tracks all he wants but everyone knows he's a liar.

Dump is using this PC to rail on the FAKE NEWS NYT story that he’s been stewing about all weekend. And he dragged Fauci in to back him up.

“I acted EARLY before ANYONE KNEW ANYTHING about this pandemic! FAKE NEWS!”

He is going to screw up in an epic way today. The earth may swallow him whole like Rumpleforeskin.

Instead he did nothing and now there are over half million documented cases and probably millions have it. Pathetic lier.

I can't wait until Trump is reduced to using his perv whispery voice, when he tries to calm himself down. Right now, he's off the rails! Chinatown? Pelosi? Biden? Where is this going?

We are going to have a good time tonight! The fool is all over the place tangentially.

[quote]I don't think he is protecting Trump; he's just trying to explain his actions.

Of course Fauci’s trying to cover for Trump, just like everyone else that works for him. Trump leaned on him to do it. Trump’s been raging about Fauci’s statement and the NYT story all weekend.

Cheeto, sadly Pelosi isn’t POTUS. Sadly you are.

I can’t wait for fact check.

He's not sedated today, he's very much himself.

I'm laughing! Who put this bullshit slideshow together?

He's actually playing a campaign commercial during this press conference?!

I am looking full scale propaganda show. I can’t believe this even when I am looking at it.

HE'S RUNNING A CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL????

Wow!! All the local channels in LA cut this shitshow off.

Can you believe this shit?!

Where are the IT'S A HOAX videos?

Ha! CNN cut it off and went to fact check! Well done CNN!

Now he’s playing some kind of campaign video about how DECISIVE and EARLY his response was before ANYONE ELSE did ANYTHING. He’s having a meltdown.

How can Fauci continue to be part of this shitshow?

MSNBC cut it off and Ari Melber is bashing it.

Why didn't he spend Easter with his family?

MSNBC is still running it

“EVERYONE SAYS HOW GREAT I AM“

Put up the casualty numbers on a constant loop/banner for the duration of this and future briefings.

Oh, good, MSNBC cut away from the rally.

Somebody must have tried to mollify him with all that garbage. He was probably melting down.

No, R474.

Too bad CNN and MSNBC are missing this narcissistic raging. It’s entertaining in a horrible way.

I think we’ve just seen one of the videos they have to use in place of daily briefings. That was frightening.

Disgusting. This country has become a worldwide laughing stock and fallen so far since the orange anus moved into the White House. Except it isn’t funny, it’s terrifying. Thank you Republican Party! This is on you. Trump is the symptom. You’re the disease.

I really think I might lose my mind if I continue to watch this...

I’m sure Fox News is playing every minute of it.

The media is going to pulverize him now. I can't wait!

He's still on Fox! Insisting that we can't fill all the beds and nobody wants ventilators anymore! I guess the whole pandemic is over.

And now he's going off on the reporters! He's insane today.

He’s also raging because the governors had a televised phone call today and totally ignored him and shut him out.

How will Chanel react? Will he suck his micro penis live? Just to thank him.

Please let me know when he says the date we go back to work. I couldn’t watch anymore. They showed a film that felt was directed by that woman who did Hitler films.

Our only hope is for him to die. He lies, cheats, steals, and makes a fool of himself all the time.

R456: AND he is trying to "open everything up" by May 1, so many more can get infected and die!

Jonathan Karl just told him the video looks like a campaign ad and he's never seen anything like it in this room.

Jonathan Karl: “I’ve never seen a video like that in a PC before. It looks like a campaign video. Who put that together?”

Trump: “FAKE NEWS I’M DOING A FANTASTIC JOB AND ALL THE GOVERNORS LOVE ME.”

R482 No, no come back! A reporter just asked if that wasn't a campaign film, what did it have to do with the virus? Trumpster said his people put it together today. WHAT THE FUCK! Aren't they supposed to be working on the virus? Now he's blabbing about how he has built too many beds, given too much equipment...and now we don't need any of it!!

R485 He's insane everyday. Meds cover up the real Trump but he's not on anything today.

Jon Karl is trying to make the point the WH staff put together the campaign ad slideshow he just ran....

I went to see Fox for a second. Headline: NYT story ”total fake”. Surprised anyone?

R495 Go, Jon, go!!

“Now let’s get back to the regular. Can we get back to the regular? By the way Gavin and Anthony love me!”

If the governors are not nice to him, he won’t talk to him, but then he brags about how nice they are.

I'd like to see the reporters asking him questions but I'm sure we'll hear about it later.

“Nobody’s ever done a job like this. The governors all love me!”

Isn't that a campaign finance violation...if taxpayer-funded White House staff is putting campaign propaganda videos together for him?

R500 It’s on C-SPAN..

R502 Let's see if that makes headlines tonight! Good point!

Acosta is not in the briefing room today. I hope the others are in place and up to the heavy lift ahead this evening.

James "Bear" Brady* is spinning in his wheelchair in his grave.

* The Brady Briefing Room is named in his honor. As you know, he was Reagan's Press Secretary and was left paralyzed during the Reagan assassination attempt

r502

Yep, that's the point Jonathan Karl was trying to make with his "Who put that video together, WH staff??

He totally doesn’t get what he did wrong. He never believes he did anything wrong.

R506 Jonathan Karl came right out and said it. “You mean government employees put that together?” Trump just kept spewing about what a GREAT JOB he’s doing.

CNN's headline right now: "Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session".

Now he’s just red-faced and ranting. “You’re DISGRACEFUL” to a reporter.

Now the reporters are interrupting him. Hallelujah! It's time for them to stop giving his blabbering any type of respect. Now he's calling one of the female reporters who is interrupting him -- DISGRACEFUL! Whoever she is, I hope she keeps it up!

BTW: BIDEN WINS WISCONSIN!

He’s been bottling this up all weekend.

So there is no news today, just a temper tantrum.

OMG. He can hardly hold himself together. Yes, R513, he's waited two days for this blowup.

[quote]stay after school and pound erasers

Pics please.

I wonder if he knows if all the networks cut him off.

He is so pissed that he has TOO MANY ventilators and beds! I live in the Midwest and we haven't had the surge yet. We've been self-quarantining and being careful. So when it hits here, there will be nothing in the stockpile. He's done with ventilators and hospitals. God help us!

R517 That’ll just enrage him even more.

R517 Why are the networks cutting him off? These outbursts need to be seen by everyone. His asshole supporters will not believe any reporting on these tantrums...they need to see this for themselves.

Now he’s back to that “Sir, we have no ammunition” conversation that never happened. He’s getting more and more agitated.

[quote][R517] Why are the networks cutting him off? These outbursts need to be seen by everyone. His asshole supporters will not believe any reporting on these tantrums...they need to see this for themselves.

His supporters like it.

"MSNBC cut away from the broadcast. Wasnt on the agenda they said."

“Z pack and zinc!”

Seriously R512? The Wisconsin numbers are in? Lordy, somebody tell Orange It during this rally.

Here we go with the hydroxycut. (I know, I know).

CNN's "Breaking News" headlines are major shade:

"Trump uses task force briefing to try and rewrite history."

"Trump melts down angry response."

"Trump refuses to acknowledge any mistakes."

He's torturing us with his reading word for word again.

I’d give anything for Robin Williams to come back to life and mock this fool! I can just imagine him getting the rave down perfectly and then ripping him to shreds.

CNN is amazing. The headlines read:

Trump turns briefing into propaganda session

Trump melts down in angry response

Trump tries to rewrite history

Trump refuses to acknowledge any mistakes

HAHAHAHA

Go CNN!

Mnuchin has an ugly, ugly mouth.

R530 This is for you!

Mnuchin sounds sane, though. No diatribe.

Peerless Leader is back on the podium...

It was truly painful to watch today I only did so because I thought they would announce an early back to work order. He said maybe sooner they will announce in a few days. Great. I’ll have to listen to him again.

Actually he is backing away from the May 1 date. He says he and the health experts are not that far apart.

To reporter, "Enough!"

"NO!"

Say Amen, somebody.

I hope Paula Reid doesn't have a horrible accident on the way home.

He’s mostly bark, not bite. He’ll work with the governors and the health experts because he has to. Everyone just has to pretend he alone is in charge. It’s pathetic lip service.

Pence just basically admitted that the Fed will do whatever the States want

R409 here: please forgive me. Everything I know about typing and the interweb I learned from BILL TAYLOR. Don't worry...I won't be posting anything more any time soon.

Donald is in charge of watching tv and blustering. The others just work around him.

The most hated man on Earth.

Peter Finch in Network seems perfectly sane in comparison to Rump.

CNN cut away and Now they’re ripping him a new one.

"Absolute Power, Jon."

Watching the stuff I missed, wow. The reporters were FINALLY talking back. Today's meltdown was historical. Trump declared himself King.

Who is that beautiful reporter who loudly said it’s not true? She makes me want to be heterosexual.

CNN Banners, 7:30 p.m. ET

Trump Falsely Claims “Total Authority” After Govs Band Together by Region to Decide When to Reopen States

Governors on East and West Coasts Band Together by Region to Decide when to Reopen States

CNN Banner, 7:40 p.m. ET, now changed to

Trump Claims “Total Authority” After Governors Band Together to Determine Opening of Economy

Meanwhile the pc continues without Trump on FNC. This is where the real info comes out instead of propaganda and boasts.

don't want no homo AIDS testing, lady, yikes, get away from me

SHUT UP PENCE FAKE FAKE it has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DEAD DAD 30 YEARS AGO

Trump used the first hour of the briefing for propaganda and lies and now the ScarfLady is actually sharing medical facts and all the major networks have already stopped the broadcast. Totally ridiculous.

They shouldn’t broadcast until Trump leaves, the reverse of how they are doing it.

Some of these questions are lame.

Paula Reid from CBS is my hero today

[quote]CBS's Paula Reid presses Trump on his propaganda video: "Your video has a complete gap. What did your administration do in February with the time that your travel ban bought you?" Trump only responds: "A lot. A lot."

[quote]Reid: "The video has a gap."

[quote]Trump: "You know you're a fake."

Orange Cheezit then said her network was as unpopular as it's ever been and three times more than that.

???

Trump's slap downs of uncomfortable questions are entirely predictable. Why hasn't media devised tactics to go further than the slap down?

Why isn't there a designated Senator and Congressman who gets on air every week to expose these evasions and lies?

Joe Scarborough@JoeNBC·2h

The networks would never give Barack Obama this much free time to ramble on about what a great job he was doing regardless of the crisis. Network leaders would be freaked out by conservative criticism and buckle under pressure. This nonstop coverage is just preposterous.

Did you learn anything new—ANY news—from the President during that two hour press conference? Not a SINGLE word on the suffering and deaths of Americans. Instead, a taxpayer funded campaign ad. Outrageous that the networks are still taking these press conferences.

Trump knows what’s coming in November. He’s done great damage to his political prospects in Michigan. Pennsylvania is Biden Country. And a conservative judge was crushed in KENOSHA County by a liberal Wisconsin Democrat. The storm clouds are gathering.

Next time he calls a reporter a "fake" one should tell him "you're a fake president".

I like that she reminded him of the 16 million people currently unemployed and the 23.000 dead Americans when he was starting his rant about ratings, but what did she say about Biden apologizing and after that?

CNN:

Reporter grills Trump: What did you do for entire month?

[quote] DJT: Singapore had a little bit of a setback because they had a break...but they’ll take care of it, I know the folks in Singapore are doing a great job and they’re going to put it back very quickly, but Singapore and other countries are looking at other things and some countries are doing other things.

This communicates almost nothing at all. And I hate it when he judges the leaders of other countries, or anyone, actually. He’s in no position to evaluate anybody’s capabilities or performance.

For context, she asks that in r561 after they played that propaganda video about how the country was gloriously saved, and it went from the "ban" on travelers from China in January to the "15 Days of Distancing" in March.

There was no mention of anything the administration did in February.

Paula Reid told the Emperor that he's naked...and ugly.

The brunette reporter who pressed Trump today on who had told him that he has total power or whatever And told him that he was wrong is Kaitlan Collins. She had to tweet an apology A couple of years ago when old texts of her referring to gay people as FAGS during Written her college years at the University of Alabama surfaced.

It seems that Trump bristled when told that he has no power to open businesses in any state. He seemed to imply that he would essentially force states to open up by threatening to withhold funds from them. Either that, or some other political maneuvering. If he tries that, I hope he’s exposed for it.

He sounds like such a child when he declares that he has “ultimate authority” or “absolute power”.

[quote[They shouldn’t broadcast until Trump leaves, the reverse of how they are doing it.

No R554 this country needs to see his tantrums and how out of control he is. Any network that cuts off when he goes off the rails is enabling him. Voters need to see the real deal. Trump can rant about fake news but seeing his tantrums in real time confirms he's mentally not well.

This is what orange shitstain tweeted this morning: Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!

Will there be a press briefing this afternoon? Yesterday was a total meltdown. That blond woman reporter tore him a new one -- if he doesn't show up today, she wins! If Rump does show up today, I hope she gets another shot at him.

Trump’s Airing Of Propaganda Video During Coronavirus Briefing Is ‘Act Of Disinformation’ | MSNBC

Is this the first time in American history that a president and his crew of enablers will go down in history as villainous? It is unbelievable to me that rational people can conclude that these people are on the 'right' side of America. If you are able to step out of whatever you think or feel for a second and see yesterday's briefing for what it was, you could never conclude that this man is capable of leading a church picnic much less a country. Yesterday was cringe comedy at its most extra.

New thread yet?

Maybe. The conference isn't until 5:45 PM/ET

[quote]Is this the first time in American history that a president and his crew of enablers will go down in history as villainous?

Hmm... I actually don't think so. Although I think it's going to be close. Warren G. Harding may still hold that title given the Tea Pot Dome scandal and a host of other scandals. Then we have the scandals of the Ulysses Grant Administration.

I'll have to read up on those. Thanks for mentioning, r574.

Is this thing with the airlines some special new deal, or did they just finish up the details on what was in the legislation from March?

tRump slamming WHO!

WH brain trust: "Hey, let's blame the World Health Organization now."

Orange Cheezit: "I like it!"

dear god. he’s cutting funding to the world health organization during a pandemic in an epic attempt to finger point blame away from himself. un-fucking-believable!

Is this fool actually going to pull the funding of the WHO in the midst of a pandemic?

Yup. His failure is ALL because of WHO. Oh, and now the broken system he inherited from Obama.

Sadistic, lying piece of shit.

They need to escort him away in a straight jacket. That was NUTS!!! It's like watching a child argue that the spilled milk was caused by Sauron.

MSNBC has broken away to slam him for his WHO rants.

50% of WHO budget comes from United States... how much is that in human lives?

^Chuck Todd reported that the USA id 15% of WHO's budget.

R586: please do not pretend to be me and editing my post. Thank you.

Good lord...now rambling through his list of "corporate sponsors."

I keep seeing this happening, I'm wishing it into being...

Jesus Christ, he has been reading this list for five minutes. Someone cue the music and kill his mic.

He will let Governors know when they may reopen!

Oh FANK YOU, King Trump, you fixded my state!!

How are they letting him come out like this? He's just rambling.

Total Authority is only in effect on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, so expect a different version of this spiel tomorrow.

I guess we need a new thread, OP.

More bullshit as usual.

Wouldn't it give us some comfort if he were to take a minute at 7:00pm for the nationwide ritual of honoring the hospital first responders and staff? I guess not; Orange It couldn't care less.

It's 50 degrees outside. Why is this a garden party?

Tonight it is the STATES that are doing it all wrong.

"We're not gonna let it happen!"

It's still Tuesday, donald, a Total Authority off day.

Sic 'em, reporters!