🤥 Donald I’m Not a Doc..tar Trump 🤥 Explains The Cure To You ☀️💉💦- Part VIII

Thanks OP

OP, wtf is this thread a continuation of? There's a reason threads have at least SOME part of the title similar to the last one. And you didn't even link the previous thread!

Our very stable genius!

The emojis are the breadcrumbs for most of us, dear.

Ha ha! He walked out. Loser! Lier!

R2, if you want that bullshit, go to FrauSleuths.

Really!? I have to go stream it.

r4 I know the emojis, but the thread titles are getting stupider each iteration, and the OP STILL didn't link the last thread. You should all kill yourselves.

Oh, and OP linked to Perez Hilton, which is worse than COVID-19.

I'm sort of relieved that it was short but I was looking forward to seeing how unhinged it would have been.

R7 Yes. No q/a.

Why does he need to go in the first place? Let the doctors talk and stay home.

Tv time R12. He loves being on camera. I didn't watch it. Why did he walk off?

His good friend Putin might have called and told him to dial it back.

The title doesn't really matter anyway. The last 3 threads were all paywalled and only a fraction of people could post. This will also be paywalled soon and pretty much dead after that. We should discuss alternatives if people want to discuss these pressers and Dump.

r15 post a new thread for each press release with the date. No stupid titles, no 600-post threads

Sadly you're correct.

Well, he is the founder of Trump University, so...

Impeach Muriel!

R16 Good idea.

Before he walked by the Disinfectant injections, I'm hoping some of his supporters try it out.

He is back

Why was he shouting?

The speech started off well...but, the lies continue.

WTF - he's back!!!

He's no longer mad at the germs, he's mad at the news!

Lol at r26

Is this the return of PARADE OF ROBBER BARRON CEOS?

Walgreens involves in treatment???? Will it require Whitman's Samplers and Jean Natee?

fucking creeps.

It's now a commercial for Walmart

They’re just going to cut out the docs. They couldn’t talk him out of daily pressers, it seems, so he can still say stupid stuff.

Peeps and Slim Jim injections!

3 fucking CEOs so far. Fucking shameful. Is ge getting a big fat donation for this free advertising?

Hospitals - buy your SURGICAL GOWNS at Walmart. Also great for Open for Business mixers.

SHAMELESS

"a short period of time" = 50K deaths

What? What?! It could have been stopped a long time ago?

We need to boycott all these companies.

it's "someone's" fault

I expected he would be back, but he was only gone 1 FUCKING DAY

Oh, Birx is back.

I'm assuming he won't be taking questions.

Birxy loves her bureaucrats jargon.

Dilbert would skewer these hateful maroons, if Scott Adams weren't on their side.

You're not a president either, dumb s***.

What’s the point with testing if the person gets the virus on his way out from the test from someone coming in?

Korea???

The military guy has a lisp. Gay?

Ooh, he can’t resist the questions

I'm sorry, I'm stunned. I really didn't expect this today!

Opening schools? Really? Then they bring the virus home.

Roy Cohn taught him WELL. Never apologize, never go back, just bullshit forward.

Read closely. Note when "private sector" is used. As the theme song for "The Apprentice" went, "Money, Money, MONEY!"

"Young people seem to do very well." WILLING TO RISK THE LIVES OF CHILDREN and their adult teachers and administrators!!!!

Good, give him more rope and let him hang himself.

So Trump thinks an American Chinatown is the same as China!

Switzerland found a sketchy doctor to say "children are not a vector" to justify sending kids back. Its not only in the USA.

Exactly, R56. He says that all the time.

Business wants kids in school because that means parents at work.

France and Italy said no way - kids are NOT going back to school.

Germany can do MUCH more than US for "going back to work and school" safely.

Germany accepted bluetooth tracking! And they are finding the protective gear.

I bet Dump does the questions bc they always get the media attention. His lame statements are never repeated anywhere.

The MAIN challenge now is that rich countries cannot get their shit together on contact tracing and protective gear. + US does not have the safety net for targeted quarantine.

All this will NOT be discussed in any country that cannot do it.

Germany discusses it in detail because they can do it.

Listent to what is not said.

Who cloned Zach Braff, made him a Breitbart sycophant then put him in such an ill fitting suit?

Still bragging about how much testing there is going to be (someday). Pay no attention to all their previous assertions.

FUCKWIT - testing is quite unimportant if you cannot do selective quarantine.

SAMO SAMO.

It's all SMOKE AND MIRROR

Will Malmart send home 3 dozen staff - with job, salary and benefits - if 1 "associate" tests positive? Ha!

R49, Cameras. He can't resist the cameras.

Its fucking blah blah.

What the hell is wrong with Mike pence?

'This is damage to the World, we're talking about..' like he's a 6 yr old just figuring out the hour hand and the minute hand.

spin spin spin They are so jealous of Korea

YEAH I LOVE THIS REPORTER

no "misunderstanding"

cunt pence cunt pence cunt pence

THE "OLD SYSTEM" was TRUMPS system.

You seriously don’t know, r71? Give you a clue - it rhymes with "schomosexuality".

Trump just had to smirk at that reporter when Pence said the reporter had a "misunderstanding."

YEAH REPORTER

Dump should send a delegation to Israel and let them teach the US how to do it. They track every positive case and quarantine them and every contact person immediately. They then basically hunt everyone how breaks quarantine and escort them back home.

BRAZEN LIES

Isreal, Taiwan, Korean, China, soon Germany.

US will NEVER do it.

They don't want there to be more tests. Lies and more lies

Singapore too

Chanel!

How can Flynn be "completely exonerated" when he PLEADED GUILTY, YOU DUMB BITCH??

We were talking about it with our executives

So did mike say there are lots of test kits but no way to process the tests? Amazing

NOT MY FAULT NOT MY FAULT

The dotard is truly stupid, he didn't learn a damned thing from last week's blunder other than pretend to care about the afflicted and their family and friends for about three minutes.

Now he's back to the same bravado and smoke and mirrors. Me me me. I I I. Me.

There he goes with his Flynn/trump pity party. Nothing has changed. Where is Philip Rucker?

Campaign going on, economy going to be great next year because of me me me

He's panicking and seeking to change the tune. His "immigration ban" last week didn't do it, so here we are with the pardons again.

complete ratfuck. complete circus carnie barker.

Is the Walmart guy going to drop trou for donald?

WTF did Walmart do? Executive branch was responsible for preparedness

Germany was modest impact

duh duh duh duh duh duh

He spoke now if Wal-Mart "going through something (C-V)."

Remember when he said that Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovich would be "going through something"?

I can't watch this shit...Makes my blood boil

Why would have Hillary attacked to NK?

'Dump should send a delegation to Israel and let them teach the US how to do it. They track every positive case and quarantine them and every contact person immediately. They then basically hunt everyone how breaks quarantine and escort them back home.'

It's a brilliant idea, r81, but with all the stupid jackoffs who want their guns and freedom would revolt.

I don't know him. I haven't seen the report. I am unaware of that. Fake news.

The new drug adjustment is not working.

I would love to still live in a country were people still cared if a president pardoned his crooked friends AFTER they pled guilty.

Whoa, this Blondie has cojones!

R101, Because Trump says so, duh!

I just want him to stroke out. I want the Hand Of God to come down and smack him. Isn't there a Scanner nearby?

The best question was to pence on the promises and lies of March.

I built the greatest economy there has ever been. You would have been at war if not for me. So narcissistic.

He just basically admitted Kim Jong Un is dead. Asian reporter just tried to quote Kim from sat and Trump said "he didn't say anything on sat" and he was adamant about it.

unbelievable. Well, now if he's back everyday, I can go back to not watching.

I don't understand how NO journalist question ever brings down these things like the Hindenburg?

I think Rocket Man is a vegetable but not dead yet.

Well, he finally admitted that American citizens From China were let in after his ban, as if they couldn’t have been carrying the virus.

I haven't seen the report is the new I don't know her

R114, Yet cruise ships with American citizens could barely find a place to dock.

R113, Unlike the certainty about our President.

Wooooo, hunties! Stephanie Ruhle is slicing, dicing, and leaving nothing on the table!

R113 if your brain dead, your basically dead. If he is still being kept alive it is probably only to solidify a power change.

"I think Rocket Man is a vegetable but not dead yet."

I think Otto Warmbier was the best example that NK doctors don't know how to properly treat cardiac arrest patients. Karma, bitch.

You're

Michael Pachter@michaelpachter·1h

I love watching @SRuhle explain socialism following Trump’s false claims about tariffs and farm subsidies.

Brian Williams: “Why does he keep saying that?”

Stephanie Ruhle: “Because it sounds good . . . It’s a flat out lie”

The doc on MSNBC just said it will be 2-6 months before testing is readily available everywhere.

But Ruhle will never admit that Orange It's economy simply piggybacked onto President Obama's gains.

That's not true, R124. I've heard her say several times that this economy is still the result of the economy that Obama turned over to Trump.

I wish a reporter would say that to Shitler, r124. 'You keep mentioning how great the economy is but didn't you just piggyback off of Obama...?' I would love to see that meltdown.

R126 he wouldn't melt. "That's a nasty question that doesn't deserve an answer. And your company is fake news. Next question."

He can’t imagine that anyone took his remarks about injecting disinfectant seriously.

Stephanie Ruhle@SRuhle·1h

Stock market is NOT up bc of earnings...the stock market is up because of extraordinary Fed action taking place to keep us from complete devastation @realDonaldTrump

The last time THIS GROUP of CEOs were in the Rose Garden, @realDonaldTrump & @VP said @Google was building a platform that would be avail in 2 days- it would direct all americans to test centers where everyone could be tested. That didnt happen

. @realDonaldTrump just said he used the $ from China to help farmers ALSO UNTRUE The $30bn in FarmAid was provided to farmers bc the TRADE WAR CRIPPLED THEM & crushed demand (ask soybean farmers)

@realDonaldTrump just said we brought in billions in tariffs from China NOT TRUE WE PAY THE TARIFFS

One Bank head telling me the @SBAgov system was do compromised today, it would take 25 days to get the loans already vetted by the biggest banks through the govt system @realDonaldTrump says it’s on the banks #checkthetape

Trump saying the BANKS need to do an accurate job on #PPP The 5 largest banks had $100bn READY for @SBAgov approval today THE SBA SYSTEM E-TRAN WENT DOWN MANY TIMES TODAY

.@realDonaldTrump presenting RETAIL leaders No mention of the devastation to the retail industry-the lay offs, the $20bn in retail rent owed monthly. These CEOs don’t face any of the extraordinary challenges most in the sector do. Their work is admirable, but not representative

Rose Garden CEOs ALL RUN “essential businesses” ALL SEEN HUGE DEMAND BC OF COVID They represent the very small slice of the business community experiencing growth right now. They do not represent any industries suffering....which is most

Steve Kornacki blindly followed his old script, saying the presser "did not feature Dr. Fauci, did not feature Dr. Birx..."

Dr. Birx spoke at length and with a chart. Nobody corrected Kornacki.

R118, Not quite. She waxed over the bailout to farmers, but totally ignored Brian's actual question, which was about Trump's tariffs on China.

People are bizarrely afraid to say that Americans pay for the tariffs with increased prices.

^Right! Which makes you wonder what the fuck is up with that?

Re Russian nurses: Both Andreyeva and Open Media noted that the nurses who walked out had been employed through the outsourcing medical company Arni.

This is what happens when you outsource. When I started in nursing I went to a local community hospital & got a job. Most of the other nurses went to one of the 3 nursing schools in our county. I knew 2 of my supervisors since childhood. My mother was a cunt who made me go to high school far from my town, but other hospital employees knew each other since kindergarten or middle school or high school. The son of the hospital’s president was a stoner. He got a job with the custodial department and hung out with the other guys in maintenance. We couldn’t get away with much. Our patients were everyone’s grandparents or great uncles, etc. We would do our best to save them.

When you outsource, your nurses don’t give fuck all for anything. It’s not their town, they don’t know the other staff, they’re not related to the patients, they’re not afraid that if they fuck up they could kill their supervisor’s mother. They don’t develop relationships with other nurses because they’re assigned to one hospital for a week, then to another hospital the following week. They can leave their mistakes behind them and move on. They’re not planning on working there for the next 20 years.

H looks high as kite here

R132 she definitely said we are paying for the farmer bailouts. Tax payers are paying for it not China.

Just try to explain how the tariffs are ACTUALLY working to a deplorable and their eyes glaze over. Over the holidays I tried to explain how it really works to my nephew and he just called me a hater and wouldn't listen. They don't get it!! They think Trump is a great business man when he never was, he's just a personality who could barely manage a school crossing.

I naively thought the bleach mistake would weaken our national nightmare just a little Somehow a stupid man has gotten elected to our highest office and worse in his mind he makes no mistake.

Why is Ivanka a this Paycheck Protection press conference preening like she is on the runway or Miss Golden Globe?

OMG she looks like a doll standing there.

So it was a parade of CEO's again?

An interesting article.

Parade of CEOs but with added applause for each like an awards show as they come on stage.

For what it's worth, my neighbors across the street just put up a brand spanking new Trump flag.

Is Op the same as Corona poll guy.?If so I miss your updates. If you decided to stop that’s okay but I did really like them.

r145

My neighbor has a huge Trump profile decal on his truck rear window, looks like the orange hog is in his back seat.

This neighbor is also former mayor of this town...

He has spoken with 3 or 4 families of Americans who have lost loved ones to COVID, what a guy!

R140 She’s there because she’s a Very Important Person, you haters.

Pence visited Mayo Clinic today and he didn't wear a mask. He was the only one there without one. Hypocrite.

[quote] He has spoken with 3 or 4 families of Americans who have lost loved ones to COVID, what a guy!

He would have said hundreds but he thinks that will the Corona virus look more severe so he has to downplay it.

[quote] Why is Ivanka a this Paycheck Protection press conference preening like she is on the runway or Miss Golden Globe?

When there’s another spike she’ll disappear again.

Here’s how you get through to Trump: show him pictures. BIG pictures.

TV works too. He doesn’t like reading though. Reading’s too HARD.

And everyone around the idiot humors and caters to his fat ass.

Ivanka always looks like she’s flirting with a Trump

It’s beyond gross

Just go here r146.

All the information with no stupid emojis.

"Ivanka created 15 million jobs." says Ivanka's paramour Donnie J. Trump Sr.

That's because she is, r155....

Take a close look at the expression on the guy standing behind Orange It and 'tina in R149's photo. He's like "This is some weird shit!" (Shout out to Shrub.)

Ivanka and Trump always act like lovers in public. It’s sick.

"Ivanka created 15 million jobs." says Ivanka's paramour Donnie J. Trump Sr."

Sure Donnie. And where are those jobs now?

In other news, a got a full tank of gas today and the last time prices where that low was probably back in the 90s. Donnie and his amazing economy are fucked. You can keep telling your people we will open strong and the economy will be even better than it was before, but I doubt this miracle will happen till November. Hope you already prepared new talking points for your Klan rallies. The days of getting praise and brag about the economy Obama created are over.

R160, From when Ivanka was a pre-teen, Trump would pose with her on his lap while he gave the world a "Yeah, look what I've got" smirk.

Which is one of his only two expressions, the other's being a scowl, revealing his only two emotions: lust and contempt.

R161, I wish Trump would hold a thousand rallies, NOW! No masks or gloves allowed! Sit close together!

They should hire a few hundred deplorables test them and have them travel state to state and have mock rallies. Also a big golf course under a dome whereRump could play. Let him do what makes him happy and go way.

Watch Trump’s newest sidekick Dr. Scarf Lady “school” a reporter today in defense of her idol. She’s shown herself to be all-in for the Orange buffoon, another soulless minion like Pence, Pompeo et. al.

You really should listen to him. His brother attended MIT.

Wasn't that the brother that drank himself to death?

His uncle attended MIT.

"Our name's Bennett and we ain't in it," taunted MIT.

I'm still can't believe Paycheck Protection Program Task Force Member Larry Kudlow's wife received funds from the program. She is a self employed, solo artist whose artwork is strictly paintings of Larry's shirts and ties.

I learned this from John Oliver.

[quote]I'm still can't believe Paycheck Protection Program Task Force Member Larry Kudlow's wife received funds from the program.

With all due respect, this shouldn't surprise you at all. While the bill was being written, Republicans and their supporters, were already planning to claim that money. Democrats fall for this every time. Democrats expect Republicans to do the right thing. But, c'mon... this is basically free money! You almost can't blame Republicans going for it and calling their friends about it too.

These people called their favorite bankers, skipped ahead of line, and their banker made it happen. Don't blame the players. Blame the game.

"I rob banks because that's where the money is." Willie Sutton (1901-1980)

R170 - the good grifter probably has her mitt stuck out for this week's second-helping, too.

Yes, r170...

R171 they didn't fall for it. Democrats aren't morons. They knew the Republicans would steal some but that's the only way they could get them to agree to it. It's a "for the greater good" play.

The Republicans could give a shit if any small businesses or jobs are saved. They are happy just letting the middle and lower classes collapse as long as they have their tax cuts and judges.

[quote]Pres now holding roundtable in the State Dining Room on reopening the economy with executives from Waffle House, Toyota, Hilton, Wynn Resorts, and the Business Roundtable.

WAFFLE HOUSE?

Fucking idiot.

Oh God when will this nightmare end?

He is insatiable , just can't stay off the tv.

This afternoon it was with Louisiana Gov John Bel Edwards, Fauci and Birx. He praised himself (South Korean President Moon told him has handled this crisis the best...) and he lamented the injustice done to his great economy, the best in the history of the world.

Now this evening it's this Round Table which he starts off spouting the same praise for himself and lamenting the same injustices done to him. Why do we need to hear from Waffle House? Is this a "base" thing?

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

The CDC should be holding pressers. This is a revolting situation. Trump hijacked everything. Did nothing for months. Totally blew it the shit he did. And now for 1 month its campaign rally and big business. Big business did nothing. The reported on Monday put it right to them and they shrug it off with more lies, stalling, distractions.

Where are the fucking scientists, doctors, and public health experts, and the military who are handling logistics.

It's so fucking insulting to US citizens.

Republican Party is a vile pit dirty rotten lying cheating snakes.

What, R179, you don’t want to hear from the CEO of WAFFLE HOUSE?

[quote]WAFFLE HOUSE?

Well, SOMEBODY had to cater the fucking thing.

Trump cannot survive psychically without endangering human beings or worse. He is a sadistic narcissist afflicted with dementia.

Rump's new strategy appears to be that he will meet daily (noon) with a different governor and turn that into his daily televised rally in the Oval Office. This replaces the evening rally and as an added bonus he gets to sit his fat ass down instead of having to stand all hunched over for an hour or two. The governors are in the uncomfortable position of having to kiss his ass to show thanks for the invite. Fauci and Birx still have to show up for roll call. Press questions he doesn't like are more easily cut off in this set up also.

Yesterday Louisiana Gov John Bel Edwards

Today NJ Gov Murphy

Murphy called in to MSNBC and was kissing trump’s ass.

[quote]Rump's new strategy appears to be that he will meet daily (noon) with a different governor and turn that into his daily televised rally in the Oval Office.

They're trying to get him to look more presidential. I caught a piece of that oval meeting yesterday and from what I saw Trump appeared as if he was a fish out of water. Dr Fauci was speaking and Trump looked as if it all went over his head. He tried to interrupt to steal the scene but it was all about Dr Fauci and what he was saying. Trump looked stupid--to me, anyway.

THESE are the real cures. Definitely worthwhile!

R184: Murphy is team Cuomo, but knows he needs to kiss Trump's ass publicly to avoid retaliation.

yeah I know, it just really sucked to have to hear him grovel. On the other hand I respect that he does was he has to do for his state.

Murphy came with big colorful pictures to show Dump, which is the only way (besides TV) that he can process information. Also Dump still has the model of AF1 with its proposed new paint job sitting on the table where it’s been for months.

He’s a fucking 8-year old sitting in the WH.

Those are bad graphics for TV because the text is too small and there's too much of it. Clearly intended for an audience of one.

Did I dream that Rump was going to lift the social distancing order or did everyone ignore him?

Dump is BORED and cranky after being cooped up in the WH for weeks. Probably stamped his feet and had a screaming tantrum or two.

[quote]Trump flying the coop after a month restricted to WH. Escapes by helicopter to isolated Camp David on Friday, motorcades to national mall Sunday for “virtual town hall” with Fox News at Lincoln Memorial, then fires up big plane Tuesday to head to Arizona

Next up: Golf, baby!

The country is reopened, thanks to me! I've been cooped up in the White House for six months! Off to jetset and spend that beautiful taxpayer money, suckas! It's an incredible success story!

I can't wait for him to start his Nazi rallies again...

Next week, r194.

R16 /R20 I tried posting a new thread each day but after day two, I was getting nasty postings about ignoring the 'mothership' -- this emoji one. So I jumped on that and it simply became me and two other guys doing all the posting. It was fun, it gave me lots of space to rant but it was really just three of us talking to each other.

New White House press secretary McEnany to hold 1st briefing

President Donald Trump’s new spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, is to face reporters for the first time in the White House Briefing Room on Friday, something her predecessor never did during a nine-month stint as press secretary

The spokeschick says “the WHO put political correctness first...“ I seem to recall that the White House had applying pressure on the WHO slow walk declaring a pandemic and other actions.

Why is the blonde from 2 Broke Girls doing press briefings??

Please reassure me that I did not hear that bug-faced freak say "Intelligence is just an estimate."

I think she'll be gone by MAGA Day.

Mr. 2015’s prez.

Lincoln got better press treatment, Trump claims, as he ups pandemic death estimate

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Updated 5:49 AM ET, Mon May 4, 2020

(CNN)After admitting US coronavirus deaths could hit 90,000, President Donald Trump is bemoaning his own plight -- complaining that he has been treated worse by the press than Abraham Lincoln.

Trump's comments, at the memorial in Washington to a president assassinated after emancipating the slaves during the Civil War, are likely to further polarize the raging politics of a current crisis that is stretching national unity.

"I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump said at the Fox News town hall Sunday night.

"The closest would be that gentleman right up there," Trump said, pointing to the 16th President's statue. "They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse." Trump was speaking at the time of a widening divide between states that are opening economies and others that are warning of premature declarations of victory amid soaring tensions fomented by weeks of coronavirus lockdowns.

His statement was classic Trump, not just in his audacity of comparing himself to the man many historians rate as the greatest president, but in his tendency to make every issue -- even in the midst of a national tragedy in which tens of thousands of Americans have died -- about himself.

It was also striking that the President who has consciously torn at the nation's political fault lines should make such a partisan argument under the marbled gaze of the man who warned "a house divided against itself cannot stand."

The President admitted on Fox that his earlier estimates that between 50,000 and 60,000 Americans could die in the pandemic would be outpaced. But he argued that his leadership had been "successful" since the higher end of models used by the White House had previously suggested up to 240,000 people could perish, even with social distancing in place.

"I used to say 65,000 and now I'm saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly," the President said at the memorial, a glorious and spectacular backdrop for the Fox News show that an image-making campaign manager could not have bettered.

New stage in pandemic battle

The President was making his best case at the start of a critical new period in the battle with Covid-19 that will play out in millions of lives in the six months until Election Day.

The aggressive approach of some governors is already heaping pressure on those who run states still committed to stay-at-home guidelines -- even with the virus still rampant in their paths.

With Trump agitating for a spark to the nation's economic engine, some governors are taking a gamble that in many cases contradicts the best advice of epidemiologists, but if it works, could alleviate some of the crippling unemployment triggered by the pandemic.

The next three weeks or so could show whether a new wave of infections caused by an easing of tough restrictions on daily lives will swarm state hospital systems, significantly increase the death toll and require a return of lockdowns.

In a worrying sign that points to the scale of the coming risks, few, if any, states that are opening have satisfied White House reopening guidelines of a 14-day dip in infections.

But if states like South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas that are opening can provide a blueprint for the "new normal" that will be American life until a vaccine is found, they could point the way to a broader recovery and speed economic rebounds.

The reopening — albeit with many restaurants and businesses at reduced capacity -- will also provide a new challenge for the White House, which insisted again Sunday, despite considerable contrary evidence, that it has built sufficient national testing to give states everything they need to safely ease restrictions.

"I think everybody has a right to protest and express their feelings. A couple of dozen people did so yesterday. And they have every right to do that," Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

"We sadly, we had far more people die yesterday in Maryland than we had protesters," he said, warning that some states appeared to be moving toward opening in an unsafe manner.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, also registered concern that gains made against the pandemic by grueling stay-at-home orders could be squandered as the lure of summer drains resolve. "My gut says the weather is going to warm, people are bored, people want this over. They see the numbers going down. They can take false comfort," Cuomo said on Sunday.

"We never said it was over. We said the numbers are going down," he added. "Roughly a thousand new people a day walk into the hospitals."

Three key states -- all run by Republicans

Three states, Mississippi, Ohio and Florida -- all run by Republican governors -- are likely to reflect the intricate adjustments needed in the days ahead as the Covid-19 picture varies state by state and city by city.

The Sunshine State's Gov. Ron DeSantis is a close Trump GOP ally who has rejected some of the scientific models used by epidemiologists as overstating the likely death toll from Covid-19.

"Even though our hospitalization and infection and fatality rates are much lower than many of these other big states, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, we did not necessarily -- quote -- 'shut everything down,'" DeSantis said on Fox News on Sunday.

"So, we're starting, I think, a little ahead of where some other states are," he added.

The quickening push to reopen came after disaster experts told CNN on Friday that states should not begin to open until coronavirus restrictions had been falling for 10 days to two weeks and there were sufficient tests available to assess how many people are really infected.

"You're making a big mistake. It's going to cost lives," said Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and disaster preparedness specialist at Columbia University Medical Center.

In a sign of the balancing act governors face, Republican Tate Reeves of Mississippi had planned to announce an easing of restrictions on Friday but changed plans at the last minute due to a spike in infections.

"We are trying to be very cautious and so we said, let's analyze the data over the weekend," Reeves said on "Fox News Sunday."

"What we have found is that it was really a data dump."

"So it was a one-day blip, but we wanted to make sure we investigate that data before we make a final decision, so we delayed it."

The new stage of the fight is likely to defy the triumphant comeback narratives of the President. But it may be grayer than the predictions of scientific models and political leaders still stuck in the darkest days of the pandemic may suggest.

Ohio's Republican Gov. Mike DeWine warned Sunday "we're going to watch numbers every single day." DeWine has extended his state's stay-at-home order until May 29 but expects to announce some easing of restrictions to allow some businesses to reopen in the coming days.

"What I hope is as people see those numbers, if they do go up and if they go up dramatically, that the people of the state will react to that," DeWine said on ABC News' "This Week."

Continued tension

Tension between the White House and some Democratic governors boiled over in a new confrontation involving Gretchen Whitmer, who leads Michigan, a key 2020 battleground state.

Speaking on "State of the Union," Whitmer rejected a claim by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner that the problem with testing was not supplies nor capacity but in the ability of states to collect sufficient samples.

"That's not true in Michigan," Whitmer said, adding that many governors "are still looking to get swabs and reagents and additional test kits. And so we have never been able to get to full capacity because we are missing things in the supply chain."

"(The Federal Emergency Management Agency) and (Department of Health and Human Services) have outlined a pathway to fully supply their request," Kushner said.

"We are rooting for Governor Whitmer to achieve the ambitious goal she has set and will work with her to get there."

Looking ahead to his reelection battle, the White House is already appearing to shift more toward an economic message than a science-based fight against the virus.

Trump, consistent with his long-term strategy of encouraging political fervor that could boost his base, has given encouragement to protests — sometimes with armed demonstrators ignoring social-distancing guidelines and refusing to wear face masks -- against stay-at-home orders.

Some signs of hope?

Trump top economic advisor Larry Kudlow signaled on CNN's "State of the Union" that a fresh stimulus and support package for business and cash-strapped states may be on a "pause" while the success of state economic openings is assessed.

More broadly, after weeks of grim news and death -- US deaths from Covid-19 are racing toward 70,000 -- there are a few glimmers of hope. More and more nations are, like the US entering, a new phase, with the promise of at least alleviating some of the economic horror caused by shutdown economies.

There was even encouraging talk on Sunday by a UK-based team trying to develop a vaccine, while Trump presides over "Operation Warp Speed" with the same ultimate goal.

Trump, however, still spent much of his weekend fixating on Deep State conspiracy theories and scratched his golf itch by finding time to tout his Turnberry resort on Scotland's West Coast.

CNN's Maggie Fox contributed to this story.

".....except those football players. When they knelt on the ground in protest, they were a disgrace. A very bad disgrace. During our national song, that tremendous song about our beautiful rockets and bombs. They really had no right to protest, they should be fired."

Please do notify us when the slaves get restless in their quarters. Otherwise, lalalalalalala

OH, MY GOD!!!!

Joe Scarborough just advised Trump to step down!

Michael Arceneaux@youngsinick·

Joe Scarborough doing his version of the quiet storm DJ voice to tell Donald Trump that he is crazy as hell and needs to go lay down was a smooth cackle.

Crooks and Liars@crooksandliars·1h

Joe Scarborough tells Trump, "You're not well." #Trump #Pence

R209 I hate that kind of stagey rhetoric.

Wow. Joe spoke the truth but you can’t be rational to a irrational person.

Rump’s makeup recently looks horrible

He has announced;

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·

Will be doing a major interview tonight at 6:30 P.M. Eastern with @DavidMuir on @ABCWorldNews Tonight.

Shitler just walked into the Honeywell plant (no gloves, no mask) to 'Live And Let Die' by Paul McCartney & Wings.

Let that sink in.

He was just interviewed by David Muir on ABC News. He said Birx and Fauci both told him “this will all blow over” in late Feb.

Will either one come out with a statement saying this is a blatant lie? Birx is his little lap dog so I doubt she’ll say anything but what about Fauci? He needs to step up and address this lying liar.

Fauci is on the side of the angels and has nothing to be defensive about. And Fearless Leader knows the truth of it.

Crashes and burns on David Muir

[quote] He was just interviewed by David Muir on ABC News. He said Birx and Fauci both told him “this will all blow over” in late Feb.

Oh that’s a new one right? I haven’t heard him peddle that lie before. The Lincoln Project has him shitting his diapers.

R213, that’s his new theme song?

The interview

Kushner is speaking at this "President Meets with Republican Lawmakers" briefing going on right now. He makes my skin crawl. One of the late night hosts, Colbert or Meyers, calls him "Trump's Translucent Son In Law".

He keeps saying other countries are calling him asking for help with testing because he is doing the best testing. Name these countries that are calling, name just one.

Dr. Brix, told her what she, would not. J’accuse wondered what they understood from Euro

come again?

He's scheduled a press conference today at 4:00 PM/ET 5/11

This should be a nightmare since the important people are self-quarantined and will not be there.

Why even bother with these sham press conferences anymore? He and his task force preach social distancing, wearing a mask and staying at home while he's doing the exact opposite in public and encouraging people to break and not follow the rules on Twitter. He's a fucking joke. Just stop with the lying and tell people you don't give a fuck about the virus.

[quote]Why even bother with these sham press conferences anymore?

He needs to see himself on the television. It's not even a matter that he thinks that he is doing good. This is he probably rationalizes it to himself. Bottom line, it's all about Trump's ego.

I agree R226. And they’ll be no one there to distract from him. He’ll be the undisputed star. Probably tell us how he’s all man and the virus can’t touch him.

I would not watch a press conference with Dump, but Sarah Cooper could reenact the press conference for us when he's done. That would be entertaining.

[quote]And they’ll be no one there to distract from him. He’ll be the undisputed star.

And therefore, true craziness will be on display! As long as it hurts Trump, Republicans, and put the REPUBLICAN Senate in further danger, I STRONGLY SUPPORT TRUMP ON THIS INITIATIVE!

Wasnt it just yesterday he said he was going to put a rush on the vaccine? Now he is saying he 'thinks' a vaccine is not needed?

Scheduled for 4:00 pm.? That means 4:30 or 4:45, most likely 5:00.

His fat ass is chapped about Obama’s leaked phone call last week where he said Dump’s CV response has been “chaotic and weak.” Dump spent the weekend frantically tweeting and retweeting about Obama targeting him in 2016, spying on his campaign, “OBAMAGATE,” the Russia hoax, impeachment hoax, Obama & Clinton paying for the Steele dossier, the dirty scum FBI, Fake News, Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd/Concast, Jimmy Kimmel, on and on and on. Over 150 tweets and retweets over 2 days. He’s fuming and obsessed. Today’s PC should be interesting.

"The president seems determined to just rage-tweet through the pandemic and has now taken the approach of trying to divert the news cycle away from the deadly virus and to a phony scandal he's trying to manifest into reality involving the previous president. Cool."

He will probably resurrect the 'Obama is spying on me through the microwave' allegation that Kellyanne Conjob floated a few years ago.

It’s going to be a press conference of grievances and Dem bashing. I’ll be amazed if he even brings up the pandemic other than to praise himself.

It’ll be part “tremendous testing, more and better tests than any other country, tests like you wouldn’t believe” and part OBAMAGATE! Impeachment hoax/corrupt media/etc. etc. Reporters will ask questions to bait him into ranting and he’ll take the bait every time.

What is "Obamagate" supposed to mean, anyway?

Can somebody on Twitter please try to get trending "TrumpImpeachedForever"??

He's on now

Lies continue. Me me me me

He seems really pissy.

Here we go again with how great he’s doing. 😡

No one ever talks about my wall. Its so great. Talk about my wall! Please!

In just a few weeks, we will have.....

promises propises on testing

“We don’t want people coming in from our Southern border.” No one wants to come here now!

this one is gay, right?

pink tie. with the wedding rings.

Next slide!

They need to talk about plans for contact tracing and selective quarantine.

Testing is so last month. CONTACT TRACING???

laws and money for SELECTIVE QUARANTINE for working people?

MONEY FOR TIME OFF IF QUARANTINED?? JOB SECURITY??

1 McDonald's worker tests positive. THAN WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHERS AT THAT RESTAURANT??? Hmmmmm????

what system is being used for contact tracing?

UK and Germany have made progress on specific TOOLS.

This is ALL distraction

R253 tell me more about McDonald's.

"very soon"

POTUS, when you order a McDonalds lunch, how can you be sure everyone in the kitchen is COVID free?

Why does he find it "surprising" that someone tested positive a day after she tested negative?

Does he not know how viruses work?

Will the chicken processors and McDo line cooks get SALARY when they SELF ISOLATE???? Hmmm?

“Because we’re running a country, we want to keep the country running.”

For crissakes don't ANY JOURNALISTS watch foreign news???

CONTACT TRACING?

REGULATIONS FOR SELECTIVE QUARANTINE

Where does a WORKER go if he cannot go HOME after a + test? Where are the quarantine dormitories???

For fucks sake, USA - are you putting up with this shit? It's not about the topics that are actual, in the world today

Why are they making reporters bend over to speak into the mic? Is that a tactic to make them look stupid or deferential?

We'll see! A transition to GREATNESS

A test is worthless if you're still free to pull slots at the casino, or serve drinks at TGIF

what a pig. answer the question

same question over and over

Mr. President - if a sausage factory worker gets sick - what happens? Tell us.

The mic situation is definitely part of his petty, unrelenting spiteful nature.

Reporters have masks. Trump thinks masks make people look stupid.

good question about children

We’re looking into it very strongly.

Is that a THERANOS machine behind him?

Can everyone who wants a test get one? Can you?

Right-wingers are big on this "people are dying from the lockdown" angle, but I have to see anything concrete about increased suicides and drug overdoses.

Did he just saying more people are dying from drugs and suicide due to quarantine than from Covid19?!

There's nothing low

Models? Did someone mention models?

"I don't want to think about it." It = deaths, many of them preventable.

rinse repeat

R276 Yup. And no one ever bothers to point out that its bullshit.

The liberal media isn't doing a good enough job explaining to Americans what "appropriate" responses are around the world.

contact tracing and selective quarantine support

money to citizens. job security.

Did the numbers really go down? The statistics I've seen have been constant.

Is Udo Kier guy gay?

numbers are NOT down

"obamagate - has been going on even before I got elected"

OH MY GOD HE DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION

OH MY GOD that was the most deplorable thing I've heard in weeks

holy shit

"obamagate"

"Next question. Major?"

Am i febrile?

What is the crime? You know what the crime is.

OK. So what exactly is it? Please tell us.

Jesus that Obama thing was absolutely unhinged.

He didn't blink! "Obamagate. And you know it!"

will the newscasters tonight please call that out? I mean it's absolutely shitastically horrific

"For the most part, people shouldn't want to get tested."

He left in huff!

holy shit what a fucking ratfuck

wow. Birx puts up with this crap?

I don't know what to do now? Drink a scotch? pound my head into a brick wall?

Arrogant self centered anusmouth can’t take the heat. Get off WH and stay away!

dismal just horrifyingly awful

Yeah he knows how badly its going. He's completely unhinged.

The CBS and CNN ladies were pissing him off again and he ran away. He tried to cut the CBS lady off and Katlin Collins wasn't allowing it.

What's-his-name doesn't need a mask to look stupid...and petty...and delusional.

He is like a German Roach...impossible to get rid.

Dump just threw a tantrum and stomped off in a huff when those 2 female reporters refused to sit down and shut up like he told them to.

He is openly racist piece of shit.

Well, ask your nasty question to Chi.......Na....

The reporter must be asian. Could not see her on my feed.

Imagine if this presser had been held within 2 months of his inauguration. He would have been TOAST. Now people don't even notice.

I don't watch him but I wish I had seen that.

OBAMAGATE = Fake news.

How do the military leaders and doctors put up with this shit? Why?

NOT A SINGLE DETAIL about contact tracing. That's an enormous challenge to put into place. From FEDERAL US government - JACK SHIT. Nothing. Nada.

Fauci and Hahn will testify remotely Tuesday before the Senate regarding Re-opening.

Do the US and Germany really have the lowest death rate in the world? This can't be true, right?

What if the president gave a press conference and no one came?

It was so disgusting.

The "anybody who wants to be tested can be tested" bullshit was called out by a couple of reporters. I live an metro area of 1.5 million people. One, just one, Rite Aid 20 miles out of town has a "anybody can get tested" deal. A couple of Urgent Cares have drive up testing, but you have to have symptoms or have had immediate contact with a positive person to get one. The LabCorp online kits are approved by a doctor before they sell it to you.

"testing" and "reopening" re very passé issues. Every nation reopens. What NEW public safety plans are in place???????

You didn't get testing. You didn't get a clear, national shut down. You're not getting a clear reopen. You are not getting SHIT from the government which is employed in the public service. NOT ONLY THAT - the Chief Executive will INSULT YOU, AND LIE. LIE LIE. And accept no responsibility.

WHAT A PIG.

Pig is too good a word. Pigs are nice creatures.

WHAT A PILE OF EVIL SHIT

R311 go almost all the way to the end and you can see it.

R311 starts at 1:14:20 or so

R303: Go girls!!

R306: Damn, I missed that, but I am sure Lawrence or Brian will show it again this evening with a side-eye and chuckle.

Here it is:

Thanks R325! His racist ass did not like being called out on his bullshit LOL! Yes, Trump - leave the stage and don't come back!!

"Goodbye Americans! Come back in two hundred fifty years!"

Will no one shout "YOU LIE!" to Orange It's fat face

Throw a shoe at him?

Could it be that he and Putin possess embarrassing information not only on politicians and judges, but on members of the press as well?

Dump hates the optics of Fauci, the NIH guy and the FDA head all self-quarantining. It ruins the narrative he wants that ‘the crisis is behind us, time to open up, yay!’ And he’s jerking Pence’s chain too, Pence knows the protocol if you’ve been exposed is to self-quarantine and his office announced last night that he would, then backtracked after Dump called him up and said stop with the quarantine shit. Now Pence is MIA, hasn’t been seen or heard from since and he was a no-show at the PC today.

And Dump is losing his shit.

It was just about the shittiest performance from him in months.

^Maybe, just maybe Pence finally grew a pair and said fuck you, I am quarantining?

Former VP Pence? I never really knew the guy. He worked for me, but I didn't know him. Didn't hang out with him. Lots of people worked for me but if they were bad workers, well. You're fired. I got the greatest ratings for being the best boss. Pence, not so much. He was a loser. They told me I had to take him. I never liked him, not a friend. I have the best friends, but Pence was never one of them. And his wife was a dog.

I assume the first reporter was Asian but was she Chinese? I love those two women standing up to him.

Next PC It should be in front of a pool and Rump should be in drag as Joan Collins iif anyone asks him a ‘nasty’ question into the pool they go and they will have to wrestle him.

At least Anderson Cooper summed up this shitty presser well. I hope other anchors did.

What did he say R334?

R335 he did 10 minutes carefully taking apart what happened and Trump's bullshit. With the very journalist present, the one whose question brought it to a close. All Cooper's shows are available as podcasts for free - just the audio but its enough. Most nightly newscasts are available as podcasts - listen to them when you want.

Here. Or use your regular podcast app.

Anderson has done good coverage consistently. I don't love his maudlin interviews with families grieving a dead person from COVID but I see the point of them.

All the USA center and left newscasters, however, have done a very POOR job of reporting on COVID and CORONA crisis around the world. It would have given good context to Americans and their own situation.

Love r322! That's exactly Trump's "Under the Bus" speech!

About the reporters: Somebody suggested that he couldn't identify the women because of the masks, and thought he was calling on the OAN dame instead of Caitlin.

So he can't tell who he calling on due to COVID? LOL that is hilarious and such karma. We need more of it!

R339 That’s ridiculous. Of course he could tell who it was, mask or no mask. Anyone watching could too.

Oh Yes Our Great Leader has perfect vision. The text he reads off of is huge for some other reason.

R342 You don’t need excellent or even good vision to tell that was Kaitlan Collins in a mask. Your little theory is ridiculous.

"Who was that masked woman?"

As someone who has said for years ‘one day I will get glasses’ I know for a fact you can mistake someone for someone even if they look nothing alike AND not wearing a mask.

No, r341. The two women were dressed similarly in beige and black and both are brunettes. Plus, masks.

.34 mark. Second reporter enters. Note the woman back right.

I know it's Kaitlan Collins by just looking at her ugly outfits. She always wears ugly blazers sometimes even pink. Dump has been dealing with the same people for years now. He knows who they are.

Yep. You got me there. Rump knows EVERYTHING.

The reporter's parents are from China and the Chinese reporter was born in W Virginia.

Wrong. Born in China Raised in West Virginia. I read that just like I guess you did the same.

Fauci work a mask today so we couldn't see his face when the orange hog announced "Operation Warp Speed" for a vaccine by end of the year which obviously is his delusional counter attack to Dr. Bright's prediction yesterday that a vaccine will take much longer.

The Amazing Kremlin just said the day before he didn’t think we needed a vaccine. That it would just go away. When will this worldwide disaster be over?

R353 Other countries will figure it out. Science in USA will be part of that but not with Federal help.

What’s up with the federal Government tryIng to stop Bill Gates work on the vaccine?

The Orange Hog calling Obama "grossly incompetent" today.

So now Orange It's drugs are telling him to punch up at President Obama? Bring it, you impeached Donnybrook Fat Head. Bring it.

I hate it when Trump adopts a sing-songy voice to imply he is quoting some one else, like when he said “I’m like, I’m not a docta”, or whatever it was that he said. I hope to never have a President who is dumber than I am ever again.

Why do people quote him? What would happen if we completely ignored him?

Is anyone watching this orange buffoon speak at the Ford Plant in Michigan?

Did he wear the mask?

No he didn't wear a mask, all Ford employees did.

Earlier he met with Michigan's African American Leaders, that was interesting...

Michigan is not going to allow Rump to come back to Michigan. Can they do that?

I wish this reality show President Rump would get cancelled.

Dr. Scarf is giving an update, haven't seen her in awhile.

Is anyone watching the orange hog ramble about "protecting seniors with diabetes". He actually said "Should I be on insulin? I've never tried it...".

OMG🤦‍♂️Did he get diagnosed with diabetes or bought shares of insulin stock? He is just spewing more nonsense now.

Sarah Cooper is always spot on with her imitations of Deranged Donnie. Here is today's nonsensical "insulin" comment.

Lolol