List for future reference: Trump's False Claims on Coronavirus

By artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 4:29pm |

He understated the extent of the crisis. He overstated the availability of tests. He falsely blamed Obama. He said he didn't shake hands in India despite many photos of him shaking hands in India.

Trump has been serially dishonest about the coronavirus: https://t.co/93Uu30PVqS
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 22, 2020

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/politics/fact-check-trump-coronavirus-false-claims-march/index.html

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The White House has repeatedly said tests are available to anyone. Here’s a reality check from Ohio, which is experiencing “an incredible shortage.” pic.twitter.com/7c2Ms3yEGP
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) March 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 4:36pm

Trump is a delivery device for viruses. This one is just a type he cannot control.
It is a strange situation where we have to distinguish between the pathogens he introduces from the ones that have nothing to do with his operation.
He thought he was the source of all trouble.

by moat on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 7:15pm

Very well said! Especially this part: He thought he was the source of all trouble.

When can't troll, when he's not allowed to troll, he barely knows how to operate! Hence the 2nd grader appears at those times. Only thing he really has experience at is trolling! It's hard to have to do other grownup things, hence the return often to absurdly off topic things on the Twitter feed: he craves trolling, trolling calms him, makes him feel in control?

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 7:45pm

There have now been 33,276 cases of #coronavirus detected in the U.S.

The @CDCgov’s site says only 15,219 cases, which was the count 2 days ago.

https://t.co/ewTdXl9ngU pic.twitter.com/DkGblm6bfD
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 8:58pm

Fauci interview published tonite on White House with Science Magazine, 7:36 pm

Q: At Friday’s press conference, you put your hands over your face when President Trump referred to the “deep State Department,” [a popular conspiracy theory]. It’s even become an internet meme. Have you been criticized for what you did?

A: No comment. https://t.co/xKUYyy6GF1
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 23, 2020

which may be an answer to Seth Abramson's question from 6:19 pm:

Where is Dr. Fauci? Why isn't he at this briefing?
— Seth Abramson (@) (@SethAbramson) March 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 9:08pm

Daniel Dale and Maggie Haberman jumping on this interview as soon as they saw it:

Fauci: “I can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down.” He says he does what he can - tell the “appropriate people” who can advise Trump not to repeat things. (Still, Fauci has done more live-correcting than literally anyone who’s appeared with Trump since 2017.) https://t.co/PWFymujVTs
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 9:10pm

Surgeon general Jerome Adams' message as he leaves the briefing room:

"Donate blood! Donate blood. We need it."
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 9:42pm

Jay Rosen:

I watched that press conference today. It was an argument for my latest post. One thing that stuck me was how you could hear in his pathetic ramblings and lurid boasts an echo of the flattery that people who deal with him have to use to get him to listen. That is his "price."
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 10:01pm

What a jerk.

Trump after hearing Romney is in self-quarantine: 'Gee, that's too bad' | TheHill https://t.co/v0XF2jpGhW
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 23, 2020

(one good point I saw mentioned on teevee: a reminder that Romney's wife Ann has multiple sclerosis, she is very high risk for death from this)

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 1:19am

Yuge!

Source: Asher Adelman Anything to stay in power regardless of the death toll, March 23

https://asheredelman.com/2020/03/23/anything-to-stay-in-power-regardless-of-the-death-toll/

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 3:56pm

How the Coronavirus Shattered Trump’s Serene Confidence

COVID-19 is unimpressed and unimpeded by the President’s bluster. And the prolonged process of his humbling has put untold numbers of Americans at risk.

By David Remnick @ NewYorker.com, March 22

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 5:17pm

Important warning about where Drumpf is at right now:

At the White House, there is a growing sentiment that medical experts were allowed to set policy that has hurt the economy and there has been a push to find ways to let people start returning to work. @maggieNYT @SangerNYT https://t.co/5l1BYHkR39
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 5:46pm

Drumpf whisperers:

!! => Conservative economists Steven Moore and Art Laffer have been lobbying the White House for more than a week https://t.co/OsCbE2tkxR
— lori montgomery (@loriamontgomery) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:13pm

more on the whisperers and on Lindsay Graham disagreeing with them:

Lindsey Graham knows that the Art Laffer/Stephen Moore "just let everyone out to die" bullshit...is bullshit. https://t.co/lRfJqychKO
— We need 120k tests a day (@Noahpinion) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:26pm

Rick Wilson sees this becoming the major meme of the Trump right and the press conference isn't even finished:

Watch how this becomes the mainstream view on the Trump right pic.twitter.com/mkY8Vscwv0
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 23, 2020

And I just heard Drumpf do it over and over as a talking point ala avoiding "cure worse than the problem"

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:55pm

Cull the herd.happens all the time, right? No one thinks of it anymore - just get on with it. Nature's way.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 8:45pm

but this one would be yuger?

There are some Republicans that need to make some big decisions really quick or the new @realDonaldTrump reality TV American Death Match begins
— Albert Moreno (@morenoa128) March 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 11:11pm

Attorney General William Barr is attending today's coronavirus briefing. Dr. Anthony Fauci is not.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:03pm

more "Where's Fauci?" hashtag started #WhereIsFauci

No Dr. Fauci at today’s #coronavirus briefing. pic.twitter.com/IrdtqsDeF8
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 23, 2020

Barr is one of them. But Fauci is not.
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) March 23, 2020

Bring out the Fauci. Bring out the best. #COVID19 #WhereIsFauci https://t.co/gulcBXZUqG
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:09pm

The doctor has diagnosed Drumpf:

Now we know why Fauci is not here. Trump wanted to tell one random story about a dude who took this drug cocktail and seemed to get better. And capitalize on the appeal of personal anecdotes and the fact that people wanna believe it

He is the Jenny McCarthy of coronavirus https://t.co/SIBnlJkl1s
— Dr. Danna Young (@dannagal) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:21pm

Pence just finished at the press conference. I am watching it as I type. The difference between him and Drumpf was striking today so far. Pence had a reassuring Churchillian type message for the American public which he delivered without looking at notes and seemed totally in control. Before that Drumpf read a decently prepared text off the podium, where his delivery was humble but only so-so, then he added riffs on his little malaria drug story and now he's back and he's really babbling and it sounds like a 6-yr. old explaining how the sun works to his mom. Though he is being polite to reporters, he is appearing really childish and babbling, alarmingly so. If I were a Wall St. investor, I would freak out watching it. And it's not rocket science doing this correctly and assuringly, Pence did just fine!

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 6:42pm

perfect, stable genius vs. stable genius

Another episode of Trump Criticizing Trump pic.twitter.com/Uiud5dG0W7
— The Recount (@therecount) March 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 11:40pm

Man dies after taking malaria medication touted by Trump as possible cure for coronavirus https://t.co/vyVEjqKihg pic.twitter.com/Gv8v5GZS1B
— The Hill (@thehill) March 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 12:38am

Yeah, a guy I know keeps touting the conspiracy of giving not releasing unproven cures or demanding masks and such be tested/certified. Always someone's making money. Kind of the old "GM has a carburetor that'd get 150mpg but is kicking people to not have to release it..."

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 1:07am

List for future reference: Trump's False Claims on Coronavirus

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