He is equating their narrative, which has been utter bullshit aimed at scoring political points and outright dangerous, to their bullshit on Roooshins! As their latest attempt to undermine him. He is calling these actions and criticisms a hoax.
And he's right.
You disengenuous pricks and the loons at MSNBC implying he is calling the virus a hoax after all the steps taken which prove he is taking this seriously should be pointing fingers at the lying scumbag dems that have been dealing the outright lies and misinformation that is indeed perpetrating the latest hoax on people for their own despicable reasons.
The dems have gone too far on this one. Way, way, way too far. The rest of the stuff they've done pissed me off, but I wasnt surprised by any of it really. This crap actually does surprise me. Why I dont know, but they've made me sick on this one. ******* pricks.
Grow up morons. This is not the time for this shit.
what the HOAX is - he keeps saying that the # of americans infected is 15.
15.
1-5.
when the number just jumped to
65 ... being that a 2nd 'community' spread victim was just diagnosed in cali; a high school student. & another apparent community spread person tested positive in oregon - an elementary school employee.
why is donny lying? i guess he just wants to seal his 'snake oil salesman' label huh?
He should not be misrepresenting anything.
See how easy that was?
Where's your criticism of the left now, Hmmmm?
he's not 'misrepresenting' anything.
he's ******* lying. see how easy THAT is?
is the left politicizing? not really, given the abysmal response we have had so far.
is the W.H.O politicizing this outbreak? are the physicians discussing it on TV politicizing it?
how's about criticizing the appointment of mike pence - who was the reason for the continued HIV outbreak in indiana when he was governor?
ooooOOoooo ... how about the WB? her reporting that we had people go over to wuhan to get fellow infected americans & bring them home, had no training ... had no equiptment ... some returning home on commercial flights - is THAT politicized?
was her being removed from her position & threatened with being fired politicized? ya, that one sure was - but not by the left.
Wow, you know what misrepresenting means, and without a dictionary even.
Good for you.
The dems are clearly politicizing this. Claiming otherwise is absurd.
This was declared a national emergency a month ago, ffs. Travel restrictions were imposed etc. All of that was done immediately and long before many people saw this as an actual threat.
In the meantime we have heard little but a steady drumbeat of utter lies from the left who have hopped on this as a means to political ends from the jump. He cut funding to the CDC. Lie. He is only taking this seriously because the stock market fell. Lie. The country is unprepared because of Trumps actions in cutting CDC funding (which is a lie based on a lie) and on and on and on.
Trump calks coronavirus a hoax......LIE.
Where is your criticism of their clear politicizing and outright lying for their own gain?
Oh, that's right, they're not doing it. Good grief.
mnuchin & kudlow are NOT the people to be on the front lines ... now he's talking about tax cuts to help combat this 'hoax'.
there's your snake oil.
Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak
Sonam Sheth and
Gina Heeb
Feb 25, 2020, 3:28 PM
[...]
In 2018, for instance,
the CDC cut 80% of its efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just 10.
Here are some other actions the Trump administration undertook to dismantle government-spending programs related to fighting the spread of global diseases,
according to Foreign Policy:
- Shutting down the entire global-health-security unit of the National Security Council.
- Eliminating the US government's $30 million Complex Crises Fund.
- Reducing national health spending by $15 billion.
- Consistently attacking Mark Green, the director of the US Agency for International Development.
[...]
Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak
https://www.cdc.gov/budget/documents/fy2020/cdc-overview-factsheet.pdf
The CDC has a structure in place for this. They are handling this.
AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness
"Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.
He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.
A look at some of the Democrats’ remarks:
MIKE BLOOMBERG: “There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing.” — debate Tuesday night.
JOE BIDEN, comparing the Obama-Biden administration with now: “We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. ... He’s wiped all that out. ... He cut the funding for the entire effort.”
THE FACTS:
They’re both wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut.
Bloomberg is repeating the false allegation in a new ad that states the U.S. is unprepared for the virus because of “reckless cuts” to the CDC. Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.
Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak.
The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.
Among the health authorities overseeing the work are Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC’s principal deputy director and a veteran of previous outbreaks, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIH’s infectious disease chief who has advised six presidents.
“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years....."