Trump, his advisors, and his beloved press conferences

[lennypartiv]

Why is the drug bad?

According to libs it's a bad drug because Trump is pushing it.

 

[lennypartiv]

did you hear him when he was going on & on about that drug? he was creepy as hell - talk about a real snake oil salesman.

Another post from another delusional Democrat.

 

[Markle]

How good a job is Trump doing on the coronavirus pandemic? Well, here is one measure.

There are 1,585,000 cases of coronavirus in the world. With 466,000 the U.S. alone has approximately a third of the world's total.

Yes, the deaths per million...to you...is irrelevant, immaterial and unimportant. You also, in your utter desperation, feebly attempt to brush away the differences in population. You're such a loser.

Why not just relax, kick back and enjoy watching a great man continue to lead our country for another great five years! Why do you demand more people to die?

 

[BluesLegend]

Most Americans are very tired of the melodrama we keep hearing from Trump and Trump's Covid-19 team of "experts."

Trumps approval is at an all time high. So much for your Trump hate manifesto. Just admit it the left is pissed Trump is addressing the nation daily and nobody is paying any attention to Joe Biden. Bernie vanished then quit the race this week. The left has been routed.

 

[lennypartiv]

This Coronavirus thing guarantees Trump will win in November. Bet on it.

 

[Markle]

This Coronavirus thing guarantees Trump will win in November. Bet on it.

President Donald Trump's re-election was guaranteed long before the COVID-19 came to our attention.

The Democrats don't even have a viable candidate. What are they going to do? Slip in a substitute candidate at the last minute? Is Hillary going to stumble on stage at the last minute like the rising of the Phoenix?

 

[lennypartiv]

This Coronavirus thing guarantees Trump will win in November. Bet on it.

President Donald Trump's re-election was guaranteed long before the COVID-19 came to our attention.

True, but all the polls showing Americans approve of Trump's handling of Coronavirus are icing on the cake.

 

[playtime]

did you hear him when he was going on & on about that drug? he was creepy as hell - talk about a real snake oil salesman.

Another post from another delusional Democrat.

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another post from a poorly educated, ankle grabbing, basket dwelling, deplorable who trump loves long time; ignorantly labeling me a (D) which i am not, because since he is a partisan stooge, he must think anyone who disagrees with him must be a (D).


fail.

 

[playtime]

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[kyzr]

How good a job is Trump doing on the coronavirus pandemic? Well, here is one measure.

There are 1,585,000 cases of coronavirus in the world. With 466,000 the U.S. alone has approximately a third of the world's total.

Of those 466,000 US cases how many are in NY state? 160,000 so Cuomo is doing a horrible job, huh?
Of the 16,686 US deaths, how many are in NYC? 5,150 so Deblasio is doing a horrible job, huh?

Here is a graph of the US cases vs the EU with countries that add up to the same population as the US,
[GER, FRA, ITA, SPA, UK, SWI] ~320m people.
You can see that Trump's travel ban gave the US time to develop test capacity, but that the EU folks did better mitigation and flattened their curve more. Then again, the US death total of 16,686 is much better than those EU countries' current death total of 57,894.

 

[kyzr]

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We need a new poll, actually I'll start a new thread/poll "Who would you rather as president managing the COVID-19 response, Trump or Biden?"

 

[JLW]

Even right-wingers are getting sick of Trump’s press conferences and his inane tweets.


After President Donald Trump blasted the Wall Street Journal for an editorial that deemed his nightly coronavirus briefings a waste of time, Fox News’ Brit Hume had his own few words of advice.

The Journal editorial said that the briefings had become “a boring show of the president vs. the press.” That triggered Trump, who tweeted on Thursday afternoon, “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!”

But after Trump’s tweet, Hume, senior political analyst for Fox News Channel, responded, “This is a ridiculous tweet. He could get his views across without bragging, endlessly repeating himself, and getting into petty squabbles with the junior varsity players in the WH press corps. And he could stop talking much sooner to give Pence, Fauci, Birx and Giroir more time.”

Fox News’ Brit Hume: Donald Trump “Could Stop Talking Much Sooner” At Coronavirus Briefings, Avoid Bragging About Ratings

After President Donald Trump blasted the Wall Street Journal for an editorial that deemed his nightly coronavirus briefings a waste of time, Fox News’ Brit Hume had his own few words of advic…

deadline.com

 

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We need a new poll, actually I'll start a new thread/poll "Who would you rather as president managing the COVID-19 response, Trump or Biden?"

biden wouldn't blow off warnings from the pentagon briefing explaining that the US was ripe for a pandemic, when the transition was in action between the outgoing & incoming administration was taking place.

biden wouldn't allow his NSA to dismantle the pandemic response team, that the obama administration put in place.

biden wouldn't blow off the warning from the intel community that something was brewing like a possible uncontrollable virus outbreak (via cables from china that they were monitoring).

biden wouldn't fire the science expert overlooking labs that was embedded within china to warn that it was happening.

biden wouldn't 'prefer ' that american citizens stay on a floating petri dish because he 'liked the numbers [of infected] where they were '

when the virus broke out of china - biden would have accepted the gene sequence & resulting WHO recommended test kits to start testing right away instead of insisting the CDC kits be used instead which ended up defective & put us weeks behind from where we could have been.

& biden wouldn't ship an overwhelming amount of our tax payer stockpiled PPE to them, resulting in a severe shortage, taking months to sign & enact the DPA, when it was too late; whining & outright lying that ' the obama administration left the cub boards bare '.

 

[playtime]

Even right-wingers are getting sick of Trump’s press conferences and his inane tweets.


After President Donald Trump blasted the Wall Street Journal for an editorial that deemed his nightly coronavirus briefings a waste of time, Fox News’ Brit Hume had his own few words of advice.

The Journal editorial said that the briefings had become “a boring show of the president vs. the press.” That triggered Trump, who tweeted on Thursday afternoon, “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!”

But after Trump’s tweet, Hume, senior political analyst for Fox News Channel, responded, “This is a ridiculous tweet. He could get his views across without bragging, endlessly repeating himself, and getting into petty squabbles with the junior varsity players in the WH press corps. And he could stop talking much sooner to give Pence, Fauci, Birx and Giroir more time.”

Fox News’ Brit Hume: Donald Trump “Could Stop Talking Much Sooner” At Coronavirus Briefings, Avoid Bragging About Ratings

After President Donald Trump blasted the Wall Street Journal for an editorial that deemed his nightly coronavirus briefings a waste of time, Fox News’ Brit Hume had his own few words of advic…

deadline.com

since he can't have his bloviating hate filled rallies to stroke his ego, he has taken over the mic & having them at the pressers.

 

[kyzr]

<ahem>

We need a new poll, actually I'll start a new thread/poll "Who would you rather as president managing the COVID-19 response, Trump or Biden?"

biden wouldn't blow off warnings from the pentagon briefing explaining that the US was ripe for a pandemic, when the transition was in action between the outgoing & incoming administration was taking place.

biden wouldn't allow his NSA to dismantle the pandemic response team, that the obama administration put in place.

biden wouldn't blow off the warning from the intel community that something was brewing like a possible uncontrollable virus outbreak (via cables from china that they were monitoring).

biden wouldn't fire the science expert overlooking labs that was embedded within china to warn that it was happening.

biden wouldn't 'prefer ' that american citizens stay on a floating petri dish because he 'liked the numbers [of infected] where they were '

when the virus broke out of china - biden would have accepted the gene sequence & resulting WHO recommended test kits to start testing right away instead of insisting the CDC kits be used instead which ended up defective & put us weeks behind from where we could have been.

& biden wouldn't ship an overwhelming amount of our tax payer stockpiled PPE to them, resulting in a severe shortage, taking months to sign & enact the DPA, when it was too late; whining & outright lying that ' the obama administration left the cub boards bare '.

Biden doesn't know what day it is, or where he is, so stop with the bullshit.
One poster said that the democrats could do better picking someone at random from the old folks homes.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

This is a statement I made a few days ago.

"There will be death," Trump said recently. Americans know what is happening. Did we really need to hear that from our President? He goes from fantasies about how all this will end soon to voicing comments from the grim reaper.

It is past time to end the coronavirus press conferences. Devolving into campaign-like, self-congratulatory comments, and oft repeated statements from medical experts, it is time to end them. We all know what the federal government has to do. Get medical equipment out to where it is needed most while working on cures and vaccines. Trump's government should do that instead of talking about it.

But that isn't Trump. Trump is a great believer in the idea that rhetoric solves all problems. He wants Americans to think the government is doing a "tremendous" job and everybody is "doing great" because he said so.

Trump is totally incompetent. So, it stands to reason he would appoint incompetent advisors. He has fired many of them during his Presidency, and great many of them quit, unable to work for an inept President. Trump replaced them with equally incompetent people, or worse. He has many "acting" advisors because qualified people are not interested and the unqualified can't pass Senate muster even though the Senate is controlled by Trump's party.

One example is Trump's acting navy secretary, Thomas B. Modly, who relieved the commander of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, for writing to his superiors, acquainting them with the conditions aboard the Roosevelt. At most, Crozier deserved a slap on the wrist for using unsecure channels. But Modly fired him, turning a routine reprimand into major scandal for Trump. Modly then made matters worse by telling the crew of the Roosevelt that their captain was "too naive, or too stupid, to be the commanding officer of a ship like this."

Honestly, one has to work at being that stupid. One wonders how long it will be before Trump fires Modly. That is another reason Trump likes "acting" before the title. He can get rid of them easily.

Most Americans are very tired of the melodrama we keep hearing from Trump and Trump's Covid-19 team of "experts." Some "experts," Trump does most of the talking, but one of his "experts" managed to get in a word, even if it was ludicrous hyperbole. The US surgeon general, Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, spoke to Fox News on Sunday. He described the upcoming grim period of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States as a "Pearl Harbor moment" and a "9/11 moment." That is pure Hollywood, and Americans are sick of it. It was a mindless comment.

Peter Navarro is Trump's trade and manufacturing aide. He is an economic advisor, not a medical expert. So, it stands to reason Trump's appointee on the economy would publicly push back against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci's assertion that it's unclear whether an anti-malaria drug can be used to combat the coronavirus.

Naturally, Trump thinks the medical advice from his economic advisor is more accurate than the medical advice from his medical experts, and he supports that conclusion with a lie. Trump told Americans on Sunday that he strongly backs hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID-19, despite scant scientific evidence that it’s an effective treatment. “What do I know? I’m not a doctor,” Trump said. “But I have common sense. The FDA feels good about it, as you know, they approved it.”

The FDA has not approved hydroxychloroquine, a popular malaria and lupus treatment, to treat COVID-19. Medical experts warn that reports of the drug’s benefits for COVID-19 patients are anecdotal and small-scale, and there is little scientific evidence yet that it works against the coronavirus.

But Trump prefers to listen to his economic advisor. "What do you have to lose?"

Your life. Oops, I guess Trump didn't know that. This is the guy running the Covid-19 press conferences? Good Lord!

Trump is a great believer in the idea that rhetoric solves all problems.

I agree with everything you stated with the exception of the above.

The only problem Trump sees is this pandemic interfering with his re-election. His rhetoric is targeted to that end. He is trying desperately to place the blame anywhere and everywhere except with his own admin.

 

[lennypartiv]

Trump's press conferences are a good thing, as long as he can keep Fauci away from the microphone.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

As he usually does, Trump is overstating his own importance. He described the decision on when and how to reopen the country as the most difficult one he’s had to make in his life.

“And we’re going to make a decision, and hopefully it’s going to be the right decision,” he said. “I will say this. I want to get it open as soon as we can.”

He can relax. He won't be making that decision.

Trump didn't shut the economy down. State and local governments did. Trump won't be re-opening the economy. State and local governments will.

The president has continued to predict the country will quickly return to normal and bounce back like never before, but he has limited say in when and how that could begin. Many governors have instituted stay-at-home orders and other lockdowns until at least June.

Coronavirus government response updates: '&#39;'Biggest decision of my life,'&#39;' Trump says, about reopening country - ABC News

This guy is unbelievable. He spent two and a half hours today telling us how important he is, and it was all B.S.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump continues his annoying habit of interrupting reporters because he doesn't want to hear the question. That is a clear indication of weakness and his vulnerability.

He is an extremely weak President. He is unsure of himself and he is a bully. Also, he is too dumb to realize the media always gets the last word, at times, over and over again as it did today after his mindless press conference.