Of course, he is telling a lie about it. He always does.

[bodysong]

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

“We’re going to be pretty soon at only 5 people, and we could be at just 1
or 2 people over the next short period of time” — Trump on US coronavirus
cases on February 26

Here's the state of affairs less than one month later:

(link)

2 hours ago

 

[SandraSxy]

He tells the best lies. Really big, great lies..Lieier than anyone else.

 

[bodysong]

Trump's lack of concern, and insisting on downplaying the danger
that coronavirus poses, to this very day- is pushing everything
to the breaking point

A New York hospital is treating two patients on a device intended for one

The devices have meant the difference between life and death for many
people who have contracted covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus
that kills by clogging and inflaming the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off
life-sustaining oxygen.

Ventilators force oxygen into those sacs and through their linings so the bloodstream
can carry it to vital organs, and they remove carbon dioxide in the same exchange.

Because equal pressure is being forced into the lungs of two people, the New York
doctors must first match them for relatively equal lung size and severity of disease,
Beitler said. With the scale of the pandemic, that is not difficult, even within a
single hospital, Beitler said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...034_story.html

400 ventilators were delivered to NYC
After the embarrassment of the inadequate amount of ventilators
sent to the city with the largest concentration of coronavirus patients
became nationwide news-

Did NYC receive a shipment of 4,000 devices ? It needs 40,000.

By Friday morning, New York City had reported 25,573 cases
of COVID-19 and 366 deaths. As cases continue to climb, so do
fears that the nation's largest public health care system is approaching
a breaking point. One of the system's hospitals, Elmhurst Hospital Center
in Queens, has drawn attention this week following a New York Times
report in which staff described the situation as "apocalyptic" and said the
facility had come close to running out of ventilators multiple times.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...t-through-marc

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...and-uninformed

 

[bodysong]

Fuckin' Fuck fuck

If Trump is accusing someone else of doing somthing,
it usually is proven later, that it is a false accusation aimed
at Trump's victim, and it is Trump that has done something horrible-

Trump odered the governors to purchase what they needed to combat
the deaths of citizens, themselves, and not access the buying
power and governmental might of the ability to negotiate.

The federal reserve has been snatching supplies out from under
the noses of hospitals. The requests for ventilators have been refused.

Now, this-

29 March 2020

Trump accuses governors of hoarding ventilators, and accuses hospitals
of going something under-handed with the coronavirus masks.

It is to cry. Doctors and nurses are dying because they keep their oath,
and care for corona virus victims without, clean, new protective gear
and supplies that they should have. At the moment, they are using
real medical supplies until they fall apart, and anything that they can
their hands on, to carry on the battle.

29 Mar 2020

Trump begins to take questions and is immediately asked about his suggestion that New York hospitals have made inappropriate use of their masks.

“I want the people of New York to check – Governor Cuomo, Mayor De Blasio – that when a hospital that’s getting 10,000 masks goes to 300,000 masks in a rapid period, I would like to check that. I hear stories like that all the time. We’re delivering millions and millions of products and all we hear is: ‘Can we get some more?’ I heard that from one of the great companies of the world at doing this.”

He adds: “I think people should check that because there’s something going on. I don’t think it’s hoarding, I think it’s maybe worse than hoarding. Check it out, check it out. I don’t know, I think that’s something for others to figure out.”

A serious accusation but thin on specifics.

Fact check
- Ed Pilkington

Sometimes it’s hard to fact-check Trump when he says things so out of the blue they leave you scratching your head, wondering what he is talking about. So it is with his comment just now about the number of masks being requested by hospitals in places like New York. He said the leap from a normal demand of up to 20,000 masks to today’s level was inexplicable.

“How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 – even though this is different. Something is going on. And you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door.”

The suggestion that people are essentially pilfering masks at a time of national crisis will not only be profoundly offensive for the thousands of frontline health workers who are daily putting their own health and lives at risk to save others in the absence of sufficient protective gear.

It also raises questions about where the president is getting his information. As he himself said, coronavirus is “different”. It is a highly contagious virus that is lethal at high rates for older and vulnerable people with pre-existing conditions. In order to protect health workers vast numbers of masks are required to keep them safe.

If Trump needs any clarification on that point he might listen to his own Department of Health and Human Services that has estimated that the US would need up to 3.5bn – yes, billion – N95 respirator masks over a year of pandemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...-new-york-cases-quarantine-news-updates-trump

Trump. bloviating-

We do have a problem with hoarding... including ventilators. Hospitals need to release them - in some cases they have too many, they have to release medical supplies and equipment," he said.

Hospitals "can't hold them if they think there might be a problem weeks down the road", he said, alleging that some were "stocked up".

The availability of ventilators is a major concern among health professionals as demand has surged with the spread of the virus, A number of states have warned that they will soon run out.

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

"How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 --
even though this is different. Something is going on.
And you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going?"
-- Trump suggests that there is some sort of New York nurse conspiracy
to steal masks

2 Hours Ago

Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "Without evidence, Trump accuses hospitals ...

Trump Tweets Orders To GM To Make Ventilators At A Factory
They Sold Last Year

Crooks and Liars

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

It also raises questions about where the president is getting his information. As he himself said, coronavirus is “different”. It is a highly contagious virus that is lethal at high rates for older and vulnerable people with pre-existing conditions. In order to protect health workers vast numbers of masks are required to keep them safe.

Trump has a habit of just making shit up and trying to pass it off as fact. He actually met with the Canadian prime minister, made up a bunch of shit about a non-existent trade deficit between Canada and the U.S. and then he bragged about lying to the Canadian Prime Minister!

Seriously! Trump refuses to study, he refuses to learn about what's going on in the real world, he lies about what's going on and then he brags about lying!

What kind of person feels pride after engaging in that kind of behavior?


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-openly-brags-about-lying-to-justin-trudeaus-face

 

[bodysong]

Trump insists that everyone is to blame, but him.

Does that sound familiar ? (Long list!)

The propaganda of the moment, is that The Impeachment is to blame
for Trump's clusterfuck response to coronavirus-

Trump writes letter to Sen. Schumer saying if he spent less time on the
“impeachment hoax” and more time on the people on NY, the NY
would not have been so unprepared for the “invisible enemy.”

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) April 2, 2020


Everyone on the stage with Trump lied during today's Daily Trump Show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/02/white-house-coronavirus-briefing-takeaways/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nemployment-democratic-convention-trump-biden

bonus-

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Once more:

The president pushed back against the suggestion of suspending domestic
plane and rail travel by saying passengers on planes and trains are getting
tested twice, before departure and after arrival. They are not being tested at all:

(link to CNN)

2 minutes ago

(bodysong comment-Trumps inaccurate, misleading, mistaken, disinformation filled blabbing...)

"Asked at a White House briefing if he is considering a temporary ban
on domestic flights and rail travel, Trump said he was thinking about
how to handle flights to and from virus "hot spots," but that it's
"a very tough thing" to shut down "entire transportation systems."
He also claimed that there are safeguards already in place.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/poli...sengers-tested-for-the-coronavirus/index.html

Under the heading of "Who- Gives- a- Fuck- ?
at the moment that the discussion about the ventilators, and the funding needed.
arises, Trump has better things to do...
golf, twitter, generating publicity with headlines.


Trump on Wednesday repeated the debunked claim that "nobody" predicted
the shortages of ventilators that have become a major part of the coronavirus
crisis in the US.

Trump is wrong. Medical experts and public health officials have said for years
that the US would face a shortage of ventilators if there were ever a pandemic
like Covid-19. Even during Trump's presidency, there had been warnings that
hospitals would run out of lifesaving equipment and resources would be strained
because the US wasn't prepared for a pandemic.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/fact-check-trump-coronavirus-briefing-april-1/index.html

Memory Lane

The outgoing US president, Barack Obama, and first lady, Michelle Obama,
greet Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the White House to host a tea prior
to Trump’s inauguration. The couples exchange hugs and Melania presents
Michelle with a gift, before the four move inside.

— 8:30 a.m.: Donald and Melania Trump attend service at St. John's Church

— 9:40 a.m.: President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome the Trumps to the White House

— 9:45 a.m.: Obamas host a coffee and tea reception for the Trumps.

— 10:30 a.m.: Trumps, Obamas leave White House for U.S. Capitol

20 Jan 2017 Day of Dread

https://www.politico.com/story/2017...ration-schedule-of-events-and-timeline-233891

 

[bodysong]

Donald J. Trump ✓
Twitter › realDonaldTrump

Why didn’t the I.G., who spent 8 years with the Obama Administration
(Did she Report on the failed H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died?),
want to talk to the Admirals, Generals, V.P. & others in charge, before doing her
report. Another Fake Dossier!

3 hours ago

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Christi Grimm is a career official, not an Obama appointee.
She began at the IG's office in 1999. She was there for 1+ years of Clinton,
8 years Bush, 8 years Obama, now 3 years Trump.

The report on hospital shortages is based on interviews with administrators
at 323 hospitals.

3 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days

April 14, 2020

When we last updated our database of President Trump’s false or misleading claims,
it was on Jan. 19, the end of his third year as president. The president’s most frequently
repeated false claim was that he presided over the best economy in the history of the
United States.

The next day, the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus was reported in the
United States. So, with this update through April 3, we’ve added a new category-
coronavirus- that already has more than 350 items.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...e-18000-false-or-misleading-claims-1170-days/

Trump's Longest Yap

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Yesterday’s briefing set a new record, per @FactbaseFeed data.

Factba.se
Twitter › FactbaseFeed

Quick note: chart is updated with some revised numbers.
Our AI Margaret clearly took a personal day yesterday...
Trump's speaking time was 74 min. (01:13:48), NOT 62 min.,
so 51.5%. We're manually checking results today to be safe.
margaret.ai offers her apologies.

9 hours ago

Factba.se
Twitter › FactbaseFeed

1/2: Today's #coronavirus #covid19 #TrumpPressConf came in at 67 min, 10 sec.,
with @realDonaldTrump speaking for 57 min (84.9%) of the presser.
Adjusted format. Other than speakers presenting for ~6 min., a
nd questions, no other presenters vs. a handoff to the @VP. Trump only...

5 hours ago

1/4: Record: Today's #coronavirus #covid19 #TrumpPressConf was the longest event
of @realDonaldTrump's presidency at 143 minutes (02:23:20). He left the event at
104 minutes, and @VP kept the task force briefing to 39 minutes, tight within his
range of 35-45 minutes...

1 day ago

Unofficial numbers from #TrummPressConf:
@realDonaldTrump spoke for 62 of the 104 minutes of the presser,
before handing off to the @VP ... betters numbers once things wrap up.

1 day ago

 

[bodysong]

Donald Trump Went on TV and Tried to Blame His Own Failures on Everyone Else.

It Didn't Go Well.

https://www.motherjones.com/coronav...n-failures-on-everyone-else-it-didnt-go-well/

 

[bodysong]

Here We Go: Trump Has Started Accusing the Dems of Stealing the 2020 Election

April 2020

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...using-the-dems-of-stealing-the-2020-election/

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

The president was told that he had a campaign rally last month.
He responded that he hasn’t left the White House in months
except for one non-rally. The utter shamelessness of his dishonesty
was on display again tonight.

16 hours ago

March 2, 2020

Trump Can’t Recall Any Campaign Rallies in Feb, March When Reporter Asks
If He Downplayed Coronavirus Risk

(There Were Six)

Trump’s transparent ploy came during an exchange with PBS White House
correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, who pressed him on whether he bears any
responsibility for people getting sick during those two months because they
were taking their cues from his dismissive attitude toward the outbreak.

“A lot of people love Trump, right?”
the president said in a bizarre, self-congratulatoryresponse, which did not at all addres
Alcindor’s very serious question. “And guess I’m here for a reason."
"To the best of my knowledge I won, and I think we’re going to win again."
" I think we’re going to win in a landslide.”

When Alcindor finally got a word in edgewise-
she correctly pointed out “you held rallies in February and in March.”
The Trump campaign held rallies \on Feb. 10, 19, 20, 21, and 28, as well
as one on March 2nd.

“I don’t know about rallies. I really don’t know about rallies,” Trump said,
a ludicrously false claim. “I know one thing, I haven’t left the White House
in months, except for a brief moment to give a wonderful ship, the [USNS]
Comfort…”

“You held a rally in March,” Alcindor again said, noting an indisputable fact.

“I don’t know, did I hold a rally?” Trump said, waving his arms in a brazen attempt
at ducking reality. “I’m sorry, I hold a rally. Did I hold a rally?”

“Let me tell you, in January, when I did this you had virtually no cases and no deaths
and yet I put [the ban] on. So how could I not?” he said before pivoting back to
Nancy Pelosi’s outing in San Francisco that took place before his last two
campaign rallies.

(CNN has it on tape)

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...e-downplayed-coronavirus-risk-there-were-six/

Trump has been avoiding answering serious questions from women journalists,
by insulting the women, or abrubtly ending his daily LIVE campaign ads paid
by tax-payers, and walking away. American citizens do not get the coronavirus
information they have been promised, because Trump gets upset when real
doctors tell the scientific truth.

 

[bodysong]

John Kerry: "Even when [Trump] says he shut down China, 435,000 people
continued to come in on airplanes."

— The Hill (@thehill) April 21, 2020

bodysong comment-

sheesh!

I had seen that 45,000 more had come through after Trump's supposed cut off.

 

[bodysong]

A more clear picture-

Over and over, Trump highlighted his decision to ban some flights from China
in late January before there were any virus-related deaths confirmed in the US –
even though nearly 400,000 people travelled to the US from China before the
restrictions were in place and 40,000 people have arrived there since.

The CBS News correspondent Paula Reid was having none of it and cut to the
chase. “The argument is that you bought yourself some time,” she said “You
didn’t use it to prepare hospitals. You didn’t use it to ramp up testing. Right now,
nearly 20m people are unemployed. Tens of thousands of Americans are dead.”

Trump talked over her: “You’re so disgraceful. It’s so disgraceful the way you say that.”

Reid demanded: “How is this newsreel or this rant supposed to make people feel
confident in an unprecedented crisis?”

Trump reverted to his China travel restrictions but Reid continued to push him
on his inaction in February. Trump was unable to muster a reasonable response.
It was a case study in how, when he loses an argument, his instinct is to attack the
accuser. He trotted out his frayed, timeworn insult: “You know you’re a fake, your
whole network the way you cover it is fake ... That’s why you have a lower approval
rating than probably you’ve ever had before times three.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rus-meltdown-media-authority?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/recent

 

[bodysong]

Likely to get as much meaning out of Trump's statements, as from a parrot.
What issues forth, out of his mouth, is garbled and incomprehensible.
Trying to nail down intention and meaning, is like trying to nail jello
onto a wood plank floor. Spokespeople for Trump return to the old excuses-

He was joking. He mis-spoke. Someone mislead him. He was mistaken
He had a brain fart ATM, and sarcasm...

"...the president faces a huge backlash over comments he made at yesterday’s
briefing, where he mused on whether disinfectant or sunlight could be used
internally to treat coronavirus."

Today the president has attempted to backtrack, claiming his comments
were merely “sarcasm”. As the Guardian’s Poppy Noor writes ...

Now, this might cause one to question whether Trump knows the definition
of sarcasm which, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a sharp and often satirical
or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain”.

The thought of the president baiting journalists to see “how they would react”
in a time of unprecedented crisis is unsettling, but it is nothing new: Trump has
mastered the art saying one thing and retracting or changing his statement when
public opinion doesn’t follow.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...us-live-news-trump-cuomo-georgia-cases-latest

Was Trump being 'sarcastic' with his disinfectant comments?

He said he had asked his medical advisers to look into whether light could be “brought inside the body”, and whether with disinfectant “we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”

video still and video- Trump floats dangerous coronavirus treatment ideas as Dr Birx looks on (the expression on her face is not one of celebration and happiness)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/trump-disinfectant-bleach-sarcastic

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

"I was asking a sarcastic, & a very sarcastic question, to the reporters in the room
about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it." -- Trump tries to rewrite history,
says he was speaking "sarcastically" when he mused about disinfectant injections
being cure for Covid.

April 24, 2020

Not only did Trump walk it back, he walked it over the edge.

 

[hogjack]

Florida Man Dies Because He is Florida Man

 

[bodysong]

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

Thursday night, after a completely farcical coronavirus press briefing from
(Presiderp) Donald Trump, the White House put out a transcript of the event
that falsely showed Dr. Deborah Birx supporting one of his ridiculous ideas.
By Friday morning, the White House was forced to issue a correction of its
transcript showing that, in fact, the coronavirus response coordinator had
shot down the president.

“Deborah, have you ever heard of that?” Trump said, turning to the doctor sitting
against the wall in the briefing room. “The heat and the light, relative to certain
viruses, yes, but relative to this virus?”

Here’s where the correction comes in. According to the first, false transcript,
the White House claimed Birx said: “That is a treatment.”

In fact, as the White House now acknowledges, she said the opposite:
“Not as a treatment.”

"...it’s always unsettling when the White House makes factual errors that seem
to present the president in a better light than the truth."

- Cody Fenwick

April 24, 2020

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/th...id-dr-birx-agreed-with-trumps-ludicrous-idea/

Get a load of Dr. Birx's demeanor after Trump tells her, "I would like you to speak
to the medical doctors to see if there's any way that you can apply light and heat
to cure [coronavirus]."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 23, 2020

(Made a fool of himself and Dr. Birx)

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

He tells the best lies. Really big, great lies..Lieier than anyone else.

If you listen to Donald Trump, before him there was nothing.

According to Trump, before he was elected, the United States military, which was fighting wars in two countries, confronting foreign navies on the high seas, launching drone attacks willy-nilly, and had soldiers stationed in more than 100 outposts around the world, had no ammunition. In the Rose Garden on March 30, Trump said, “I’ll never forget the day when a general came and said, ‘Sir’ — my first week in office — ‘we have no ammunition.'”

On Oct. 9 of last year, he told the same story: “When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition. I was told by a top general — maybe the top of them all — ‘Sir, I’m sorry. Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘I’ll never let another president have that happen to him or her.’ We didn’t have ammunition.”

But now that Trump is in charge, according to him, “We have so much ammunition. You wouldn’t believe it, how much ammunition we have.”

Before Trump, we had no supplies of any kind: “The shelves were bare,” he has told us over and over at his coronavirus briefings. The shelves he’s referring to are those of the national stockpile of emergency medical equipment, the same shelves we’ve seen in photographs of a warehouse stacked with pallets filled with medical equipment, all of which has been there for years. But according to Trump, before he came along “the shelves were empty.”

Fuhgettaboutit it when it comes to testing for the coronavirus. “We took over a dead, barren system,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” on March 30. “We inherited a broken test.” The “broken” test was created in February of this year by Trump’s Centers for Disease Control.


At his briefing on April 18, Trump said, “I inherited broken junk. Just as they did with ventilators where we had virtually none, and the hospitals were empty.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/tr...ers-let-em-die/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[bodysong]

But wait, there’s more! In the same press event today, Trump proceeded
to make it very clear he was not being sarcastic!

“So I said, how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body with the hands
and disinfect, I think would work. .. Maybe there’s something there.”

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 24, 2020

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/49827_The_Ever-Evolving_Lies_of_Donald_Trump

 

[bodysong]

Because of the fear of coronavirus infection, there was an increase in accidental
poisonings from household cleaning chemicals. Instructions about not mixing
chemicals together were given over the internet and on TV, and safety hints,
were given, also. New CDC information is beginning to present a clear picture
of people poisioning themselves on purpose, because Trump's speech to the public.

NYC Poison Control Sees Uptick In Calls After Trump's Disinfectant Comments

- Jason Slotkin

The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said that in an 18-hour period
ending at 3 p.m. Friday, the poison control center recorded 30 cases. These included
nine "specifically about exposure to Lysol, 10 cases specifically about bleach and
11 cases about exposures to other household cleaners," department spokesperson
Pedro F. Frisneda tells NPR. That compares with only 13 cases for the same time
frame one year ago.

At Thursday's daily briefing, Trump conjectured that ingesting disinfectant
could be worth looking into as a way to treat the virus.

"I see the disinfectant — where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute.
And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or
almost a cleaning?"

Trump walked back his remarks the next day, calling them a sarcastic question
to reporters, "just to see what would happen."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/


Poison Control Centers Have Been Extra Busy Since President Trump Suggested Injecting Bleach Can Cure Coronavirus

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...ggested-injecting-bleach-can-cure-coronavirus

Trump:
My Idea to Inject Disinfectant Was a Prank on Reporters ‘Just to See What Would Happen’

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...ject-disinfectant-was-prank-on-reporters.html

Trump Thinks His Job Is Brainstorming Miracle Coronavirus Cures

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-sunlight-disinfectant-brix-sceince.html

26 Apr 2020

Donald Trump’s suggestion that injecting disinfectant could be used as a treatment
for Covid-19 were so outlandish that they’re easy to dismiss as the ramblings of a
leader unable to handle the demands of a pandemic.

The president has since said that he was being “sarcastic”, although TV footage
does not bear that out. The president has repeatedly given false or misleading
information about the coronavirus during his press briefings, and has often
found himself at odds with advice given by his own medical experts.

Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan said that he had raised concerns
about “mixed messaging” coming from the White House during the pandemic,
and said that the president needed to stick to facts during his briefings.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...virus-us-latest-news-trump-birx-cuomo-updates

 

[bodysong]

Apr 26th, 2020

(Presiderp) Trump made a silly mistake and is attempting to save face by claiming it was
merely “sarcasm.”

Trump attacked the media and jornalist, reporters-

Trump was mocked immediately, enthusiastically, and viciously for the tweets,
both for the repeated misspelling (the award is known as the Nobel Prize, named
for the Swedish scientist and businessman who founded the awards) and for the
fact that Nobel Prizes are awarded for outstanding contributions to humanity in
several fields, including peace, chemistry, medicine, physics, literature —
but not journalism.

After several hours of ridicule, Trump deleted the three tweets complaining
about “Noble” Prizes. Yashar Ali, among others, had preserved the tweets
with screenshots:

I’m assuming the president means Pulitzer Prize and not the Nobel Prize…
not to mention the misspelling.

Do any Trump supporters want to defend errors like this? I just know if Biden
did the same thing they’d be attacking him for it, and they’d be right to!

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) April 26, 2020

Trump then posted a new tweet, suddenly claiming he was just being sarcastic,
that he never meant to reference the Nobel Prize and instead was just insulting
the reporters’ lack of morality.

Does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called Noble (not Nobel) Prize is,
especially as it pertains to Reporters and Journalists? Noble is defined as,
“having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.”
Does sarcasm ever work?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020


Trump Rages On Twitter About 'Noble Prize', Demands Journalists Return Them

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/donald-trump-rages-twitter-about-noble

On Twitter Sunday, Donald Trump said in a since-deleted tweet that journalists
investigating his administration should have their "Noble" prizes given back.
CNN TV journalist Don Lemon's response to that is what we're all feeling at
this point.

Don Lemon is all of us.

(pic)

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) April 27, 2020

 

[bodysong]

Capitol physician says Senate lacks capacity to test all senators

The Senate returns Monday amid mounting anxiety from lawmakers
that the coronavirus could spread quickly through the chamber.

April 30, 2020

The Capitol’s attending physician said Thursday that coronavirus tests
will be available for staffers and senators who are ill, but not enough
to proactively test all 100 senators as the chamber comes back in session,
according to two people familiar with the matter.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/30/capitol-physician-senators-coronavirus-testing-226980

May 4, 2020

"No surprise. Trump is lieing."

- Stephen Colbert


As Trump Dishonestly Boasts About It, John Oliver Takes a Deep Look
at How Bad the US’s Coronavirus Testing Is

Oliver points out that there was an “arrogant belief” that coronavirus would never
come to America. “We are currently living in the consequences because of those
failures,” he said.

In addition, lab equipment, swabs and chemical reagents to administer the tests
have been hard to come by. For months, many states were seeing a shortage of
swabs and the federal government was not stepping in.

“To do proper testing, you need proper equipment,” said Oliver. In response,
Trump said these shortages didn’t exist and insisted that governors will be
“finding them very soon” as if it were a scavenger hunt.

Trump eventually invoked the Defense Production Act to ramp up supplies but
he did it late. There were many mistakes with diagnostic tests in the U.S. and
we were wasting valuable time fixing them. Tests were heavily rationed and
given to people who met narrow criteria.

Even so, Kushner said this week in his victory lap that “We did this quickly”
and that it was extraordinary.

“Taking months to do what other countries did in weeks is not extraordinary,” Oliver said.

https://deadline.com/2020/05/last-w...esting-jared-kushner-donald-trump-1202924773/

Oliver goes back to testing — and it is not as readily available no matter how much
he (Trump) lies about it. He has continued to do so and said last week that there is
enough testing sufficient enough to open the country. and according to experts, it isn’t.

“We need to scale up tests massively and right away,” said Oliver.
“If we want to return to the world that we are used — testing is how we get there."
" That is message that should unite everyone in this country.”

 

[bodysong]

Wednesday seems to be the day that Mitch McConnell tries some underhanded, ugly move-

McConnell, Pelosi decline Trump administration offer of rapid coronavirus
tests as states loosen lockdown orders

May 2, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a92bf4-8cad-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html

Moscow Mitch Willing To Kill His Fellow Senators To Get Political Toadie
On Court Of Appeals

The toadie in question:

Only 161 days after he took his seat on the U.S. District Court in Louisville, Judge
Justin Walker, who has close ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
is being tapped to fill a vacancy on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia.

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
last year rated Walker "not qualified" for the District Court, saying that he had
never tried a case, either civil or criminal, as lead or co-counsel.

But Walker was confirmed by the Senate 50-41

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...s-To-Get-Political-Toadie-On-Court-Of-Appeals

Appeals Court Vacancy Is Under Scrutiny Ahead of Contested Confirmation Hearing

The New York Times

6 hours ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/politics/senate-confirmation-justin-walker.html

Federal judge requests investigation of McConnell for allegedly pressuring judges to retire

The Courier-Journal

31 mins ago

https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...ation-allegedly-pressuring-judges/3083144001/

Judge Justin Walker, now nominated to a powerful federal court dubbed
"the second highest" in the nation, remains bitter that the Supreme Court
upheld the Affordable Care Act eight years ago.

The District of Columbia appeals court is considered a steppingstone to the Supreme Court.

Senate Republicans to Push Ahead on Judges Over Democratic Objections

April 28, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/politics/senate-republicans-judicial-nominees.html

https://www.nytimes.com › politics › senate-republicans-judicial-nominees

 

[Perfectly_shaped_buttocks]

He tells the best lies. Really big, great lies..Lieier than anyone else.

TRUMP'S TWEET: "It is not possible for my surrogates to stand at a podium with perfect accuracy."

TRANSLATION: "It is not possible for my surrogates to appear before the press and tell the truth. If they tell the truth, I am totally screwed."

 

[bodysong]

"We have prevailed."
-Trump

“We have met the moment and we have prevailed,” Trump said.

May 11, 2020

Trump falsely claimed that his administration prevailed on coronavirus testing.
He had banners posted on the sides of his podium, for his Rose Garden speech.

On the day the U.S. death toll from coronavirus topped 80,000, President Donald
Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden for a “mission accomplished” moment.

Behind Trump were a row of American flags and a pair of giant signs reading,
in all capital letters: “America leads the world in testing,” referring to the total
number of U.S. tests conducted in recent months rather than per-capita testing,
in which America does not lead the world.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/11/white-house-instructs-staff-wear-masks-249204

He prevailed over nothing.

Journalists from the real world would not accept statements that were insubstantial
and unstable as jello.

It was in no way possible to give an answer that had any substance to it.

So, lacking meat, he threw out #Obamagate.
No one could chew on it, or digest it.
But, it did create an ink cloud.

 

[KeithD]

Guess Trump and friends didn't read the history of the Bush the Lesser years and what he's remembered for. Not surprised.

 

[Schlank]

Remember when Trump pressured the government of Ukraine to lie about Joseph Biden?

Well, that didn't work, so now Trump is attempting to come up with his own lies.

Trump is now claiming that "Obamagate" is the biggest political scandal in the history of the human race, although Trump cannot tell us what happened during Obamagate or where any evidence of any crime might be found.

"Obamagate" is basically an example of leadership by distraction and overwhelming amounts of bullshit. Trump and his accomplices are attempting to distract and mislead by creating inflammatory and fictitious narratives.

This isn't leadership. This is the childish use of clickbait slogans to deceive and mask complex issues. Trump doesn't want an educated, informed electorate. Trump wants angry, screaming mobs of right-wing fanatics who wave guns and demand crazy things like the right to be contaminated by killer viruses.