Trump burns the Trump Presidency to the ground

[phrodeau]

You'd just be aping previously written text.

Besides, with exceptions, humanity did not emanate from a monkey's ass. Diseases most certainly can be attributed - in part - to a monkey's ass but not humanity.

Is that what God told you?

There are terms for people who think God talks to them. Mostly medical.

 

[allison22]

‘A weak man with delusions of competence’: Trump buried for lying his way through the daily pandemic press conferences



In a brutally blunt piece for the New York Times, columnist Jennifer Senior went scorched earth on Donald Trump for his lie-filled performances in the now daily press briefings on the coronavirus pandemic — suggesting the media call them what they are: presidential “propaganda.”

Following a day when the combative Trump attacked NBC reporter Peter Alexander for merely asking what he could say to the public that is living in fear of the pandemic, Senior said enough is enough.

“In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Only the opposite is on offer from the Trump White House. It is therefore time to call the president’s news conferences for what they are: propaganda,” she wrote. “We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing the falsification of history in real time. When Donald Trump, under the guise of social distancing, told the White House press corps on Thursday that he ought to get rid of 75 to 80 percent of them — reserving the privilege only for those he liked — it may have been chilling, but it wasn’t surprising. He wants to thin out their ranks until there’s only Pravda in the room.”


According to the columnist, Trump’s press conferences are full of bluster and lies and stand in stark contrast with those being held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY).


For many, Friday’s contentious press conference should be the tipping point for most journalists.

“At his Thursday news conference, a discussion of chloroquine and other experimental therapies formed the core of his remarks, when those drugs and therapies are untested and unproven and, in some cases, won’t be ready for several months, as NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed out the following day,” she recalled. “‘What do you say to Americans who are scared?’ Alexander pressed. ‘I say that you’re a terrible reporter,’ Trump answered. Only a liar — and a weak man with delusions of competence — would be so unnerved by the facts.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/a-...ss-conferences/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Fuzzy1975]

‘A weak man with delusions of competence’: Trump buried for lying his way through the daily pandemic press conferences



In a brutally blunt piece for the New York Times, columnist Jennifer Senior went scorched earth on Donald Trump for his lie-filled performances in the now daily press briefings on the coronavirus pandemic — suggesting the media call them what they are: presidential “propaganda.”

Following a day when the combative Trump attacked NBC reporter Peter Alexander for merely asking what he could say to the public that is living in fear of the pandemic, Senior said enough is enough.

“In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Only the opposite is on offer from the Trump White House. It is therefore time to call the president’s news conferences for what they are: propaganda,” she wrote. “We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing the falsification of history in real time. When Donald Trump, under the guise of social distancing, told the White House press corps on Thursday that he ought to get rid of 75 to 80 percent of them — reserving the privilege only for those he liked — it may have been chilling, but it wasn’t surprising. He wants to thin out their ranks until there’s only Pravda in the room.”


According to the columnist, Trump’s press conferences are full of bluster and lies and stand in stark contrast with those being held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY).


For many, Friday’s contentious press conference should be the tipping point for most journalists.

“At his Thursday news conference, a discussion of chloroquine and other experimental therapies formed the core of his remarks, when those drugs and therapies are untested and unproven and, in some cases, won’t be ready for several months, as NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed out the following day,” she recalled. “‘What do you say to Americans who are scared?’ Alexander pressed. ‘I say that you’re a terrible reporter,’ Trump answered. Only a liar — and a weak man with delusions of competence — would be so unnerved by the facts.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/a-...ss-conferences/?utm_source=push_notifications

The correct reply from Alexander should have been :"and I say your a terrible president, now will you answer the question for the American people"?

 

[hogjack]

Trump burns presidency to the ground

You need to frequent masturbation threads more. Stress is a terrible thing to endure long term.

 

[hogjack]

Is that what God told you?

Possibly. It's a running conversation and I should have taken notes!

 

[allison22]

Now, we have a petty, incompetent Republican president who only clearly cares about his re-election campaign; Republican congressmen who are only concerned about Trump’s image; and Republican senators who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to perpetrate insider trading.

 

[hogjack]

Now, we have a petty, incompetent Republican president who only clearly cares about his re-election campaign; Republican congressmen who are only concerned about Trump’s image; and Republican senators who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to perpetrate insider trading.

Little known fact: 70% of congress has untreated syphilis.

However, it takes years for the ravages of syphilis to hinder carriers. Probably only 1/3 of those with syphilis are operating at diminished capacity.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Now, we have a petty, incompetent Republican president who only clearly cares about his re-election campaign; Republican congressmen who are only concerned about Trump’s image; and Republican senators who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to perpetrate insider trading.

Trump has never been incompetent, he could never rise to that level...

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Rick Wilson: Trump voters are about to pay a terrible price for cheering on Trump's coronavirus denialism

“It was inevitable that Trump would face a crisis immune to tweets or stupid memes or insulting nicknames. The damage he does to everyone and everything around him has become an iron law of American politics, an invariable and inevitable process. Still, I didn’t think it extended to everyone in the country, that it would produce actual bodies stacked like cordwood in a preventable, slow-rolling pandemic,” he explained. “When I wrote Everything Trump Touches Dies, I didn’t mean it literally. Donald Trump seems intent on proving me wrong.”

“Every lie about testing kits, personal protective equipment, miracle cures, economic resurgences, and his understanding of the science behind epidemics, viruses, and the health-care system breaks the faith of Americans a little more,” he warned. “Every day that passes compounds his errors from the day before. Every time he promises miracles and produces little, but chaos leaves the states on the front line of this battle a little less able to face the rising curve of the coronavirus crisis.”


And that, he claimed, should be worrying to people living in red states, because the coronavirus will soon hit their communities too.

“Every day, we see a president prove himself unworthy of risks and sacrifices already accepted by first responders and health-care workers—and unworthy of leading a nation of which much, much more will soon be asked,” he explained. “Until now, none of this would have put a dent in Trump’s support. I mean, we’ve learned that lesson by now as a nation. Trump’s base loves his transgressive nature—not that they can define it—and love that he’s a middle finger to decency, normality, tradition, and the law.”

“But COVID-19 is coming to pay a house call they won’t soon forget, and the damage in some of the places in this country where the Trump-Fox party’s support is the most passionate and unwavering will be staggering,” Wilson warned. “No, MAGAs, this isn’t a disease of the degenerate socialist coastal elites states. The coronavirus doesn’t see this through the lens of Flight 93 Trumpism; it’s about to scythe through red states, red districts, red towns, and red neighborhoods while giving no fucks what’s on Fox, MAGA Twitter, or on the local Sinclair agitprop outlet. “


According to conservative, those parts of the country and the most ill-prepared for what is to come because Republican lawmakers in those states have not heeded what is going on in other states that have already been hit hard.

“First, and most importantly, they are where the Fox audience lives, and for seven long weeks, they were told coronavirus was a seasonal flu… no big deal… totally under control. Nothing to worry about. Trump had shut down travel with China, and one day soon it would all just—poof!—disappear. ‘It’s a great time to travel!’ said Frau [Laura] Ingraham,” Wilson elaborated. “The second pain point for Trump states is just beginning to play out. Louisiana is the fastest-growing hotspot, with the case curve nearly vertical in the last five days. In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves seems intent on winning the award for Darwin’s Waiting Room by slow-rolling preparations and laughing off efforts to flatten the curve.”

“Now, they need experts and elites. Experts are the people in emergency rooms, admitting them. Experts are working around the clock to unf*ck Trump’s ineptitudes. Experts are mapping the inexorable spread of this disease and mapping strategies to mitigate it. Their lives are now literally in the hands of experts. They need truth and facts and transparency. Lives depend on it. Suddenly, the world of f*ck-your-feelings shock-jock presidential leadership fails utterly when called on to deliver measurable results and to hit real metrics,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/ri...-cheering-on-his-early-coronavirus-denialism/

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

The president’s misinformation and mendacity about the coronavirus are head-snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had “shut it down” when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn’t. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear “like a miracle”; it won’t. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more.

Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. (He said that it was three weeks prior to the point at which he spoke; the actual figure was twice that.) The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting “much better” when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements an American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low.

“I like the numbers,” Trump said. “I would rather have the numbers stay where they are. But if they want to take them off, they’ll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 [cases] is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 [deaths] will be a higher number too.” (Cooler heads prevailed, and over the president’s objections, the Grand Princess was allowed to dock at the Port of Oakland.)

On and on it goes.

To make matters worse, the president delivered an Oval Office address that was meant to reassure the nation and the markets but instead shook both. The president’s delivery was awkward and stilted; worse, at several points, the president, who decided to ad-lib the teleprompter speech, misstated his administration’s own policies, which the administration had to correct. Stock futures plunged even as the president was still delivering his speech. In his address, the president called for Americans to “unify together as one nation and one family,” despite having referred to Washington Governor Jay Inslee as a “snake” days before the speech and attacking Democrats the morning after it. As The Washington Post’s Dan Balz put it, “Almost everything that could have gone wrong with the speech did go wrong.”

Taken together, this is a massive failure in leadership that stems from a massive defect in character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, shortsighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause. And he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president’s disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless; it is downright injurious.

The nation is recognizing this, treating him as a bystander “as school superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners across the country take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the president,” in the words of Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.

Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes.

The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/

Americans are dying. Governors, mayors, medical doctors, nurses and paramedics are working their asses off to deal with the crisis, meanwhile what's Trump doing?

Trump is out there bragging about his TV ratings and telling everyone not to help the governor of Michigan because she wouldn't kiss his ass.

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

Preliminary numbers suggest middle-aged and working-age adults in Georgia and Louisiana are much more likely to die than the same age group elsewhere, and the reasons are complicated.

A recent analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that adults under 60 in Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi were much more likely to fall into a high-risk category — such as heart disease, cancer, lung disease or diabetes.

That age group made up about a quarter of their states’ vulnerable population, compared to just 19 percent in Washington State.

Those risk factors are the result of policies that have perpetuated the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow era, and the South remains the poorest region in the U.S.

Poor whites, as well as black people, Latinos and rural residents, lack access to high-quality health care and grocery stores with healthy food.

Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas spent just $25 per person last year on public health, compared to New York — which has been overwhelmed by the pandemic — and nine of the 14 states that refused to expand Medicaid to poor residents under the Affordable Care Act are in the former Confederacy.

Republican governors some of those states have followed President Donald Trump’s lead and refused to issue stay-at-home orders until the virus had been widely spread, and the results of their policies are about to be seen.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/yo...o-gop-policies/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Schlank]

Trump is regretting he squandered his credibility by repeatedly lying to the American people


MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace blasted the Trump administration for having squandered his credibility and is now in public health and economic crises.

“It was always going to come to this — the federal government that Donald Trump leads was going to miss the credibility and clarity it squandered,” Wallace reported.

“Donald Trump — who’s has clocked more than 16,000 lies as president and who refuses to acknowledge saying things that are literally documented on tape when those statements no longer to serve his political or PR goals — is now struggling to convince Americans to do the very things he needs them to do: follow the advice of his top docs and stay home to avoid a more catastrophic outcome in the face of the coronavirus pandemic,” she explained.

Prior to her career in journalism, Wallace was a top Republican strategist and served as communications director in the George W. Bush administration.

“Now, at a moment where our lives literally depend on it, the White House’s top doctors bemoan the fact that some people just aren’t getting it,” she continued. “In last night’s briefing, Dr. Deborah Birx warning that the data shows the amount of social distancing happening in this country today is still not enough to flatten the curve,” she noted, playing a clip of the briefing.

“More than a quarter of a million cases, more than 6700 deaths,” Wallace noted. “New York’s share of those numbers is staggering: more than 100,000 cases and 3,000 deaths in New York state after its deadliest day by far, 562 deaths just in the last 24-hours, the largest single-day increase yet.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/tr...icolle-wallace/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[JackLuis]

The thing I noticed at yesterdays briefing, after the PeeResident introduced Dr Birx, Donnie stepped aside, right in front of her carefully crafted graph, that Pence had stepped away from and Dr Birx was polight enough to not say, "If the PeeResident would, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY! I can show you how this shit works!"

Very polite Dr Birx.

 

[dp4shelly]

Nothing to say?

According to Christianity, God has had nothing to say for two thousand years. How much longer are you going to stay on hold?

Just because you don't hear very well doesn't mean nothing has been said.

 

[tallladiesman]

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus
Check out the US numbers
Particularly the logarithmic deaths graph
8 to 9 days before things get really really messy

 

[Schlank]

I'm inclined to believe you. Trump has attempted to distract from his incompetence by claiming that he knows more about everything than the experts and claiming that news reports of his fuck-ups are "fake news", but this may be the one time that such childish distractions and deceptions won't work.

Who could have suspected that a failed businessman, who posted huge losses at his Atlantic City casinos while other casinos in the area thrived, and narrowly escaped financial ruin by declaring bankruptcy,would do such a horrible job at running the government of one of the largest nations on the planet?

 

[hogjack]

Trump Lays the Groundwork for Declaring Himself High King for a Thousand Years (Or At Least Until It Gets Kinda Boring)

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

Who could have suspected that a failed businessman, who posted huge losses at his Atlantic City casinos while other casinos in the area thrived, and narrowly escaped financial ruin by declaring bankruptcy,would do such a horrible job at running the government of one of the largest nations on the planet?

Historians, history teachers, journalists, editors, intelligence analysts, investigators, college professors, military officers, scientists, also the many, many people who'd been scammed by Trump could have suspected that Trump would do a horrible job at running America.

Quite of few of them even warned us before the 2016 election.

Maybe we should have listened.

 

[KeithD]

Maybe we should have listened.

Sorry, I reject the "we." A majority knew what Trump is and didn't vote for him and have actively been opposing him. This lays directly in the responsibility of those who did vote for him, supported him, and, especially those who continue to do so, including the board Trumpettes here.

 

[Perfectly_shaped_buttocks]

Historians, history teachers, journalists, editors, intelligence analysts, investigators, college professors, military officers, scientists, also the many, many people who'd been scammed by Trump could have suspected that Trump would do a horrible job at running America.

Quite of few of them even warned us before the 2016 election.

Maybe we should have listened.

Trump is a reality TV show host, a con artist, a sex offender, and a sociopath with a long, established record of praising dictators. We knew all of that before the 2016 election and millions of Republicans voted for Trump anyway.

It's their fault that instead of a trustworthy adult running the country, we have a childish, reckless grifter.

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

In times of national crisis, it's traditionally the job of the president of the United States to shepherd the country through the crisis and save American lives. That's what Franklin D. Roosevelt did when he shepherded this country through the Great Depression and World War Two.

That's what John F. Kennedy did when he shepherded this country through the Cuban missile crisis.

But when a medical crisis threatens millions of American lives, Trump says he's not gonna help. Trump expects America's governors to do all the work. He just wants to watch TV, play golf and hold rallies.

 

[KeithD]

I'm all for Trump getting out and having lots of rallies.

 

[Schlank]

States and hospitals left in the dark as federal government seizes their medical supplies without explanation

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the federal government is quietly seizing supply orders from states and hospitals, leaving medical providers across the country wondering where the supplies are and where they’re going.

“Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week,” writes the Times’ Noam Levy. “The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not publicly reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to seize and where to reroute them.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/st...anation-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Schlank]

Trump is trying to beat the media in his pressers — but he’s losing: Conservative columnist


“Each day at the daily press briefing — a misnomer given that ‘briefing’ suggests a useful transmission of facts, not a staged rally for the benefit of the speaker’s ego — President Trump insults and berates the press. Female reporters are ‘nasty’ or a ‘disgrace’; ABC News White House reporter Jonathan Karl is a ‘third-rate reporter,” wrote Rubin. “Trump deflects, evades and mostly just lies about his own record, his current responsibilities, the course of the pandemic and other politicians. It is easy to come away with the impression that Trump is ‘winning’ each of these encounters.”


“The polls say otherwise,” continued Rubin. “The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll echoes the results of other polls showing Trump’s ‘bump’ in the polls is over and his approval is sliding downhill. ‘About 42% said they approved of how Trump was handling the crisis, down 6 points from a similar poll that ran last week.’ The RealClearPolitics average show Trump is underwater on his handling of the pandemic: 45.6 percent approve of his performance while 50 percent disapprove.”

By contrast, she noted, the same poll found 54 percent of U.S. adults approve of how the media has handled the crisis.


“The coronavirus pandemic is the rare event that affects virtually every American directly,” wrote Rubin. “While a plot to extort Ukraine or efforts to undermine the Mueller investigation are serious assaults on the Constitution and democratic norms, they do not directly affect most Americans’ daily lives. But Americans now are personally and viscerally experiencing the covid-19 phenomenon, either because they or a loved one is sick or unemployed, or because they are cooped up at home and unable to share the holidays with friends and family. Except for the most deluded partisans, it is impossible to ignore the massive toll it has taken. When the mainstream media’s portrayal matches that lived experience and reflects what they see in their own communities, the media gains credibility.”

“By contrast, Americans can see for themselves Trump’s serial false assurances (The virus will disappear!), broken promises (We’ll be back to work by Easter!), inability to generate a forceful federal response and attacks on well-regarded mayors and governors who are trying to protect their constituents,” wrote Rubin. “His hard-core base, aided by sycophantic right-wing media, will try laying blame on others or attacking the messenger, but so far, it does not seem to be working. It might just mean the only thing that matters are the facts.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/tr...tive-columnist/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Supporters turn on Trump for ‘flat-out lying’ about coronavirus: ‘He’s got no idea what the hell he’s doing’


“A few weeks ago I could ignore the parts of his personality I didn’t like,” said Cliff, a 25-year Chesapeake Bay waterman. “That’s over. I don’t believe anything he’s saying now.”

All of the sources asked to remain anonymous out of fear of backlash, but they were increasingly frustrated by a president whose actions they had already begun to doubt.

“He’s got no idea what the hell he’s doing, and I think he’s flat-out lying to everyone about how bad it really is, and how bad it’s going to get,” said Matt, an oysterman in his mid-40s.

Matt has always disagreed with Trump’s attacks on immigrants, some of whom he’s gotten to know on the job, but he said the president can’t necessarily count on his 2016 voters to stick with him.

“He thinks we’re all stupid and will show up for him no matter what,” he said. “At this point, I can’t imagine bringing myself to do that.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/su...irus-hes-got-no-idea-what-the-hell-hes-doing/