Trump Lost His Mind in Last Night's Axios Interview

[DeluxAuto]

There's a whole lot to unpack here. His cognitive failure has taken the forefront of his interviews.

The president raised eyebrows with his comments on John Lewis, coronavirus, Ghislaine Maxwell and more.

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Axios interview with Jonathan Swan finally aired on Monday night and it was a wild ride.

Trump tried to paint a rosy picture of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming “we’re last, meaning we’re first” in an attempt to downplay the death toll and current surge in fatalities.

Trump doubled down on his well-wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, who is in custody and facing her own charges.

“I do wish her well,” Trump said. “I’m not looking for anything bad for her.”

Trump was also asked about the legacy of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who died last month at the age of 80. Trump harped on the fact that Lewis didn’t attend his inauguration, then downplayed the civil rights icon while praising himself.

“Nobody has done more for Black Americans than I have,” Trump said. “He should’ve come.”

.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”

@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”

Donald Trump flounders in interview over US Covid-19 death toll

Donald Trump visibly floundered in an interview when pressed on a range of issues, including the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the US, his claims that mail-in voting is fraudulent, and his inaction over the “Russian bounty” scandal.

The US president also repeatedly cast doubt on the cause of death of Jeffrey Epstein, and said of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who has pleaded not guilty to participating in the sex-trafficking of girls by Epstein, that he wished her well.

In the interview, broadcast on HBO on Monday and conducted by Axios’s national political correspondent, Jonathan Swan, Trump again asserted that his administration was doing an “incredible job” responding to the coronavirus.

Claiming that the pandemic was unique, Trump said: “This has never happened before. Nineteen seventeen, but it was totally different, it was a flu in that case. If you watch the fake news on television, they don’t even talk about it, but there are 188 other countries right now that are suffering. Some, proportionately, far greater than we are.”

Trump has repeatedly referred to the 1917 flu pandemic, whereas the outbreak happened in 1918 and into 1919.

And when asked about the death toll from coronavirus so far in the US, of almost 155,000 killed, Trump appeared irritated and said: “It is what it is”

37 minute full interview here.

 

[butters]

how every non-corrupt republican politician isn't up in arms and replacing this man with an actual (non-corrupt) president is beyond me

oh.. wait...

 

[schism666]

i love that the interviewer knows more about mail-in ballots than trump. what a fucking clown.

 

[spacekowboy]

Let me beat the RWCJ to the punch here.


Commies, commies, commies.
Why do you hate america?
Ascription
Neo-maoists
Libtards
Orange man bad
Merica, love it or leave it.

That should cover it, now they can fuck off back to their basements.

 

[Trumpedo]

I laughed so hard when trump was trying to convince the guy about how low the death count is in the US.

Trump: look, we're lower than the world.

Interviewer: *confused look* lower than the world?

 

[millionairenextdoor]

At least Trump has a mind. And a great one at that! The man gets things done, maybe not by making sycophants rich the dim way, but that's ok with me!

Wonder what happened to Biden's?

 

[DeluxAuto]

At least Trump has a mind. And a great one at that! The man gets things done, maybe not by making sycophants rich the dim way, but that's ok with me!

Wonder what happened to Biden's?

What has "he got done?" How is giving massive tax cuts to the rich and bailing out the farmers not "making sycophants rich?" Fuck, you're kinda dumb.

 

[FescueFan]

Let me beat the RWCJ to the punch here.


Commies, commies, commies.
Why do you hate america?
Ascription
Neo-maoists
Libtards
Orange man bad
Merica, love it or leave it.

That should cover it, now they can fuck off back to their basements.

Libtard would be an improvement for you and your neo-Maoist comrades....none of you bruised up turds rate that high though.

 

[silver gurl]

Let me beat the RWCJ to the punch here.


Commies, commies, commies.
Why do you hate america?
Ascription
Neo-maoists
Libtards
Orange man bad
Merica, love it or leave it.

That should cover it, now they can fuck off back to their basements.

/thread

 

[Islander55]

How can you lose something you never had. He has always been an idiot. We knew exactly what Trump was when we elected him and now Americans are dying because so totally incompetent.

 

[islandman]

Someone will be in here shortly with a link to a story about how the hospital system is financially incented to ascribe cause of death to COVID-19 over the actual cause of death, thereby inflating the virus' mortality figures.

 

[IceDemon]

Regarding the Corona virus cases/death's in the United States compared to elsewhere...firstly, it isn't a competition, and secondly, separate individual countries have separate individual issues. Not all countries are set up the same and there are cultural differences too; some countries such as China, North and South Korea as well as some European societies are much more slavishly obedient to authority than in the US and the UK.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Libtard would be an improvement for you and your neo-Maoist comrades....none of you bruised up turds rate that high though.

Extremely childish insult Guess hypocrisy still lives deep in your feeble brain.

 

[spacekowboy]

Libtard would be an improvement for you and your neo-Maoist comrades....none of you bruised up turds rate that high though.

Got nothing original to say?
Here I'll give ya one a bit fresher that you can use next time.


"You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny."

You're welcome, fuckstick.

 

[Wrong Element]

Trump claims to be a "genius" and some sort of magical businessman, and he can't understand how to read a simple chart.

There are still people who think this imbecile is going to wipe the debate floor with Joe Biden. Biden is no intellectual and I've never claimed he is, but he's not visibly coming apart at the seams.

Plus I think Biden knows "Yosemite" is not pronounced "Yo, Semite."

 

[Sean]

I just watched it. Jesus H Christ, he's unbelievably stupid.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Man, I'm digging the new campaign slogan, "It is what it is"

 

[adrina]

There are 31% of Americans who support Trump's handling of the coronavirus. 31%.

 

[LLCox]

I have literally run out of crude things to say about that cock holster.

 

[adrina]

"I read my briefings so well, better than anyone." Holy cow. JFC.

 

[Wrong Element]

Here's the thing: by now Trump must know — and he's definitely been told — that it would be politically useful to him to come across like a human being, to treat this massive loss of life as the tragedy it is, to not make himself into the biggest victim of the pandemic.

And. He. Cannot. Do. It. He can't pretend to give a shit when he doesn't.

 

[adrina]

Here's the thing: by now Trump must know — and he's definitely been told — that it would be politically useful to him to come across like a human being, to treat this massive loss of life as the tragedy it is, to not make himself into the biggest victim of the pandemic.

And. He. Cannot. Do. It. He can't pretend to give a shit when he doesn't.

The one lie he can't tell. Heh.

 

[Rotadom]

Here's the thing: by now Trump must know — and he's definitely been told — that it would be politically useful to him to come across like a human being, to treat this massive loss of life as the tragedy it is, to not make himself into the biggest victim of the pandemic.

And. He. Cannot. Do. It. He can't pretend to give a shit when he doesn't.

You have to wonder if his surrounding sycophants cringe as much as patriotic Americans do and just pretend they aren't living in hell with the rest of us.

 

[pointless]

Trump claims to be a "genius" and some sort of magical businessman, and he can't understand how to read a simple chart.

There are still people who think this imbecile is going to wipe the debate floor with Joe Biden. Biden is no intellectual and I've never claimed he is, but he's not visibly coming apart at the seams.

Plus I think Biden knows "Yosemite" is not pronounced "Yo, Semite."

i used to pronounce it like that.

when i was twelve and i'd only read it and had no idea that that was how you spelled yosemite sams name.

 

[RobDownSouth]

One can get a feel for how bad the interview went by how many threads RightGuide has started today to drive this thread off the front page.