UPDATE: Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times (and formerly Fox 31 News in Colorado) summarizes Trump’s truth troubles:
One of the areas on which Trump has most conspicuously made statements that don’t square with reality involves testing for the virus.
“We’ve done a good job on testing,” he insisted Thursday.
Almost simultaneously, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the dearth of available tests in the U.S. as the outbreak spreads amounts to “a failing.”
“The system is not really geared to what we need right now,” Fauci said in testimony to the House Oversight Committee. “That is a failing. It is a failing. Let’s admit it.”
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President Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday night from the Oval Office, rattling off a bunch of information about the U.S. response to the Coronavirus pandemic that turned out to be absolutely wrong. As Dan Balz writes for The Washington Post:
In times of national crisis, people look to the president for direction, reassurance and confidence. President Trump’s Oval Office speech on Wednesday night provided precisely the opposite.
Trump’s Wednesday night bullshitting continued today during a press conference at the White House. Chris Cillizza of CNN points out the many, many, many falsehoods uttered by the actual President of the United States of America. You should really read Cillizza’s entire recount of this morning’s press event, but here’s a sampling of some of the most ridiculous of those quotes:
“You know, you see what’s going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve stopped it.”
We stopped the Coronavirus? No.
“And what is the number as of this morning? Is it 32? You could tell me. Is it 32 deaths, Steve, around that?”
We can’t add anything to Cillizza’s response here: The President of the United States is unaware of how many Americans have died as a result of coronavirus. Indefensible. At the time Trump said this, there were 38 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the United States.
“We’re doing it the opposite, we’re very much ahead of everything.”
Nope.
For factual information about Coronavirus, here are some links:
♦ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
♦ NBC News
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He's immune to the truth.
The only reasons not to get tested are
he already knows he has it
He is afraid
Great.
Perhaps we shouldn’t have elevated a reality tv star who can’t spell hamburger to the highest office in the land?
It’s a mystery, I tell you, . . .
. . . a mystery, that a few folks, (e.g., the markets, the press, the public, and any sane sentient being on this planet) still aren’t reassured by the “good job,” the competency of this Administration, and the Stable Genius in Chief??
Clearly nothing but partisan politics by the Democrats, here . . .
“Reality TV”? Welcome to real reality . . .
It is as though the world has taken a vote of confidence in T***p…the answer is obvious.
That all important economic metric Trump constantly refers to, as of today, has become an unimportant detail.
The New York Fed announced an emergency injection of $ 1.5 trillion into markets today, and it did nothing to move the needle and stem the tide. Definitely a Trumpy level lack of confidence going on.
RIP " hey, how do you like that stock market ! "
Rudy Gobert probably
believesbelieved in him . . .When I first read your response I thought you said Louis Gohmert. Arguably one of the five dumbest members of Congress.
Sounds as though Rudy has enough stupid to qualify for a Congressional seat.
Here’s a sampling…
What you mean "we"?
President George W. Bush provided inspirational leadership for the country in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
President Barack Obama provided inspirational leadership when the SEALS bagged Osama bin Laden.
Still waiting on Trump………….
to spend billions building his impenetrable wall to keep Americans safe?
Nice try – but Mexico paid for the wall so far
to find a way to blame it on undocumented workers in Soro's vineyard.
In a brief email exchange today with someone from the COVID Tracking Project, a group trying to do a better job of reporting stats than the CDC, I was astonished to learn there is no common definition being used by the 50 states and DC for their reports.
Some report "persons tested." Others "number of tests performed." Since some protocols call for everyone to get two tests and some people require multiple tests, the difference is material.
Even more astonishing to me: "You'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) that some states include the deaths in their positive total and others don't. It's very confusing for everyone."
We really don't know much of anything about this pandemic's performance in the United States.
no, no no – I was watching tv last night and this older man came on and said everything is fine, that the US has done and is doing a great job.
I was thinking about buying a house in Italy. Or maybe Venezuela. I'll be banking in one of the Haven islands, but everything is good.
I wonder if he is measuring his re-election chances after the country is slammed by a global recession. All the money wasted to compensate for a failed tariff war could have been used to finance nationwide testing and disbanding the Pandemic Response Unit will be viewed as a criminal act of malfesence. I’m thinking they will be even smaller by the end of summer.