The "Taking Credit For The Passage Of Time" Edition
China has just announced a doubling in the number of their deaths from the Invisible Enemy. It is far higher than that and far higher than the U.S., not even close!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
Making America Great Again by insisting your country has the second-most deaths from a pandemic and not the absolute most https://t.co/0O77WzJXUe— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Memo To The Super-Genius Whose Uncle Taught At MIT: 37,135 is a larger number than 4,632.Trump on the coronavirus death toll: "We don't have the most in the world deaths. The most in the world has to be China. It is a massive country ... they must have the most." pic.twitter.com/8SZ8cJIvSf— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
LIBERATE MINNESOTA!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
LIBERATE MICHIGAN!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
"They wanna take their guns away ... when you talk about 'liberate' or liberation, you can certainly look at Virginia as one" -- Trump is unrepentant about his tweets basically calling for civil unrest in states with democratic governors pic.twitter.com/1y9PdGfzZb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
As you now watch Trump reference gun rights and incite groups to “liberate” states from their governors, remember who he’s talking to and how dangerous this potentially is. We warned about this early and often @MotherJones—starting four years ago, in fact https://t.co/X6xKnqMdcU— Mark Follman (@markfollman) April 17, 2020
Remember when Trump kept calling CNN "the enemy of the people" and then one of his lunatic supporters sent bombs to its studios? Or how about when a mass shooter's manifesto echoed his conspiracy theories about immigrants? This sort of unhinged rhetoric has consequences. https://t.co/H8UYAguPU7— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Does anyone still think if Trump loses in November, he will calmly leave the White House in an orderly transfer of power in January 2021? He was fully prepared to claim the 2016 election was crooked and fixed, but he ended up winning (much to his surprise and to the shock of everyone around him.) Trump's already got that argument ready to go and he's been laying the groundwork to fire that gun for about a year.
Does anyone think Trump's cult members will understandingly accept the results of a Biden victory and put away their guns and say "Oh well, we'll try again in 2024"?
Here's the Fox News segment that inspired Trump's unhinged "LIBERATE MINNESOTA" tweet (as @MattGertz notes it ran just two minutes before Trump's tweet was posted) pic.twitter.com/mHLxCcpoDP— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Fox News is actively promoting right-wing protests against stay at home orders pic.twitter.com/50zCeQXNZL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump's dangerous "LIBERATE" tweets represent the views of a small minority, but one that's being actively promoted by Fox News https://t.co/2y5KNPxAvW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump on his "LIBERATE" tweets basically calling for civil unrest in a number of states with Democratic governors: "I think some things are too tough." pic.twitter.com/v7ff67Fiac— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Super weird to hear talk of "liberating" states from people who would deny so many citizens of those states their right to vote— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 17, 2020
swastika irony is an interesting argument https://t.co/KBe57Vb9U4— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 17, 2020
Astoundingly dumb. Look for a Covid outbreak to flare up in Minnesota in about two weeks. https://t.co/dbsVSbfhrO— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
BREAKING: Every state without stay-at-home order had increase in coronavirus cases over the past week. Up 205% in SD, 82% in IA, 74% in NE, 60% in AR and 53% in OK. Due to lack of testing these counts are low. The pandemic is just beginning. Trump is a liar who belongs in prison.— Scott Dworkin (@funder) April 17, 2020
Not only has Gov. Tim Walz's careful handling of the coronavirus received bipartisan praise, but as of late February his disapproval rate (25%) was less than half Trump's disapproval rate (52%) in Minnesota https://t.co/PvSYLcvyzE— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump is still pushing swine flu whataboutism despite the fact that coronavirus has now killed more than twice as many Americans in a much shorter period of time. He's completely shameless. https://t.co/HUGxLeaVIt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump begins the April 17 #TrumpPressConf by remarking on Sonny Perdue's handsomeness and then announcing a new $19 billion relief program for farmers pic.twitter.com/Shicb9d9ZK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"Requests were made far beyond what was objectively needed" -- Trump spikes the football over Democratic governors in some cases asking for more ventilators than it turns out they needed to keep people alive pic.twitter.com/HmPUKUzgLc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"I think they have it under very good control" -- Trump talks about New York like it's a foreign country pic.twitter.com/t0vEAUWYkl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
My Canadian girlfriend, she says I have the best body, just absolutely the hottest body she has ever seen. Best abs. Really just best...all the things. That what she says. She'd say it now but she's in Canada. https://t.co/3K6nf4J2s8— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) April 17, 2020
Adventures in reading with Trump pic.twitter.com/Wo8owIy4Yz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"It's the hot one" -- Trump talks about new coronavirus tests like they're condos in Trump Tower he's trying to sell pic.twitter.com/qstT0t0rZT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"The governors are responsible for testing" -- Trump passes the buck pic.twitter.com/3FTUqNq4v7— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
120k tests/day? Is he seriously celebrating this? We need 8-10x this to even consider opening up anywhere. This grand experiment of governance by disinformation and detachment from reality is a massive failure. https://t.co/lJ3losDMHE— Dr. Rob Davidson (@DrRobDavidson) April 17, 2020
Here's the thing, 120K tests sounds like a lot but it's not when measured against a population of 330M. The US is currently at 1.13% of the population for testing as of today. This my friends is a failure of epic proportion. pic.twitter.com/rSYY5zohm1— Dave Perrino @🏡 (@DavePerrino) April 17, 2020
PENCE: "As you will hear from all our experts tonight, our best scientists & health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one, if they choose."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
(That is not what experts who talked to @germanrlopez said https://t.co/1SJxSM90bb) pic.twitter.com/5SfbEGiiVy
Since the number of tests competed per day hasn't increased in the last month this slide basically represents the White House taking credit for the passage of time pic.twitter.com/9JJU41Vha3— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
That’s the texting % in the top 10 states 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/PppiT3BSLV— jonathan minaya (@jonathanminay10) April 17, 2020
Trump began this briefing by saying "governors are responsible for testing" and since then administration officials have spent about an hour talking about testing 🤔— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"We're the king of ventilators" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/cfxprJZKVF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"What's it gonna take to get you in this ventilator?"— Terry Buckalew (@tmacbuckalew) April 17, 2020
Lol, NBC Washington pulled away, “Ok, um.. if there is any news that comes about this NEWS CONFERENCE we will report it.”— wtfwarrior (@wtfwarrior1) April 17, 2020
"How about the Obama website?" -- Trump deflects from questions about problems with coronavirus stimulus payments by doing Obama whataboutism pic.twitter.com/QWEUVTD2Zw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"Who was president then? I wonder" -- Trump is still trying to pin coronavirus on Obama pic.twitter.com/fOqzlMEByQ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
— Fetus Gun Money (@FetGunMon) April 17, 2020
"I wonder who owns that company" -- Trump suggests that owners of meat packing plants that have experienced Covid outbreaks are somehow responsible pic.twitter.com/vSOuURXyfI— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
TRUMP: "We've got to open up our country, we are going to open it up in quadrants. Some of the states should get together and work on their own borders, because you don't want to have people pouring through the border of a state that is not infected." pic.twitter.com/bDPS5YPtlN— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"I think the schools are going to be reopened soon" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/o4F4NbyaSK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump on origins of the coronavirus: "They talk about a certain kind of but that bat is not in that area. If you can believe it, that is what they are down to, bats." pic.twitter.com/QCiBz5UOLn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
TRUMP: "Art Laffer, who is tremendous, in fact he recently got the Medal of Freedom, economist, he was with Reagan, he looks like he's 45 but I think he might be older than that, he looks so great. Art Laffer said the single greatest thing you can do is the payroll tax cut." pic.twitter.com/SCdgPWr6Gt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump on federal coronavirus relief: "It is going to get us to a point that is going to be rather beautiful. We think that that will be the point, and it could be they want more, but maybe at a certain point we're gonna stop." pic.twitter.com/4QHRUXdZ5c— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump on resuming rallies before November: "I hope we are going to have rallies. I think they are going to be bigger than ever."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
He then claims ludicrously that 175,000 people (!) showed up for a recent rally in New Jersey. pic.twitter.com/nyzTJKgzU5
Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917 pic.twitter.com/wzcQv4upbO— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Trump, who golfed many times in February and March and attended a party at Mar-a-Lago last month that was a coronavirus vector, says "I think I've been in the White House for months." pic.twitter.com/Qirdh2hybK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) April 18, 2020
I challenge you to try and make sense of this Trump rant pic.twitter.com/4umIOeHle2— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
Trump concludes the briefing with this: "This has been a situation where a lot of great people have been involved and a lot of great decisions have been made." pic.twitter.com/Jmvy8p5Ly0— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
Asked if he's concerned about anti-stay-at-home protesters spreading Covid when they congregate together, Trump indicates he's not because "these are people expressing their views." (Pandemics don't work like that.) pic.twitter.com/rjJRqHj0Og— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
"I worked overseas way too long" -- Dr. Birx has some trouble identifying Montana on a map pic.twitter.com/DerEA4fkoy— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
It's basically open mic night in the White House briefing room pic.twitter.com/HLTCu6WA24— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Minimization and misinformation: Trump is guilty of the very things he's accusing the WHO of doing https://t.co/lZlLzhE787— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
Who did this??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/IZVeP7LIEm— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) April 16, 2020
Trump's multi-billion dollar signature racist project --> Smugglers sawed into Trump’s border wall 18 times in one month in San Diego area, records show https://t.co/v0KVhxGfeW— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) April 17, 2020
Ouch!Oh well, at least Trump got to kill some innocent people and also maybe steal some money. https://t.co/txv6cLbASa— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 17, 2020
When it comes to the meat of President Trump’s pandemic plans, I’ve seen more on a bleached, picked-over stray cattle carcass left for months in the Texas sun.— Dan Rather (@DanRather) April 17, 2020
Here's the Andrew Cuomo comments that apparently set off Trump: "The only thing he's doing -- let's be honest -- 'well, it's up to the states' ... it was always up to the states. What, are you going to grant me what the Constitution gave me before you were born?" pic.twitter.com/mFHTlXnwro— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020
In extended fiery remarks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo responds to attack from Donald Trump: "First of all, If he's sitting home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work, right?"— ABC News (@ABC) April 17, 2020
Watch his full remarks: https://t.co/imu5k1sE1D pic.twitter.com/wG0OBN3ikb
This #President is now truly getting out of control. In talking about “liberating” the states, he is using language that could well lead to rioting. No one has done more to undermine our constitution and destroy our country’s values than @realDonaldTrump.— Governor Christine Todd Whitman (@GovCTW) April 17, 2020
Stupidity Is A VirusAt this point, does anyone truly care if Trump get the virus? Like, a bad bad strain of the virus. A strain that thrives on fake tan, blubber and dementia.— Scott (@dragonlaw2020) April 17, 2020
How many of those who urged our govt to help liberate the Iraqis, Syrians, Kurds, Afghanis, etc., are as committed now to liberating Virginia, Minnesota, California, etc?— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 17, 2020
Go away you dollar store Eva Braun— TacoTruck_on_sea🌮🔥🏦 (@ElSrdelTaco) April 17, 2020
Liberate OH from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) April 17, 2020
Liberate MD from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate ID from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate TX from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate GA from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Right?
Dr. Phil appears on Laura Ingraham and says we don’t shut the country down for automobile deaths, cigarette related deaths, and swimming pool deaths pic.twitter.com/q8KCgLLClY— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 17, 2020
My friend caught an auto accident, didn't know he had it... brought it to work, and the receptionist caught it. 3 days later, she got ill. They sent everyone home but it was too late. 70 people at his job caught the auto accident from her and 10 ended up in the ICU on ventilators— Jim (@jadoba) April 17, 2020
“You see Laura it’s a well known fact that you can spread pool-based deaths to others by breathing on them”— Attorney@Law (@TheGlare_TM) April 17, 2020
He said 360,000 swimming pool accidents anually. The real number is 3,536 annually— Paul Scott NAV (@GoldenDog63) April 17, 2020
Remember this, the worst doctors (by far) are celebrity doctors. If you see their names, or read about them in the newspapers, stay away!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2014
Rev. Tony Spell's defiant church had its first fatality on Wednesday. @MrScarce https://t.co/i91PubkFsv— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) April 17, 2020
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