Trump says his comments on injecting disinfectants were “sarcastic.” Let’s review the tape. (Spoiler alert: He’s lying.) https://t.co/mhSChPxFNw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Here's a mashup of Trump claiming today he was just asking "a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room" when he mused about disinfectant injections as a possible coronavirus miracle cure, followed by the original clip showing beyond a doubt that he was not doing that. pic.twitter.com/wby4ucd59Q— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Trump, who yesterday mused about whether disinfectant "injection inside" the body could cure coronavirus, is now trying to say he was just musing about disinfectant products on hands pic.twitter.com/rIl8P4jzmG— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
TRUMP: I was looking at you yesterday when I was being sarcastic about disinfectants— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
JEFF MASON: I wasn't there yesterday
ANOTHER REPORTER: You were looking at Dr Birx
TRUMP: I was looking at Bill, the doctor, I was looking at some of the reporters
*changes topic* pic.twitter.com/h8VxIknuey
"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. pic.twitter.com/bWRU8EV6FZ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
As you know, that is what he always says, when caught in something particularly insane, reckless, or preposterous.— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 24, 2020
Ok, let’s say that it was: What is wrong with a person who would go on national tv to talk about a health crisis that has killed almost 50,000 people so far and make sarcastic comments like that? Either way, the President is a garbage person.— Missy (@MissyInTheHouse) April 24, 2020
"A friend of mine — a very sophisticated friend" = Trump is talking about himself."A friend of mine -- a very sophisticated friend -- said, 'I never knew you had 184 countries.' We actually have more that.": Trump claims mid-rant that a friend of his was surprised to learn how many countries there are in the world pic.twitter.com/ayMKr8xH8t— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Despite her look of disbelief and horror at what Dolt45 says, Brix is a Loyal Always-Trumper.Stolen from a friend-— AUTISM: WHAT'S IT LIKE? (@bren2915) April 24, 2020
“Y’all acting like you’ve never seen a 73 year-old drug addict wearing Depends and a dead ferret on his head stand at the WH podium and tell Americans to drink bleach and shine a light up their butts to kill a virus, six weeks into global pandemic, before”
Dr. Birx is not a victim https://t.co/wRWdlzd3Jm— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Which is worse:— Howard A. Rodman (@howardrodman) April 24, 2020
• The insanity of what the President is suggesting;
• The fact that Dr. Birx et. al. are willing to humor him by saying they're going to test it;
• The silence of the entire Republican Party. https://t.co/hhrEizRwBP
Also, he presented this as a conversation he had already had with advisers (he does this frequently when he doesn’t understand something well enough to explain it; he just recounts dialog), so either his advisers told him NO and he ignored them, or they just nodded along.— miss speech (@miss_speech) April 24, 2020
50,372 people could not be reached for comment https://t.co/4fOs97K9QI— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
And every future press conference, for that matter.— Mark In Victoria (@markinvictoria) April 24, 2020
A month ago: https://t.co/s4PfcVTAs3— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 24, 2020
Trump impersonator @JLCauvin wants to clear some things up about that whole "disinfectant" situation: pic.twitter.com/PdNdtfLj5z— Digg (@digg) April 24, 2020
And Now It's Time For Disinfectant Donnie!Maybe the president will tell people to eat cyanide tonight. Who knows, really.— German Lopez (@germanrlopez) April 24, 2020
Trump officials are just as juvenile as high schoolers trying to kick kids off the cool lunch table. Grow up. https://t.co/2cAaSTxmaJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Trump begins the April 24 #TrumpPressBriefing with this doozy: "We are opening our country and it is exciting to see. We have a lot of talent involved from governors down to people that just stand there and help you with the doors." pic.twitter.com/7e2yNSMi1m— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
"We will probably be sending [ventilators] to Germany should they need them" -- Trump wants people that believe that Germany, which has had 5,739 coronavirus deaths, somehow wants help from America, which has had 51,445 deaths pic.twitter.com/dzdgOpGCnO— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Pence also doesn't mention that the US promised 27 million tests would be available at the end of March.This is a textbook case of gaslighting, in case you're confused about difference between it & lying. Pence's claims about testing aren't false -- they're presented in a misleading way. 5mil tests sounds like a lot, but the daily breakdown shows how little progress is being made. https://t.co/DnMSfmbamF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
it's endlessly embarrassing and saddening, how everyone -- including subject-matter experts and career public servants -- feels the need to tiptoe around Trump's idiocy/incompetence so they avoid running afoul of his mafia-like definition of loyalty https://t.co/HrGha3yt9h— Samit Sarkar (@SamitSarkar) April 24, 2020
President Colorox ran off and refused to take any questions!Wow. The briefing ends without Trump even taking questions. He must not have wanted to talk about the therapeutic properties of injecting household disinfectants. pic.twitter.com/7pxsoI7ANc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020
Background
1/ I dove into the Trump media space to see how they're covering the Dr. Trump's disinfectant and UV light rant.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
You'll be *shocked* that the gong farmers of the Trump media support squad are blaming...wait for it..."duh librual media."
2/ "He never said it." (He did.)— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
"He didn't mean it." (He did.)
"He didn't mean it like THAT." (He did.)
"Take him seriously but not literally." (Dear God no.)
"Well, ACKHTUALLY a study on the Journal of Esoteric Trumpist Alchemical Proceedings indicates..." (Any minute)
3/ The hollow shell of conservatism in the post-Trump era is filled with nothing but cultlike adulation and hatred for the media.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
It's because it polls through the roof with Trump voters and has forever.
4/ It's their vaccine against every lunatic blurting from Trump's lie hole. It's their safe space when his insanity is so patent.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
Every time they run back to momma on the "but duh media is mean to Donald!" defense it illustrates their complete intellectual dishonesty.
5/ Any Trump defender in his media complex will, within a few tweets or paragraphs, almost always refocus on the Real Enemy; the media.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
They can't stop themselves. It's the dying twitch reflex of people who used to have a standard for their own leaders on the right.
6/ I had a long Signal convo with a former friend in the right-leaning media space. Completely dug in on "it's the coverage, not Trump." After a lot of battering he admitted he can't blame Trump because their readers will turn on him and defect to some nuttier platform.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
7/ In the mean time, don't drink bleach unless you want to show the media you're a real man.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 24, 2020
So endeth.
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