TRUMP: "Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I'm number one on Facebook." (Trump has 29 million followers; Obama has 53 million.) pic.twitter.com/CT0uKOpXR8— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
Imagine having a President who cared more about saving lives during a global pandemic than their Facebook ratings.— Jack Jagla (@Jackyjags) April 1, 2020
This was yesterday. Remember two days ago when people were marveling at Trump's changed "tone" - and then, we're back to Facebook. Neat. https://t.co/X1acDgaX82— Mike Schlossberg (@MikeSchlossberg) April 2, 2020
"The grim-faced president who appeared in the White House briefing room for more than two hours on Tuesday evening beside charts showing death projections of hellacious proportions was coming to grips with a reality he had long refused to accept." —Peter Baker, @nytimes today. https://t.co/DekE6FJXCG— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 2, 2020
Congrats again to the New Tone crowd https://t.co/kjngaQ7dar— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 1, 2020
Asked about why he's tweeting about sensitive national security matters, Trump talks about how popular he is on Facebook pic.twitter.com/ZVqSeOELOo— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
Trump bragging about economic numbers as they stood a month ago is like a high school football player still talking 30 years later about the big game from yesteryear pic.twitter.com/MKeu3RgLtI— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
Good to see that Trump is laser-focused on the coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/kkgEpdx1lf— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
TRUMP: "We're gonna have a boom economy. I think it's gonna go up rather quickly. Maybe very quickly. And maybe slowly." #analysis pic.twitter.com/d4lFAQ5Px4— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
ACOSTA: Did you lull Americans into a false sense of security when you said 'it's going to go away'--— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 31, 2020
TRUMP: "Well it is ... it's going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month, and if not, hopefully soon after that." pic.twitter.com/4DcPU85Q8t
"You know that's a false story" -- Trump hits back at John Roberts of Fox News after Roberts correctly notes that Trump disbanded the executive branch team responsible for coordinating responses to pandemics https://t.co/6EdhaYvZ3V pic.twitter.com/K53HuNfYbY— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
A reporter tries to ask Trump a question about a surge in domestic violence but Trump mishears him and says, "about Mexican violence?" pic.twitter.com/DFW369DM7j— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
Trump is talking about migrant caravans now. This briefing is barely about the pandemic that's killing hundreds of Americans every day right now. pic.twitter.com/kFF2RkM3mP— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
People are dying because of a deadly pandemic and Trump has Esper briefing the press about drug smuggling for obscure reasons pic.twitter.com/Xuk45Jw8xt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, William Barr is out here talking about families being destroyed by ... [checks notes] ... drug trafficking. Completely beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/gszYvLWMdt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
"I think what we're seeing health insurance companies do today is really inspiring" -- Pence's plan for Americans who don't have health insurance and get sick with Covid-19 is for them to rely on the insurance companies pic.twitter.com/KjAdTOsZwi— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2020
10m jobs lost in the last two weeks alone. In any normal functioning democratic political system, this man would have had to resign by now. https://t.co/vVdPF4uPpk— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 2, 2020
ACOSTA: Is there a ventilator shortage?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 31, 2020
TRUMP: "In some areas, we might ... we also grabbed a lot of them. Some hospitals had more than they were saying, or at least more than we knew about." pic.twitter.com/Z9S3pSjPoC
Trump on states asking for ventilators: "Some people, frankly, think they need them and they don't need them. I don't want to mention names." pic.twitter.com/Kv9f8cbrW5— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 31, 2020
Trump on Cuomo asking the federal government to do more to get ventilators to the states: "The problem is, with some people, no matter what you give, it is never enough, never enough." pic.twitter.com/zvGjgoOUBu— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 31, 2020
"Long before this pandemic arrived, they should have been on the open market just buying" -- Trump tries to shift blame for medical gear shortages to the states pic.twitter.com/vtw3xDC3o6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2020
leading from behind, you might call it. https://t.co/VTyT5M8QBU— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 2, 2020
Testing, Testing?
March 6, 2020
Donald Trump: "The testing has been amazing, actually. ... You had mentioned 4 million tests before — 4 million?"
Dr. Steve Monroe: "By the end of the — the week, hopefully, it will be —"
Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services: "The following — next week [March 13]."
March 30, 2020
Trump: "Today we reached a historic milestone ... Over 1 million Americans have now been tested ..."
Azar: "Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership ..."
Trump:
We have tested, by far, more than anybody. We're testing more than anybody right now. There's nobody even close. And our tests are the best tests. They're the most accurate tests. ... Plus, we have a test that's a very high-level test, and it's a test that's very accurate. ... We're doing more than anybody in the world, by far. We are testing it — highly accurate tests. These are tests that work. As you know, many tests are being sent to countries, and they're broken. ... Now we have the new test ... it's a highly accurate result. I mean, tests were given out not by us, by other countries, where there was a 50/50 chance that it was wrong. What kind of a test is that? These are highly accurate tests. ... But the new tests that are coming out are very quick, and they were just developed. ... And they're very accurate tests.
***Health experts say they now believe nearly one in three patients who are infected are getting a negative test result. https://t.co/MngtrVKcon— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 2, 2020
Trump Replaced Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner https://t.co/h7UYxA0xTC— Jeffrey Weber (@jjjinvesting) April 2, 2020
Reminder that Jared Kushner first told Trump Coronavirus was Fake News.— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 2, 2020
Then he asked his brother’s father-in-law to crowdsource the cure in a Facebook group.
Now Trump has him in charge of the response.
We’ll never know how many lives could have been saved by mere competence.
Jared Kushner says that the president wants "the best people doing the best jobs." Every single reporter in that room should ask Jared Kushner, who has zero experience in public health, if HE believes that he is actually "the best person" for this job.— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 2, 2020
I’m sure a senior military officer was deeply flattered to hear Jared Kushner tell him he’s doing an amazing job.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 2, 2020
Imagine what MAGA nuts would say if Hillary Clinton‘s son-in-law was standing at the podium at a moment like this.
Any one of us in this thread is as qualified as Jared Kushner is to head up that task force. This is an effing clown show of arrogance and incompetence. pic.twitter.com/mIYIPp24hV— Diane Toucan (@DianeToucan) April 2, 2020
Besides grifting and propaganda, has Jared Kushner accomplished a single objective in his purported portfolio?— Publius (@ThePubliusUSA) April 2, 2020
Jared Kushner is responsible for— Robert J Walker (@ffalcon52) April 2, 2020
1.peace in Middle East
2. opioid crisis
3. diplomacy with Mexico/China
4. care for veterans.
5. the criminal justice system
6. reinventing government
7. Corona viruses
9. ventalators
Qualifications: screwing the boss’s daughter
Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force reportedly uses private email, one of several likely violations of federal transparency law. That leaves the public in the dark about its work and the influence of private industry on the White House response.https://t.co/ccmQ6OP4eD— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) April 2, 2020
Jared Kushner’s younger brother is a co-founder and major investor in Oscar Health, a health insurance company..that built a coronavirus resource website at the federal government’s request.— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 1, 2020
We’ve definitely got some questions on this one. https://t.co/ESJRJ2n8ym
How long until we find out Jared Kushner started a company in January that makes body bags? Not really joking.— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) April 2, 2020
Following Jared Kushner’s talk, John Harwood points out Kushner’s reveal- a chilling example of the way Donald Trump makes decisions and why we should all be concerned pic.twitter.com/axmClw6axi— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) April 2, 2020
Jared Kushner just described an insane situation. One of Trump's friends told him they were running low on N95 masks in NYC, so Trump told Jared to ship the masks.— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) April 2, 2020
If that is how our supply chain is running, through private requests to Trump from his friends, we are screwed.
Okay, so we now know Trump's on-going comments about masks "going out the back door" is yet another admission of his own criminal behaviour. He's making sure his friends or people that ring up his son-in-law get first grab at the essential medical equipment and he's saying "fuck off and die" to everyone else. That sounds exactly like everything I've heard about Donald Trump for 30+ years.Navarro was just describing how the NYPD homicide folks got 4000 Tyvek suits within 18 hours because the President and Navarro made some calls. Same kind of arrangements were made regarding hand sanitizer. It's all in who you know and how appreciative you are. Like always.— Ramona White (@Ramona_W) April 2, 2020
I actually had my head in my hands reading through this.
ReplyDeleteThe mind continues to boggle at the depth of that pit.
I'd not seen a picture of Jared ' Nepotism ' Kushner until today.
Without doubt the smuggest berk I've ever seen.
There are many faces in the world that are just begging to be struck with a shovel. I think Jared's face may be the most inviting. He and Ivanka raked in as much as $135 million last year, thanks to various no-doubt-highly-questionable-or-downright-illegal deals.
ReplyDeleteDaddy Trump's obsession with Hunter Biden is yet ANOTHER example of him being obsessed with someone else allegedly doing the illegal shit HE is participating in.
I think the phrase "There is always a tweet" has been replaced with "There is no bottom".
Also: "A source confirmed to CNN that Doctor Fauci now requires personal security from law enforcement at all times due to the increase of death threats against him".
ReplyDeleteFrom MAGA-nuts. ... Ain't that America ...