The "87,000 Dead Americans (In Only 11 Weeks) Is 'A Very, Very Small Percentage. I Say It All The Time. It's A Tiny Percentage.'" Edition
A rate of 87,000 deaths in 11 weeks would be 411,272 deaths over one year.
A vaccine is at least one year away from today.
"It's called Operation Warp Speed. That means big and it means fast"— Brian A. Cahn, MD (@brian_cahn) May 15, 2020
Trump explaining what the words "warp" and "speed" mean. pic.twitter.com/eFYgTokr0c
Donald Trump is calling a new effort to quickly develop a vaccine for COVID-19 "Operation Warp Speed."— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) May 15, 2020
He is boldly fucking up where no fuck-up has fucked up before.
IT’S CALLED OPERATION WARP SPEED AND IT IS TREMENDOUS pic.twitter.com/KtXUgRyFj0— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 14, 2020
No masks for POTUS, @SecAzar, or @EsperDoD, who was wearing one when he first got to White House and was w/ @VP. Dr. Birx + Dr. Fauci are covering faces.— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) May 15, 2020
The President said “Operation Warp Speed” means it’s “big” and “fast”.
Doc who named it tells me he loves “Star Trek”. pic.twitter.com/kGaVSh1ykL
I'm honestly surprised Birx has one on.— Columbo527 (@MagnaPopaTude) May 15, 2020
Trump claims “if we didn’t do any [coronavirus] testing, we would have very few cases.” That's not how reality works. https://t.co/7Xv70M5XuW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump brags about the US conducting close to 350,000 tests a day, which is a big improvement from last month -- but it's still about 150,000 per day short of the 500,000 experts think is necessary at a minimum to contain the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/7SQ9gxnmaB— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
"tremendous" "nobody has seen anything like it" "incredible" "amazing" "tremendous" "excellent" "very strongly" "great" "incredible" "tremendous"— ©arolBlues @ 🏡 🎶 (@CBluesDC) May 15, 2020
Trump acknowledges trucking industry protesters who are protesting by honking their horns during his event, but says "they're protesting in favor of President Trump ... that's the sign of love." pic.twitter.com/9vSIIBjewa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917 pic.twitter.com/MHF3MZHsAR— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
TRUMP: "I want to make one thing clear. It's very important. Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back." pic.twitter.com/k4CTpyLOy3— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
ESPER: "Winning matters and we will deliver by the end of this year a vaccine at scale." (That's a very bold promise.) pic.twitter.com/lKKEzBMCJp— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump is still out here claiming that the coronavirus will go away on its own pic.twitter.com/8bbFtQJBH6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Asked what he says to business owners who think the CDC's guidance for reopening is too vague, Trump attacks the media pic.twitter.com/gyUdbQISc8— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump refers to a female reporter as "green" pic.twitter.com/IjDyXKVxNc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump still hasn't figured out that getting tested often for coronavirus doesn't mean you shouldn't also wear a mask pic.twitter.com/8Fo6HCz8eu— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump tells an Indian reporter to say hi to Prime Minster Modi for him pic.twitter.com/kB84fveX2r— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
REPORTER: Are you concerned about kids or teachers bringing the virus home to their families?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
TRUMP: "I'm concerned about everything, & I'm also concerned about our country. Our country has to get back ... when you are doing what we did with the shutdown, that causes death also" pic.twitter.com/NAedgh1znk
Trump on whether he thinks coronavirus death toll numbers in the US might be inflated: "Those are the numbers that are being reported. I assume they're correct ... I'd be very happy if they were lower. I'd like to see numbers lower, I'd like to see no death at all." pic.twitter.com/b802UakzBJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Trump offers some remarkably callous comments about the US coronavirus death toll, which currently sits at 86,607: "It's a very, very small percentage. I say it all the time -- it's a tiny percentage. The vast majority -- many people don't even know they have it." pic.twitter.com/b7fSqGNJMs— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Many people don't even know they have it... WHICH IS WHY IT IS SPREADING SO RAPIDLY.— Jenna (@jennamis1) May 15, 2020
it's one person, coming in from china.— Viktor Allvin (@ViktorAllvin) May 15, 2020
Trump Announces The "Super Duper Missile"
Today I was presented with the brand new @SpaceForceDoD flag in the Oval Office. I will take Great Pride in displaying it at the @WhiteHouse! pic.twitter.com/S29tBFYlQY— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2020
Unfurling the new Space Force flag in the Oval pic.twitter.com/PXVOmVQmcy— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) May 15, 2020
Trump unveils Space Force flag, touts development of “super-duper missile” https://t.co/4BbAP3JMkg— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) May 15, 2020
"I call it the super duper missile"— Brian A. Cahn, MD (@brian_cahn) May 15, 2020
Trump explaining how he describes a missile being developed by the Space Force that is travels at a speed 17x faster than current missiles. pic.twitter.com/bFmJj2slIJ
A Preview Of An Upcoming 'Saturday Night Live' Skit
Kayleigh McEnany begins the press briefing with some show and tell, dismissing the pandemic response plan left by Obama for Trump as a "thin packet of paper." pic.twitter.com/3d8JaQmqnQ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
The Trump administration really thinks the American public will be impressed by the claim that their (nonexistent) pandemic response plan is in a binder (!), as opposed to Obama's wimpy one which is just sheets of paper stapled together. Beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/GvYvdx0SL5— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
The idiocy is astounding.— Femmetasia (@Verdanne) May 15, 2020
A few weeks ago. "No one could have seen this coming. "— James Wilson (@JamesWi04828269) May 15, 2020
Now: "We saw it coming. Here is our binder with mostly empty pages to prove he wasn't just watching tv."
Life imitates Calvin & Hobbes. pic.twitter.com/r2xEcYRR1e— Hannibal Universitetslektor (@ivarsorensen) May 15, 2020
He tried this trick before, why not try it again. Here he is showing all the files that contain all the papers that sign over all his business holdings to his sons. Reporters were not allowed to look in the folders. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. pic.twitter.com/Hqei7VndBN— RICH Boone (@opiedog8) May 15, 2020
it's up is down time with Kayleigh McEnany: "To have a businessman at the helm in President Trump who was able to coordinate [the coronavirus response] was very effective, and will be the playbook for dealing with future pandemics." pic.twitter.com/gF1Teew2Bn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Asked to share some of the details from Trump's pandemic playbook, McEnany has absolutely nothing pic.twitter.com/ApxE469EGB— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
REPORTER: Shouldn't Trump set an example and wear a face mask?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
McENANY: "I think he did set an example. He set an example when he said to the West Wing, 'I want you all wearing face masks in here.'" pic.twitter.com/A8y5NbSWN8
"The president said the Pentagon is developing a 'super duper missile' ... what was the president describing?" -- this exchange is basically an SNL skit pic.twitter.com/QmREiE2RDy— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Asked why Trump didn't try to replenish PPE stockpiles before the coronavirus hit, McEnany nonsensically changes the topic to the military threats Trump supposedly faced when he took office -- the implication being he was preoccupied from doing so pic.twitter.com/ok7OAkS5JA— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
REPORTER: Trump suggested Obama should be in jail. What are the specific crimes people committed as part of Obamagate?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
McENANY: *filibusters about a bunch of non-crimes*
REPORTER: So what was criminal?
McENANY: The leaking of Flynn's name pic.twitter.com/3oWaP4gQ8z
REPORTER: The president said people should be jailed as part of Obamagate— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
McENANY: I never said that. Those are your words, not mine
(The whole point was that Trump said it.) pic.twitter.com/HF8XSlxIW2
McEnany takes a question from ultra-sycophantic OAN and I just lost some brain cells pic.twitter.com/SbNxqDG5tP— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
McEnany closes the briefing with these words of wisdom: "We can thank President Trump for being at the helm of all of this." pic.twitter.com/ZO1hprUQzb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2020
Note
The Trump Administration is accusing Obama of being a criminal while— NotATweeter16 (@NotATweeter16) May 15, 2020
-refusing to specify what crime Obama is supposed to have committed (b/c there is no crime)
-asking the Supreme Court to grant Trump immunity from crimes
BothSiderism
No “hard evidence”? Great work, NBC News! (Great example of how batshit conspiracy theories get bothsidesized in a matter of days.) lets hear which nbc news editor signed off on this. https://t.co/V3ozRxPrRg— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2020
2/ Journalistic malfeasance like this at @NBCNews is a good example of how bad faith actors are able to game the bothsidesist framework that governs most major media news. Since every claim by organized political players MUST be taken at face value as a good faith position ...— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2020
3/ there's a huge incentive to make maximal and nonsensical claims. And for professional liars the incentives are irresistible. Look at chosen edit image, Biden and Obama looking sad because they got caught "consipiring" agst Mike Flynn. That's where we are thanks to ...— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2020
4/ @NBCnews.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2020
Timesing is an infectious disease that spreads rapidly, especially among the population with bothsidesist comorbidities.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2020
It’s habit. They don’t want to appear too liberal because conservatives said they were too liberal.— missliberties (@missliberties) May 15, 2020
"NBC Asserts Existence of 'soft evidence' to Support Obamagate"@NBCNews— Welcome to your forced capitalist death lottery (@brucewilson) May 15, 2020
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