The "I Study History" Edition
Trump Begins His Day Chatting With Fox & Friends, Babbling For 20 Minutes Before Mentioning The Coronavirus
Wow. Moments before govt releases what is expected to be the worst jobs report in history @realDonaldTrump has called in to @foxandfriends to air grievances about federal investigations into his 2016 campaign. Ten mins in and no mention of #Covid_19 pandemic or unemployment.— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) May 8, 2020
Trump called in to Fox & Friends and is in the process of having one of his public therapy sessions pic.twitter.com/zlA8qhZyUd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump is ramping up his vaguely threatening, show trial rhetoric toward Obama: "What you've seen so far is incredible, especially as it relates to President Obama, because if anyone thinks that he and sleepy Joe Biden didn't know what was going on, they have another thing coming" pic.twitter.com/rpkBe3YJo4— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
TRUMP: "There's been no president -- and you can ask Putin about this -- that's been tougher on Russia than I have" (I'm not sure Putin, who spent millions of dollars to get Trump elected, is the best source on that ... ) pic.twitter.com/qVItcv20xJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump lies and says FBI Director Christopher Wray was "appointed by Rod Rosenstein" (he was nominated by Trump). He then adds that "in theory, I'm chief law enforcement officer." pic.twitter.com/zeoDTUVcKd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
TRUMP: "I learned a lot from Richard Nixon -- don't fire people. I learned a lot. I study history ... of course there was one big difference: Number one he may have been guilty and number two he had tapes all over the place." pic.twitter.com/wgzKCumavL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
The first mention of coronavirus came more than 20 minutes into this interview— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump on CA reopening amid the coronavirus: "People want to get back to work ... I see what's going on & Newsom has been very generous to me in his statements & I appreciate it but I think they can move a little quicker in CA to be honest, & I think the people are forcing it." pic.twitter.com/MgGdKLX9NJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump on ongoing trade negotiations: "Look, I'm having a very hard time with China." pic.twitter.com/JAvTTGP5hC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
The optics of Trump ranting about how great the economy used to be alongside a graphic showing the current unemployment rate at 14.7 percent isn't great pic.twitter.com/A5UThYOWk7— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump denies involvement in a failed operation to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela, adds, "If we ever did anything with Venezuela it wouldn't be that way. It'd be slightly different. It'd be called an invasion." pic.twitter.com/y2YIgaT6x0— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump's Mother's Day message is bragging about how great the US military is. I'm serious! pic.twitter.com/Swe9vaVNUg— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump's To-Do List: Accuse Previous President Of Bogus Crimes While Tens Of Thousands Of Americans Die
Trump's latest sore-rubbing session on Fox News was a window into an alternate reality where a deadly pandemic and the unprecedented cratering of the economy are sideshows to the struggle against Obama https://t.co/8NdXTibqsi— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Folks, I'm telling you, there's a decent chance show trial-style charges are brought against Barack Obama before November. Watch this clip. pic.twitter.com/y5Mebqxnv9— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Opening Act
Watch this clip while keeping in mind that more than 2,500 Americans died on Thursday from the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/2XNMrnXfuS— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
McEnany ends the briefing & walks away while ignoring a question about "why did you spend the first part of this briefing talking about Flynn when both POTUS & VP were exposed to coronavirus & we have historic unemployment. Is that really what's top of mind today for the WH?" pic.twitter.com/6y19QNVsLs— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Headliner
TRUMP: "So many people have died. That's the one thing we can't do anything about, unfortunately. What I can say is if we did it the different way -- if we went 'herd,' if we just said 'let's wing it' -- we would've been talking about numbers that would've been unsustainable." pic.twitter.com/4HZpqLdMJT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
The President claims most of the countries view us as the world leader of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/UjSZ08GtAx— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
"All of them, not everyone would want to admit it, but they all view us as the world leader, and they're following us" -- Trump claims that the US coronavirus response is the toast of world leaders (the US has well over 2 times more deaths than the second hardest-hit country) pic.twitter.com/3bW3Olt8Qj— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump's lamentations about water management policies in California are completely beyond parody pic.twitter.com/YtMaSDEl47— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
"We are inspired by our president ... what advice would you give us to try to get have our Democratic leadership behave more like the governors you've worked with?" -- Matt Gaetz's praise of Dear Leader Trump would be a bit much for Pyongyang politicians pic.twitter.com/JJDZC3gwhD— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
"What I would offer off the record to all of you" -- here's Mark Meadows making off the record promises to White House reporters that they can get a coronavirus test. The only problem is he said this on camera. pic.twitter.com/Vq9zMXZsNK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
Trump: We’re going into transition and I call it transition to greatness pic.twitter.com/MC3YoJ1RzY— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
Wait, you mean the US isn't great yet? I thought Trump was supposed to be doing such a "tremendous" job. And now he ADMITS that under his leadership, greatness has not been achieved?— Pleasantly Pink (@ReginaRed4) May 8, 2020
What a bozo.
TRUMP: This is going to go away.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
REPORTER: But what evidence have you seen that coronavirus will go away without a vaccine?
TRUMP: I just rely on what doctors say.
(No doctor that I'm aware of has said this will happen) pic.twitter.com/UC7qvDyypH
Trump claims that what the people really want a capital gains tax cut -- and he's in favor! pic.twitter.com/rn82fZQhwq— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
No way the coronavirus can survive a tax cut.— Richard Hill AKA Don Ricardo🧐 (@ComicOzzie58) May 8, 2020
I feel like the fall of Rome had to have been less gross than this— beehiveantiques (@beehiveantiques) May 8, 2020
— Philip Hall 🐧 (@PHall16) May 8, 2020
Jared: So, it’s been a great success story pic.twitter.com/oknwqylxSY— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
Trump: Thank you Jared, you’ve done a great job. Someday people are going to appreciate it. They say you know he’s a relation. If he wasn’t a good relation, I’d get him out of here so fast pic.twitter.com/WSN34WuqW5— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
“Numbers continue to grow”https://t.co/UHWjPMe9uQ#opportunityzones— MJR jnr (@onetruebritt) May 8, 2020
Gohmert: And I do want to advise our media friends before they wrote stories about how we didn’t wear masks and we possibly didn’t socially distance adequately, that you saw to it that we had tests and nobody in here has the Coronavirus unless it’s somebody in the media. pic.twitter.com/SbnjtGboSi— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
Real v Imaginary People
Trump says "the real people" want things to "come back," citing protesters at state houses. "I think some people don't want it, really, to come back, for political reasons. Which is sick." Again, polls continue to show strong majorities worried about reopening things too fast.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
what about the imaginary people?— other mother (@onlyripley) May 8, 2020
It's interesting how the "real people" stopped their state house protests right after theIf we don’t agree with trump we aren’t real.— Elaine Dominico (@eldominico5) May 8, 2020
wealthy conservative groups behind the scenes stopped organizing and paying for them.
Another Case of COVID-19 Inside The White House
Many news outlets the president calls fake had held off on reporting who the staffer was who got COVID, out of respect for concerns about privacy. The president then blurted out the name at an event this afternoon.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 8, 2020
BREAKING: President Trump just said "Katie" is VP staffer who tested positive. Katie Miller is VP spox & wife of WH adviser Stephen Miller. Entire West Wing has now been directly or indirectly exposed to COVID-19.— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) May 8, 2020
Pence press secretary Katie Miller is the only person in this photo without a mask. Today news broke that she has coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/5keMNtN6Fv— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2020
One of The Dumbest People Alive
Trump says of the elderly veterans he was with today without wearing a mask: "They're so pure, it will never happen, alright? They've lived a great life."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
Asked if he considered wearing a mask while with these 90+-year-old veterans today, Trump says no because he was "far away" from them and "plus the wind was blowing so hard and such a direction that if the plague ever reached them, I'd be very surprised."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
In December 2019, Trump said: "I never understood wind"
President Trump: "We have so much testing, I don't think you need that kind of testing or that much testing." pic.twitter.com/eqPcKvF67m— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2020
He really has to be one of the dumbest people alive. https://t.co/FwyXxuP5qC— George Conway, Noble Committee Chair (@gtconway3d) May 8, 2020
Imagine how utterly ignorant one has to be and the level of mental deterioration involved in order to say this out loud. Yes he says moronic nonsense every single day but this is special. https://t.co/gi0q9dY7aA— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost, Noble Committee Vice Chair (@SpiroAgnewGhost) May 8, 2020
Trump claims the third quarter will be "very good" economically, and the fourth quarter maybe "more than good," and next year "tremendous."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
He says soon after: "We have a lot of great students of finance. I'm one of 'em."
NEW FROM CREW: Yet again, the president used the Secret Service as an excuse for his profiteering, and yet again Secret Service records suggest he’s not telling the truth. https://t.co/G2pX36uxC0— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 8, 2020
Death
Trump's new death toll forecast: "We'll be at 100,000, a hundred and ten." That's up from 75,000-100,000 on May 3, 60,000-70,000 on April 29, and 50,000-60,000 on April 20.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
Trump has revised his projected pandemic death toll six times in 18 days. I really wish he'd stop doing this. https://t.co/XqBvwTYQw0— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) May 8, 2020
"when President Trump leaves the Washington area on Tuesday for the first time since March, he isn’t going to meet with devastated families, as presidents normally do during times of national crisis" - @ChrisMegerian @EliStokols https://t.co/v3LUhtMfsm— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 5, 2020
Trump didn’t linger on the topic of death when Karen Whitsett, a state representative from Michigan, mentioned that she had “lost several family members” to COVID-19.— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 5, 2020
“No kidding,” Trump replied.
This is why the WH hasn’t been encouraging him to speak w victims. Or even mention them— Sad(WarrenforPrez)Dratini (@SadDratini) May 5, 2020
33.5 Million New Unemployment Claims In Less Than Two Months
And Trump is Saying Things Are Great Because The Stock Market Is Up
Today US reported the WORST job loss EVER in a month. But the stock market is again up and climbing. Why? Simple the top 10% of Americans own 85% of all stocks. The rich are fine. So in future when Trump brags about stocks remember who he truly cares about #TrumpDepression— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 8, 2020
Been writing up these job reports for 3 decades and I’ve never seen anything remotely this bad. Payrolls down 20.5 million. Almost a decade of job gains wiped out in 2 months. Unemployment spiked to 14.7% & all of this in a system with the weakest safety net of all adv economies.— Jared Bernstein (@econjared) May 8, 2020
Today I called for change at the @NYSLabor, only to be called a “cheap politician” in response. The Gov’s spokesperson should spend less time name calling and more time fixing NY’s broken #unemployment system and addressing claims in #PendingPurgatory. pic.twitter.com/rdArChqavW— Patty Ritchie (@SenatorRitchie) May 7, 2020
“A depression like the world has never seen before”— ShortCanuck (@ShortCanuck) May 8, 2020
And beautiful. Don't forget it is a beautiful depression. So beautiful it's perfect.— Cheryl Black (@Hushes) May 8, 2020
No one knows more about depressions than me. It's a perfect depression, just like the transcript was perfect.#TrumpDepression— Rebekah (@Nisa_nnyl19) May 8, 2020
A man came up to me, a big man, a strong man, a manly man with tears in his eyes, he said "sir," he said, "sir, your Depression is amazing, thank you."— Soap (@SoapItUpHard) May 8, 2020
Paper On Shit
Trump had paper stuck to his shoe as he exited his car ahead of an event commemorating the end of WW2 in Europe pic.twitter.com/PWpvqV6KdB— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020
I see he's really made some progress since October of 2018.https://t.co/EOLUm0b9hY— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 8, 2020
No better example of the institutional failures that have happened during this crisis than the Vice President delivering empty boxes of masks to a nursing home before a gawking press.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) May 8, 2020
Additional context to @jimmykimmel segment. With 75,000 Americans dead, Pence is joking about about empty boxes of PPE during a publicity stunt, after the White House press secretary said they had no time for "publicity stunts" in the middle of a crisis. https://t.co/hFeSp83lJs— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) May 8, 2020
Yeah with 75,000 dead and thousands more sick, scared and broke, it's a big joke to them.— Mark Jordan Legan (@MJLegan) May 8, 2020
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