The "I Am Treated Worse As President Than Abraham Lincoln" Edition
Trump is in full condo salesman mode during his Fox News "Returning to Work” town hall, says to those who have lost jobs, "you'll get a job where you'll make more money, frankly ...I have a good feel for this stuff ...we have to get it back open safely but as quickly as possible" pic.twitter.com/MP5AtCYMpa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
"Let's say it's 100,000 or 90 or 95" -- Trump just moved the goalposts again about the coronavirus death toll, which he once suggested would be 0 pic.twitter.com/t89LulcEwk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
TRUMP: "I used to say 65,000. Now I'm saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly. But it's still going to be, no matter how you look at it, at the lower end of the plane if we did the shutdown." (Trump's baseline here is a scenario where he literally did nothing.) pic.twitter.com/mGJoHvcDLs— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
TRUMP: "South Korea thinks we've done an incredible job." (South Korea has had 250 coronavirus deaths; the US has had over 68,000) pic.twitter.com/eloie3O1Dv— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
South Korea had zero new local infections on Wednesday (4 from travelers) nationally. We don't have a major city with numbers that low. They started mass testing in February and South Koreans can trust their leadership not to lie about the threat. https://t.co/UTSmEBjlQD— TC (@Tadco26) May 3, 2020
Of all the countries to pick— *SoonWeWillHave20 (@CelticShady) May 4, 2020
TRUMP: "We think we'll have a vaccine by the end of this year and we're pushing very hard ... many companies are, I think, close." (Trump seems kinda frantic tonight and even more rambly than normal.) pic.twitter.com/wnKAguT9Kz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
Trump: I think we’re going to have a vaccine by the end of the year. Now the doctors would say well you shouldn’t say that. I’ll say what I think pic.twitter.com/mAyVfmP0DO— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 3, 2020
TRUMP on hydroxychloroquine: "The Democrats, the radical left, would rather see people -- I'm gonna be very nice, I'm not gonna say 'die' -- I'm gonna say 'not get well,' b/c they think I'm going to get credit." (Trump's own FDA has warned that hydroxychloroquine is dangerous.) pic.twitter.com/Qz1godE7fG— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
Asked why he didn't respond to coronavirus more quickly, Trump misleadingly throws Fauci under the bus and then claims he "saved hundreds of thousands of lives" by restricting travel from China. (The virus spread undetected throughout the country for more than a month after that) pic.twitter.com/xNKKqehXkn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 3, 2020
Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't start in 1917 pic.twitter.com/Ca35xUfkJF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Trump said the 1917 pandemic caused the end of WW1? Did I hear that correctly?— Nicole Hickman James 🌊 (@nicolejames) May 4, 2020
Yes. He actually said that🤦🏼♂️— marchinggirl✌🏼🦋🦋🦋 (@allyahills) May 4, 2020
"You have to ask the governors" -- Trump is deflecting any question that touches upon the inadequacies of the federal coronavirus response to state governors pic.twitter.com/peivjs01ay— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Asked (by a fan of his!) why he uses the language of bullies and doesn't directly answer questions, Trump doesn't answer the question but says "I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen," then claims "I am treated worse" than Abraham Lincoln. pic.twitter.com/yuIsmo5JFt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Trump says he was treated worse than ...[checks notes] Lincoln.— Jackie Kucinich (@JFKucinich) May 4, 2020
....President Lincoln
BAIER: Do you think this election will come down to a referendum on how you handled this crisis?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
TRUMP: "No ... I hope it does because we've done a great job ... I inherited empty -- no ammunition. Our military was bad." (The military did in fact have ammo when he took office.) pic.twitter.com/sO1BZozGSy
I thought you were paraphrasing, jesus, that was actually what he rambled out.— Teppec (@Teppec) May 4, 2020
Trump lies about Biden sending him a letter, then says, "look how badly they did on swine flu." (The swine flu resulted in about 12,000 US deaths; coronavirus in a much shorter period of time has killed more than 5 times as many people and counting.) pic.twitter.com/pEAv8ZPz7J— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Trump is very amped up tonight. It's hard to keep up with him, let alone follow his train of thought. pic.twitter.com/YqVSPyikD4— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
"I need the vaccine" -- this is the most true thing Trump has said tonight pic.twitter.com/VHPAlnrusl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
when i have my friends over for board game night pic.twitter.com/aIq7LmzBrU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Trump has lied about tariffs about a zillion times tonight (they are taxes on Americans, not the Chinese government) and not even once did anybody bother to correct him— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
TRUMP: "We had a great year against China prior to the virus coming. I told you -- 67 or so years, the worst economy they've had. The worst almost on record. Because of my negotiations." (What a revealing comment! Trump views foreign policy success as another country's misery.) pic.twitter.com/DtWFGaezv6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
here's a normal interaction between Trump and Steve Mnuchin pic.twitter.com/wFSJF1Xrwu— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
Trump claims that "not much many states are going up" in coronavirus cases, adds "almost everybody is headed in the right direction." This is false. Excluding New York, new coronavirus cases in the US have risen in recent days. pic.twitter.com/cyGLjOGbQT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
TRUMP: "In terms of death, Bret, we're at the lower level -- the lowest level predicted. And we might not even hit that. It might be lower that. And ... sadly that's all we can do." (Trump suggested in late Feb. that coronavirus would go away on its own with 0 Americans dying.) pic.twitter.com/JzMhQmIrjp— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
" sadly that's all we can do".....well, that should instill some confidence.— MacKenzie #StayTheFHome 🇺🇸🇿🇦 (@run_mac_run) May 4, 2020
Two WEEKS ago he said we *might* hit 50,000 deaths total— Lauren (@sequinpants) May 4, 2020
13 times trump said Coronavirus would just go away... 👇🏻https://t.co/DrvD32s7nQ— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 4, 2020
Asked about not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic, Pence starts making excuses for himself ("you wear a mask to prevent you from conveying the coronavirus to other people," which is a bad excuse b/c he can't be sure he didn't have it), but then says, "I should have worn a mask." pic.twitter.com/Gl6pTwUJxU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
For the second time during this town hall, Trump closes by falsely claiming the 1918 flu pandemic happened in 1917. This has quickly become one of his signature, completely impervious to correction falsehoods. pic.twitter.com/HcYUQ0hB4Z— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2020
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