What stupid shit has Trump done today?
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existentialist
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What's that supposed to mean?
I guess certain media broadcast earlier in the year doesn’t age very well.
Weird how Trump seems to think there are still undecided voters watching his press conference, so he needs to direct his campaign team to come up with videos retconning his pandemic response - surely anybody watching is either doing so out of morbid fascination or is already so far down the Trump hole that they're definitely voting for him in November unless the coronavirus kills them first.
I think it might just be his showman's instincts taking over - he's very proud of the ratings and he wants to keep them high by introducing new elements, Dr. Fauci will probably be pushed out to make room for a musical guest by this time next week.
I think it might just be his showman's instincts taking over - he's very proud of the ratings and he wants to keep them high by introducing new elements, Dr. Fauci will probably be pushed out to make room for a musical guest by this time next week.
bimble
floofy
Maybe it'll be you the viewers at home who get to vote on whether Fauci gets fired or not, to be replaced by Ivanka, that might work too.
Rather obvious I’d have thought.
A lot of the media earlier in the year were playing down the coronavirus. Some of them opined that Trump was being racist for stopping flights to China iirc.
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Nice summary from AuntieBeeb ...
Coronavirus: Trump berates media at jaw-dropping briefing
Donald Trump is clearly aggrieved that the media has been critical of his handling of the pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
existentialist
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Oh. That seems remarkably similar to what Trump is claiming
.And weirdly alien to my perception of what the media has been doing, pretty much all along.
Media, in general, aren't big on "playing things down". Usually to the point of being quite annoying about it.
I call bullshit.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
No he's got a good point here - Fox News for example reckoned it was all a scam. Lots of other right wing sources still think it is.
strange that he didn't stop flights to Europe at the same time though. I've read most of their cv cases have come via europe. I wonder why that was.
Trump stopped travelers from a country taking strong anti-coronavirus measures after it had already quarantined the city at the center of the outbreak. He then ranted about building the border wall higher to stop the virus arriving from Mexico, but didn't act to stop infected travelers arriving from Italy, Britain, etc.
The border closure is still the part of his response he likes to boast about the most, though the number of infections it prevented probably isn't much higher than zero.
pesh
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existentialist
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The trouble with being a revisionist like Marty1 (or Trump) is that you need to keep track of the lies you've already told...
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Lurdan
old wave
Fintan O'Toole comprehensively takes apart Trump's response(s) to the pandemic
Vector in Chief by Fintan O’Toole - The New York Review of Books
Vector in Chief by Fintan O’Toole - The New York Review of Books
Batshit crazy. He's grieving over the criticisms, not the dead and still the Trump death cult applauds him.
And his insistence on calling it the Chinese or Wuhan virus. Dog whistles, much?
And his insistence on calling it the Chinese or Wuhan virus. Dog whistles, much?
Oh. That seems remarkably similar to what Trump is claiming
And weirdly alien to my perception of what the media has been doing, pretty much all along.
Media, in general, aren't big on "playing things down". Usually to the point of being quite annoying about it.
I call bullshit.
They are now.
They weren’t then - I guess that’s what Trump was playing at the WH, to prove a point.
Anyway, no wonder CNN isn’t happy, imagine being a CNN journalist at WH presser and having to watch your own hypocritical cable news reporting off earlier in the year.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
You know, the only thing you prove when you make posts like this is the awesome power of self-delusion.
existentialist
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Fucksake.trump's new press secretary
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
He's comparing himself to Captain Bligh in the "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!
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Does he not remember that the mutineers cast Captain Bligh was cast adrift in a rowing boat. I doubt Trump has Bligh's navigational skills.
Still he's a funny old fucker and I don't live in the USA.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!
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Does he not remember that the mutineers cast Captain Bligh was cast adrift in a rowing boat. I doubt Trump has Bligh's navigational skills.
Still he's a funny old fucker and I don't live in the USA.
rekil
to menny cranks
He'd be much more at home with the Pitcairn horrorshow.
www.theguardian.com
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Speaking of viewers - are Trumps WH coronavirus pressers still the most watched TV in America?
He's comparing himself to Captain Bligh in the "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!
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Does he not remember that the mutineers cast Captain Bligh was cast adrift in a rowing boat. I doubt Trump has Bligh's navigational skills.
Still he's a funny old fucker and I don't live in the USA.
Either he hasn't seen it or he's misremembering it very badly.
spring-peeper
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And the daily update from the Canadian prime minister's are probably the most watched, as well.
I would imagine the speeches from the top WHO doctor are widely watched.
So, I'm not getting your point.
People tune in for information. They are looking for guidance.
Sadly, the only thing Trump gives are rally speeches.
Trump is such a total sociopath - he holds briefings during a national emergency, spends most of the time boasting about himself, then boasts afterwards about getting high ratings. But I guess it's to be expected - being a reality TV host was the only job he was ever any good at.
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