TRUMP NEWS AT IT AGAIN

[Pete F.]

His administration should have simply followed the playbook.
All the steps are there.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...c-Playbook.pdf
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[Sea Dangles]

He may as well call somebody unintelligent next.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

He may as well call somebody unintelligent next.
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but sometimes people are, and uneducated - as they demonstrate every day.

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by PaulS

but sometimes people are, and uneducated - as they demonstrate every day.

More irony
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

More irony
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we see that every day here (and unintelligence).

[Pete F.]

Sad

O great and wondrous One, master of the written and spoken word.
Perhaps you can explain this

Yesterday
Trump says he's angry he wasn't told there was an epidemic: "And I was angry, because this should have been told to us. It should have been told to us early. It should have been told to us a lot sooner. People knew it was happening and people didn't want to talk about it."

“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
—@realDonaldTrump,
March 17, 2020
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Sad

O great and wondrous One, master of the written and spoken word.
Perhaps you can explain this

Yesterday
Trump says he's angry he wasn't told there was an epidemic: "And I was angry, because this should have been told to us. It should have been told to us early. It should have been told to us a lot sooner. People knew it was happening and people didn't want to talk about it."

“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
—@realDonaldTrump,
March 17, 2020
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when spelling mistakes. Are a bigger issue than the facts presented in the same sentence...:its just
faga:

[scottw]

Originally Posted by wdmso

when spelling mistakes. Are a bigger issue than the facts presented in the same sentence...:its just
faga:

nope...just amusing...particularly in the context of arrogantly lecturing others and questioning their intelligence...it's practically an art form here

[Sea Dangles]

Some people simply go out of their way to get laughed at. If you can’t get your point across in an intelligent manner, please enjoy the banter. And don’t take it personally!
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[Sea Dangles]

It gets vial sometimes
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

It gets vial sometimes
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Sometimes and sometimes people use it to try to determine what nepotism means bc they aren't intelligent enough to know what the word means. They must have skipped that day in HS.

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Sometimes and sometimes people use it to try to determine what nepotism means bc they aren't intelligent enough to know what the word means. They must have skipped that day in HS.

It must be a magical miracle.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

It must be a magical miracle.
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Just hope he isn't as petty as some of the dotards I know.

Amazing our Pres. thought it would just disappear that easily. But I guess some people are so stupid, they would believe anything.

[Pete F.]

Of course, the Chinese Communist Party & WHO should have been providing us with better information more quickly about Covid-19. I also wonder what our Intelligence Community was reporting. Since when did we start relying on communists to tell us the truth to defend our security?
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Of course, the Chinese Communist Party & WHO should have been providing us with better information more quickly about Covid-19. I also wonder what our Intelligence Community was reporting. Since when did we start relying on communists to tell us the truth to defend our security?
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Don't forget Bill Gates. He has the antidote but hasn't started selling it yet.

[wdmso]

Funny Ronald Reagan Trust, but verify QUOTE

That idea must have lost its meaning . In Trumps republican party

The new quote
Justify and Blame

Quite the comparison
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Of course, the Chinese Communist Party & WHO should have been providing us with better information more quickly about Covid-19.

"Better" information!??!? They were out and out lying. China intentionally withheld the truth and spread destructive falsehood. And their puppet head of WHO regurgitated the lie for the rest of the world to react accordingly. And yes, we're supposed to follow WHO advice. It is its purpose to inform and advise us. We pay them enough for that. We should demand a refund. And we should tell China that we will cancel our debt on the loans from them as a payment in full to balance the debt we have incurred because of their malfeasance.

China immediately stopped travel from Wuhan to the rest of China when it knew what the virus was doing. But it allowed travelers from Wuhan to the rest of the World. The CCP knew it was spreading the virus world wide while trying to contain it in China.

The CCP deliberately attempted to weaken us. They should pay for that.

I also wonder what our Intelligence Community was reporting.

How far back in history do you want to wonder about that? How often have we been misinformed by our intelligence? How often have we deliberately been misled by it in order produce legislation and policy that favored what it wanted to do? Even during this administration, it has misled and lied to us about Trump's conspiring with Russia in order to remove him from office.

Do tell us that it knew exactly what China was doing. What the virus really was. How it really started. What and when we should be doing. And how about the highly touted British intelligence, or other European intelligence--what were they saying and what was done about that? Was this a worldwide failure of "intelligence"?

Since when did we start relying on communists to tell us the truth to defend our security?
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I think we seriously started to rely on them to tell us the truth during the FDR administration. And they have been faking us out ever since. The only thing that ever stopped them was direct adversary confrontation.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

I think we seriously started to rely on them to tell us the truth during the FDR administration. And they have been faking us out ever since. The only thing that ever stopped them was direct adversary confrontation.

Do you think the IC told him that he should not think for a moment that President Xi is his friend or that it is a good idea?
That the NSC said a pandemic was not a national security threat?

Trump had a very consistent message that China was great and dealing with it as was he in January, February and most of March until he said I knew it was a pandemic all along and declared an Emergency.

On January 24, President Trump thanked President Xi Jinping for “transparency” and complimented the Chinese on their efforts to contain the coronavirus. For the next 50 days Trump proceeded to publicly praise Xi for his work on containing the coronavirus over a dozen times while privately insisting to his national security team that drastic actions were not needed to contain the virus because he trusted the information out of China.

On January 30, in an interview with Fox’s Peter Doocy, Trump said: “And we are in great shape. China is not in great shape right now, unfortunately. But they’re working very hard. We’ll see what happens. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries.”

On January 31, President Trump barred foreign visitors who had visited China in the preceding days from entering the United States, an early decision that he keeps demanding credit for, even though every subsequent action has undermined this initial move. (Like, that the restriction was only on certain types of passengers, not necessarily flights.)

On February 7, Chinese scientist and whistleblower Li Wenliang died. That same day, President Trump praised Xi’s handling of COVID-19, saying:

He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone. Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!

(It’s worth noting here that on March 19 the Trump campaign issued a press release accusing the Biden campaign of “siding with the Chinese” for noting the number of hospitals they had built, something that—as you see here—Trump lavishly praised Xi for.)

That wasn’t the only praise Trump offered Xi on February 7: He also told North Carolinians Xi “has handled it really well.” Adding that “we’re helping wherever we can. But we have a great relationship. It’s incredible. They respect us again. They didn’t even respect us. What they were doing to us—they didn’t even respect us. They respect us again and we respect them.”

On February 10, China’s death toll had crested 800 making it worse than SARS in the early 2000s. Trump went on now-benched Fox Business host Trish Regan’s nighttime show, where he said this:

Well, I think China is very, you know, professionally run, in the sense that they have everything under control. I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon.

On February 14, Trump told the National Border Patrol Council’s members:

I spoke with President Xi of China, and he’s working very hard on this. It’s a tremendous problem. But they’re very capable and they’ll—they’ll get to it. There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm—historically, that has been able to kill the virus. So we don’t know yet; we’re not sure yet. But that’s around the corner, so that’ll be a great thing in China and other places.

It’s unclear here whether Trump was referring to the week-old conversation with Xi, or whether the conversation he was describing was more recent.

On February 18, as he was departing for a west coast jaunt, Trump told reporters at Andrews Air Force Base:

I think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. He’s working really hard. It’s a tough problem. I think he’s going to do—look, I’ve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think he’s doing it very professionally. We’re also working with him and helping him, as of the last few days, as you know.

“I’m confident that they’re trying very hard,” Trump told a Phoenix radio station on Feb. 19. “I know President Xi. I get along with him very well. We just made a great trade deal, which is going to be a lot of business for Arizona and every other place. But they are trying very, very hard, and I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.”

On February 23, President Trump was asked at a Marine One departure before a trip to India whether he thought “President Xi should be doing something different.” Trump replied:

No, I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem and he will solve the problem. Okay?

On February 25, Trump was in India, where he told business leaders that Xi was “working very hard” and that it looked “like they’re getting it under control more and more.” Back in the U.S. on February 26, he reiterated he thought Xi was “working very hard.” This was just as Italy’s outbreak had begun:

I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller. In one instance where we think we can be—it’s somewhat reliable, it seems to have gotten quite a bit smaller.

In that same press conference, Trump told reporters that Xi Jinping was:

. . . working very hard. It would be very easy for me to say, you know—it doesn’t matter what I say, really. I can tell you, he is working—I had a long talk with him the other night. He is working really, really hard. He wants it to go away from China and go away fast, and he wants to get back to business as usual.

It remains unclear from any of these statements when “the other night” was or how many times Trump spoke with Xi in the previous few weeks.

On March 3, Trump visited the National Institutes of Health, where he spent the day with Dr. Anthony Fauci. At a press conference there, Trump was asked about the possibility of further travel restrictions. Here, too, he tossed out some random praise of China:

Well, we’re looking at different areas, and we’ll make that decision with these professionals. We made an early decision based on a little bit of luck, I suspect, but that was the original decision on China itself. And China, in all fairness to them, they never blamed us. It was, you know, a tough decision for them, but they fully understood. They were very reasonable about it.

On March 4, Trump phoned in to Sean Hannity’s show on Fox where he told listeners: “We’re dealing with China. President Xi, who I speak with, President Xi is working very, very hard in China. They have a big problem. But their numbers have gotten much better with respect to the coronavirus, very much better.”

On March 6, President Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where he once again praised China on their progress:

And I’ve heard the numbers are getting much better in China, but I hear the numbers are getting much better in Italy, et cetera, et cetera. But what I hear—so we have 240 cases, 11 deaths. Everything is too much and it’s true. I don’t want 11 deaths. I don’t want any deaths, right? But over the last long period of time, when people have the flu, you have an average of 36,000 people dying. I’ve never heard those numbers. I would—I would’ve been shocked. I would’ve said, “Does anybody die from the flu?” I didn’t know people died from the flu—36,000 people died.

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In response, Trump restricted travel between the E.U. and the United States. He met with banking executives and while China was not a big topic of discussion Trump did say that he thought they were “healing” and floated the possibility that “we could start to think about getting back involved in that part of the world.”

That night, he also addressed the country from the Oval Office and in this brief talk only mentioned China in the context of praising his earlier decision on travel restrictions. Instead he sought to blame the E.U.’s somewhat looser travel restrictions—rather than the Chinese regime—for the virus’s growth in the United States,.

On March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency.

Reported US coronavirus deaths:

Feb. 16: 0 deaths
Mar. 16: 86 deaths
Apr. 16: 33,268 deaths

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

[B]Do you think the IC told him that he should not think for a moment that President Xi is his friend or that it is a good idea?
That the NSC said a pandemic was not a national security threat?

I don't know what the IC told him. I don't know what the IC of the rest of the world told their governments.

China loosed this pandemic on the rest of the world and there is no way that the CCP didn't know that is exactly what they were doing.

You can go on and on with your notion that it's Trump's fault that it was not stopped at our doorstep, or not stopped soon enough, and posting your selected timelines, but that is all, as usual, a compilation of factoids meant to inspire your preferred conjecture, opinion and accusation.

I don't know if it's also supposed to be Trump's fault that so much of the rest of the world was also not able to do what you think Trump was supposed to do, or if they all were also in your eyes just as negligent.

I don't have confidence that Trump can convince the CCP to play fair trade with us. I think he is right to try much of what he is doing in that respect. But I doubt China will voluntarily give up its one way advantage and become a fair trading partner with the rest of the world. If that were to happen, it would be the beginning of the end of the CCP. And I don't think the party members are willing to commit that suicide--possibly literally as well as figuratively. Same goes for North Korea.

But if there is any hope of such a change, it won't be enhanced by berating China for its malfeasance re this virus. Trump is trapping himself on that tightwire he has to walk while simultaneously negotiating and blaming. I don't expect you to accede to nor understand that.

But, if anything is effective in changing our economic relation with China, the tariffs would be so. It is about the only way, other than outright war, to reverse what China economically has done to the U.S.

And if anything is effective in stopping China from doing what it has done with this virus, it would be the world "community" putting the blame for the spread of it on the country that most effectively could have stopped it at its doorstep.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

I don't know what the IC told him. I don't know what the IC of the rest of the world told their governments.
We have the most comprehensive and complete IC community in the world, the WHO has none. We also failed to appoint our representative to the WHO and now Trump* wants to blame them for failing to tell us what they did tell us when they knew and when they knew even though they did.

China loosed this pandemic on the rest of the world and there is no way that the CCP didn't know that is exactly what they were doing.
That is conjecture on your part, just because Pompeo and Trump are pushing that theory doesn't make it true.

You can go on and on with your notion that it's Trump's fault that it was not stopped at our doorstep, or not stopped soon enough, and posting your selected timelines, but that is all, as usual, a compilation of factoids meant to inspire your preferred conjecture, opinion and accusation.

All you need to do is look at Trump*s public statements and the warnings put forth both within and from outside his administration and you can see what he failed to do.

National Security is his F'n Job and if you want to claim it is not then just what rationale do you use for his declaration of an emergency to build a wall.

What is Trump*s fault is delaying action, downplaying the danger, and not following the procedure that previous presidents both R and D for multiple administrations had set up to make sure that the responsibilities in case of a pandemic had already been assigned and we would have the best chance to control it.
"Nobody knew" is Bull.... all the records and documents exist.

I don't know if it's also supposed to be Trump's fault that so much of the rest of the world was also not able to do what you think Trump was supposed to do, or if they all were also in your eyes just as negligent.

Pretty obvious if you look at transaction records that governments of developed governments throughout the world were buying up PPE starting in January. What was the Trump* maladministration doing? Rallies and Golf

I don't have confidence that Trump can convince the CCP to play fair trade with us. I think he is right to try much of what he is doing in that respect. But I doubt China will voluntarily give up its one way advantage and become a fair trading partner with the rest of the world. If that were to happen, it would be the beginning of the end of the CCP. And I don't think the party members are willing to commit that suicide--possibly literally as well as figuratively. Same goes for North Korea.

But if there is any hope of such a change, it won't be enhanced by berating China for its malfeasance re this virus. Trump is trapping himself on that tightwire he has to walk while simultaneously negotiating and blaming. I don't expect you to accede to nor understand that.

But, if anything is effective in changing our economic relation with China, the tariffs would be so. It is about the only way, other than outright war, to reverse what China economically has done to the U.S.

And if anything is effective in stopping China from doing what it has done with this virus, it would be the world "community" putting the blame for the spread of it on the country that most effectively could have stopped it at its doorstep.

What Trump* has done for foreign relations is at a minimum hurt our alliances, let China, Russia and other totalitarian governments gain ground with countries around the world and failed to control anything that he claims to have wanted to.
There are reasons our enemies and allies laugh at him and call him out as the whining baby that he is.
You really think that the countries who have had their administrations bullied and denigrated by Trump and received help from China are going to join him in attacking China?
He may have recognized that there are things that should change in our relationship with the rest of the world but is clueless on how to accomplish that within the framework of the Constitution. If he had put together a competent team he may have had a chance, but all he has ever allowed is people who praise him, take blame for his failures or leave.
His administration is comprised of the largest compilation of incompetent buttkissers ever assembled in the WH.
We are not in a Reality TV series.

In the past month Trump has gone from "anyone who wants a test can have one" to "The States have to step up their TESTING!"
What a Leader, perhaps the Governors should also just pick up their toys and say it's the Mayor's problem, I'm not going to play anymore.
He's done his typical bankruptcy game, that he has done many times before but this time instead of creditors and contractors he has left the American people holding the bag for his failure as a leader.
Now he has a cute Powerpoint by Jared with no defined plan on how the economy is going to come back to life. No testing, it's not his problem. No tracking or control, it's not his problem. Good luck Governors, I'm done.
He'll go back to building his wall for $5000+ a linear foot because those Central Americans will bankrupt us.

[wdmso]

President Donald Trump has appeared to endorse protests against stringent lockdown measures in several states.

In a series of tweets, he said: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA", "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" and then "LIBERATE VIRGINIA".

again lets start hearing the excuses......of what americans he cares about

[scottw]

Originally Posted by wdmso

President Donald Trump has appeared to ....

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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by scottw

tweets aren't good enough

[scottw]

Originally Posted by wdmso

tweets aren't good enough

I hope trump says at the presser today, when questioned about the WHO..

"If the director is not fired, they're not getting the money"

[wdmso]

The states Mr Trump referenced in Friday's tweets are all led by Democrats. Ohio and Utah, which he did not mention, have Republican governors.


Who also have some kind of stay at home orders ... what a surprise Trump doing what he does best creating 2 Americas us and Them its disgusting

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by wdmso

President Donald Trump has appeared to endorse protests against stringent lockdown measures in several states.

In a series of tweets, he said: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA", "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" and then "LIBERATE VIRGINIA".

again lets start hearing the excuses......of what americans he cares about

From what I’ve seen of the protests Darwin is clearly on Biden’s side.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by wdmso

President Donald Trump has appeared to endorse protests against stringent lockdown measures in several states.

In a series of tweets, he said: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA", "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" and then "LIBERATE VIRGINIA".

again lets start hearing the excuses......of what americans he cares about

Isn’t this illegal?
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by spence

Isn’t this illegal?
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Don't know ,, 1 min he supported these actions , when he thinks the worst is behind him he tweets that nonsense

I find it funny that they were protesting the lock down that allowed them to drive they showed up armed to shoot covid 19 if it appeared. Most wore no masks ...

I WAGER NONE were doctors nurses police or fire other health care workers , fastfood workers or groceries workers,, just the fringe opportunist ,,, and Trump once again gave them legitimacy , over the millions of Americans who are willing to suffer some short term pain for a long term gain

[Jim in CT]

WDMSO, if Trump said "the sky is blue", you would say "the hell it is!" That's how deranged you are.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...umps-economy-/

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

WDMSO, if Trump said "the sky is blue", you would say "the hell it is!" That's how deranged you are.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...umps-economy-/

Wow a rich black guy is your metric of Trumps genius