Dan Pfeiffer: Watching Trump try to calm fears is like watching a hippo try to fly

[highplainsdem]

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Trump is a politician who came to power by generating often irrational fears among the population therefore he is just absolutely terrible at trying to calm fears. It's like watching a hippo try to fly.

[central scrutinizer]

1. Spot on analysis

[SeattleVet]

2. Watching him speak is much like this:

[BComplex]

3. LOL!! I've never seen ANYTHING like that!!

So frikkin' funny!!!

[Wounded Bear]

13. It's been around the internets for a while...

you seldom find really accurate times to use it, but this fits.

[Dave in VA]

10. You are absolutely correct!

n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. Paint it orange, put some straw on top, and it's a trump presser!

[onecent]

19. I love this Hermit

[Dem2theMax]

21. I've never seen that. Well, not the hippo version.

Every time drumpf talks, that's exactly what it looks and sounds like.

[Karadeniz]

4. Yep!❤

[Mr.Bill]

5. They had him very well sedated today. n/t

[in2herbs]

15. Didn't watch today's presser but saw a video the other day where something white dropped out of

rumper's nose -- they were thinking it was a chunk of adderal (sp?).

[oldsoftie]

22. Please find that & post it

[in2herbs]

23. I first saw the video which was posted by Malaise. The second posting was from "Shanti" and

titled "Found on Twitter. Did anyone see this"?

Sorry, don't know how to move posts around.

[oldsoftie]

25. Tell me about it. I've watched/been here for years & dont know how to do 1/2 whats available.

Thank you though!

[in2herbs]

26. I know. Sometimes I even screw up my password. lol nt

[calimary]

6. But he's very good at singsong delivery and repeating the word "incredible."

AND lying.

Around our house he’s known as “the guy who lies all the time.”

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. How is he trying to calm fears? He's shit stirring and ramping up fears

[Praek3]

8. The Rancid Pumpkin

He never gets enough credit for doing nothing. I'd like to thank him for my dog's steaming dump in the yard earlier today. Thank you Mr. President. Like a dog you are full of shit.

[world wide wally]

9. But a hippo looks better in a cape

[sandensea]

11. Except hippos are cute

This is more like watching Baron Harkonnen "fly."

[smirkymonkey]

12. He is finally up against something over which he has no control and even

his famous attempts to spin the media aren't going to get him out of this one. He is so out of his depth it isn't funny. His incompetence is finally being laid bare for the entire nation to see. I hope this is what finally does him in.

[Wounded Bear]

14. You can't gaslight a pandemic...

The viruses just don't care.

[flibbitygiblets]

16. No but they might be able to call off an election if things get much worse by then

Or people might not want to wait in lines to vote, touch voting machines, etc., especially the elderly and those with existing health conditions. Ironically, all those old white people who keep voting for republicans may stay home. Or they may believe Dump that it's a hoax, and end up dead. I guess that could be considered Darwinism.

The thought that they might declare a national emergency and suspend democracy actually does scare me (taking a page from the plot of the Handmaid's Tale). We need to be preparing for large-scale vote-by-mail contingencies. This country is so fucking backward, it's pathetic.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Yeah, pure Shock Doctrine...

[Mr.Bill]

24. And he has fired

everyone who could handle this.

[cstanleytech]

20. Actually a hippo probably could do a better job at flying than Trump has been doing as president.