Inside Trump's frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Minutes before President Trump was preparing Wednesday to reassure a skittish nation about the coronavirus threat, he received a piece of crucial information: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had identified in California the first U.S. case of the illness not tied to foreign travel, a sign that the virus’s spread in the United States was likely to explode.

But when Trump took to the lectern for a news conference intended to bring transparency to the spiraling global crisis, he made no explicit mention of the California case and its implications — and falsely suggested the virus might soon be eradicated in the United States.

“And again, when you have 15 people — and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero — that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” he said.

Trump’s playing down of the California patient at his news conference underscores the administration’s slapdash and often misleading attempts to contain not just the virus, but also potential political damage from the outbreak — which has tanked financial markets, slowed global commerce and killed some 3,000 people worldwide, including the first U.S. death, announced Saturday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/ar-BB10zgPE?li=BBnbcA1

The guy is an idiot. People are dying.

[Beartracks]

1. Sounds like a politician ignoring the scientist in a disaster movie. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Yup. The standard theme of just about every disaster movie ever made.

Scientist: "We have to do X right away because if we don't, Y will happen and people will die!"

Politician: "Nonsense. It's not a big deal. We'll be fine. Anyhow, we don't want to scare people."

Scientist: "But... but..."

Politician: "I hope you enjoy your new assignment in Bumfuck, North Dakota."

[GusBob]

2. I am reminded of a scene from Ghosts Busters

Yes your honor its true, that man has no dick

[Mendocino]

4. This guy

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[UpInArms]

10. GMTA

First thing that came to mind for me...

[MFM008]

5. The first thing

Maggot cannot control.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Orange boy is

incapable of separating himself from any topic. His Vindictive Ego will never allow for him to address a serious topic without interjecting himself into it one way another. You knew he would not say the word California,he will attack someone he thinks is his enemy in California as a substitute name.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Spanish Flu 1918

Spanish Flu 1918

[doc03]

8. Why is that MAGAT even talking about stopping the

Coronavirus when it is just a Democrat hoax

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. AND as of today, he can no longer deny

that people in the US have died. First death in our State of Washington. The governor, Jay Inslee, did not identify the patient or give any specifics, but leave it to trumpie to shoot his mouth off and sat that it was a woman who was at high risk. NO ONE from the State Health Department has said that. He needs to STFU.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Always bragging about things he hasn't done. Always.

Never takes responsibility for the harm he has caused. He's one sick SOB!