Anybody who needs a test can get a test...and the tests are beautiful

[malaise]

What a fucking idiot!

[Ohiogal]

1. He actually said that?

Uugghh what a doofus

[malaise]

2. That and some other shit

Bangs head

[Ohiogal]

3. I can't wait till we have a President

Who can speak basic English

[Raven]

9. I'm afraid I won't live that long, really! Given the number

of risk categories I'm in if I get this damn virus (I'm calling it the "Trump Plague&quot I think I better do an absentee ballot now.

[Frustratedlady]

26. I have to agree, but one reason I am mad is that I don't want to die because of something Trump did

or didn't do. I'll go out due to my own screw-ups. Succumbing to coronavirus is a real slap in the face...especially after he blew my savings.

Just sayin'.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. There's a spot where he starts riffing about how super smart he is

Pathetic

[malaise]

5. Well I learned early that those who are super smart

never have to say it

[Caliman73]

13. No truer words malaise...

When you are actually smart, other people notice and mention it. If you have to mention it, then you are likely not that smart. Trump says that he is smart despite all the evidence to the contrary.

He is like a flat earther.

[Stuart G]

14. How true. I knew a fellow in high school who really was "super smart", and he was a close friend.

Today he is a brilliant doctor well known in his field. He has never once,( I have known him 62 years) bragged about being smart. In conversation, he did mention he was in Japan, sometime after I went to Japan, in relation to a lecture. But that would not have been said, if I had not started the conversation by saying, "I was recently in Japan."

...Bob is one of the most modest people I have ever met. Kind and generous. I could go on, but you are absolutely correct....."Well I learned early that those who are super smart never have to say it"

and Bob never said he was "smart." But he was really "brilliant", not just smart, and modest too. Oh, got to add this, Bob was the opposite of "selfish" He was giving, and did some work for "free."

[malaise]

17. I had a mentor who was offered a full scholarship to the six top Ivy League universities in the US

and two in England. He chose MIT. He was the most unassuming human being I ever knew - an absolute genius with a photographic memory. And you'd have to dig deep to find a kinder or more gentle or patient person. He beat up everyone at poker. He had two obsessions - Coltrane and the pyramids of Egypt. Oh how he loved jazz. We became good friends - I am still in touch with his widow and kids.

[Stuart G]

20. Thank You for sharing that. Says a whole lot about who he is and more important, what he is and

what he believes in. I really like these words, "He was the most unassuming human being I ever knew."

[Ohiogal]

15. He is

A stupid man’s idea of what a smart man is.

[cwydro]

16. Wait until we have one of those IQ threads on DU.

Or a Mensa thread.

Those are freaking hilarious.

[malaise]

18. Hehehehehehe

No Mensa ever hid his grades

[malaise]

7. Here it is

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213052395

[gademocrat7]

6. He is a pathological liar.

Such a despicable bastard.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. When will he say that coronavirus is "beautiful"?

[GulfCoast66]

10. Well, he is on his way to having the greatest pandemic of any presidency.

[mindem]

11. Yup,

I'm sure he thinks it's a "perfect" pandemic.

[pat_k]

12. It's all about the definition of "needs a test"

“As of right now and yesterday anybody that needs a test – that’s the important thing – and the tests are all perfect,”

Seems to me the only people who "need a test" in his book are people who are already exhibiting severe symptoms... people who need to be hospitalized and would be quarantined upon arrival at the hospital no matter what -- no test or positive test.

Talk about closing the barn doors after the horses have fled.

What about efforts to contain In the Community?

There is apparently no surveillance testing going on. No sampling. No testing of traced contacts that appear well. And reportedly, we can't even manage to test those identified as people under investigation (PUIs) who are showing symptoms severe enough to require monitoring.

And of course, no testing of "self-referred" people showing symptoms, even if they live with, or work with, highly vulnerable others.

What about early detection and containment?

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I just can't stand this anymore without wanting to scream!

[Mrs. Overall]

19. I am at my breaking point with this shit.

How is the fucking idiot still in office?

I'm in the Seattle area so the stress is starting to get to me.

[malaise]

21. The good news is that those who are sick of him are way more than his inauguration crowd

[Mrs. Overall]

22. That's true!

[Stuart G]

23. And further, his comments today increase the number of those who are "sick of him." dramatically.

Yes, there are "true believers." and there will always be. But Trump's total insensitivity and stupidity on this subject, have decreased the number in my opinion. Why? This is about life and death, and Trump doesn't seem to have a clue. Did he really say, "Tests are beautiful"?

That could be one of his stupidest comments. But I am sure there will be more and some will be worse. That is who Trump is, and when you think you have seen it all....there is more!

[malaise]

24. Well I don't know if that's worse than saying tests are as perfect as his phonecall

He's fucking crazy.
He'll be a pariah before summer - people are sick of him - tired of the lies, the ugliness, the vulgarity, the ignorance and inappropriate.
Who the fuck shows up at CDC in the middle of a crisis with a party campaign cap?

[ck4829]

25. God...

[malaise]

28. Ha

Perfect and beautiful - Don the pee pee Con is one sick fuck.