'Maybe I have a natural ability': Trump plays medical expert on coronavirus

[left-of-center2012]

President Trump likes to say that he fell into politics almost by accident, and on Friday, as he sought to calm a nation gripped with fears over coronavirus, he suggested he would have thrived in another profession — medical expert.

“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump boasted to reporters during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he met with actual doctors and scientists who are feverishly scrambling to contain and combat the deadly illness. Citing a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT, Trump professed that it must run in the family genes.

“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”

Sporting his trademark red 2020 campaign hat with the slogan “Keep America Great,” the president repeatedly second-guessed and waved off the actual medical professionals standing next to him. For the president, the reporters’ follow-up questions about the rate of coronavirus testing were a nuisance.

Trump said he had watched Fox News’s coronavirus coverage aboard Air Force One, Trump asked:
“How was the show last night?”, referring to a Fox News-produced, town hall-style event in Scranton, Pa., that he had participated in the night before.
“Did it get good ratings?” Trump said.
The reporter said he didn’t know.
“Oh, really?” Trump continued. “I heard it broke all ratings records.That’s what they told me.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-i-have-a-natural-ability-trump-plays-medical-expert-on-coronavirus-by-second-guessing-the-professionals/2020/03/06/3ee0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html

[Skittles]

1. even as narcissists go

he is THE most extreme case I have EVER seen - Trump is sick, sick, SICK

[smirkymonkey]

2. That made me want to vomit.

He is the stupidest man in the country and he thinks that because he was related to an MIT professor he automatically has some vicarious scientific knowledge that surpasses that of all the medical experts in the nation. I have never seen anything like it. He is some piece of work.

[Beartracks]

3. And the bonespur-faking draft-dodger knows more than the generals!!!!1!

My God, he's a stable genius.















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[denem]

4. He is fucking nuts

Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’

This is psychosis.

[dem4decades]

5. I'd actually rather have him be a Doctor than President.

[BlueIdaho]

6. "No - but he played on on TV"

This guys detachment from reality is a steadily ongoing threat to the nation. That fucking fool is going kill thousands with his self serving stupidity.

[3catwoman3]

7. "How do you know so much about this?"

No bloody way even ONE of those doctors thought that let alone said it. His capacity for self-delusion is mind-boggling.

Natural ability, my ass.

[Ilsa]

10. They were really wondering, "How could you be so fucking stupid

about high school level microbiology terminology and protocol?"

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. He claimed to not know that people die from the flu but suddenly he knows

so much about CV after claiming it was a hoax. He doesn't even realize how ridiculous he sounds. It's embarrassing really.

[struggle4progress]

8. "There's a sucker born every minute, and I need his vote!"

[liberalmediaaddict]

9. When thinking of Trump remember this..

He is a malignant narcissist with frontotemporal dementia. Period.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. What a horse's ass