AP FACT CHECK: Trump's sunny side up take on coronavirus

[turbinetree]

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN
today

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the stock market convulses, airline schedules buckle and businesses worry their overseas supply lines will snap, President Donald Trump is looking on the sunny side of an economy clouded by the coronavirus.

For several weeks he’s played down the consequences of the public health emergency even as his agencies scramble to manage it. Now he’s suggesting that a robust jobs report might be explained in part by the prospect that Americans are hunkering down and focusing more of their spending in their own country. There’s no evidence that the virus has juiced jobs.

Trump’s plentiful and sometimes inaccurate comments on the outbreak this past week prompted the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., to suggest that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stand back and “let the experts do the talking.” Trump paid that advice no heed.

A sampling of the past week’s rhetoric on the virus and other matters and how it compares with the facts:

https://apnews.com/b753e66828b903730b69cbcddbd1c84d

That is a big ship............................

I really despise him and the lackeys that were standing around him and laughing..............there are just no more words to describe this fucking freak show, clown show..............and him violating the Hatch Act with that fucking red hat....................yes he sells that fucking campaign hat and it is a violation of the Hatch Act..............................

[Rorey]

1. Sort of an aside about the hat

It was just the day before when he had that town hall where the weird thing was going on with some hairpiece tape, or something. I think he felt he needed to wear the hat because some sort of hair failure.

Notice that everyone else on this CDC visit was wearing a suit. I think he dressed more casually so the hat wouldn't seem so out of place. Of course everything about Orangeface is out of place, so.......

[turbinetree]

2. When someone stands there and babbles like he does about a big ship............and

they stand there in there business suits and laugh.......................or giggle..............when I see there "appearance" I see nothing but enabling a traitor.....................

But I digress.....................use to live in Littleton, Lakewood, Parker.........................I love the Rocky Mountains.................

[Rorey]

3. The Rockies

I absolutely love where I live. I'm south of Denver, but drive up to Highlands Ranch every week. I feel so lucky to live here.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R