Trump's press conferences - We Don't Have Time for This

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump and his Sharpie struck again Thursday, this time at the now-daily task-force press conference inside the White House. But this time, rather than attempting to redefine the projected path of a hurricane, he clearly wanted to redirect a national conversation. A Washington Post photographer discovered that in at least one place where “coronavirus” appeared in his notes, Trump crossed out “corona” and replaced it with “Chinese.”

The previous day, Trump defended his politically and factually incorrect label. Yes, “It’s not racist at all,” he said. “It comes from China, that’s why.” While researchers have traced the virus to a Wuhan market and Chinese officials bear considerable responsibility for concealing information and exacerbating the pandemic’s spread, Trump is only compounding their error by choosing to lie to his constituents. The geographic excuse is one of his favorites, despite the fact that pandemics such as Ebola and the Spanish flu are misnomers. Those three examples are just some of the reasons why the World Health Organization is now responsible for naming diseases, and did so with COVID-19 on February 11th. Since then, Trump’s Sharpie and his mouth have gone to work.

Trump gleefully fielded a softball from the sycophantic far-right One America News: a sardonic query about whether the term “Chinese food” was racist, then a false accusation that the “major left-wing news media” has embraced “Chinese Communist Party narratives.” That cued Trump to launch a long, self-aggrandizing, and false rant against the press, which was neither original nor worth repeating.

Disparaging the media, which Trump continued with an unprovoked attack on an NBC News correspondent on Friday, conveys to his constituents that they should (further) distrust press reports at a time when most about him are negative. And the racist moniker for the coronavirus gives those folks someone to point at when they or their loved ones get sick, even when a more attentive and acute federal response to the viral threat may be more to blame. But racism and authoritarianism are not only ideological siblings — they also soothe insecure leaders like Trump who cannot stand to hear one negative thing about himself or his performance.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/coronavirus-trump-racism-970571/

[Clash City Rocker]

1. One other possible reason he could have done that

is that “coronavirus” is a five syllable word. Odds that Trump could correctly pronounce a word that long are slim.

[badhair77]

2. This is his current version of doing the rallies. He's getting constant coverage

and people are buying his act. I get that the networks feel they need to cover the press conferences in case there is real breaking news but his approval rating is going up, despite the fact he’s lying nonstop. Are they not really listening? The Dems have to counter this coverage somehow.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R