Trump wants to end social distancing on Easter because..."packed churches all over our country"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

Link to tweet

[eleny]

1. "Criminally insane" came to mind

[emmaverybo]

2. In a few weeks, people, even Republican people unless suicidal will not want to follow his medical

advice.

[walkingman]

7. I'll believe that when I see it - from what I've seen they view him as their God and

that has led people throughout history to do some really strange and evil things.

[emmaverybo]

12. Well, then like lemmings. People have been reckless throughout history with infections even in

the absence of a cult leader. But I think some Rep leaders will not be so cavalier once the virus spreads. Not saying they will care about us truly, but might understand the worker bees will be dying off. Everything will look different soon.

[notdarkyet]

3. Actually I thought it was a good idea. All the fundies packed for Sunday, praying to be saved.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The non-fundie churches will be closed and will hold services remotely

via Skype or whatever other electronic means they can find, apparently on the reasonable belief that God helps those who aren't galactically stupid.

[Takket]

4. isn't god omniscient? what makes God more likely to approve of you based on what room you pray in?

[Miles Archer]

6. My PRIEST once told me "You can pray ANYWHERE YOU'RE STANDING."

He was a true iconoclast, a friend and a mentor who left this world a decade and a half ago. Whatever the general public thinks of priests, that wasn't him by a long shot.

[kskiska]

8. And that's why we don't need organized prayer in schools.

[tanyev]

9. They're not packing the churches to celebrate your resurrection, asshat.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Since when does he go to church?

He doesn’t give two shits about Easter.

[struggle4progress]

11. Remarks before Easter service (2108)

Issued on: April 1, 2018
Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
Palm Beach, Florida
10:54 A.M. EDT

~snip~

Q Mr. President, what did you mean by no DACA deal?

THE PRESIDENT: Mexico has got to help us at the border. If they’re not going to help us at the border, it’s a very sad thing between our two countries.

Mexico has got to help us at the border. And a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA, and we’re going to have to really see.

They had a great chance. The Democrats blew it. They had a great, great chance but we’ll have to take a look, because Mexico has got to help us at the border. They flow right through Mexico. They send them into the United States. It can’t happen that way anymore. Thank you.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-easter-church-service/

People want me to celebrate Easter with a hearty 'FU, Mexico! And FU, Democrats!' Amen

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. He really is going to kill more people

We've already had the man who took the fish treatment after Trump touted chloroquinone; now he's looking forward to thousands (he's want it millions, but I'm hoping that most churches will have someone who can stop the madness) ignoring the medical directions of the whole world and starting a new outbreak.

Even if people like Fauci manage to stop this idiotic "just do it for 2 weeks" crap, Trump having said this will be enough for the truly deluded; they'll congregate just because Trump said it'd be good.

It's not 5th Ave he's killing people in; it's the whole of the USA.