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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump preemptively defines 100,000 dead US-citizens as having done "a very good job".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/trump-says-keeping-us-covid-19-deaths-to-100000-would-be-a-very-good-jobTrump also undermined his plea for unity by uttering falsehoods, verbally abusing reporters and making incendiary allegations that implied health care workers were stealing masks, without providing evidence.
The extended deadline marked a humiliating retreat for the president who, having squandered six precious weeks at the start of the pandemic, more recently complained that the cure is worse than the problem and floated Easter Sunday as a beautiful timeline for reopening big swathes of the country.
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Trump cited projection models that said potentially 2.2 million people or more could have died had the country tried to wing it and not put social distancing measures in place. I kept asking and we did models, he said. These are 2.2 million people would have died.
And so, if we could hold that down, as were saying, to 100,000 its a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 [thousand] and 200,000 we altogether have done a very good job.
100,000 dead US-citizens due to COVID-19... That's a very good job.
4 dead US-citizens at the Benghazi embassy-attack... OMG! OUTRAGE! HILLARY MUST GO TO JAIL!
NoMoreRepugs
(9,493 posts)Country is way worse than the Covid19 shitshow here at home. Do the math stupid.
The Deplorables are to be scorned and ridiculed along with DUMP, without them he is NOTHING.
orwell
(7,777 posts)...it is one of his rhetorical tricks as a master of bullshit.
He frames the argument in his terms where he can come out the winner no matter what happens.
In doing ss he also shifts your focus away from remembering that he said the exact opposite only days ago.
He is trying to inoculate his administration for its upcoming failures in advance. 100,000 dead is now an amazing success! See how easy that is? If we only have 50,000 die his leadership was incredible!
Other rhetorical tricks:
Some people say...
Nobody could have predicted...
I've heard from some experts...
None of these phrases mean anything. They are devices to set up his bullshit.
It's about time people start calling him on it in real time to his face.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)... "and they couldn't believe what they have found!"
We are still waiting for Trump to show us exactly what his investigators had found.
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)You'll save dollars buying below a price we never charged in the first place.
Though doing nothing clearly was this cheap thug's original intention, and the intial object of his policy. Because some numbers early on might make the wretch look bad....
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Executing a "president" is new territory, BUT.....
THIS SUPER TREASONOUS SCUMBAG?
Under The Radar
(3,406 posts)bluestarone
(17,091 posts)WOW just WOW!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Because his boss would be even more thrilled to kill more Americans.
TheBlackAdder
(28,235 posts)Celerity
(43,633 posts)mental.
The 100k to 200k has already been confirmed to be the best case scenario....which means we should probably expect it to be 10x as worse with this monster in office.