Trump Accuses New York Of Padding State's Mortality Rate By Including African American Deaths

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON—Dismissing the statistics as “totally overblown,” President Donald Trump publicly accused New York health officials Monday of inflating the state’s Covid-19 mortality rate by including African Americans in their calculations of the total dead. “It’s very unfair if you start adding in a bunch of people who died of the virus but were also very clearly black,” said Trump, who pointed to Texas, with its incomplete data-gathering and low rates of testing in minority communities, as a model other states should emulate. “Obviously, if you count blacks, it’s going to throw off your estimates of how bad this thing is. We’re doing a fantastic job containing the virus, but sadly some governors are stooping so low as to fake their numbers—not only with blacks, but with people born in other countries, too. You gotta ask whether they’re just doing this to try and make me look bad.” The president went on to demand that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo personally apologize to him for harboring African Americans to begin with.

https://www.theonion.com/trump-accuses-new-york-of-padding-state-s-mortality-rat-1843113132?utm_source=TheOnion_Daily_RSS&utm_medium=email

[renate]

1. now that it's been in The Onion,

It will inevitably come true next week.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Almost had me there.

[msongs]

3. republicans and conservaties rush to fill vacant positions at meat packing plants....

another great onion candidate. I donate it to them

[The Magistrate]

4. Best Journalism In the Country, Sir

Seven out of a possible six Poes for this one....

[SledDriver]

5. JFC I had check the link for theonion.com

Got as far as "...but were also very clearly black" and honestly couldn't tell if it was real or satire.

[Flaleftist]

8. Same here

[rgbecker]

12. Exactly, me too.

Gotta love the Onion. I swear they are actually the deep state running white house now. Using the puppet Trump to get their way!

[Disaffected]

6. Please

stop with this unfunny "humor" about a tragic subject. And, with the click-bait headers.

[ornotna]

7. Does humor belong on a political discussion board?

Yes, yes it does.

[a kennedy]

9. I swear to gawd I was going to throw my iPad into the rubbish, then saw it was the onion....

Made me feel a tad better.

[brush]

10. Sorry, I just don't get "The Onion". Is the purpose to get a laugh out of people or a heart attack?

It puts out alarming info that at first glance seems plausible as trump is a well known racist. I don't need jokes right now about horrendous death rates, just as I don't need so-called sarcasm from trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. The joke is one that pokes fun at Trump not the death rate.