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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed May 6, 2020, 05:20 PM May 2020

Trump Unravels On Live TV And Mistakenly Thinks He's The President Of China

From the article:

Trump’s mistaken claim that he implemented a policy to prevent people from entering China came in the middle of a live TV temper tantrum, all because ABC’s David Muir asked the president why he underestimated the coronavirus outbreak so badly in January and February.

Trump quickly pulled out a piece of paper and explained that the only reason the U.S. has over a million coronavirus cases is because we have the highest testing capacity in the world (which is false).
During the interview, Trump also couldn’t name a single thing he’s done over the past three years to improve the country’s standing, and he responded to the soaring number of unemployment claims by saying “that is what it is.”


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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/05/trump-unravels-on-live-tv-and-mistakenly-thinks-hes-president-of-china.html
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brewens

(13,536 posts)
1. How many people were actually even trying to get here when Trump restricted travel from China?
Wed May 6, 2020, 05:27 PM
May 2020

He crows about that a lot. Wasn't China mostly locked down already? I wouldn't be surprised if the only people even buying tickets did so because they knew they were exempt. It could be his "China travel ban" didn't stop many at all.

sheshe2

(83,637 posts)
3. He was a little to busy doing important things.
Wed May 6, 2020, 05:39 PM
May 2020

. Tweeting
. Golfing
. Rallies
. Watching TV
. Golfing
. Golfing
. Golfing
. Golfing
. Tweeting
. Tweeting
. Watching TV

He actually had to pull out a piece of paper to tell us how busy he was.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. He suffers far more than we can know.
Wed May 6, 2020, 05:53 PM
May 2020

Imagine how much he is losing now that he cannot steal from the taxpayers with his constant trips to his golf courses.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
11. I wondered where that was going.
Wed May 6, 2020, 06:26 PM
May 2020

And yes, everyone could see that his was much smaller than President Obama's.

Even Melania Trump saw how much smaller.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,864 posts)
7. But I read that something like 40,000 flew in here
Wed May 6, 2020, 06:18 PM
May 2020

from China.

And remember the mess at the airports with people trying to get home. And no one was testing for anything.

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