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On Saturday night, former president Donald Trump called into Fox News host Dan Bongino and, during a rambling interview that touched upon multiple subjects, made some curious claims about the COVID-19 pandemic that had
critics wondering if he even remembers last year when the country went into a major shutdown.
With a COVID variant running rampant across the country among Americans who have refused to get vaccinated, host Bongino asked about the current state of affairs while complaining about potential mask mandates.
"Well, first of all,
could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus,
you know, now they like to call it, they have new names and they have other new names, but
it's exactly what we had, we had the same thing," Trump suggested.
"If that were me, they would say 'what a horrible thing, what a horrible job.'
These are numbers in some cases that are equivalent to what it was, but we don't hear that."
Critics were quick to note that the former president did little during the early days of COVID-19 which led to over 600,000 deaths as his administration bungled the response -- in sharp contrast to the pro-active work being done by President Joe Biden's administration.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-19/
Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)elleng
(130,825 posts)SergeStorms
(19,190 posts)That's nothing new with his orangeness. He's been talking that way since 2015, at least, but very few people in the media seem to notice.
Imagine that.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)just barreling along with the lie no matter how absurd it is .
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)brush
(53,758 posts)through his non-responsive, delayed and bungled response to covid that lost 550k American lives.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)It would be if TFG was still in office?
Without Bidens massive vaccination rollout, etc. ?
Holy crap would it be terrible!
Kablooie
(18,619 posts)but does NOTHING to stop the pandemic!
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Bristlecone
(10,121 posts)3catwoman3
(23,965 posts)"...could you imagine if I were president right now..."
As I said in a related thread, he is acknowledging that HE IS NOT!
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Don't fall for it.
unblock
(52,164 posts)Well, I can't really rule out cognitive decline as well....
But his lies are always about selling an image, convincing people "this is what we're going to say; this is what we're going to insist really is, regardless of the facts"
He isn't forgetting his disastrous handling of the pandemic, he's just trying to convince people it didn't happen, or at least to act as if it didn't.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)lastlib
(23,191 posts)I want to read about how he's suffering-- every day for, oh, six months......yeah, I'm a mean bastard.
IronLionZion
(45,403 posts)these assholes were blaming Dems for the shutdowns last year. Why are the pandemic hotspots right now (and last summer) in southern red states? hmm...
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)They're the ones in permanent freakout mode against any sort of public health measures, and also they're the first to point to Biden for failing to "make them" not catch and spread the contagion.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)He's declaring he has no responsibility at all for almost 700,000 deaths. I know I'm overstating how many have died, but he's also responsible for the not be under control, of those people with the "great immune systems" who will not take the vaccine because a Democrat is in office pushing it, and for those undercounted because some coroners didn't bother putting COVID as the first cause of death to "spare the family" or whatever.
elias7
(3,994 posts)Huge undercounting in deaths best evaluated by deaths above average or expected. Some perhaps due to many not seeking care because of fear of Covid, but Ive seen analyses able to parse this. Estimates are close to double the official count around the world, not just in US
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)And now, thanks to his intentional mismanagement, infections are at an all time
high. I can't help but wonder, in light of this and so many other things, why is this
scumbag not in jail yet?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)But any time I see a transcript of what he's said, there is absolutely no sense at all. When he speaks, he has the rhythms and prosody of the English language, but rather like a psychopath, what he actually says has no meaning.