Trump Says Those on Grand Princess Ship Should Stay On Boat So U.S. Coronavirus Numbers Don't Go Up

[Renew Deal]

Source: Newsweek

During a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Friday, President Donald Trump stated his preference that passengers on a cruise ship in the waters off of California remain on the boat because their entry onto U.S. soil could make the country's coronavirus statistics increase.

Vice President Mike Pence, who is in charge of the White House coronavirus task force, told reporters Friday that out of the 46 people on the Grand Princess who had been tested for coronavirus, 21 tested positive. Over 3,500 people are aboard the ship.

"Among those were 19 crew members and two passengers," Pence said. "It's important to note that the Grand Princess was actually on its second tour and we know of coronavirus infections from the first tour."
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Trump made it clear during his comments that he would not be the one making the decision about the passengers, but that he would "rather have them stay on."

"I have great people," Trump said, "experts including our vice president who is working 24 hours a day on this stuff. They would like to have the people come off. I'd rather have the people stay but I'll go with them. I told them to make the final decision."

"I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault," Trump continued.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-those-grand-princess-cruise-ship-should-stay-boat-so-us-coronavirus-numbers-dont-go-1491038

[SWBTATTReg]

1. What an idiot. And this guy is president? The powers that be, help us!

[Baitball Blogger]

13. A reflection of how past presidents handled their health crisis:

Ronnie had the AIDS crisis and it was a health debacle.
Obama had ebola and he handled it in stellar fashion.
Trump has coronavirus. Need I say more?

[SWBTATTReg]

14. No. You said it perfectly, and nailed it!

[Pachamama]

2. Those people are voters and have family and friends and neighbors that are voters

I hope they remember what Dear Leader thinks of them and so does everyone in this country.

Remember this is what Trump thinks or cares about.

It isn’t us.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Only about himself, apparently.

The number of cases and deaths are going to go up, cruise ship or not. Trump is going to look bad regardless.

[Pachamama]

7. He doesn't seem to grasp that whether they are on a ship or on US soil, they are US citizens

[AC_Mem]

21. Its nothing more

than another TrumpCage - just in the water instead of on the border.

November please come quickly.

[OldBaldy1701E]

35. True, but...

they obviously do not own their own ships, so they are in the 'second class' tier of American culture. I can assure you that this administration has no concern about such people, as they are not in the 1%.

[mpcamb]

36. For trump people are 'numbers'. Hmm. Maybe he'll get the Supreme Court to agree. They're pliant.

[marble falls]

4. Sooo it don't count if its not counted.

[not_the_one]

8. The turd is pushing FAKE numbers.

And he, in essence, is ADMITTING that by not counting them, they are fake.

Now THAT is a surprise.

[marble falls]

17. And not a bit shy about it.

[Ninga]

5. Just shut up. Nt

[CaptYossarian]

6. How will they get to work?

I thought we were all supposed to go to work to get rid of the virus.

There seems to be an impasse among the ignorant righties.

[Blues Heron]

9. Can't they at least bring the ship into the bay or at least a harbor?

Why does it have to keep circling out in the ocean?

[Chemisse]

10. Which is why there aren't many test kits about, imo.

If you don't test them, you can't count them.

[stillcool]

11. priorities

he is the only thing that matters. He must be so alone.

[Journeyman]

12. Whew. For a moment, I thought their selfishly getting sick would harm His MAGAsty's reelection hopes

[yaesu]

15. A certain death trap for the elderly passengers. nt

[soryang]

18. right, this is the approach Abe took in Japan with the Diamond Princess

It was a failure. The people need to be tested and removed from the ship, quarantined and monitored elsewhere depending on their status. I guess Trump will wait until hundreds on the ship are infected and then realize there is no alternative to moving all off the ship.

[yaesu]

19. Yes & they can be removed to secure facilities where they can be separated & looked after

we spend trillions of dollars on the military, they have the man power, training, transportation & the facilities to handle it. If they can't help now what good is having an active military presence here.

[keithbvadu2]

16. "...because of one ship that wasn't our fault,"

"...because of one ship that wasn't our fault,"

Then the count within America must be our/Trump's fault.

[mr_lebowski]

24. He's only concerned with 'who gets the blame', like a fucking 5 year old ...

It's fucking sick and pathetic in a grown man.

And how much you wanna bet that Pence's "it's important to note" comment came directly from Tangeranus, in an attempt to further his 'Not My Fault' narrative?

I mean, in WHAT universe, other than Trump's, does it matter which 'tour number' the people contracted the virus on?

[LuckyLib]

20. Yeah, hold people on floating Petri dishes.

Corona virus is all over the country (and the world). We just don’t know the answers to so many questions. And we have a lunatic in the WH. We are just going to have to ride this out while listening to medical folks.

[customerserviceguy]

22. Just remember, folks

This is the guy in charge of the executive branch of government as we're about to do another Census.

[captain queeg]

23. Of course he did. Who could be surprised?

If it spreads like predicted it’s going to hit his followers hard and tank the stock market, then the economy. And while thousands are dying and millions are sick his response will be to continuing lying and hiding the truth rather than taking appropriate actions.

[billymerk]

25. ugh

A leader without empathy is no leader.

[Squinch]

26. God, I hate him.

[madaboutharry]

27. From my understanding the ship is in SF Bay, inside US waters.

That makes it already in the United States.

The man is an idiot. I can't take it anymore!

[rickyhall]

28. Like Elizabeth I couldn't pay her sailors in the War with Spain,

so she left them on their ships to die of disease & starvation.

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment?

[Canoe52]

30. These people can't do math, the infection rate is doubling every six days, a few dozen count ain't

gonna make a difference come April, May when we are hitting 2, 4, 8 million cases.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. The stable genius thinks a few hundred cases will make a difference. He is going to be swamped!

Instead of draining a mythical swamp, tRump has created conditions for a fetid swamp of infection to grow much worse than it would if he hadn't been so intent on dismantling government for the benefit of defense contractors and the 1 %.

[MurrayDelph]

32. Why does this guy make me think

of the Three Stooges bit where Curly falls into a giant cactus, and while Moe is picking out the spines one-at-a-time, Larry is just trimming off the tops because "They don't show!"

btw, do you know the difference between a cactus and a Trump motorcade? With a cactus, the pricks on the outside!

[IronLionZion]

33. Dude should quarantine himself this election

and avoid all the rallies and campaigning so he doesn't catch it.

[YOHABLO]

34. Because it all looks bad for HIM ! Despicable.

[Renew Deal]

38. Trump only took interest in Coronavirus when the stock market started to move.

He doesn’t care about the people involved.

[Paladin]

37. That sick, souless piece of shit.

Every time I think he can't go any lower, he proves me wrong. Dear God, think of what the books and documentaries are going to be like.