Trump clarifies comments on Europe travel after initially saying restrictions applied to cargo, not

[wishstar]

Source: USA Today

Headline: Trump clarifies comments on Europe travel after initially saying restrictions applied to cargo, not just people

WASHINGTON – Minutes after addressing the nation about the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump had to clean up his remarks Wednesday to clarify that he was not proposing a ban on cargo from Europe
The president outlined strict travel restrictions on passengers arriving in the United States from hard-hit portions of Europe during his Oval Office remarks.

"And these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval,” Trump said. “Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.”

But while the Trump administration has sought to limit European imports as part of his trade policy, cargo has never been on the table as a way to control the spread of coronavirus. Cargo from China continued, for instance, even as it became clear that country was at the epicenter of the virus.
The White House quickly noted that the restrictions were focused on people, not boxes, and Trump later appeared to clarify his remarks in a tweet.
"The restriction stops people not goods,” Trump posted


Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/11/trump-clarifies-europe-travel-remark-says-ban-doesnt-apply-cargo/5028734002/

[riversedge]

1. ah, The Trump is already clarify information from his big speech. No credibility at all.

[olegramps]

18. This is the result of an incompetent person being elected president.

Not only is he totally unqualified for the position, he has surrounded himself with people of the same caliber. Those selected for vital positions of authority only criteria are unquestioning faithful boot lickers or brain dead relatives. This is what many feared was to be an inevitable catastrophe when a totally unqualified narcistic ignoramus is elected by the "common folks."

Those common folks whose only criteria for their vote is solely predicated on the candidate sharing their prejudices and not only their profound ignorance but actual rejection of any intellectual knowledge. People of limited education and knowledge pathetic attempt of to protect their shattered ego is to reject anything beyond their comprehension as, in the words of their master, a hoax. It is sad fact that many of our fellow citizens can be easily manipulated.

Those with minimal educations are taking the blunt of elimination of lower skilled jobs due to globalization, outsourcing and increased automation. They are prime subjects for exploitation by demagogues who are making unsubstantiated promises of return to times that are an impossibility. What is demanded is leaders that are truthful about the circumstances and are determined to provide viable solutions, not empty promises.

[wishstar]

2. Also copays aren't being waived by insurances on treatment, just on the testing

so he has no credibility on that portion of speech either as well as other dubious statements he made

[RobinA]

15. Does This Idiot

even know what a copay is? I would be very surprised. How long since he walked into a doctor's office?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Fucking moron. They give him a speech to read out and he even gets that wrong.

He really is a danger to everything he comes into contact with.

[Grokenstein]

4. Hopefully this nonsense falls completely apart in a couple of days.

I work a flight to London every day. I worked it last night, and Trump's surprise "proclamation" came down a couple of hours before the baggage containers were to be picked up from the bagroom and loaded onto the plane. Customer service personnel came and pulled about a sixth of the bags out of the containers to be reclaimed; people were cancelling because they were afraid they might not be able to return.

It's gonna sting the airline, but they'll weather thirty days as they connect their other European traffic through London. It's going to really hurt other airlines, the smaller European carriers. And of course it's going to really hurt people, as they scramble to get out or get back in the next 48 hours. Oh, but cargo will be okay! This won't kick the shit out of anyone's economy or anything! /sarcasm

[DFW]

5. Trump has surely specified which European countries are exempt from the restrictions....

Such as Laos, Palau, Malawi, Morocco, Paraguay and South Africa.

(What would Trump do with a map unless someone explained to him what it was first?)

[Glorfindel]

6. And Nambia, of course.

Must not forget our friends in Nambia!

[DFW]

10. I even have their National Anthem (there may be some similarities to another song you know):

1.
Oh I wish I was in a land of fiction
No one there to knock my diction
Look away, look away, look away
Nam-bi-a!

I wish I was in Nambia
Away, Away!
I wish I was in Nambia with a cup of hot covfefe
Away, away, across the sea in Nambia!
Away, away, no press near me in Nambia!

2.
Oh, I wish this wasn’t the United Nations
Speeches make for poor relations
Look away, look away, look away
Nam-bi-a!

I wish I was in Nambia
Away, Away
It must be close to Zam-bi-a
Nearby, but not exactly?
Away, away, across the sea in Nambia!
Away, away, no press near me in Nambia!

3.
Oh, I hope they look at walls of ugly marble
Ignore speeches that I garble
Look away, look away look away
Nam-bi-a!

I wish I was in Nambia
Away, Away
I’d chill out down in Nambia where the fake press cannot find me
Away, away, across the sea in Nambia!
Away, away, no press near me in Nambia!

[Glorfindel]

11. Brilliant! Best anthem ever. I'd take a knee for it.

Thanks, DFW!

[DFW]

12. You saw our "Can't Stand That Man" and "Ghost Donald In The Sky" videos, right?

We've been hard at work, even if we haven't yet recorded "Nambia"

[turbinetree]

17. K&R +1

[RoadRunner]

13. And Wakanda

[DFW]

14. Wakanda has special status

Since Disneyland is a member of NATO, but not the UN (got that from leaked documents from Pompeo's State Department).

[underpants]

7. Whew

That's a relief.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Idiot. I don't get this. I assume that we've already have restrictions of some sort from Italy...

being severely impacted already w/ the CV, and perhaps some sort of restrictions from East Asia too, but the entire continent? I do know that they have things such as the Euro Rail (entire continent) but restricting an entire continent is going to stop realistically the CV?

And he's having to clarify his 'restrictions' already, not just on people and goods, and 'various other things' too? Again, trying to govern w/ a stupid, idiotic tweet. No wonder they don't write things like contracts via tweets. Maybe idiot could take a hint?

[Botany]

9. So it is the pasta we have to worry about

[yaesu]

16. so, the workers coming with that cargo can still spread it, which, really doesn't make a diff now. n

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Too vain to wear glasses so he can see the teleprompter and say what he's supposed to say.

What an absolute fuckup he is.

We'd be infinitely better off if no one at all was in charge, instead of him.