Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don't Like What They're Hearing.

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Source: nytimes





Aides and allies increasingly believe the president’s daily briefings are hurting him more than helping, and are urging him to let his medical experts take center stage.



April 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — In his daily briefings on the coronavirus, President Trump has brandished all the familiar tools in his rhetorical arsenal: belittling Democratic governors, demonizing the media, trading in innuendo and bulldozing over the guidance of experts.

It’s the kind of performance the president relishes, but one that has his advisers and Republican allies worried.

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Mr. Trump “sometimes drowns out his own message,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has become one of the president’s informal counselors and told him “a once-a-week show” could be more effective. Representative Susan Brooks of Indiana said “they’re going on too long.” Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said the briefings were “going off the rails a little bit” and suggested that he should “let the health professionals guide where we’re going to go.”



Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board chastised the president for his behavior at the briefings. “Covid-19 isn’t shifty Schiff,” it wrote in an editorial on Thursday, using Mr. Trump’s nickname for Representative Adam Schiff. “It’s a once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood.”

With only intermittent attempts to adapt to a moment of crisis, Mr. Trump is effectively wagering that he can win re-election in the midst of a national emergency on a platform of polarization...................................

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[kysrsoze]

1. They'll get over it when it comes time to vote because they're a cult. GOTV!

[WhiteTara]

2. I read this yesterday in LBN

you might want to move it over to GD. It's interesting, but will get locked for being in the wrong forum.

[DarthDem]

3. K&R for visibility

Yes, this carnival act is hurting Republicans. It will continue. It's a winning situation for Democrats in a very dark time.

[safeinOhio]

4. As we get tired of it...

ratings are going to drop when every on stops watching . Then he will have to get crazier to boost them.
Please change channels.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Is there anyone left to polarize?

Show me Trump's upside and I'll be worried.

[TeamPooka]

6. Trump keeps making ads for Democrats every day

[LakeArenal]

7. The Pukes worry about dump primarying them.

I think they should worry more about Democrats crushing them soon.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. "once-a-week show" -- even Graham knows the daily "briefing" is just a SHOW. . . . nt

[Wellstone ruled]

9. The second the Orange Anus

found out he won the election in 2016,his first move was to come up with his Marketing Program in a effort to enrich himself as much as possible.

Everything is a Branding operation.

[Botany]

10. "going off the rails a little bit"

You mean like the African American woman from Detroit .... who still could speak
despite being black ... that sent her husband out @ 10:00 PM and he picked up
some of Trump's snakeoil C-19 cure and she took the medicine and by midnight
she was feeling much better and by the morning she was cured and now she is a
big Donald Trump fan?

[DENVERPOPS]

11. I think these drivel sessions

are doing exactly what they want them to do......Distract from the Republicons corrupt actions going on every day in the shadows....

Besides, have you ever tried to shop a person up who loves listening to their own voice????????

[msongs]

12. american media lol. losers nt

[Mc Mike]

13. Look, it's his only skill. Blabbing, running his mouth, trash talking, bullshitting.

He's ugly and has a horrible personality and terrible values, so the ladies don't like him, don't find him attractive. He sucks at business, can't do one thing right to make money for himself. He sucks at leading, all his leadership decisions end in disaster. He sucks at golf, always has to cheat. Everyone hates him, he has no friends, so he sucks at interpersonal relationships.

This kind of stuff hurts his self image, deep down inside his tiny tiny mind he's self-aware about that. On the surface he regards himself as a good looking casanova, super rich and successful, super cunning in business and finances, a captain of industry and great leader of men, who has a very busy schedule, is athletic, plays as hard as he works, and affable, one of the boys, very popular, who everyone loves.

In his tiny diseased mind, he knows and registers every failure to live up to his surface self image. He knows his only true power is to constantly lie and tell others how he scores the highest in all of those categories. His power is to tell people lies that, if nobody dares to call him on, must be true.

His one power is to tell shitty transparent lies without getting called on them, so reality is whatever he says at the moment. And he tells his fucked up flunky followers he hates everyone they hate, so it's great to hate, he's letting them off the chain, to act on their hate.

His only actual power or proficiency is all the shit that comes out of that anus like mouth of his.

[Marie Marie]

23. ...

[LittleGirl]

29. Yep, used car salesman

attitude and strut.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no respo

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Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no responsibility at all."

[Mr.Bill]

25. That was before Graham

found out Trump and Barr had the Epstein videos.

[keithbvadu2]

27. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. "...by sending the president out to the cameras."

The WH does not send Fat Donnie to give his daily dog-and-pony show. He's the one driving the spectacle. The most dangerous place in the world is not in a hospital full of COVID-19 patients; it's standing between Trump and the press room cameras at 6 p.m.

[Joinfortmill]

16. If we don't get this crazy phuck out of office in November

we're all going to need psychiatrists.

[Texin]

17. I think it's too late. I haven't spent one day since 11/2016 without depression and abject fear.

[Nay]

28. Too late for me, too. I swing from abject rage to depression to murderous fury at all

the RW nuts who think this guy shits gold out his puckered ass.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. He can't stand it when someone else has center stage.

[flibbitygiblets]

19. Speaking of Leningrad Lindsey, Jaime Harrison is the man to beat him in SC!

Show some support if you can!

https://jaimeharrison.com/

https://jaimeharrison.com/new-poll-jaime-harrison-in-striking-distance-of-lindsey-graham/

[titaniumsalute]

20. You can clearly see in the past week his approval ratings are declining

The "rally around the flag" syndrome is very true. Wars, conflicts, crisis shows that US Presidents typically get a fairly large boost in approval ratings just from people hoping the leader will do the right thing and navigate the crisis on our behalf.

Trump's approval was around 43% going into the crisis. It went up to about 45.8% in 538 a few weeks back. Now it is back down to 44.4% and trending south. I know for a fact that his admin and re-election people look at this closely. They really can't afford to have Trump going south as we are now only 7 months away. His approval during the crisis shoudl be in 60s or 70s and never went above 46%. That is REALLY BAD for him.

[Javaman]

21. the blatherer in chief. nt

[Maribelle]

22. His drugs help him talk a lot

right now he is on a rampage sniff sniff sniff and he cannot make the words come out fast enough.

[Mr.Bill]

24. The first president in history

who would go up in the polls if he just shut the fuck up.

[bdamomma]

26. let him

keep on talking BS, he will hang himself.

He is such an ass, just listening to Randi Rhodes From Tuesday, he wants to be praised by reporters saying he is doing a wonderful job, she was asking about testing kits and medical equipment, and again he takes no responsibility and says that's the states job. This fucking ass has to go.