Trump Declines to Condemn Coronavirus Lockdown Protesters: They 'Like Me'

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Source: daily beast




The president said Thursday that people are “suffering” and when asked if they should listen to local authorities said, “I think they’re listening, I think they listen to me.”



Updated Apr. 16, 2020 7:46PM ET / Published Apr. 16, 2020 6:55PM ET


As President Donald Trump laid out new federal guidelines for states and stressed their authority Thursday, he stopped short of condemning protesters who challenge it.

Not long after measured remarks to start the day’s coronavirus task force briefing, Trump declined to criticize demonstrators in some states refusing to follow stay-at-home orders, claiming that people are “suffering” and saying, “I think they’re listening, I think they listen to me,” when asked if they should listen to local authorities.

“They seem to be protesters that like me and respect this opinion, and my opinion is the same as just about all of the governors,” Trump said.

When he was first asked about the protesters, Trump lamented that people have been “going through it a long time… and it’s been a tough process for people.”

“There’s death and there’s problems in staying at home too,” Trump said. “It’s not just, ‘Isn’t it wonderful to stay at home?’ They’re suffering. This country wasn’t built on that principle. It was built on an exact opposite principle, actually.”..........................................................

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-bows-to-coronavirus-reality-allows-governors-phased-approach-to-reopening-their-states?ref=home

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The proper thing to say would be to listen to your local authorities.
but, as usual, it is all about Trumps ego!

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[msongs]

1. how is this news? nt

[left-of-center2012]

6. Yep

Trump praising his idiot supporters isn't news.

[EarthFirst]

2. Not LBN

[left-of-center2012]

7. It's "same old same old"

Trump praises idiot supporters.

[gibraltar72]

3. To give you an idea how delusional these bastards are

Mrs. Gibaltar just brought laptop in and showed me a post from one of the right wing leaders in my little hellhole county. She's been getting hammered by sane people. She just posted our protest worked Whitmer has just joined other governors to plan reopening. She is too dumb to see the blue Governors along with a couple red just emasculated Trump. Jesus these people are really that stupid.

[ArizonaLib]

20. Maybe someone can 'congratulate' them

And then tell them all to get their dumb asses home.

[Zoonart]

4. Me, Me, Me, Me, ME, ME, ME, ME, Me, Me, Me, Me, ME, ME, ME, ME,

Did I mention ME?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Loving him to death.

Suckers.

[renate]

12. exactly!

"Loving him to death" is literally true. That's a great choice of words. I think we'll be seeing a lot of it soon.

I'm at the point where I just don't care. They've been warned. Information was made available to them. They chose to follow a moron. And it's not like they're hapless little misled North Koreans who don't know any better. To love Trump they have to love bigotry and racism and ignorance. They actively choose to follow a monomaniacal cult leader. Sorry, no sympathy for them any more. They have chosen their path. I don't wish suffering for them, I honestly don't, but if they want to follow him off a cliff, fine.

The only thing that bothers me about them loving him to death is the innocent children and non-COVID45 cultists they will drag with them.

[Botany]

8. Conservative group linked to DeVos family organizes protest of coronavirus restrictions in Michigan

Trump's own cabinet Secretary might have been paying for 'em.


https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/conservative-grouplinked-to-devos-familyorganizes-protest-of-coronavirus-restrictions-in-michigan/

[keithbvadu2]

9. Refuses to condemn his supporters blocking ambulances from emergency rooms.

Refuses to condemn his supporters blocking ambulances from emergency rooms.

[slumcamper]

10. In other words, or as a matter of speaking--

the people that are listening to YOU are CRACKING. Their narcissistic, libertarian fetish is being goaded and manipulated so as to put us all at risk.

Nice "society" you lord over, you orange ASSHOLE.

Go. The. Fuck. Away. All of you. Be gone!

[slumcamper]

13. appendix: I am SO fucking mad at THESE PEOPLE (yes--I said that).

[bullwinkle428]

11. Make no mistake - this is his "VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES" moment.

[slumcamper]

15. TRUE that!

[handmade34]

14. these people...

"the walking braindead"

[cayugafalls]

16. "I think they're listening, I think they listen to me."

So trump (his cabinet, re DeVos) is going to tell his followers to violently (carry guns) protest against their governors and shut down traffic keeping Dr's and hospital workers from their jobs, allowing people to die and the governors are supposed to just take it?

WTF? We actually have a member of trumps cabinet organizing an armed protest against a state and he is ok with it?

Of course he is. This is how he will take over the country in November.

I worry for our democracy and I worry about armed rebellion in left leaning states.

[Blue Owl]

17. Well isn't little Donny special

[marble falls]

18. Man that's just plain desperate "they love me."

[paleotn]

19. And are complete and total morons just like you, Donnie

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Trump is playing a confidence game to boost the stock market

Watch tomorrow. We're at a critical point. He's trying to align reopen with a break through resistance and dismal job numbers. Winking at the protests of lockdown is encouraging them to support a rebound in the economy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. I'm not surprised

but they were BLOCKING a HOSPITAL, not to mention the general lack of care and concern about a virus that is ravaging the country in real time. Some appear to have been waving Nazi and Confederate flags as well. But of course we already know that those are "his people"

[samnsara]

23. his entire plan was to instigate these protests everywhere and force a re opening..

..and of course he will deny any responsibility...Trump is SO gonna be begging Joe for a pardon.

[Initech]

24. Quite the dangerous game of Russian Roulette they've set up here.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. What a simpleton

[tavernier]

26. Of course they do.

They are half witted booger eaters. That was plain by one quick look at them.

[Bengus81]

27. The Country wasn't built on staying at home........

Trump said. Yep it was built on having your naked fat ass spanked by a porn star at her place while your wife is at HOME with a new born.

[treestar]

28. He's so pathetic

Desperate every day for adoration, and if he doesn't get it, he says it himself.