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Moron Trump shredded for claiming coronavirus snuck up on us one day after insisting he always knew it was a pandemic
Published 2 hours ago
on March 18, 2020
President Donald Trump faced mockery after claiming the coronavirus caught his administration off guard after claiming he had always known it was a pandemic.
The president claimed Tuesday that hed always been aware of the outbreaks threat to public health, and praised himself the following morning on Twitter for taking the coronavirus seriously.
But then he claimed the outbreak, which scientists have been watching with alarm since it originated three months ago in China, caught him by surprise.
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I call it the unseen the unseen enemy, theres a thousand different terms for it, but it snuck up on us, Trump said, and its in 128 countries, I think its in something like that, very close to that. think of that. So it spreads violently its a very contagious, very, very contagious virus for America to be on a wartime footing, in terms of fighting this virus............................
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(22,143 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)He just can't stop lying, and like all narcissists he lies, and lies and lies, and can not remember one lie from another. They also will NEVER admit they are wrong in any way shape or form.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Ding dongs were well aware of this possibility in 2016 and again in 2017 . Know we know why Brennan and Coats were fired.
Caliman73
(11,740 posts)I am not understanding the response. Is Trump doing anything different than he has done in the time he has been in the public spotlight?
He lies. He says whatever he thinks will deflect blame from himself.
The bigger story, or problem is that the media does little to point this out or confront it. The talking heads will fact check him but really little is done to ever highlight it in real time while it is happening.
In my unrealistic world, I would suggest the media do two things. Call him a liar to his face and have recordings ready to show him how he lied. And/Or simply stop covering his press engagements. There should be ONE reporter from the legitimate media elected by all of the other outlets, who attends those pressers and they should ask the questions so that Trump cannot evade them. If he does, it will be more evident as there are no distractions. He will either answer the question or end the event.
Instead the media scrambles to cover his every lie without confronting him. I know there are individual journalists who do ask him difficult questions but he is able to easily evade by jumping to another reporter that asks a different question that he would prefer to answer.