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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:01 AM Aug 2020

Trump Says Surging Virus 'Will Go Away Like Things Go Away'

Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said the coronavirus pandemic is “going away,” as the U.S. continues to see tens of thousands of new daily cases and recorded 1,380 deaths on Tuesday.

“This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away,” Trump said Wednesday morning in a telephone interview with Fox News. He said the U.S. is in “very good shape” while touting economic indicators.

Trump also reiterated his push for schools to reopen, saying inaccurately that children are “almost immune” to the virus but that “the teachers are a different story.” He recommended that older teachers not return to work until the pandemic passes. “This is a terrible thing that China sent us,” Trump said.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/trump-says-surging-virus-will-go-away-like-things-go-away?srnd=politics-vp

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Trump Says Surging Virus 'Will Go Away Like Things Go Away' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2020 OP
MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #1
Thank goodness Trump will be going away soon C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #2
It will go away right about the time Trump goes away. sop Aug 2020 #3
The CDC and WHO say probably not Warpy Aug 2020 #20
Measles, polio, smallpox didn't "go away" until nearly everyone was vaccinated. SharonAnn Aug 2020 #28
Zoonoti viruses are never going away, period Warpy Aug 2020 #33
As will Trump, only in the chill of November! marble falls Aug 2020 #4
Can't go away fast enough for me soothsayer Aug 2020 #5
The Madness of King Donald of Orange: "This thing's going away. It will go away like things go away" Botany Aug 2020 #6
Haha! moose65 Aug 2020 #24
It is an old expression .... google it Botany Aug 2020 #27
He'd rather die than do something right. Grokenstein Aug 2020 #29
He is like the pain in the ass car salesman back in ... Botany Aug 2020 #31
I never want this guy to shutup, he makes more democratic voters everytime he speaks beachbumbob Aug 2020 #7
And his base more crazy, more radical Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #8
unfortunately that has been the end game for decades by conservatives and once Fairness Doctrine beachbumbob Aug 2020 #9
Too true. Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #15
my MAJOR issue with both Clinton and Obama was their failure to get the Fairness Doctrine back in beachbumbob Aug 2020 #23
I almost believe that needs to be Miguelito Loveless Aug 2020 #25
Would a reinstated Fairness Doctrine apply to things like Fox News, though? Jedi Guy Aug 2020 #26
WTF is his obsession with China? Firestorm49 Aug 2020 #10
All the money he owes them. niyad Aug 2020 #16
Not Only Owed... ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #37
It doesn't matter where it came from. tRump FAILED to PROTECT American LIVES Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #35
Click your heels together three times IronLionZion Aug 2020 #11
It's like he's doing a Sarah Cooper bit at this point. underpants Aug 2020 #12
The thing in the White House needs to go away tinrobot Aug 2020 #13
Like really bad presidents perhaps? PatSeg Aug 2020 #14
Trump is one of those thing that should go away. LisaL Aug 2020 #17
Just go away already dump! CountAllVotes Aug 2020 #18
This is the worst cover of Nine Inch Nails "Hurt" EVER greenjar_01 Aug 2020 #19
This will at minimum, be around for years afterwards, after all, Flu (and/or different versions of SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #21
Going away, eh, just like when we supposedly had only 15 cases per you, which will ... SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #22
BS. The party of death speaks again, and ignores reality as usual. It's a terrible thing that rump SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #30
Can he just go away? Now? Please? relayerbob Aug 2020 #32
yeah sure trump llashram Aug 2020 #34
Head under the covers hoping the scary goes away. Solly Mack Aug 2020 #36
We do know a "thing" that will go away after the General Election. nt oasis Aug 2020 #38
HUMANITY will go away, eventually. not_the_one Aug 2020 #39

C_U_L8R

(45,012 posts)
2. Thank goodness Trump will be going away soon
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:03 AM
Aug 2020

I never want to hear that pouty whiny self-promoting voice again

Warpy

(111,305 posts)
20. The CDC and WHO say probably not
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:31 AM
Aug 2020

The damned thing is out there and will probably remain so, although it won't be epidemic the way it is now and the death rate won't be going up as quickly, either, but people will continue to die from it until we get a vaccine. Even then, it might be like the flu and require new vaccine as it continues to mutate and evolve.

What will disappear is a bunch of pig-ignorant plutocrats playing at government and fucking us all over.

If anything good comes out of this miserable four years, I hope it's the fact that talking about running the government like a business gets a candidate shipped off to a mental hospital for a course of antipsyhotic drugs.

Warpy

(111,305 posts)
33. Zoonoti viruses are never going away, period
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:08 PM
Aug 2020

As long as there are animal reservoirs exist, transfer between species will occur and some of them will be transferred to us.

Botany

(70,539 posts)
6. The Madness of King Donald of Orange: "This thing's going away. It will go away like things go away"
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:06 AM
Aug 2020

Besides it is China's fault too and the US economy is in “very good shape” too.

Nuttier than a squirrel turd.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
29. He'd rather die than do something right.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 01:14 PM
Aug 2020

I mean, he'd rather watch everyone die than do something right.

Botany

(70,539 posts)
31. He is like the pain in the ass car salesman back in ...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:00 PM
Aug 2020

...the day trying to push the undercoating.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
9. unfortunately that has been the end game for decades by conservatives and once Fairness Doctrine
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:26 AM
Aug 2020

vanished, allowed to happen with zest driven by foxnews/murdoch

Jedi Guy

(3,230 posts)
26. Would a reinstated Fairness Doctrine apply to things like Fox News, though?
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 12:38 PM
Aug 2020

The original Fairness Doctrine required any holder of a broadcast license to comply, and a broadcast license means they're using the radio frequency spectrum (i.e., public airwaves), which is no longer the case for networks like CNN or Fox News.

If it were resurrected, it'd have to be updated to take modern tech into account, I guess.

ProfessorGAC

(65,111 posts)
37. Not Only Owed...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:15 PM
Aug 2020

...but taken as gap period loans.
IOW, for x years it's a promissory note. No payments of interest or principal for the contractual term.
Then, payments start adding in the x years of interest as starting principal.
These are the kind of deals people make when they're sure they will make 5x or 10x the interest accrued.
But, there's zero evidence PINO knows how to successfully invest in things.
So, that $340 million is what was owed before 3.5-4.0% accumulated for 4 years.
He.Doesn't.Have.The.Money!
Can't begin to pay it back.
Figured he had 4.5 years of grifting before he had to worry about it.
He's puking on his tie right now!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,020 posts)
35. It doesn't matter where it came from. tRump FAILED to PROTECT American LIVES
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:46 PM
Aug 2020

Further, he accepts no responsibility at all. That's why he keeps emphasizing China as a distraction from his massive FAIL.

SWBTATTReg

(22,154 posts)
21. This will at minimum, be around for years afterwards, after all, Flu (and/or different versions of
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:54 AM
Aug 2020

it) come back yearly it seems, and the CV, will I think persist for some time being so difficult to eradicate (especially w/ the idiot PINO in charge), and then will slowly fade away, as more aggressive effects are finally made w/ the idiot PINO out of the way (and the complacent republican Senate out of the way too).

The republicans will no longer be known as the gop, it will be known as the party of death. It'll take them a long long time to wipe the slate clean from their ongoing disasters in FL, AZ, TX and other republican-led states that originally paid attention to the PINO and are now starting to back away from the flawed and fatal strategies that rump and his nightmare team dreamed up. Remember Kushner's ignore states w/ large blue cities, we don't care about them or the people in them strategy? Deliberate murder.

SWBTATTReg

(22,154 posts)
22. Going away, eh, just like when we supposedly had only 15 cases per you, which will ...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:59 AM
Aug 2020

go rapidly to zero? Yeah, sure, everyone is paying attention to you, NOT!

Just STFU and get out of the way, and let far more better people get to work.

SWBTATTReg

(22,154 posts)
30. BS. The party of death speaks again, and ignores reality as usual. It's a terrible thing that rump
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

has put us into ... by his total and abject failures on all fronts.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
39. HUMANITY will go away, eventually.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:17 PM
Aug 2020

It will just happen quicker in some timelines, than others.

Just you wait...

The turd is just trying to hurry it along in HIS timeline. We just have to make a "timeline adjustment", come November 3rd.

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