Trump Throws A Fit Because Nobody Took His Coronavirus Press Conference Seriously

[CatWoman]

Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday did nothing to calm the fear that many Americans have about the coronavirus outbreak that has now reached U.S. shores.

As PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones noted earlier on Thursday, the stock market is having its worst week since the financial crisis – a sign that just about nobody is confident in Trump’s ability to manage this global health crisis.

On Thursday, the president threw a fit that his made-for-TV coronavirus press conference wasn’t viewed favorably by the public, blaming the media for not raving about how “calming” it was.

“It would be really nice if we could be recognized by the press fairly,” Trump whined. “I gave a press conference yesterday that was really a very good press conference, and some people thought it was great.”

He added, “Basically it was a calming press conference. It was a conference to say we’re doing well.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/27/trump-throwing-a-fit-because-nobody-took-his-coronavirus-press-conference-seriously.html?fbclid=IwAR028gMT5JaP1h31Yix8BTT80DRhF8P-NgbfrWpCrxJoB8qM6GlioVqNH5Y

[CatWoman]

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. I don't think if you want to calm you actually TELL people

your purpose is to calm.

[The Genealogist]

2. That EGO, tho

Perfect phone calls. Very good press conferences. Bull. Just plain old criminality and incompetence.

[drray23]

3. At this point it should be obvious to everybody

He is insane. Nobody can fake that amount of stupidity and disconnection from reality.

[panader0]

4. He's addicted to fits.

If he doesn't have two or three a day he has withdrawals.

[spanone]

5. He downplayed it and lied. WTF does he expect?

[RockRaven]

6. Trump thinks the markets fell *despite* his presser but the reality is *he made it worse*

Trump's presser simply affirmed what was already likely in the minds of anyone remotely paying attention the past 3 years -- that he is not going to do anything EFFECTIVE to limit the damage, and that he IS going to do INEFFECTIVE and HARMFUL things in an attempt to satisfy his ego and "win" the next news cycle.

So anyone with two brain cells knows that the US is going to get slammed by a pandemic respiratory virus with no vaccine. There will be massive economic disruption. That's bad enough.

But now the WH has silenced the CDC experts -- who are the public's best source of evidence-based guidance to minimize both the health damage and, by not panicking or following looney crap, the economic damage. They've put in charge a guy who presided over the biggest acute cluster if new HIV infections in US history AND MADE IT WORSE BY DENYING REALITY/SCIENCE/STATISTICS in favor of moralizing right-wing dogma. They've done this after having eliminating the position -- not just firing the person, flat out getting rid of the job description -- which was to coordinate pandemic responses between federal agencies, probably because it was a position Obama had made an important part of his WH.

*IF* Trump REALLY wanted Wall Street not to react poorly to coronavirus, he never should have praised Xi, he never should have said it would be better by spring, he never should have put Pence in charge, he never should have silenced CDC experts, he never should have spoken/tweeted about this matter himself AT ALL.

[NJCher]

22. 3rd paragraph

Summary:

[Wounded Bear]

7. Trump Throws A Fit Because Nobody Takes Him Seriously...

FIFY

He's so full of shit it stains his face orange.

[Phoenix61]

8. OMG! I thought it aa going to be from the Onion.

This must be a really terrible time to be a writer for them.

[tavernier]

35. Me too. Or Borowitz.

I kept looking for their by line!

Actually had to watch his stupid face to convince myself that it wasn’t a joke!

[barbtries]

9. he's so far gone

i think he pretty much believes he can do no wrong. his perfect phone call that proved the crime is another case in point. i think he's seriously out of touch with reality, and there's no going back from where he is.

sadly for all of us he has a cult and a cabal of republicans willing to let this continue. i don't know when or how it ends.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Who's he trying to convince, himself or us? I'm convinced he's a know nothing shit stirrer.

[barbtries]

18. obviously he plays to his base

and virtually everything he says is propaganda. i just think he's deteriorated mentally and cognitively so much that he believes it. he thinks he's the victim here. he thinks he knows everything about everything more than anyone else. i don't know that but that's what i think. his brain does not work right.

rational people who pay attention to the actual news know better. trumpsters and foxbots don't. they don't believe that COVID-19 poses an actual threat, they don't believe that climate change is exasperated by human conduct, they don't believe that stealing and locking up children is a crime or that colluding with russia and blackmailing Ukraine are wrongful acts. it almost goes without saying that it's okay to cheat on elections, suppress the vote, pack the courts, lie, cheat and steal, and ratfuck your opponents in order to win. the ends justify the means regardless of how cruel, anti-American, or even murderous those means may be. Bad faith is good faith.

so trump the unmanageable 2 year old is in a bubble full of helpless grown ups without any will or ability to contain or control him, and a bunch of other bad actors who spend their days ruining the country in dozens of different ways, because they can. an astonishingly high number of cultists are comfortable with that, because of racism, hatred of the other, nothing pleases them more than owning the libtards, etc.

dark times.

[shanti]

17. Any sight or sound from

McConnell, et al.? Is he still ramming judges through? They are strangely quiet.

[barbtries]

19. i can't listen to him anymore

but caught a small clip of him saying they'll take up funding for COVID-19 in 2 weeks. republicans never sleep though, so you can rest assured that he's up to no good.

[LiberalBrooke]

30. He really does believe

his own version of reality where he does no wrong. That alone would, in normal times, to be enough to get him out of there.

[colsohlibgal]

10. Poor Poor Donald

The twisted thing to contemplate is I doubt this Dumb Jerk could have won if we hadn’t twice elected a person of color.....and I imagine the same thing may have occurred had Hillary, a Female, been elected to two terms. It’s messed up.

Of course had Reagan not axed the Fairness Doctrine, begetting Fox News, Limbaugh etc......we would be in a much better place right now as well. As the Fixx song title goes, “One Thing Leads To Another”.

[milestogo]

11. Trump Throws Feces Because Nobody Took His Coronavirus Press Conference Seriously

That's what actually happened, but they toned the headline down.

[gratuitous]

12. And that's why Needy Amin had to have his "do-over" availability today

Speaking of people like Mike Pence who have nothing else to do, is anyone surprised that Diamond and Silk were available to kiss Trump's ass this afternoon?

[Ilsa]

13. Did he have a do-over? I was away for a couple of hours. nt

[gratuitous]

15. Yeah, poor little feller had his feelings hurt yesterday

So he needed to call in the press to watch a bunch of people humiliate themselves with their obeisance to him:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-meets-with-black-supporters-vows-equal-opportunity/ar-BB10uQ3r

[icymist]

14. But, was it a 'perfect' press conference?

[malaise]

20. You know you're dealing with a stark raving lunatic

when he blames the Democratic candidates debate on Tuesday night (for something that happened before it started), contradicts the experts who lsif out the facts, and then thinks he had a very good press conference. As I wrote elsewhere, he is fucking clueless. This is way out of his depth and mental capacity.

[imanamerican63]

21. Why would we take him seriously at times like this?

He is seriously not the president!

[Mc Mike]

23. tRump blubbers.

[DFW]

24. It was surely a stable press conference. A genius press conference.

Or, as the rest of us call it, a babbling, partially coherent, typical Trump say-nothing press conference.

Full disclosure: I didn't see it, so I'm just speculating, here. I still have my day job, got better things to do.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[rpannier]

26. some people thought it was great

Lindsay Graham, his children, the toadies in his administration, people without a clue

[sprinkleeninow]

27. Having to look at his faccia brut and hear that

sickening tone of voice is nowhere remotely near 'calming'. Those two annoying traits puts one in a state of distress. Always and forever.

[sprinkleeninow]

28. No, au contraire. 'Some people' thot it sucked.

'cause you suck royally...

[duforsure]

29. When you make a fool of yourself lying over and over again,

There comes a time when people can no longer trust anything you say, and his time is now. He can't blame away his insane statements and accusations anymore, and people aren't listening to the serial liar because he can't be trusted to tell the truth.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. This needs to have a regular spot on the news: "Hissy Fit of the Day". nt

[C_U_L8R]

32. He thinks he can just throw paper towels at the problem.

This is where Trump's incompetence catches up with him. He thinks it's about press conferences and ratings instead of actual deeds that defend the public good. No one is safe with this idiot at the helm. And even Republicans will die because of his ignorance. Sow and reap.

[moose65]

36. You got that right!

I watched his so-called press conference, and he was mumbling and looking down and very low energy. Truth is, Trump really doesn't care about any of this, and he can't use it to call attention to himself. His usual bluster was gone. He is incapable of being the person who can "calm" the nation. We are so used to hearing him belittle others and puff himself up, that when he doesn't do that, he comes off as someone who is half-asleep. When he has to stick to a script instead of going off on a stream-of-consciousness rant, you can see how unfit for office he really is.

[mitch96]

33. Trump Throws A Fit ............. GOOD!!! nt

[Javaman]

34. let me fix the headline: Trump Throws A Fit Because Nobody Took Him seriously. nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Nothing that Spanky does can be called "calming".

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. How about calling the man who died a wonderful woman?