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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums52 days ago, CNBC:
JOE KERNEN: Have you been briefed by the CDC? Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It's 1 person coming from China, and we have it under control. It'sgoing to be just fine...
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)He claimed he didnt know about the pandemic team being fired but he must have been briefed on pandemics 52 days and still did nothing.
leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)He posted it yesterday and commented that the President Lied!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... something told me early on that it would sure come in handy sometime!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)fwvinson
(488 posts)They are digging fortball field size graves. I wonder what they are doing in Russia?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)did not prepare him for this moment.
marble falls
(57,093 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Ohiogal
(32,000 posts)And inundate the airwaves with ads over this!
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Our supine media doesn't believe in giving Democrats equal time to speak either in print or broadcast media.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)That's a rough assessment -- assumes we're all living in a giant city and not geographically separated, but it is in the ballpark of what we're talking about.
To make this bonehead error, all you needed was to think you got the one case quarantined, when really there was one other case out in the population.
I'm sure the epidemeologists knew this and warned him.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Payback is fair game, assholes!
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)"YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT!"
Initech
(100,076 posts)demigoddess
(6,641 posts)called an insult/slur.
sop
(10,186 posts)cliffside
(173 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)we ignore the 1500 radio stations that follow limbaughs lead in making excuses and pointing blame at democrats.
democrats can end it quick and even force GOP senators to dump trump if we boycott the crap out of all rw radio until the ad industry, which wants alll those ears, is forced to start asking clients if they really support trump and global warming and the coronavirus denial that limbaugh leads
it will hav e to democratize talk radio, break up the monopoly, and they will lose the only advantage they have
renate
(13,776 posts)I can do a little one-person boycott but Fox isnt going to notice our tiny individual ones. It needs to be public and huge.
Maybe the coronavirus will show people that we can get along without most of our favorite products at least temporarily.
certainot
(9,090 posts)attention it will have assume the worst and preemptively start breaking up the monopoly.
if the ad industry finds out how easy it is to record shows, transcribe, and then search and list advertisers and associate them with content without hardly listening it will freak out. all it would take iss a small org.
and people should know that limbaugh has been selling the coronavirus denial big time. so those 87 universities need to be protested.
and all it would take is sfor michael mooore (or bernie) to go on campus like in michigan and point out the absurdity of mich and mich state endorsing 18 limbaugh stations that support trump, say corona/trump is no worse than swine/ebola/obama, and deny global warming
then it would cascade
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)During his bullshit press conference yesterday I had just finished scanning his last couple of days of tweets.
When the lady asked the "nasty question" about why he had fired the pandemic team, he of course refused to answer but deflected into how poorly the Obama/Biden admin had responded to swine flu, which he said caused 14,000 deaths.
I was looking at a tweet on his account at the time. It was 17 hours old, and it was blaming "Sleepy Joe" for the 12,000 deaths caused by swine flu. (btw, CDC site says the death toll was around 12,400)
And, I realized that this wasn't really what you would call a lie in the traditional sense. Rather, it was like a toddler making some outlandish statement. His mind just automatically increased the number. Similar to how, when discussing his super genius uncle from MIT he had to add that he had taught at MIT for a "record number of years."
Please, please America. We need a sane adult to occupy the White House.
patphil
(6,177 posts)He still thinks he is running a company he owns.
So, he micro-manages the whole thing...an impossible task.
And, he takes everything so very personal. He won't let anyone stray from his line.
He relies on absolute loyalty from everyone, but he is unwilling to actually let those people's do their jobs.
He puts weak, ineffectual people in critical positions so they have to rely on him.
And, he counts on their fear of reprisal to keep them in line.
It's a recipe for failure.
No decisive action anywhere in the government without Trump's prior approval.
I did notice that Dr. Robert Kadlec was not with the President when he spoke yesterday. After Kadlec's agreement with Rep. Katie Porter regarding payment of Covid-19 testing, he's in the dog house big time...soon to be replaced I think.
What we have is a failure of leadership in the Oval Office.
It's bad enough at the corporate level, but it is catastrophic at the Federal Government level.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)but IQ45 does not micromanage. In fact, he's just the opposite.
Micromanagement is a management style characterized by excessive control and attention to details to the works of subordinates or employees. It is a state where the manager closely observes and controls everything a subordinate or an employee does in the organization.
As we heard in his "I take no responsibility" statement, he is NOT in control and is clueless as to what is going on around him.
But YES, we DO have a failure of leadership - and it is going to be nasty for the next few months.
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)his bankruptcies, his need to take out many loans, all the lawsuits, etc.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)was BEFORE he got his latest job!
Wonder what we would have known if we had ever seen his tax returns? (yeah, as if we didn't know!).
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bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)Protecting Americans' health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the Coronavirus outbreak in China. My Administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)I live on a town with a state university.
Spring semester started Jan. 6th.
I checked.
350,000 Chinese students attend college in the US during an academic year.
Those students were already here. All over the US.
Trump did nothing.
He either lied or did not take advice from health experts.
Or both.
ffr
(22,670 posts)nilram
(2,888 posts)An embarrassment of riches.
Number9Dream
(1,561 posts)It would be most damaging if we could show a video of the liar in chief saying it.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Number9Dream
(1,561 posts)underpants
(182,806 posts)This message has been approved by Joe Biden
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Except gross malfeasance, endangering the lives of every U.S. citizen, and lying to everyone about everything. Other than that, Donnie, you're not responsible for a fucking thing.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)... except for when he was forced to pay fines by Courts' judgments he didn't appeal.
Even with Court orders, he never really 'felt' guilty: He just paid them to get rid of them.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)Blue Owl
(50,381 posts)cliffside
(173 posts)time, maybe to his detriment, now every one calls him a liar???
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Or were you not paying attention to the critics of his birther bullshit long before 2015?
edhopper
(33,580 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,424 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Totally under control. Everythings gonna be just fine.
Well, donald, you finally ran INTO a wall. This virus doesnt listen to you. You cant threaten it, bully it, fire it, smear it with attack-tweets, or lie to it and fool it into going away with your bullshit and your constant deceit and irrelevant, non-factual, nonsensical happy talk.
You finally stumbled into something you cant buffalo with your slick fast-talking CONjobs. You cant sell ANYTHING to this virus. It aint buyin. It isnt even listening. And it definitely isnt impressed.
Thats a first for you, isnt it, donald. Your tricks arent working anymore. And you have NO idea what to do about it.