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malaise

(269,144 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 05:53 PM Sep 2020

This is excellent -The 37 most absurd lines from Donald Trump's Labor Day 'news conference'

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/donald-trump-labor-day-press-conference/index.html
US President Donald Trump speaks during a labor day press conference at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC on September 7, 2020.
(CNN)President Donald Trump held a news conference gave a speech on Labor Day, a grievance-and-falsehood-filled address that was more fitting for a campaign rally than the White House.

I went through his remarks and pulled out the lines you need to see. They're below.
1. "Happy Labors -- Labor Day."
And away we go!
2. "As you probably see, the numbers are terrific. So we called some people, wished them a very happy Labor Day. And they told us how they're doing."
What numbers? What people? How are they doing?
3. "The unemployment rate plunged, really to the surprise of many, all the way down to 8 -- 8.4% in August. And that's the second-largest single-month decline on record. And we have the first; we have both of them. So we have the two number one declines. Decline meaning positive, not negative."
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This is excellent -The 37 most absurd lines from Donald Trump's Labor Day 'news conference' (Original Post) malaise Sep 2020 OP
Cillizza is great with these underpants Sep 2020 #1
...and what boast did he have about the markets??? N/T IllinoisBirdWatcher Sep 2020 #2
In one day tells more lies than 8 yrs of OBama, where Obama actually didnt lie, he Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #3
Absurd is almost too generous.... FM123 Sep 2020 #4
Way too generous - even the 37 biggest lies malaise Sep 2020 #6
President MORON strikes again!! I'm sick and tired of this motormouth, and wish that he would just SWBTATTReg Sep 2020 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
3. In one day tells more lies than 8 yrs of OBama, where Obama actually didnt lie, he
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 06:10 PM
Sep 2020

made ONE promise that he couldnt keep because insurance companies broke their promises and greedy doctors and so on...

We are so broken, this cant be fixed with us living together, us patriots and rabid racist hypocrites.

FM123

(10,054 posts)
4. Absurd is almost too generous....
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 06:11 PM
Sep 2020
"We have a V shape; it's probably a super V."

Trump is talking about the shape of the economic recovery. A "V"-shaped recovery is one where things collapse quickly and recover quickly. A "Super V" recovery is, um, not a thing. (Joe Biden has said this is a K-shaped recovery.

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
5. President MORON strikes again!! I'm sick and tired of this motormouth, and wish that he would just
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:17 PM
Sep 2020

shut up for a while. I will wait patiently, wait until Biden stomps trump's ass as he so thoroughly desires in Nov. 2020, and then open my homemade bottle of wine, and celebrate. Then when all is said and done, time to roll up the sleeves, and support our representatives and Mr. Biden in Washington DC.

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