BREAKING: Trump Finally Declares National Emergency Over Coronavirus Outbreak

President Donald Trump officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a national emergency on Friday afternoon after weeks of downplaying the disease.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1297020

I just heard the beginning of his announcement on the radio. He pronounced it the ā€œcaronanā€ virus: He couldn’t get through the first goddamned sentence without fucking it up! It’s probably just me but this breathtakingly stupid son-of-a-bitch is not inspiring confidence.

Then again, perhaps he hasn’t heard people reference it — and pronounce it correctly — enough to master the name.

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He looks feverish.

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He’s a mess. Sputtering through reading the speech he still can’t make any sense. He doesn’t understand what he is reading and it shows. He’s a joke.

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Big words:

N A T I O N A L
E M E R G E N C Y

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Look - visual aids!

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Very big words for Dumbo Trump and preschoolers. Not so much for everyone else.

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Whatever he’s saying appears to be clearing the very low bar Wall Street has set for him based on his last performance. So that’ll fuel some exceptionally stupid tweets all weekend.

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Just to be a jerk, isn’t that THREE big words, State of Emergency? Or is he not counting OF because it just has two letter?

I know I’m being a jerk, it’s just I feel compelled NOT to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Parody left the station some years ago, I see.

These words, the best words, they are very big, and large. Powerful and strong. And above all, yuuuuuuuge and classy.

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Every time he breaks from the prepared text he sounds like an imbecilic child, but even much of the prepared text seems like gibberish and obfuscation.

No surprises here.

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ā€œofā€ is a small, puny, weak word. Bullied by the big strong words. Sad, like a dog!

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Gov. Northam just closed all Virginia schools for 2 weeks. Yikes.

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More words for Dumbo Trump. Dunning-Kruger Effect.

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I’ll bet I could ask my 7-year-old grandson what the virus is called and he’d pronounce it correctly. ā€œCaronan.ā€ Mind blown.

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He forgot ā€œperfect.ā€

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We have meet our National Emergency and it is Trump.

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Two very big words National Emergency. That is all they were waiting to hear. At least I hope that is all because the rest is Trump speak.

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And now the parade of corporate biggies who will be making billions off this ā€œemergency.ā€

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I agree. ā€˜Dumb’ and ā€˜Fuck’ are two very big and accurate grown up words…

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ā€œI am a very important man.ā€ :clown_face:

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