Trump Holds COVID Briefing At 5PM ET After Railing Against Birx | Talking Points Memo

President Trump is scheduled to hold a coronavirus briefing at 5 p.m. ET Monday. The press conference comes after Trump called a dire warning about COVID-19 from Dr. Deborah Birx, a top health official, “pathetic.”


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All insanity, all the time.

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Cult of failure, The Trumpazoans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/03/more-americans-say-us-is-blowing-it-coronavirus-trump-voters-disagree/

On the coronavirus, you’d think the metrics of our failure would be hard to evade. The United States boasts nearly one-fourth of the world’s reported coronavirus cases and deaths. We had more than 432,000 cases in the past seven days, a percentage jump that dwarfs that of most of our major western allies.

To believe that the United States is doing well, you’d have to think that what we’re doing is good despite those mounting horrors. You couldn’t merely think that our rapid reopening earlier this spring was an inherently good approach because, say, freedom is good and lockdowns are bad. You’d also have to think this is the case despite the second surge in cases that was caused in no small part by that reopening.

ETA. I’m going for a walk in the Tucson heat (104 deg. F). I’d rather risk heat prostration than see or listen to Trump.

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:popcorn:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/03/congress-stimulus-coronavirus-trump/

previously

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/03/trump-promised-health-care-plan-two-weeks-its-been-two-weeks/

Moar :popcorn:

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‘Baron Von Orangehausen’ discussed it today.

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Was there a problem with foreign labor incursions into the TVA?

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He ‘said’ it was and again, he has the right to sack appointees (even his own).

Howeva, he again proved that he doesn’t know how government works, so the story that he wants out there, is getting binned by actual facts.

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V.o: “at the tone, the time will be 5:27 and 10 seconds.”

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Well, walking with my iPhone btw, the Feds are supposed to buy American whenever and wherever feasible, and Fed employees must be US citizens (There may be rare exceptions). So, I don’t see TVA hiring Mexican Nationals or outsourcing customer service to India. Sounds like a “problem” he invented in order to “solve”. Like outlawing Sharia law.

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He’s testing out the new, somber new tone™.

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“at the tone, the time will be 5:32 and 40 seconds.”

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Nothing from C-Span, CNN or the guys who usually cover these spectacles.

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That 'ship" has already hit the iceberg.

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“The virus is receding”

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There’s mounting rumors that he’s been having “ministrokes” and not of the genius type.

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With the phases of the moon like the tides.

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No problem, America. Wyoming is under control!

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No more local newspapers there. so I can see that.

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Kentuckians…

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