Trump: ‘I Don’t Kid’ | Talking Points Memo

President Trump on Tuesday insisted that he wasn’t kidding when he told attendees at his campaign rally over the weekend in Tulsa that he asked his administration to “slow the testing down, please” on the novel coronavirus.


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O irony, how delicious thou art! (nom-noms)

Once again, WH flaks attempt damage control over another of Cheeto Hitler’s “quiet-part-out-loud” gaffes…only to be undercut the next day by 45 hisself!

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Trump doesn’t joke (verb), but he is a joke (noun). One of the lacunar infarcts he had some time ago left him incapable of the verb-noun distinction. Someone should ask him to repeat, “No ands, ifs, or buts.”

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Mama says “…”

Believe Trump when he says he does not joke…

He does NOT care if thousands of Americans die as long as his “numbers“ are nice = low Covid infections and death!

Trump Death Clock = > 72k+ deaths

In March = Trump said: Job well done/“Very Good Job” is <100k deaths

In June 23rd = US Covid Death: 120k+

Meanwhile, Stay Safe and Healthy
AND
Remember in November
= VoteBlue
= Vote Out Trump & Rs

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Trump Says He Wasn’t Joking About Slowing Down COVID-19 Testing: ‘I Don’t Kid’

Bookmarked.

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Message? WE don’t need no stinking message.

Also, always remember tRump’s grandfather was a pimp and his father was a Klansman.

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Not joking? Unpossible.

Like…at least a half-doz spokespeople and groupies have already said he was…are THEY lying too?

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It is so hard to sort out the lies. Did he lie about wanting to reduce testing? Did his staff lie about him just kidding? He IS lying about “doing a great job”. How does the WP keep their lying tally in order? Is it better to assume everything he says is a lie? I think so and I ain’t lying about that.

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Of course he doesn’t kid. He’s humorless.

“I was kidding” is always the refrain of someone who certainly wasn’t kidding.

I can’t wait to hear Bimbo spin this one.

Also, can we call this “confession” treason?

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I’m sure that his handlers will be out there claiming he was joking about not joking before the end of the day…

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CNN should go back to “Laughin” Peter Navarro and ask him for clarification… I can almost hear him… “I didn’t say that he was joking, I said that he said it ‘tongue-in-cheek’, big difference!”.

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“testing is a double-edged sword”

Wait, they make swords with two edges? That sounds useful.

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Cheeto’s sense of humor just kills me.

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https://twitter.com/DrainTheTrumps/status/1275442252785922049

Best ad these guys have done so far.

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“I just play one on TV.”

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So we should do zero tests and have zero cases. Also, doctors should stop doing tests and seeing patients; if they do that there will be no more sick people.

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This is what tRump would say are “fine people…on both sides.”

Where I come from these are two sides of the same coin.

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Okay. Number one: Remember all those times - past, present and future - when he said/will say “I was kidding.” Number two: I was wrong, he wasn’t joking. Number three: It’s jail time for him.

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And 120,000 others.

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