Trump Walks Back Huge Goal For Tests After His Own Testing Chief Said It Was Impossible

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump retracted his claim that the U.S. will soon be able to administer 5 million COVID-19 tests every day after his own testing director on the White House task force, Admiral Brett Giroir, emphatically rejected the possibility of that goal.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1306552
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It’s too bad a reporter’s career might end if they asked the question, “You do realize, don’t you, that these briefings are being recorded?”

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Did Trump lie?

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“I didn’t say 5 million,” Trump said, despite the fact that he had said exactly that the day before.

"I didn’t say ________ (fill in the blank) ", Trump said, despite the fact that he had said exactly that the day before.

Just another day in the Trump presidency


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It’s TrumpHog Day (again)!

â™Ș♫ 'Cause you got me,
and baby I got you
Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe ♫â™Ș

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Ho-hum. Trump lied again. Quelle surprise.

Pinocchio’s nose exceeds the length of a giant sequoia.

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And by “soon” I am using the term in the sense of geologic time.

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The inverse of time scale that has him in the White House for “many months.”

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Remember when the Pathological Liar was just sketch comedy on SNL?
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=jon+lovitz+pathological+liar&atb=v175-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpkYNBwCEeH4

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‘Wait! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? I didn’t say 5 million! Damn media! Obama! We’ve done more than anybody in HISTORY! Ever!’ Uh huh. First it was a million which had no basis in reality and now it is 5 million
again, no basis in reality but 
 SUCH a ‘leader’.

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The only thing huge here is impotus’ lying!

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NUMBERS!!!

must be difficult to have to deal with numbers with such a dumb fuck brain

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Trump’s own version of the Texas Side-Step:

And appropriately from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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Funny thing is, Five Million is probably a lot closer to the net worth of Mango Mussolini, than his COVID-45 testing capability.

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Never mind that he completely contradicts what he said about this vital matter literally the next day. He’s done that god knows how many times. It’s that this really is vital to making a semblance of normality viable in this country without risking people’s lives. And he knows nothing about it, doesn’t care about it, and they’ve done nothing about it. Nothing. The states can’t do this. It has to be the feds. And they’ve done nothing.

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“We’re lapping the world in testing.”

More like napping.

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American Evangelicals response?

*He’s such a godly man, living a godly life, protecting all those (white) lives, and staunchly adhering to the 10 Commandments.

Why wouldn’t we vote for him?*

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But, but “Somebody started throwing around the 5 million tests claim and I was only passing it on doncha see? Why do you reporters always need to remind me of what I said yesterday when I don’t want you to or even remember what I said yesterday? Why is the truth so mean to me?”

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I’m guessing Fat Nixon was being “sarcastic”, yet again


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