WATCH LIVE: Trump Holds Coronavirus Briefing At 5:45 PM ET

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I am expecting something similar to this.

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Oh yippee! What can we expect from tonight’s train wreck?

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No thank you

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The man is shameless. He’s getting criticized for these campaign rallies even from the right and R pols he usually listens to and still he persists. But what else does he have to do in the midst of a pandemic but blather.

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First, it won’t start anywhere near on time. Second, he will whine, complain and lie about the Governors whom he has told his minions to LIBERATE. Last, but not least, he will lie, lie, lie like he always does.

Gag a MAGAT

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Questions today need to focus entirely on Covid-19. Where are the tests? Where are the swabs? Where are the reagents? Contact tracing is labor intensive -what resources is the federal government providing to get this done?

Reporters need to ask short direct questions. Reporters need to support each other with the follow up questions required. Ask him to cite his facts and sources. Do not get distracted by his campaign garbage.

Keep repeating 41,000 deaths and 700,000+ confirmed cases.

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That is one of the reasons I think he has started soloing. He has stretched again and his backers have to figure out if it is time to bail. The monster is out of control. The criticism is the sound of stress on their part.

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I suppose he’s hoping to pre-empt 60 Minutes, especially if they’re going to show another piece highlighting yet another failure of the administration to halt the pandemic and help the States that are overwhelmed.

Well, I can hope 60 Minutes would, can’t I?

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All the questions you’re suggesting he address and answer are a foreign language to him. I hope no one tells him that as of today there have been 1,051 deaths in CA because he’ll only cheer.

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Like 1000x.

Of course, it won’t happen, but I still like the idea.

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Only Game in Town for Trump. He is playing for time…

Given his record of escaping accountability, it suits him.

But this is in the order of a real possibility of as many deaths as British Forces lost in WWII in six years of combat.

All in a matter of a few months…and made more probable by the lies he has been telling and will tell today

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Oh good lord, why?!? Give it a fucking day off, Donnie. It’s not like you’re going to provide any useful information.

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As Cuomo told him on Friday, stop watching me on television and do your job.

I think we can extend that to stop having a public nervous breakdown every night in front of the tv cameras too.

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He dino-sized brain knows he failing at the one thing he could do which is to put this country and its resources on a wartime footing just as FDR did in 1933 and without televised hoopla.

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Best of luck all you hard core posters. Have your barf bags at the ready.

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He’ll have to get in something about Speaker Pelosi calling him a “weak leader” on Fox this morning. That part will be fun to watch anyway.

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@TPM – Just put up a banner to let us know when Twittler’s shit show is over for the afternoon.

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He needs this stuff. He’s drawn to it like a leech to a blood meal. If he were denied this he would shrivel up like a slug in a salt bath.

Sorry for the mixed metaphor.

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FDR inspired the entire nation and communicated shared sacrifice for the greater good. Trump inspires only anarchy and hatred.

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