WH Dodges On Trump Mask Refusal | Talking Points Memo

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday morning found himself in a fiery exchange on CNN as he repeatedly dodged questions regarding President Trump’s refusal to wear a mask in public.


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WH Adviser Dodges On Trump Mask Refusal: ‘Nothing More To Squeeze From That Orange’

That’s because the Orange One was empty to begin with.
Empty of Knowledge, Wisdom, Compassion, Empathy, Intelligence, Morality, Ethics, Justice…
…This description of “the void that he is” could go on a very long time.

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“I can’t speculate on that,” Navarro said. “I think that it’s clear now that the President and the Vice President strongly support the use of masks and social distancing.

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“Nothing more to squeeze from that orange.”

Tell me he didn’t really say that.

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When Berman attempted to jumped in and ask whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — who has urged the public twice in the past week to wear masks — “beat it to death,” Navarro didn’t answer the question and continued focusing on the President instead.

“What’s the point? Everyone who gets near him has been tested and nobody gets within six feet of him,” Navarro said.

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Me? I hope that Donnie continues to:

  • not wear a mask or
  • not socially distance, or
  • change a thing he’s doing.

I’m a Darwin aficionado…

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:expressionless:

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Navarro added that “there’s nothing more to squeeze from that orange.”

I object…you can squeeze MORE BIGLY LIES from that Orange!

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It’s “The Orange ‘O Plenty”

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WHY? why is Navarro having all of these medical / health / epidemiological questions being posed to him?

Navarro is a total jackass / crackpot who has ZERO credentials in this area - he is nothing more than the “man on the street / guy at the end of the bar” who is eager to pretend that he knows things - he wants to speak like he is as knowledgeable as people who have studied & researched the topics for multiple decades - but the toxic part is that he is not simply trying to share knowledge - no, this bastard is willy-nilly skewing &spewing facts and recommendations based upon how he thinks it will be to Trump’s (or his) advantage - truth be damned - Navarro is an arrogant prick with no depth - and absolutely no substantive knowledge of significant medical / health / epidemiological science.

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The WaPo has Mary Trump’s book.

Mary Trump wrote that her grandfather’s children routinely lied to him but for different reasons. For her father, “lying was defensive — not simply a way to circumvent his father’s disapproval or to avoid punishment, as it was for the others, but a way to survive.”

For her uncle Donald, however, “lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was,” Trump writes.

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Put DiJiT in one of these 24/7.

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And that’s when Berman should have jumped all over this. Who is getting tested? How many tests have each of Trump aides gotten since March? Who is paying for their tests? Where are they getting them?
And then why is the federal government getting out testing when testing is the quickest way to stop the spread, or know where those “embers” Trump talks about need to be extinguished.

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This idiot Navarro is obviously correct about one thing: there is absolutely no point in asking him any question about any topic whatsoever.

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We’re spending a lot of money to keep him safe, while we’re the ones sacrificing the most.

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Time for the Secret Service to go on strike…

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The biggest, bestest hamster wheel a man could wish for.

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or in Land Use Policy or China. But why should the forking waste of air change after 40 years?

Loose seating must be zip tied to maintain aisles for emergency egress. That does not preclude wrapping three chairs out of every four with tape to maintain social distance.

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I personally prefer jokes about Trump’s hair than the fake tan, but maybe that’s just me.