White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Press Briefing

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1297539
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3:30pm press conference. You’d think they’d know by now to do it 30 minutes later.

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It takes time to invert truthiness.

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He finds it remarkable that a pandemic is all around the world. :roll_eyes:

Got here late, going back and listening to his drivel. Same old.

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He is rambling.

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Being early with China -is his go-to.

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Trump says.

Trump says.

Trump says.

Who gives a rat’s left gonad?

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Now he’s explaining why “try getting it on your own” is a sensible thing to say, like that wouldn’t occur to a state procurement system.

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He gave governors authorization to order medical supplies directly? WTF. He just said governors order this stuff on their own.

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If it’s important, we’ll give you a number [ventilator and ICU capacity]? It’s probably the most important question right now. Also, “hopefully we won’t need it” which is bullshit.

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Pure bullshit. There can’t possibly be some regulation that has to be waived for people to buy respirators. People at construction sites wear them.

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The virus isn’t under control. But what we’re doing is under control. That’s what I meant.

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It was less than three weeks ago that Trump said:

“I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” And he said: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

The Democrats need to put that audio on loop, alongside a counter that shows cumulative confirmed cases in the United States, not unlike that debt clock in Times Square that Republicans love to point to.

The current number is 4,138.

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Trump added that if everyone adopts these “critical changes and sacrifices now,” the virus will be defeated and “we’re going to have a big celebration all together.”

“And we’ll have a big cake and everyone will get a piece - maybe even seconds!”

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“These are TEMPORARY measures. We will reverse these steps as soon as possible.”
(“unless they are helpful my re-election”)

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Unless it’s part of the plan.

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the more he talks, the deeper the market dives… Everyone watching now realizes that we are essentially leaderless – or worse, actually – at this moment of crisis.

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What is the federal government doing today to assure the safety of health-care workers by providing them with protective gear?

I made a very good decision to close the borders. For that other thing we’re doing everything we can. We’re doing all the things. Next question?

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He is lying about PPE. He is basically saying it is not his responsibility to provide anything. It is up to the governors.

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“could be longer than that”= “I’m planning to end the state of emergency in November 4th, after I’ve used the National Guard to ‘guard’ polling places”

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