White House Official: Trump Was Just Joking About Stifling COVID Testing!

WASHINGTON — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says U.S. President Donald Trump was being “tongue in cheek” when he claimed at a campaign rally in Oklahoma that he asked officials to slow down coronavirus testing.


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Because there’s nothing funnier than killing people…

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It’s just been one wacky joke after another.

Starting with the oath of office.

He’s been killing it ever since.

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Two words - FU.

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Comedy is hard. Another skill he has not mastered.

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He said the same thing about the cruise ship with Coronavirus cases, he’s not kidding.

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You mean he’s kidding when he says some of these things?

Does that mean he and Kim Jung Un are not really in love?

(I wonder if Macy’s will take the place setting back…)

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The whole thing was a light moment.

However, haven’t we heard this statement about slowing testing before?

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115,000 people found it so funny that they literally died of laughter.

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Navarro said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Trump made the comment in a “light moment.”

Support independent uh… journalism!

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Yes, it’s entirely appropriate to make jokes about a public health crisis that has been mishandled by the President since Day 1, leading to over 100,000 deaths and 20M people out of work.

Real hilarious stuff.

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Navarro said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Trump made the comment in a “light moment.”

During Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Trump explained that the “bad part” of widespread testing is that it leads to logging more virus cases. New cases have recently spiked in several U.S. states, but not just due to testing.

EVERY TIME they say something so supremely stupid that blows up in their faces, it’s “just a joke.” And then, in order to counteract the aforementioned supreme stupidity, they double down with comments that only reinforce said stupidity. When this hate fest is actually documented as a super spreader event, will it be remembered as a “light moment”?

:tired_face:

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One thing Donnie seems to be really, really good at — telling “jokes” while looking completely serious and without anyone knowing that they are jokes.

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Enjoy

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Once again…if you have to EXPLAIN that it was a joke… it wasn’t.

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Cheek is generous. Those are “jowls”.

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Trump leaving helicopter.
It still galls me that this jackass has all the privileges of the POTUS!!!

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And certain folks went ballistic over a tan suit. Imagine if a previous President had departed Marine One looking like that.

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Yes, he’s widely admired for his canny sense of humor. Very sophisticated, another David Niven.

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