TRUMP, What the hell is going on

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Day by day he surpasses himself.

Today he is bragging about how he has repatriated 40,000 Americans from many countries:

"Some of them I had to call the leaders of the country, most of whom I know, and once I did they snapped like you wouldn't believe"
 
And yesterday - he who is PotUS adds the WHO to the list of those he is blaming for the coronavirus pandemic, telling the country through his daily briefing that the WHO knew about the virus pandemic many months before it became known - even although there is not a shred of evidence to support that assertion...

And that's all Trump does. He makes unfounded assertions with the intention of misleading his core vote into believing that he has done a great job - that the one reason that the USA is not going to suffer 2.2m deaths are the great and decisive steps that he, Trump alone, implemented. Who is to blame? The Obama Administration, the Chinese, the WHO - the list grows.

When in fact he chose to be in denial and made claim of it being a Dem hoax, whilst ignoring all of the warning from his own advisers and all the briefings he was being given - because if he showed any recognition of what he was being told - if he was to actually take them on board and act accordingly, then he could not blame the Democrats. And that would hurt his re-election chances.

And so - the delay due to his lack of action - that continues today as he refuses to mobilise Federal power to support the efforts of individual states or to apply country-wide containment/delay measures - it is that delay that will result in the deaths of many thousands of US citizens who may well not have died had he acted promptly as he was being urged.

Some might come to say that guy is should be accorded pariah status and done for crimes against humanity.

Instead...God help America.
 
IanM said:
Trump is clearly nuts...then I see who the Dems are lining up against him. What the....???

Crikey. Get anyone...
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I really hope he doesn't get in again in Nov. As in a post Corona Brexit world we really need someone who is not a narcissist who sees literally everything through the prism of him and his popularity in charge in the US
 
There really is something sinister going on with that guy. His country people are dropping like flies and all he wants to talk about is his elections. :unsure:

As far as I've seen, China had reported a cluster of cases on the 31st Dec and the WHO sent out a report to the world around mid Jan. China had shared the genetic sequence of Covid_19 also around the same time so other countries can start developing their own diagnostic test kits.
And when did the US and UK start taking this seriously? In March! SMH!

The idiot even dismantled the National Pandemic team in 2016 that Obama had set up after the Ebola and Swine flu outbreaks in previous years.
 
triple_bogey said:
There really is something sinister going on with that guy. His country people are dropping like flies and all he wants to talk about is his elections.:unsure:

As far as I've seen, China had reported a cluster of cases on the 31st Dec and the WHO sent out a report to the world around mid Jan. China had shared the genetic sequence of Covid_19 also around the same time so other countries can start developing their own diagnostic test kits.
And when did the US and UK start taking this seriously? In March! SMH!

The idiot even dismantled the National Pandemic team in 2016 that Obama had set up after the Ebola and Swine flu outbreaks in previous years.
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It's because he can't hold his rallies now so he takes any opportunities he can to promote himself. Even if the subject being discussed is people dying. Even when he was talking about Bojo he went rambling on about how he'd instructed US companies who of course 'the best', to offer their help, to make it seem like he was riding to the rescue. Where as I would have thought the NHS had that one covered.

He will literally do everything in his power to try and get the US voters to feel like things are back to normal by the time he starts campaigning for re-election, even if that means more people will die than should do. Think it's a coincidence that all the majors in the US have been rearranged for later this year where as we cancelled the Open till next year. You watch which are the first sports leagues globally to start playing again and I'm more than confident it will be the US ones under severe pressure from the government
 
Indeed - Trump's 5pm ET briefings are no more than replacements for his rallies...his reactions when a reporter asks him a pointed question are staggeringly childish...obviously not something he has to put up with in the rallies. I tried watching Live on CNN his briefing yesterday. I had to switch over as it was just too gruesome and desperate - when you consider that the guy you are watching is PotUS.

From two days ago. The reporter in blue is a Fox News reporter (so they are getting it also) - 'John' is one of the longest standing most senior and experienced WH correspondents. Just wow!

 
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Don’t bite his hand.. he also said that the U.K. has reached out to him and he is sending 200 ventilators
 
Mudball said:
Don’t bite his hand.. he also said that the U.K. has reached out to him and he is sending 200 ventilators
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That's what he has said - not sure I've heard it confirmed by Hancock...

He says a lot of stuff to try and convince his support (not that they take much convincing) that the pleas coming from state governors for more ventilators and PPE are exaggerated; that they so don't actually need more ventilators he can provide some to the UK.

Now it may well be that we have reached out (really?) and received 200 ventilators from Federal stock - but I would not bet my house on it.

In any case - even if it is true should we actually be taking them when we can hear the pleas of US State Governors? Then again - were we to refuse any offer we might have received that might well upset Trump as it undermines his tactics - and we don't want to upset Trump now do we...:(

With Trump everything is political; about himself and his re-election.
 
Re his blaming of the WHO, bear in mind WHO's original recommendation was global travel shouldn't be stopped. When Trump barred flights from China and mainland Europe, WHO said that was the wrong approach. Their recommendation was for testing at the point of entry. Great if the traveller is showing symptoms but if they're asymptomatic, i.e. in this case they haven't got a fever, carriers are being let in.

I don't know the gist of Trump's complaint as I switch over when he comes on. He's a disgusting individual, and nothing coming out of his mouth interests me.
 
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That's what he has said - not sure I've heard it confirmed by Hancock...

He says a lot of stuff to try and convince his support (not that they take much convincing) that the pleas coming from state governors for more ventilators and PPE are exaggerated; that they so don't actually need more ventilators he can provide some to the UK.

Now it may well be that we have reached out (really?) and received 200 ventilators from Federal stock - but I would not bet my house on it.

In any case - even if it is true should we actually be taking them when we can hear the pleas of US State Governors? Then again - were we to refuse any offer we might have received that might well upset Trump as it undermines his tactics - and we don't want to upset Trump now do we...:(

With Trump everything is political; about himself and his re-election.
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That's a bit of a lose/lose situation for the government. If we decide not to take them so that they can be distributed in America they'd get slated for not helping our own people. If they take them they'd get slated from another side for taking them from a country that desperately needs them.
 
ColchesterFC said:
That's a bit of a lose/lose situation for the government. If we decide not to take them so that they can be distributed in America they'd get slated for not helping our own people. If they take them they'd get slated from another side for taking them from a country that desperately needs them.
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Yup - but Trumps tactics are to convince his core vote that the governors are exaggerating. Just as he played the ‘dem hoax’ card at the outset and Fox contributors supported that by claiming coronavirus was ‘no big deal’.

And so now we find Trump, his cronies and Fox News trying to rewrite history, but their words of Jan and Feb are there for all to hear no matter how they might try and reinterpret them - try and spin what they said into the opposite viewpoint. See such as Sean Hannity trying to tell his viewers that he NEVER underplayed or dismissed the risk presented by the Coronavirus is ... well ...
 
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Megalomaniac Alert!
Coronavirus: Trump claims 'total' authority to lift lockdown

I've always said that Trump is someone who was a spoilt brat of a kid and kept that attitude once he 'grew up' (although I'm not sure whether he ever has mentally).
An interesting review of him here:
Coronavirus: Trump berates media at jaw-dropping briefing

The man is a mixture of Canute and Ostrich mentality. In the past he has been able to bluff his way around situations with rhetoric, lies and false figures. A virus doesn't care what you say and he's now in a place where he doesn't know what to do so he's just carrying on with his usual bombastic ways. If the Americans re-elect him then they REALLY only have themselves to blame.
 
Why is there not a massive campaign by the public or media in the US against this joke of a human being and how does he keep his voters on his side through all this?

I’m not exactly a fan of bozza but the manor he’s spoken to the country so far has been exceptional in my opinion and then you watch trump in similar press conferences with media questions and he just goes after their valid questions with horrid personal attacks telling highly thought of journalists that they are third rate reporters and they won’t make it!!

Why don’t the media stand up to him?
 
More importantly, why watch him?
He's Americas problem, not ours.
When he comes on the tv, do your sanity and your blood pressure a favour and just turm him off.
 
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