NYT Columnist: "The CDC presser was among the most frightening Trump appearances I've ever seen"

[Mrs. Overall]

Link to tweet

Farhad Manjoo
@fmanjoo

The CDC presser was among the most frightening Trump appearances I’ve ever seen, on the level of Charlottesville — a horrifying and surprising (even for him!) callousness in the face of death and suffering, an inability to see anything through a lens other than his own ratings

[dalton99a]

1. America is being held hostage by a fucking psycho

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Unfortunately, about 40% of regular voters have Stockholm Syndrome

and they want more to join them.

[Mr. Ected]

9. And 40 million psychophants

Which is now a word.

[JDC]

18. It's a good word

[hay rick]

22. Much better than the word I coined.

Trumpholes.

[yonder]

41. I dont know, pretty good too.

[trof]

26. Oh HELL yes! That's an EXCELLENT word. Very good. I think you win the thread.

[trof]

28. Oh...wait...maybe psychophile?

One who likes psychos?

[3catwoman3]

44. I love neologisms. This one is a...

...keeper!

[Mr. Ected]

45. Thank you!

I think I'll be using it liberally.

[wiley]

55. Semiotics!

Anytime you break a precedent (or President) you have the potential of creating new meaning. A word can have both primary conceptual content, as well as secondary conceptual content. After seeing a woman in the clinic wearing a face mask and a ski mask with a MAGA button on it refusing to answer questions about her potential exposure to COVID-19 because she said it was a fake story, the term psychophant really developed meaning. Great word.

[madaboutharry]

56. This would make a great Billboard.

With a picture from today of Trump in his stupid red hat waving his hands around claiming to be a genetic genius who knows all about pandemic diseases.

[tenderfoot]

65. With a compliant media that absolutely LOVES this shit

eom

[raccoon]

77. And a bunch of good for nothing Republican congresspeople who won't get rid of him. Nt

[malaise]

2. And wearing a MAGAt hat to fucking boot

Sickening

[lunatica]

10. Did you notice he also bizarrely wore his natural disaster clown outfit too?

It’s not like he accidentally puts it on without thinking.

Why do that? Everyone else was in a suit. Is he thinking the CDC is a natural disaster?

I’m so confused!

[klook]

17. Did he throw out some boxes of Kleenex to the crowd? (nt)

[malaise]

32. I noticed that and I also noticed

that he's put on more weight

[lunatica]

49. It's the sleeplessness bloat

and he’s probably been holding his breath until he gets his way too.

[John Fante]

39. "natural disaster clown outfit"

[malaise]

50. Chris Hayes commented on it too

[Tumbulu]

59. I love that line too!

[misanthrope]

48. He had been in Nashville prior to Atlanta

looking at the tornado damage from earlier in the week. Likely on his way to south Florida.

[Pachamama]

52. It's his "Uniform" for Battle....

Weird....

But I try not to understand what and why comes from his mind....

[lunatica]

53. Maybe he has a vest on too

If it protects him from bullets then of course it’ll keep a stupid virus out, right?

[raging moderate]

62. Remember when Obama failed to wear a tie?

Remember when Obama failed to wear a dark suit?

I wonder what would have happened if Obama had shown up to such an event dressed like this?

[VOX]

66. Maximum outrage. Hannity would spend a week's worth of airtime devoted to the subject.

Panels of RW talking heads would frame such a sartorial travesty as an “affront to the Constitution and (somehow) to our American men and women in uniform overseas fighting to defend our freedom.”

[maddiemom]

70. And Michelle was wearing a sleeveless dress?

[CaptYossarian]

31. The hat makes it a campaign stop.

We paid for the flight, the motorcade, and the Secret Service for a lousy campaign stop for him to pretend he's concerned about something other than the Dow.

Atlanta's citizens paid by having traffic screwed up along the route. The bastard could have phoned it in, but he would've lost the photo op.

[malaise]

33. I'm surprised no one in the media has condemned that

It was beyond vulgarity and poor taste.

[CaptYossarian]

38. Tass and Pravda didn't either in the USSR.

[Tumbulu]

58. Yes- insulting to the CDC and so darn ugly!

And ugly clothes as well!

[MFM008]

68. And wearing his adult

Snuggies.

[ck4829]

75. Everything's about the brand image with him

[malaise]

76. They are tearing him to bits on Morning Joe Scum

[rockfordfile]

4. The virus situation is trump's fault . This virus should be named after Trump.

[dem4decades]

6. Obamacare vs Trumpdoesn'tcare. Pretty simple.

[alterfurz]

24. Don T. Care aka DonTCare

Bronze Plan: "Just Say No to Illness"
Silver: "Pray"
Gold: "Pray Harder"
Platinum: A used paperback copy of Gray's Anatomy, Swiss Army knife, needle & thread, band-aids, and a $1-off coupon for Extra Strength Tylenol

[appalachiablue]

64. +1 !

[Denis Enko]

5. Trump is a Much Bigger Virus

And poses a much larger threat to America.

[58Sunliner]

7. Nothing to see, just a sociopath on a national stage mocking America and pissing on us.

[irisblue]

8. His next tweet was this

Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) Tweeted:
We are really hosed

Link to tweet

And the bot signal to trumpers, bots and trolls has gone out

[Mrs. Overall]

21. Yes...I saw that! Thanks for posting it.

Things are feeling a little bleak right now.

[johnthewoodworker]

11. His base will love it.

[PA Democrat]

13. Until they themselves start getting sick.

MAGA hats won't inoculate them against the virus.

[Traildogbob]

43. But,

The MAGA hats are a warning sign of mouth breathers that may be vectors from trump KKKKlan Jamboree rallies. Like Larry David portray the MAGA hatters, stay away from em. Maybe this thing will thin em out nicely. Those gapping mouths sreaming lock her up can catch a lot of virus.

[paleotn]

34. Until the contract COVID-19

and fail to survive. Much of his base are at high risk of COVID-19 complications. The irony is not lost on me.

[Zoonart]

12. He is a monster and

He belongs totally 100% to the GOP.
That should be our message.

[marlakay]

14. I turned the radio on and some guy

Was talking about how wonderful Trump was handling the virus, thats all it took I turned off.

Its like they were told to praise him, I really feel like I live in Russia now or Nazi Germany.

[cwydro]

23. Good lord, what channel do you keep your radio on?

Yikes.

[marlakay]

27. It was MSNBC but they were playing a live

Press event with sounded like medical spokesmen, I don’t really know who it was because second I heard some medical guy say how great Trump was handling this I turned off in disgust.

[paleotn]

36. They were bucking for a promotion.

In the present nightmare, blowing the orange emperor is the sure way to higher office.

[yaesu]

15. the most hateful, bloated thing I have ever seen. nt

[jmbar2]

16. I haven't seen the clip but

..no one in their right mind expects anything competent from Trump. The networks probably feel like they have to broadcast it, but no one will pay any attention to what he says. Bring out the competent people.

[yaesu]

19. did you see bozo say that the supply of test kits was "beautiful", what a moron. nt

[CaptYossarian]

35. He also said it was perfect.

The guy who's unqualified for any job is suddenly in Quality Control.

[wishstar]

20. In that presser he called Gov Islee "a snake" and said CNN is "fake news"

His rantings were just like his despicable insulting tweets

[Native]

25. If the Universe was to receive an enema, Trump would be the point of insertion

[at140]

29. The so called presser was just free campaign photo op for tRump

How many times did he boast about the economy and job numbers?
What has that anything to do with covid-19?
and Rump boasted how fast he stopped arrivals of people from China.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. What a crazy fuck. Wait until his base starts getting sick. Nah. They will blame Dems. Rush will

tell them to.

[stillcool]

40. they probably have the conspiracy theories...

in the can, ready to go.

[Evolve Dammit]

47. Of that I am sure. And unlimited sources willing to contribute. Age of mis-information.

[Blue_Tires]

37. Don't look at me, I spent all of 2015-16 trying to warn folks

But too many Dem voters hated Hillary more than they feared Trump

[KY_EnviroGuy]

42. Every event all day is a campaign event to tRump.....

from his breakfast McDonald's to warm milk and cookies with Pence reading Mein Kampf to him for night-night, it's all about him.

KY.......

[spanone]

46. and not a peep from any republican regarding trumps disastrous rollout of coronavirus response

worse, they praise him.

[Beartracks]

51. "an inability to see anything through a lens other than his own ratings"

This sums up every one of Trump's decisions.

Every. One.

To clarify: He wants high ratings only from his fans... and a positive employee performance review from Putin.

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[world wide wally]

54. Poll numbers are his ratings gauge. He is absolutely and totally a political animal.

One track mind. All day. Every days.
I think it's because the Supremer Court said that it is perfectly fine to lie in politics.

[Beartracks]

57. OMG your sig line!

"Trump is not a businessman, he is a salesman."

That is so effing true! Why have I not seen this before??

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[friend of m and j]

60. While Trump as at the CDC he couldn't stay on point but quickly switched to

how great he is handling the Conola Virus. "Everyone tells me how great I am doing. Then he switched to the Democrats and said "Elizabeth Warren did one good thing before she dropped out of the race/ She cut the legs out from under Bloomberg and forced him to drop out of the race. "He also attacked Warren in a way that made me laugh.

I am a Joe Biden man but Elizabeth Warren is probably equal to Joe Biden as a "likeable" person. She fell in the polls because the voters didn't think she could beat Trump.

Trump said about Warren "I like Elizabeth Warren but she is "Mean"..She is mean person which is probably why she dropped out of the race She knew the voters didn't want a mean President. They want a person like me who is not mean, like me." :HA HA HA HA.

[Demovictory9]

61. it was truly sad

[LudwigPastorius]

63. Trump at the CDC today, "I didn't know people died from the flu."

73 years on this earth, and he doesn't know that people can die from the flu.

We're not only completely on our own here, Trump will actively make the situation worse in ways we can't even imagine yet.

[bucolic_frolic]

67. Has the Wall kept us safe?

How about the guns? Either one of them prevented even one Corona case?

We've been conned with phantom straw demons. And don't have those resources to fight Corona.

[Enoki33]

72. As the psycho traitor's lies, demeanor, nonsensical utterances

and utter callousness becomes more grotesque by the day, the realization of urgency in stressing the vital importance of participation in the democratic process becomes more evident, even when faced with those that do not seem to recognize facts beyond propaganda.

[Tumbulu]

73. yes, so so true!

[ck4829]

74. K&R