Trump's bizarre COVID-19 claim: 'Biden and Obama stopped their testing'

[Nevilledog]

Transcript of his remarks yesterday

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-bizarre-covid-19-claim-205429254.html



DONALD TRUMP: Well, you know that we have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere. If you know Biden and Obama stopped their testing-- they just stopped it. You probably know that. I'm sure you don't want to report it.

But they stopped testing. Right in the middle, they just want, no more testing, and on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously, with respect to-- this is the worst thing that's happened since probably 1917. This is a very bad-- all over the world. It's 188 countries right now.

But now we are-- we test more than anybody by far. And when you test, you create cases. So we've created cases.

I can tell you some countries, they test when somebody walks into a hospital sick or walks into maybe a doctor's office, but usually a hospital. That's the testing they do, so they don't have cases, whereas we do. We have all of these cases.

*snip*

[Newest Reality]

1. "Bizzare" is getting to be redunant and it is implicit.

[Botany]

2. Biden and Obama did not develop a test for a virus that was yet to be discovered?

[brewens]

8. I think he means during the H1N1 pandemic. That's funny, because I think 60 million got H1N1.

How do we know that? From tests. I think 1200 were killed by H1N1. Trump slammed Biden for that back in March. So if at some point they stopped testing for H1N1, someone must think we had way more cases of that. Not really, crap like that come out of his mouth and he doesn't even have to care if it makes any sense. His followers hear it and love it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. It's a tRumpian lie

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/politics/fact-checking-trumps-claim-on-swine-flu-tests/index.html

Facts First: Trump is wrong. The CDC did focus on testing -- conducting 5,000 tests in the first month and sending out a total of 1 million tests in the first five months of the outbreak.

The CDC's summary report of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic outlines how tests were administered at the time. The virus was first detected in the US on April 15. The CDC informed the World Health Organization about initial cases April 18. A test to detect this strain of swine flu was developed by the CDC and cleared for use 10 days later, on April 28, and the CDC began shipping tests across the US and around the world on May 1.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. ...soooo, when testing happens in a dr office or hospital, it doesn't create a case?

The man is a f'ing genius! So that's how they keep the number of cases so low! Youi'd think the scientists would have thought of that!

[Stuart G]

4. These words prove that Donald Trump is nuts.."...this is the worst thing that has happened

since probably 1917."

[dawg day]

11. "That whole WWII thing-- a piker compared to this!"

He is SO BAD on so many levels-- not just stupid and incompetent (like Bush 2), not just malevolent and corrupt (like Nixon), but also delusional and demented (like Reagan). Add in the pathological lack of empathy (like Ceaucescu maybe? Vlad the Impaler?), and this is Toxic Trump.

I can't believe that 40% of the population look at that and think, "Oh, yeah, give him another term."

[soothsayer]

5. Yeah, he's muddling in an H1N1 thing from Fox

They stopped testing for that (and no one cried foul, I think is the implication) so why are people yelling at drumpf?

He’s not actually making any COVID testing claim. It’s just how his squirrelly stream of consciousness works.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. And he's qualified to seek another term in office?

After 20k lies while in office, they just keep coming. Nonstop lies. No layovers, no open-jaw traveling. It's just straight up lying. He gets right to the point: lie.

[LonePirate]

7. The media needs to ask why he didn't fix it since 1/20/2017. He is solely responsible for it.

[dawg day]

9. This sounds like a brain like swiss cheese

>That's the testing they do, so they don't have cases, whereas we do. We have all of these cases.

This confusion of cause-effect is something a child might do. I'm not sure even a child would do that after 8 or so. And he keeps doing it though people keep explaining to him that actually, tests don't cause Covid.
It's really a sign of how stubbornly, maliciously stupid he is.

I wish the reporters would immediately come back with, "But, sir (<G&gt , Covid-19 didn't exist in the world until last year. So the Obama administration would never have tested for it, much less started to test and then stop."

I know it's hard to come up with facts and figures right in the moment, but they all know that, that this is NOVEL Covid, and they should just confront him with that.

[Nevilledog]

10. That follow-up is a no brainer.

Don't think questions were asked.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. So I wonder if this will make the video highlight's of DJT's greatest insights at his future

Presidential Lie-berry?

[ananda]

13. This kind of mad, incoherent idiocy ..

.. is what's leading our country further into the
dumpster fire he's already created.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I hope someone in the media gives him a follow-up question.