Trump claims coronavirus will just go away if Americans stay calm.

[Stuart G]

Source: Raw Story

published March 10, approx. 2:40pm ET

President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill begging lawmakers for a stimulus package to save the stock market from continuing its decline. Yet, at the same time, he said that everything was fine and would go away soon.

"Just stay calm - it will go away," said Trump. "It's really working out."

Trump has pitched the idea of a payroll tax, but there's no chance of it happening without Democrats involved and he hasn't met with them as of yet.

"We've also had some very good updates on the virus, that it's working out very smoothly," Trump told the press. "Tremendous people. It's a tremendous task force. They have done a great job. Not a good job. A great job. As you know, it's about 600 cases. It's about 26 deaths within our country. And had we not acted quickly, that number would have been substantially more."



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Donald Trump is stupid beyond stupid. ,

Trump said this today, "Good updates on the virus, that it's working out very smoothly." Trump told the press.

He also said, ..."And had we not acted quickly, that number would have been substantially more."

[comradebillyboy]

1. Well the Black Death went away all by itself

after killing off a third of the people in Europe. I presume Asia and Africa had similar death rates.

[yaesu]

2. He bought a bunch of trading stocks so he's going to hype the safe as much as he can. nt

[CaptYossarian]

3. Eventually, we'll also find out what a six-foot orange nose looks like too.

If we just wait long enough.

Another reason rich people need stretch limos.

[thegoose]

4. What did you act quickly to do, asshole?

Such a fucking liar.

[SergeStorms]

17. Go to Mar-ma-lardo and play golf?

That seems to be the only thing he acts quickly on. Now watch this drive.

[Stuart G]

5. I really wish this were some kind of made up story. It isn't.

[58Sunliner]

6. He acted quickly to lie and deny testing.

[AlexSFCA]

7. yes, it will go away along with people

[left-of-center2012]

8. He also said, in his superior wisdom ...

"We're going to take things, to get things, to make things."

[PSPS]

9. The "heaping of praise" shtick is a permanent part of his personality disorder

If someone heaps fawning praise on him, he does likewise back (i.e., Kim, Duterte, Bolsonaro and other criminals who play him this way.)

Ergo, if he heaps fawning praise on someone (usually someone who could sully his 'image,') he assumes they will swoon and reciprocate.

It's really disgusting and shows how weak and little he is.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Maybe if we all hold our breath until we turn blue in the face

will make the virus go away. Yeah, if we don't inhale for a while we can't possibly get it, right?

Can't imagine why no one thought of this before now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Negotiating tactic: present Ds with a take-it-or-leave-it plan from the Rs. Then say Ds won't help.

He cooks up a plan written by McConnell and gang.
Ds get first look at plan, don't like it.
Rs pounce and say, see, Ds are standing in the way of Americans with their communist agenda.


Democrats need to get out in front of this issue ASAP.

Propose a Democratic plan first.


I suspect that the tRump-Republicon plan will be some kind of bamboozle involving temporarily boosting take home pay only to have bigger 1040 bills next year. Or the SSI fund won't be contributed to for a year, thereby strangling it more and laying foundation for Republicon "rescues". Or companies will get their portion of the SSI paid by government, which of course means fewer services and/or deeper deficit.

Expect a scam.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Makes sense. Just like "the fundamentals of

our economy are sound...." in 2008.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Nice try Dotard. Jeezus he's delusional, at best.

[Sugar Smack]

14. I'd bet a solid five bucks he GETS IT this week.

That one thought is really what keeps me from exploding.

[keithbvadu2]

15. "to save the stock market from continuing its decline" - Controlling the economy directly.

"to save the stock market from continuing its decline" -

Controlling the economy directly.

Is that socialism or communism.

It ain't capitalism.

[Initech]

16. All is well!!!!!!

[tclambert]

18. Right, one day it will run out of new victims. Then, POOF! Epidemic over.

Millions of Americans may have died by then. But he'll blame Hillary.

[olddad65]

19. If you want any and all of Trump's behavior to make sense...

Just accept that he is just a stooge for the Russian mob, headed, of course, by Vladimir Putin.
If you look at Trump’s actions from that perspective, his every move makes sense.