Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat
Source: daily beast
The president insisted on downplaying the coronavirus by comparing it to the seasonal flu, and Foxs hosts and medical experts acted
more as sycophants than interlocutors.
Updated Mar. 24, 2020 4:42PM ET / Published Mar. 24, 2020 1:56PM ET
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I watched Governor Cuomo and he was very nice, the president said of the New York governors press conference, which preceded the Fox News town hall, before attacking Cuomo for complaining about receiving only 3,000 ventilators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency despite needing, in his estimation, at least 30,000 of the devices.
He had a choice. He had a chance, the president continued. He refused to order 15,000 ventilators, Trump said, pulling out a printout of an article from far-right blog The Gateway Pundit and paraphrasing the headline: It says that he didnt buy the ventilators in 2015 for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead.
Im not blaming him or anything else, Trump then pivoted, but he shouldnt be talking about us. Hes supposed to be buying his own ventilators. We are going to help. He suggested Cuomo has not been grateful enough for the presidents help: We are working very, very hard for the people of New York. We are working a lot with him. Then I watch him on this show complaining.
Throughout the chat with Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Harris Faulkner, Trump repeatedly pivoted to an earlier talking point about the seasonal flu being just as bad or worse than COVID-19. Trump obsessively referenced the annual death count from influenza.
We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We dont turn the country off. Every year. When I heard the numberyou know, we averaged 37,000 people a year. Can you believe that? the president grumbled at one point. This year we are having a bad flu season.
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Girard442
(6,075 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Fuck this motherfucker!
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)The intellectual content of a pea.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)BarbD
(1,193 posts)How is it possible that so many people are so very downright stupid?
It boggles the mind.
Thankfully there are more sane and logical minds in the world. We will prevail.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Thats all I give a shit about...
zentrum
(9,865 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)I thought maybe he learned but hes reverting to this dangerous crap?
He has to go ASAP!!!! This attitude is so dangerous! God help us!!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)and he knows that his re-election bid in in the latrine, and for that he's furious that something is tanking him and he can't control it. Five of his 6 major properties have had to shut down because of the virus.
So, he's NOT going to get re-elected and now his profits are down. He's mighty pissed off.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)and hopefully he doesn't kill too many of us before then
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)and keel over and die in about 10 seconds, the way I do with him. I never knew I could have this much anger inside me for one person.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)I just thought I hated Reagan and the Bushes. I've told my best friends that if that motherfucker dies in office, we're all going to celebrate. After all he's done to minimize this crisis and pass blame onto others, he really deserves to get this virus and suffer with it. If there's such a thing as karma, then that is his destiny. Actually, he deserves much worse.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)captain jack
(316 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)while Covid19 has about a 3% mortality rate.
3% of 325million = 9.75 million people could die, many more very sick, especially since covid19 is more contagious than the flu.