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Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; May 14, 2020
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I'm bookmarking the spot until the transcript is released.
Were they expecting it to be carved into stone tablets?
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Trump and Kayleigh McEnany are now trying to dismiss the pandemic response plan Obama left for Trump as a mere "paper packet" that paled in comparison to Trump's (nonexistent) plan
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Azar, yelling, attacks Dr. Bright: "While we are launching Operation Warp Speed, he is not showing up for work."
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Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; May 14, 2020 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2020
OP
Fucking idiot-- even if for some reason we do luck out and get treatments/vaccines out early...
TreasonousBastard
May 2020
#1
Transcript of Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; May 14, 2020
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2020
#2
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Fucking idiot-- even if for some reason we do luck out and get treatments/vaccines out early...
the military does not make the stuff.
Manufacturing drugs takes time.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)2. Transcript of Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; May 14, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: May 14, 2020
South Lawn
12:23 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. So, were going to Pennsylvania, and we will have a great time in Pennsylvania. Its a tremendous state. They ought to start thinking about opening it up. You have a lot of people who want their freedom, and theyll get their freedom very soon.
Weve been doing very well in the numbers. And Im going to have Kayleigh say a couple of words.
Kayleigh, please.
MS. MCENANY: Hi, there. I just wanted to outline our pandemic preparedness. The Obama-Biden plan that has been referenced was insufficient; it wasnt going to work. So what our administration did, under the leadership of President Trump, is do an entire 2018 Pandemic Preparedness Report.
Beyond that, we did a whole exercise on pandemic preparedness in August of last year and had an entire after-action report put together. In other words, the Obama-Biden paper packet was superseded by a President Trump-style Pandemic Preparedness Response plan.
THE PRESIDENT: Which was much better, which was much more complete, and which was a lot tougher. We were we were given very little when we came into this administration. And theyve done a fantastic job. And I think were going to have a vaccine by the end of the year, and I think distribution will take place almost simultaneously because weve geared up the military. And youll see that tomorrow.
All right. Anything else? Kayleigh?
MS. MCENANY: Well have a full update tomorrow for you guys at the briefing, line by line, of how prepared we were for this pandemic, thanks to the leadership of President Trump.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. And, Alex, youre going with us.
SECRETARY AZAR: Yep. Do you want me to talk about our
THE PRESIDENT: Sure.
SECRETARY AZAR: Yeah. So, you know, Dr. Bright is up there testifying today. Everything hes complaining about was achieved. Everything he talked about was done. He talked about he says he talked about the need for respirators. We worked to we procured respirators, under the Presidents direction. He said we needed a Manhattan Project for vaccines; this President initiates a vaccine Manhattan Project, diagnostic Manhattan Project, therapeutic Manhattan Project.
Oh, and by the way, whose job was it to actually lead the development of vaccines? Dr. Bright. So while were launching Operation Warp Speed, hes not showing up for work to be part of that.
So this is like somebody who was in a choir and is now trying to say he was a soloist back then. What he was saying is what every single member of this administration and the President was saying: We need more personal protective equipment. We need more ventilators. We need therapeutics. We need vaccines. Every single thing this President was on, this President achieved. And Dr. Bright was part of a team and was simply saying what everybody else at the White House and at HHS was saying. Not one bit of difference.
And on hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Bright literally signed the application for an FDA authorization of it. Literally, hes the sponsor of it. So, this just his allegations do not hold water. They do not hold water.
THE PRESIDENT: So we have had some great response, in terms of doctors writing letters and people calling on the hydroxychloroquine. And this guy is fighting it. Theres no reason to fight it. Theres no reason. But more importantly than that, weve had tremendous response to the hydroxy. Weve had the great response to zinc, along with it, and the Z-Pak. So a lot of people have sworn by it. And well see.
But Ill tell you what: To me I watched this guy for a little while this morning to me, hes nothing more than a really disgruntled, unhappy person. And Im not just talking about Alex, because Alex said it strongly, but there are a lot of people that do not like the job he did. I dont know him. I never met him. I dont want to meet him. But I watched him, and he looks like an angry, disgruntled employee, who, frankly, according to some people, didnt do a very good job.
All right. Any other questions?
Q Chairman Burr just announced hes stepping down. Your reaction?
THE PRESIDENT: Who is stepping?
Q Chairman Burr. Senator Burr.
THE PRESIDENT: He announced hes stepping down?
Q Temporarily. During the
THE PRESIDENT: I didnt know that. No.
Q Have you ever discussed the investigation into Senator Burr with anyone at the Justice Department?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I never have. No, I didnt know. When did he announce hes stepping down?
Q A short time ago temporarily, from his chairmanship.
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know anything about it. Nothing about it. No, I never discussed it with anybody. Thats thats too bad. Thats too bad.
Go ahead.
Q What do you mean by cutting relations with China? What would that look like?
THE PRESIDENT: Well see. Well see. We got a lot of things going with China. Were not happy about China I will tell you that. The ink wasnt dry on a great trade deal, and all of a sudden, the plague comes in from China. Were not happy about it.
Q The WTO chief is stepping down a year early. What do you think that means for
THE PRESIDENT: Im okay with it. Im okay with it. The WT- if you look at the World Trade, not only the World Health and well be making an announcement on the World Health Organization shortly, soon. Probably next week sometime.
But the World Trade Organization is horrible. Weve been treated very badly. Ive been saying it for a long time. And we act on it. When I talk, we act on it. The World Trade, they treat China as a developing nation. Therefore, China gets a lot of the benefits that the U.S. doesnt get. They have other countries that are developing nations. And the people sitting in the Oval Office should never have let that happen.
Im going to Pennsylvania.
Yes.
Q Mr. President, do you think the CDC is over-counting death death counts?
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know how theyre counting. I never discussed it with them. Death is death. We dont want people dying in this country. And weve done a great job. Weve done a great job.
Ill tell you what: What weve done on ventilators and what weve done on testing except the press doesnt write it that way because you have all this fake news. But what weve done on testing, weve now tested more than the entire world put together. The entire world put together, we have many more tests than they do and better tests. And the reason we have more cases is because we have more testing.
Weve done a great job, and the people the men and women that have done this great job should be acknowledged by the press.
Q Sir, do you have a succession plan? Sir, is there a succession plan in place?
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear a word youre saying. Go ahead.
Q Is there a succession plan
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear.
Q in place in case something happens?
END
12:30 P.M. EDT
Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: May 14, 2020
South Lawn
12:23 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. So, were going to Pennsylvania, and we will have a great time in Pennsylvania. Its a tremendous state. They ought to start thinking about opening it up. You have a lot of people who want their freedom, and theyll get their freedom very soon.
Weve been doing very well in the numbers. And Im going to have Kayleigh say a couple of words.
Kayleigh, please.
MS. MCENANY: Hi, there. I just wanted to outline our pandemic preparedness. The Obama-Biden plan that has been referenced was insufficient; it wasnt going to work. So what our administration did, under the leadership of President Trump, is do an entire 2018 Pandemic Preparedness Report.
Beyond that, we did a whole exercise on pandemic preparedness in August of last year and had an entire after-action report put together. In other words, the Obama-Biden paper packet was superseded by a President Trump-style Pandemic Preparedness Response plan.
THE PRESIDENT: Which was much better, which was much more complete, and which was a lot tougher. We were we were given very little when we came into this administration. And theyve done a fantastic job. And I think were going to have a vaccine by the end of the year, and I think distribution will take place almost simultaneously because weve geared up the military. And youll see that tomorrow.
All right. Anything else? Kayleigh?
MS. MCENANY: Well have a full update tomorrow for you guys at the briefing, line by line, of how prepared we were for this pandemic, thanks to the leadership of President Trump.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. And, Alex, youre going with us.
SECRETARY AZAR: Yep. Do you want me to talk about our
THE PRESIDENT: Sure.
SECRETARY AZAR: Yeah. So, you know, Dr. Bright is up there testifying today. Everything hes complaining about was achieved. Everything he talked about was done. He talked about he says he talked about the need for respirators. We worked to we procured respirators, under the Presidents direction. He said we needed a Manhattan Project for vaccines; this President initiates a vaccine Manhattan Project, diagnostic Manhattan Project, therapeutic Manhattan Project.
Oh, and by the way, whose job was it to actually lead the development of vaccines? Dr. Bright. So while were launching Operation Warp Speed, hes not showing up for work to be part of that.
So this is like somebody who was in a choir and is now trying to say he was a soloist back then. What he was saying is what every single member of this administration and the President was saying: We need more personal protective equipment. We need more ventilators. We need therapeutics. We need vaccines. Every single thing this President was on, this President achieved. And Dr. Bright was part of a team and was simply saying what everybody else at the White House and at HHS was saying. Not one bit of difference.
And on hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Bright literally signed the application for an FDA authorization of it. Literally, hes the sponsor of it. So, this just his allegations do not hold water. They do not hold water.
THE PRESIDENT: So we have had some great response, in terms of doctors writing letters and people calling on the hydroxychloroquine. And this guy is fighting it. Theres no reason to fight it. Theres no reason. But more importantly than that, weve had tremendous response to the hydroxy. Weve had the great response to zinc, along with it, and the Z-Pak. So a lot of people have sworn by it. And well see.
But Ill tell you what: To me I watched this guy for a little while this morning to me, hes nothing more than a really disgruntled, unhappy person. And Im not just talking about Alex, because Alex said it strongly, but there are a lot of people that do not like the job he did. I dont know him. I never met him. I dont want to meet him. But I watched him, and he looks like an angry, disgruntled employee, who, frankly, according to some people, didnt do a very good job.
All right. Any other questions?
Q Chairman Burr just announced hes stepping down. Your reaction?
THE PRESIDENT: Who is stepping?
Q Chairman Burr. Senator Burr.
THE PRESIDENT: He announced hes stepping down?
Q Temporarily. During the
THE PRESIDENT: I didnt know that. No.
Q Have you ever discussed the investigation into Senator Burr with anyone at the Justice Department?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I never have. No, I didnt know. When did he announce hes stepping down?
Q A short time ago temporarily, from his chairmanship.
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know anything about it. Nothing about it. No, I never discussed it with anybody. Thats thats too bad. Thats too bad.
Go ahead.
Q What do you mean by cutting relations with China? What would that look like?
THE PRESIDENT: Well see. Well see. We got a lot of things going with China. Were not happy about China I will tell you that. The ink wasnt dry on a great trade deal, and all of a sudden, the plague comes in from China. Were not happy about it.
Q The WTO chief is stepping down a year early. What do you think that means for
THE PRESIDENT: Im okay with it. Im okay with it. The WT- if you look at the World Trade, not only the World Health and well be making an announcement on the World Health Organization shortly, soon. Probably next week sometime.
But the World Trade Organization is horrible. Weve been treated very badly. Ive been saying it for a long time. And we act on it. When I talk, we act on it. The World Trade, they treat China as a developing nation. Therefore, China gets a lot of the benefits that the U.S. doesnt get. They have other countries that are developing nations. And the people sitting in the Oval Office should never have let that happen.
Im going to Pennsylvania.
Yes.
Q Mr. President, do you think the CDC is over-counting death death counts?
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know how theyre counting. I never discussed it with them. Death is death. We dont want people dying in this country. And weve done a great job. Weve done a great job.
Ill tell you what: What weve done on ventilators and what weve done on testing except the press doesnt write it that way because you have all this fake news. But what weve done on testing, weve now tested more than the entire world put together. The entire world put together, we have many more tests than they do and better tests. And the reason we have more cases is because we have more testing.
Weve done a great job, and the people the men and women that have done this great job should be acknowledged by the press.
Q Sir, do you have a succession plan? Sir, is there a succession plan in place?
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear a word youre saying. Go ahead.
Q Is there a succession plan
THE PRESIDENT: I cant hear.
Q in place in case something happens?
END
12:30 P.M. EDT