The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's handlers apparently were able to convince him to not answer questions at Friday's briefing after his disinfectant debacle that his most hardcore apologists couldn't remedy.



How a media-distracted Trump ended up derailing his own briefing
By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Updated 1:02 PM ET, Sat April 25, 2020

How a media-distracted Trump ended up derailing his own briefing - CNNPolitics

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"Trump and the White House spent the next 24 hours trying to rationalize the comments while health departments reminded Americans that ingesting bleach is lethal. At Friday's briefing -- at 22 minutes, the shortest since Pence got involved with the task force -- the President walked off without taking any questions.

The episode, coming as the White House coronavirus task force attempts to turn the page on a generation-defining pandemic, was viewed as an avoidable disaster inside the administration, officials said. Aides said they were foiled by a leader with a penchant for thinking out loud and following his own instincts over those with expertise or specialized training."

 

Trump simply can't keep his mouth closed and let the medical and science community explain the facts.

 

Interview of Trump in 1980. Trump was upset at the Iranians for using the hostage-ransom tactic on the U.S.

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In light of 52,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths and 26 million who have filed for unemployment, Trump is now relying on ragtag Tea Party revelers in battleground states like MI to try to rescue him by trying to sway public opinion to his side by revolting against the social distancing that was caused and necessitated by his botched response to the virus.



Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him
The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president’s erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic takeover.
By Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman
April 25, 2020
Updated 1:50 p.m. ET

Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him

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"WASHINGTON — President Trump’s erratic handling of the coronavirus outbreak, the worsening economy and a cascade of ominous public and private polling have Republicans increasingly nervous that they are at risk of losing the presidency and the Senate if Mr. Trump does not put the nation on a radically improved course.

The scale of the G.O.P.’s challenge has crystallized in the last week. With 26 million Americans now having filed for unemployment benefits, Mr. Trump’s standing in states that he carried in 2016 looks increasingly wobbly: New surveys show him trailing significantly in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, and he is even narrowly behind in must-win Florida.

Democrats raised substantially more money than Republicans did in the first quarter in the most pivotal congressional races, according to recent campaign finance reports. And while Mr. Trump is well ahead in money compared with the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democratic donors are only beginning to focus on the general election, and several super PACs plan to spend heavily on behalf of him and the party."

 

Trump will throw in a red, white, and blue coronavirus MAGA face mask for those who call to order within the next ten minutes.

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EVIDENCE??? You're confirming our worst stereotypes about Trump supporters--that you're a bunch of uneducated yahoos who think with your guts, like he does! Did you make it through the eighth grade?

 

The Republicans currently in Congress gave up their identity and placed their political livelihood in the hands of Trump. They have scant identity of their own upon which to base an alternative approach to being reelected and have little time to build such an identity before election 2020.

The ones who retained any significant semblance of their own identiy have already retired.

 

Now, now... Let's not insult eighth graders.

 

As if the coronavirus wasn't enough punishment from Divinity for Trump, this massive object is now bearing down on the earth.

If it was on a direct collision course with earth, Trump would tell everyone to just relax and it will go away.



A massive asteroid is approaching Earth next week. It looks like it's wearing a face mask.
Joshua Bote, USA TODAY
April 24, 2020, 11:52 AM EDT

A massive asteroid is approaching Earth next week. It looks like it's wearing a face mask.

 

It knows....

 

Locally here in the Midwest Gretchen Whitmer has more support than Trump and his Lysol drinking followers.

 

Several states are reporting an increase in 911 calls and poison center calls after Trump's recommendations for bleach an cleanser.

 

Trump claimed he was just being sarcastic about the disinfectant and fled the briefing.

Even if he was (and he wasn't), it's no time to be playing games in the midst of a pandemic that has killed 54,000 people in the U.S.



Trump Holds Short Briefing After Disinfectant Claim, Takes No Questions
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
HuffPost
April 24, 2020

Trump Holds Short Briefing After Disinfectant Claim, Takes No Questions

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"Early Friday, after widespread media coverage of his dangerous treatment idea, Trump walked back his statement by claiming he had been “asking a question sarcastically to reporters ... just to see what would happen.”"

 

MAGA = Make Another Grave Assumption

 

Maryland Emergency Hotline Flooded With Calls About Fake Disinfectant Cures
More than 100 people called the state’s Emergency Management Agency after President Donald Trump asked if disinfectant could treat COVID-19.
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By Sebastian Murdock
04/24/2020 03:40 pm ET

Maryland Emergency Hotline Flooded With Calls About Fake Disinfectant Cures | HuffPost

 

CNN won't air Joe Bidens daily briefings

Did any one know he was doing daily briefings?

 

President approval rating still at that 45% mark. Bizarre how that doesn't seem to move no matter what


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The whereabouts and health of Trump's N.K. buddy have yet to be disclosed.

Trump's officials have been quiet about it at the press briefings.



Kim Jong Un in ‘vegetative state,’ Japanese media report says
By Dana Kennedy
April 25, 2020 | 10:45am

https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/kim-jong-un-in-vegetative-state-japanese-media-report-says/

 

The U.S. should consider a coronavirus recognition day to honor the dead which is now over 54,000 people and to show respect to the healthcare workers who have put themselves at risk.

For those who think of themselves as patriots, it would be a noble gesture compared to protesting that their golf game has been compromised by social distancing and belittling and demoting professionals like Dr. Bright and Dr. Fauci who have devoted their careers to developing remedies to help those afflicted with viruses.