The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump virus response summary.


Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.”

Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

Feb. 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm – historically, that has been able to kill the virus”

Feb 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

Feb 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”

Feb 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away. They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

Feb 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

Feb 26: “We’re going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.”

Feb. 26: “As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only FIVE people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time” WRONG!

Feb 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.”

Feb 28: “They tried the impeachment hoax, that was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost, it’s all turning, think of it, think of it, and this is their new hoax’ ... We have lost nobody to the coronavirus ... The press is in hysteria mode.”

Feb 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

Mar 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”

Mar 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”

Mar 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”

Mar 4: “Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and, based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.”

Mar 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”

Mar 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”

Mar 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”

Mar 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

Mar 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

Mar 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”

Mar 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Coronavirus.”

Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.”

Mar 10: “Going up fast. We need the WALL more than ever.”

Mar 13: “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location.”

Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.”

Mar 13: “I take no responsibility at all.”

Mar 14: “Relax. We’re doing great. It will all pass. I would like there are a lot of people on Wall Street who are very happy.”

Mar 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something we have tremendous control of.”

Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. We were very early with respect to China, and we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn’t do that”

Mar 17: “I’ve always known this is real – this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was a pandemic.”

Mar 19: “It’s not racist at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I want to be accurate”

Mar 20: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter”

Mar 21: “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not too distant future"

 

Kudlow: "The U.S. is airtight to the coronavirus. Would you believe it? Airtight!"

(I find that hard to believe.)

Kudlow: "Oh. Would you believe semi-porous?"

(I don't think so.)

Kudlow: "A sieve?"


Youtube video:

 

Larry Kudlow needs to be asked if he also had his brain waxed after he had it washed by Trump.

 

So explain why the US has now joined other countries in requesting the International Olympic Committee to cancel or delay the Olympics due to be held in Japan in July ???

 

Kudlow was claiming no recession on the horizon before the bubble was about to burst and the Great Recession ensued.


Kudlow’s Money Politics
Kudlow 101: There Ain’t No Recession
Yesterday’s tremendous ADP jobs report puts the dagger into the very heart of the recession case.
By Larry Kudlow
December 6, 2007 10:09 PM

Kudlow 101: There Ain’t No Recession | National Review

 

Kudlow thought that lower oil prices were going to undo the Great Recession by giving consumers a little more money.

His statements were in September 2008 after the major banks had already failed.



The Contrary View
By Larry Kudlow
September 3, 2008 1:51 PM

The Contrary View | National Review

excerpt:

"Apart from presidential politics, oil’s plunge toward $100 deepens the tax-cut effect and brightens the economic outlook across-the-board. There is so much gloom and doom and pessimism in investment circles that now’s a great time to take a contrary view.

Lower oil solves consumer purchasing power. And it will make it much easier for people to pay their mortgages on time. That in turn helps solve the credit crunch, because on-time payments enhance the value of all that mortgage-related bond-market paper held in portfolios"

 

It's understandable why Trump hires people like Kudlow. They have a rosy, contrarian view of impending doom.

 

From the dark room in the White House where no one is allowed, Trump and Pompeeon devised a plan to invade a Middle Eastern nation. They have just this week had the United States Armed Forces join with the Emirati forces to practice an invasion of a fake-stage city out in the desert. Iran is just across the gulf from the Emirates. At the same time, Trump's AG asked Congress for the power to arrest and detain anyone on an endless detention, without the right to have a lawyer or a day in court. Remember, Trump openly said he supported Waterboarding and other forms of torture.

 

Unbridled industrial growth, uncontrolled population growth and density, increased encroachment and destruction of wildlife habitat, inappropriate handling of animal food product, and technology that has made worldwide travel easy for hundreds of millions of people have created serious risks to the healh of humans and the markets that exacerbated the risks in the first place.

Control of such factors goes against the grain of the philosophy that Trump has been promoting. When problems result from it, he offers simple responses, such as calling it the China virus.



How Deforestation Drives The Emergence Of Novel Coronaviruses
Jeff McMahon, Senior Contributor
Mar 21, 2020,12:00am EDT

How Deforestation Drives The Emergence Of Novel Coronaviruses

excerpt:

"In the wake of HIV, Ebola and SARS, scientists documented a potential path for viruses from bats through other mammals to humans. Some scientists and doctors have further argued that path is paved by deforestation.

“Deforestation and the sale of live wild animals or bushmeat, such as bats and monkeys, make the emergence of new viruses inevitable, while population growth, dense urbanization and human migration make their spread easier,” said Dr. Seth Berkley, head of the GAVI Alliance—a non-profit international vaccine initiative—writing in Scientific American.

In 2018 a group of European scientists warned in an opinion article of the role of deforestation:

“The biological problem of viral emergence has not fundamentally changed, but the probability of occurrence of the risk is increasing owing to environmental change and higher environmental pressure,” wrote Aneta Afelt, Roger Frutos, and Christian Devaux from the universities of Warsaw, Montpellier, and Marseilles.

Bats host more viruses than other mammals while displaying a heightened immunity to them. In the natural environment, bat populations—and the viruses they carry—are limited by their ecosystems, according to the European authors, but in disturbed environments displaced bats can find “anthropized environmental niches.”

Houses and barns provide shelter to bats, lights attract insects they feed upon, while orchards and fields feed fruit-eating bats:

“This attractive effect of anthropized environments on bats with differing biological needs results in a higher concentration and biodiversity of bat-borne viruses.”

In these disturbed environments, multiple species of bats mingle, roost, hunt, and encounter the intermediate hosts—such as civet cats, monkeys, camels and horses—that may bridge a transmission to humans."

 

Trump Has Given Unusual Leeway to Fauci, but Aides Say He’s Losing His Patience
The president has become increasingly concerned as Dr. Anthony S. Fauci has grown bolder in correcting his falsehoods about the spread of the coronavirus.
By Maggie Haberman
Published March 23, 2020
Updated March 24, 2020, 12:09 a.m. ET

Trump Has Given Unusual Leeway to Fauci, but Aides Say He’s Losing His Patience

excerpt:

"But in the past two weeks, as Dr. Fauci’s interviews have increased in frequency, White House officials have become more concerned that he is criticizing the president.

Officials asked him about the viral moment in the White House briefing room, when he put his hand to his face and appeared to suppress a chuckle after Mr. Trump referred to the State Department as the “Deep State Department.” Dr. Fauci had a benign explanation: He had a scratchy throat and a lozenge he had in his mouth had gotten stuck in his throat, which he tried to mask from reporters."

 

David Fahrenthold on Twitter

David Fahrenthold@Fahrenthold
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NEW: What happened before @realdonaldtrump called for re-evaluating lockdowns? His company had to close 6 of its top 7 revenue-generating clubs and hotels.

 

Trump uses daily coronavirus briefings to replace campaign rallies
Analysis by Daniel Dale
Updated 9:09 PM ET, Mon March 23, 2020

Trump uses daily coronavirus briefings to replace campaign rallies - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

" (CNN) President Donald Trump complained that he is treated unfairly. He touted his tax cuts. He told his usual lie about how he is the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program passed into law. He told a story about how he had never been booed before 2015. He said, three times, that his wife is "very popular."

The coronavirus crisis has prevented Trump from holding his signature campaign rallies. So he has turned his daily White House coronavirus briefings, like the one on Sunday, into a kind of special spinoff of the familiar Trump Show -- replete with all the usual misinformation, self-promotion and potshots.

Trump's marathon Monday briefing ran for more than 100 minutes.

Like his arena addresses, his appearances in the briefing room tend to follow a rough formula."

 

I think Congress will be telling him to 'urinate elsewhere' !!!

 

I’m sorry but you just described Red China. Except replace corporations with The Party.

I hate to disappoint a mindless hater but the
America of today is the least racist country on earth.

 

Texas' lieutenant governor suggests grandparents are willing to die for US economy
Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY
Published 9:14 a.m. ET March 24, 2020
Updated 11:50 a.m. ET March 24, 2020

COVID-19: Texas official suggests elderly willing to die for economy

excerpt:

"The lieutenant governor of Texas argued in an interview on Fox News Monday night that the United States should go back to work, saying grandparents like him don’t want to sacrifice the country’s economy during the coronavirus crisis.

Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, 69, made the comments on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after President Donald Trump said he wanted to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months.

Patrick also said the elderly population, who the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said are more at risk for COVID-19, can take care of themselves and suggested that grandparents wouldn’t want to sacrifice their grandchildren’s economic future."

 

Expect Fox to keep running such pieces. They don't want the economy to falter and cause them to lose their cinchy mouthpiece in the White House.

 

that jackass has five grandkids, so I guess he will be the first in line to go.

 

Once again, that is your opinion, devoid of any facts.

 

Tyrsonswood post #21252 - You mentioned Trump would be price gouging for extra cash. Does anyone remember the David letterman show where Trump was a guest before he was President?? He was bragging how he was for AMERICAN WORKERS, so he would make a great President.

Then ………… David Letterman pulled out some ties made by one of Trump's companies. Letterman said to Trump - "The tag on these ties says 'Made in China.' You're selling yourself as being for American workers, but your company is making these ties in China."

Trump's very red-faced response, " Well - they make nice ties. They need jobs too."

I know because I watched that show - so NO ONE devoid of facts try to bull$h*t the audience here. I watched it with my own eyes and heard his fumbling, embarrassing answer to Letterman. His face was beet red.

Trump is for Trump and nobody else.