Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax'

[RandySF]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to cast the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a liberal conspiracy intended to undermine his first term, lumping it alongside impeachment and the Mueller investigation.

He blamed the press for acting hysterically about the virus, which has now spread to China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Italy and the U.S, and he downplayed its dangers, saying against expert opinion it was on par with the flu.

“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. They're politicizing it,” he said. “They don't have any clue. They can't even count their votes in Iowa. No, they can't. They can't count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That did not work out too well. They could not do it. They tried the impeachment hoax.”

Then Trump called the coronavirus “their new hoax.”

Trump’s comments came as the White House has struggled to adequately respond to and contain the coronavirus’s increasingly sweeping path. At the rally — held here on the eve of the Democratic primary in South Carolina — he sought to manage Americans’ expectations about the White House’s ability to fight it.



https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/trump-south-carolina-rally-coronavirus-118269

[napi21]

1. That SOB should be tossed into jail for endangering thelives of his supporters! Not to even mention

the lives of all those people associate with. WHEN are his zombies going to break out of their trance and see the damn truth?

[Volaris]

10. When? When they're all in the hospital for 2 weeks with no health insurance.

[abqtommy]

2. Cue the morticians to be ready for cultists/anti-vaxxers to begin dropping like flies when

using liberal amounts of fly spray...

[Takket]

3. that should knock another 2 or 3 thousand points off the Dow.................

he's insane...................

[Joinfortmill]

4. I think this man is insane.

[dalton99a]

5. A hoax just like Sandy Hook. Nobody died. Where are the bodies? Where are the grieving families?

This goddamn piece of shit has got to be evicted

[Totally Tunsie]

6. This "hoax" needs to find its way to the White House a.s.a.p.

I don't suppose that God would look at it favorably if I tried praying for Chump and his minions to suffer this "hoax" personally, but perhaps He, too, is fed up with clown in the WH and is ready to take him down. One can hope.

[colsohlibgal]

7. Inexcusable

They probably deserve It because they slurp this demented excuse for a human being but he is almost certainly sentencing his loser fans to this Virus.

The only good thing about this situation is that it should expose to some of his less crazy fans to what he really is.

Twitler makes Nixon look good, he is a horrible awful person. I have my doubts but if there is a Hell that would be where he is headed.

[sakabatou]

8. Trump is a danger to the public

[Chainfire]

9. I wonder if his voters are willing to risk their lives

I wonder if his voters are willing to risk their lives over the Coronavirus "hoax." When it spreads, they should disavow all protective measures showing their blind faith in their leader.

Trump and administration can solve the Coronavirus very easily. All they have to do is quit testing for it. No confirmation, no Coronavirus. He has already softened us up by telling us the great numbers of people who die from seasonal flu, prepositioning himself for an explanation.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. You wanna see a real hoax?

Here’s the biggest hoax ever: