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Here is trump telling everyone the Coronavirus is a "hoax": (Original Post) Sugar Smack Mar 2020 OP
Even as Happy Talk Donnie has abandoned his "Hoax" allegation, Eyeball_Kid Mar 2020 #1
Trump never admits to being wrong. Never. It won't happen. degage Mar 2020 #6
He would have to walk it back if he's interested in cultivating Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #7
I'm sorry but anyone who chooses to go out in public looking like that sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #2
LOL! Some would say that's just the way his face is built. Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #8
So, the Trumpies have settled on "He didn't say that! He's saying the media/Dem response.." greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #3
Well, lordy, these here are the tapes! Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #12
They say it and hope you don't scratch the surface greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #13
Oh, yes-- we saw him do that nauseating pretending to have Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #15
They have a harder time explaining the "There's 15 cases, soon to zero" moment greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #22
Oh yes, THAT. Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #23
Donnie is a fool. This proves it. Stuart G Mar 2020 #4
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, someone should at least try Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #14
All you need to know about the Trump presidency dalton99a Mar 2020 #5
It's a nice concentration of his most recent blunders, Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #16
Yep dalton99a Mar 2020 #18
This is probably not his first premature ejaculation. Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #9
You would think! It baffles me that his fans are not Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #17
I never thought I see the days such as these we're all going through now, that ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2020 #10
There's no way to adequately prepare for a "leader" Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #20
The general election ads just write themselves. nt ooky Mar 2020 #11
You're not kidding, ooky! Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #21
I put this up on Facebook, and in our Video Forum..Only.. 1min 52 seconds Stuart G Mar 2020 #19
Nice!! Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #24

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
1. Even as Happy Talk Donnie has abandoned his "Hoax" allegation,
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:46 PM
Mar 2020

he has NOT walked it back. He hasn't SAID that he was mistaken, or that the Hoax is NOT a hoax.

So, it's likely still true that MILLIONS of Trump's supporters believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax, because Donnie hasn't said that it isn't. It's quite likely, then, that there will be MILLIONS of people who will get infected because they are ambivalent about protecting themselves and others.

 

degage

(103 posts)
6. Trump never admits to being wrong. Never. It won't happen.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:53 PM
Mar 2020

Trump never admits he's wrong. His toadies give him sharpies and put out false press releases to back him up.

When confronted with his actions, he simply lies and says "I never said that" or "That's not what I meant" or "I was just joking." These are all in his standard playbook. He will continue to use them.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
7. He would have to walk it back if he's interested in cultivating
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:53 PM
Mar 2020

and keeping his cult members healthy. I can't imagine the sheer numbers of people who'll be waking up too late. I'm wondering why actual footage of him saying this crap isn't making at least some of them them think twice.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
3. So, the Trumpies have settled on "He didn't say that! He's saying the media/Dem response.."
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:48 PM
Mar 2020

"...is a hoax."

This is a nice soundbite for them, but what does it actually mean? What part was the "hoax" part?

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
12. Well, lordy, these here are the tapes!
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:04 PM
Mar 2020

And he's calling it a "hoax" out loud, over & over. Maybe he was *trying* to imply that Dems were helping this country in the quickest way, and we can't have that.
Maybe the "hoax" part means he thinks Democrats are being "phony" or something?
I have no idea either, because neither of us knows how he comes up with all this horseshit he does.
That must make us sane.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
13. They say it and hope you don't scratch the surface
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:08 PM
Mar 2020

"He didn't say the virus was a hoax, but that the Dem and media criticisms were a hoax!"

But weren't those criticisms simply that the virus was extremely dangerous and he was not paying enough attention to it? Do you not agree that the virus is extremely dangerous (they all have to pretend that they've always agreed with this now)? Are you completely satisfied with the Admin's early response (They will say that they are, inexplicably)?

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
15. Oh, yes-- we saw him do that nauseating pretending to have
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:14 PM
Mar 2020

been there from the start, working as fast as they could. Plus, I saw Seema Verna make all kinds of faces behind him as he asserted that he tries never to shake anyone's hand.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
22. They have a harder time explaining the "There's 15 cases, soon to zero" moment
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:30 PM
Mar 2020

It is essentially indefensible.

Some say "It was hard to tell the extent of the virus," at which point you say "I thought they were on it the whole time? They were both extremely proactive and knowledgeable AND didn't understand the extent? Is that your answer?"

I've heard one RWNJ say "soon to zero" doesn't mean that it won't go up, even to the thousands - just that in some short amount of time, it will crest, and go donw to zero." How do you say anything to somebody like that, other than "Sir, are you insane?"

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
23. Oh yes, THAT.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:39 PM
Mar 2020

"Fifteen soon to zero"! Huh, mr. president?

And for god's sake, if someone *finally* uttered the words, "Sir, are you insane?" to trump, or to even demand he explain what he's saying, that would give me a modicum of joy.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
14. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, someone should at least try
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:10 PM
Mar 2020

to ask him if he remembers saying the Pandemic is a hoax? It would take four seconds; "You called it a hoax?" Or "You called it a hoax...", Or my favorite, "YOU CALLED IT A HOAX!" In front of the cameras, please.

dalton99a

(81,485 posts)
18. Yep
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:19 PM
Mar 2020

They only missed his expert prediction:

when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
9. This is probably not his first premature ejaculation.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:58 PM
Mar 2020

Slightly ahead of the news, eh Donnie? After this performance, he should have been Target #1.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
17. You would think! It baffles me that his fans are not
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:18 PM
Mar 2020

getting it, the fact that he is *so* cheerfully going to lead them to their own demise. He really should have been target # 1.

SWBTATTReg

(22,114 posts)
10. I never thought I see the days such as these we're all going through now, that ...
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:59 PM
Mar 2020

actually reeks of fear and the unknown. And one person that is associated w/ these fears? Trump.

No one else.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
20. There's no way to adequately prepare for a "leader"
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:28 PM
Mar 2020

who is hellbent on causing malicious harm to his own people, not here in America. While I knew at some point we'd have trouble, this coronavirus is off the scale. The R's are either suffering from it or helping trump make things far worse.

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