Despite his experts' grave warnings, Trump wants everyone to just "relax"

[TomCADem]

At the end of the day, Trump is not really worried about the potential loss of life. He will just blame it on States and local governments, because he takes no responsibility, and just hope the hit to the economy is not too visible.

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/15/21180782/coronavirus-trump-google-fed-relax-press-conference

President Donald Trump congratulated the Fed on cutting rates, waved around a sheet of printed-out tweets sent by Google, and then once again gave information that conflicts with what his public health officials are saying on the coronavirus pandemic at a press conference Sunday — telling the public it should “relax” because “it all will pass.”

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“I think very important — the young people, people of good health, and [these] groups of people are just not strongly affected,” Trump said. “Elderly people that are not well or not well in certain respects are really a very dangerous group. We have to watch them, we have to protect them very much.”

These sorts of statements from the president have become par for the course in this pandemic, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous. It is true that there are administration officials out there like Fauci who are providing sound, balanced information — but it is also true that they do not speak with the weight and authority of the office of the president of the United States.

So when Trump tells younger Americans they are “not strongly affected” without providing any context, or when he says “it’s a very contagious virus, it’s incredible, but it’s something we have tremendous control of,” which is not true, he is doing more than giving bad advice or indulging in a little self-aggrandizement: He is putting lives at risk.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I won't relax until this idiot is gone. Period. Incompetent idiot. We need a new firm hand at...

the top.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. His tone was SOOOOOO patronizing. He's always full of shit, but

his tone today sounded just like any of the many times he has berated black female reporters who DARE to ask him a real question.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. Strange, isn't it? When Obama was president,

everything was his responsibility. Now that Chump is "in charge", none of the responsibility
for anything falls on his shoulders.

It's as simple as black and white (literally!). Racist.