"Easter is a very special day for me" - tRump to Faux re: back to work date

[Roland99]

"Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

"it has something to do with eggs. I'm not sure but it's about the best eggs. Eggs are huge. Easter is a huge egg day. The best day for eggs. I like eggs. Scrambled. With ketchup. The best ketchup"

Link to tweet

he may or may not have said all of that. Video cut out.

[BamaRefugee]

1. Sounds legit! ;-)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Without Physical Distancing US on track to Twelve Million cases by Easter Sunday

Increasing at 10x every 8 days yields 250x in 19 days or about Twelve and a Half Million.

Expect about a million cases in 12-14 days, depending on how strictly Californians and 11 other states residents observe distancing and closure orders.

(chart from FT in some of my other posts today)

[procon]

3. It's only "special" for Trump because be gets to be the star

in many photo ops where he can stroke his own ego, share all his scientific and medical knowledge about the corona virus and tout the latest anecdotal cure he read on Facebook.

[moose65]

4. I'd pay $1,000 to any reporter

who would ask him, “Why is Easter important?” I’d about guaran-damn-tee that Trump doesn’t know!

[Roland99]

7. I'd toss in a Benjamin

[kskiska]

5. His wife has already canceled the Easter Monday White House Easter Egg Roll

[smirkymonkey]

6. Pandering to the right-wing religious fundamentalists again.

Has anybody noticed that he's started talking in that almost whispery, sing-songy voice like he's trying to emulate a comforting Andrew Cuomo? Or Ivanka? What an IDIOT!