trump to Faux: "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators."

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go to major hospitals, sometimes they have 2 ventilators." -- Trump suggests Cuomo is exaggerating about the medical gear he needs to keep people alive

Link to tweet

Here's where this thing is headed -- Trump is going to blame blue state officials for coronavirus deaths in their states while trying to restore a sense of normalcy in the red and purple states he views as key to his reelection hopes.

#25thAmendmentNow

Aaron is right. He’s been playing this the entire time to avoid responsibility and shift blame

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. ...

GOD DAMNED MOTHERFUCKING ASSWIPE. I HATE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH.

[jimfields33]

4. Well that person from London who said we'd have a million die

Went back on that. I think the numbers are going to be less then 10K which is still too many. But the millions dying was in error.

[D_Master81]

17. Always wondered where those numbers were coming from

Even if 1000 people a day die it would take 3 months to get to 100,000. I think it will be more than 10,000. Swine flu was 12,000 I think. My thought is it will end up between 25-50,000.

[obamanut2012]

35. Agreed, although I think closer to 50k-75k

People in the media and on sites like here and Reddit and Facebook saying 1-2.5 million are off the mark imo. I never saw a good explanation for those numbers. All it does it needlessly terrify people. We need to be concerned and safe and careful, not panicked and terrified. Especially with Covid-45 leading the country.

[madaboutharry]

2. I loathe this despicable man.

He is a one man plague.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. has any human being ever known so little about so much?

nothing between his ears but counterfeit dollar bills!

[targetpractice]

11. I love that... Thank you...

I'm going a bit stir crazy, but I take comfort in your description of him.

That's all I have at the moment. Thank you.

[Snake Plissken]

5. If I used the arithmetic I learned in 3rd grade, it comes out to 1 ventilator per 651 people

Which is not a lot, certainly not a lot during a deadly pandemic, that will affect possibly over a million New Yorkers.

New York State's Population is 19.54 million

[dweller]

6. i hope one is not available

if he is in need

i hope i can't spit or piss if he is on fire ...

on his grave, i'll unload on the sorry fucker
😡

✌🏼

[dchill]

28. He has probably had a gross of them set aside...

...for his own use. And MAYBE given his wife and kids a number to call to get their own. MAYBE.

[yonder]

7. No major hospital has just two ventilators.

He is an evil, stupid idiot

[RockRaven]

8. Those 2-ventilator hospitals in red/rural/Trump areas are gonna have a lot of deaths.

When people start dying in those places because of lack of ventilators, that quote ...

*of course, Trump said "major" hospitals have 2 vents, which is a ridiculous lie.

[Roland99]

16. Trump University Medical Center

[Roland99]

9. Wait! It got WORSE!! Slams Inslee and Whitmer. Hints at not declaring disaster for MI

Link to tweet

Trump bashes Gov. Inslee and Gov. Whitmer (whose name he can't remember), then suggests he might not approve a disaster declaration requested by Michigan because Whitmer has complained about the federal response

[MerryBlooms]

13. He's getting away with murder.

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. +1

[dchill]

27. So far, so bad.

[Dorian Gray]

38. MICHIGAN

will go blue. Good. Fuck this guy and the ferry to hell he rode in on.

[milestogo]

10. People with Republican governors are going to die because of the lack of a serious policy

that prevents them from going out for no reason. Trump's voters will die.

[cry baby]

12. That's because he doesn't intend that older people have access

to a ventilator. It’ll cut SS by a lot and repubs will laud him for it.

[dchill]

33. That's my forecast, too.

[obamanut2012]

36. Older Americans are who mainly voted for him

So it is bonkers to me he is trying to kill off a big chunk of his voters.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. The mortality rate in Louisiana is almost 4%. How the fuck is he going to

explain that away? Mmmmm? The bodies are about to start piling up, everywhere, not just LA.

[Initech]

15. He has no fucking clue.

[Dan]

18. Sense of normalcy..... where does he plan to hide the bodies?

[smirkymonkey]

20. Sick Motherfucking Bastard!

I so hope he gets this and suffers brutally before he perishes.

[Orrex]

21. Maybe he'll just fucking die already

Not through violence, of course, but a nice, skull-popping stroke.

Is that too much to ask?

[dchill]

31. Just between you and me, it's not too much to ask.

It's really not.

[Glimmer of Hope]

22. He is a bigger nightmare than I ever imagined he would be.

[Green Line]

24. Amazing isn't it?

[Jim_Pridx]

25. No kidding!

It seems as though once things get about as bad as they can possibly be, it gets even worse........time and time again!

[dchill]

29. So scary. This lumbering mass of egocentric evil has...

...NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. NONE.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Gee, he's a talking lizard.

[Midnight Writer]

26. Trump to America. "Walk it off."

[young_at_heart]

30. He's consumed with shifting blame....it's all he knows!

Blame has been a running theme for his entire life.....it's NEVER EVER his fault! His enablers feed into this perverted mantra.

[captain queeg]

32. We can only hope it #1 strikes the Trump family #2 strikes the Fox crowd

I don’t even feel guilty for saying it. Trump is beyond words to describe, and the Trump-humping followers are every bit as guilty as he is.

And add in republican senators and congressmen. I guess Romney ought to get a pass.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. The Grotesque Orange Pustule is a murderer.

To borrow a phrase from lawyers and judges, "He knew or should have known." In that office, he has access to the best information available, yet he acts contrary to it and precipitates higher mortality than what would result if that information were properly acted upon.

[Dorian Gray]

37. As a NYer

I have one thing to say to this man.

GO FUCK OFF, you FUCKING IGNORANT TWAT!

[malaise]

39. He can try

I heard it when he attacked the Michigan governor but Florida is coming and so are Mississippi and Alabama

[OhioChick]

40. NO major hospitals have ONLY 2 vents

WTF is wrong with him?

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Meanwhile, the UK has ordered 10,000 new ventilators from one consortium

and that's with a fifth of the US population - and it's not all the extra we need.

There's also an EU ventilator procurement scheme - which the UK didn't join, apparently because we're not sure if we count as the EU still for this. Thanks, Brexit.