Jesus Christ they have a slide with 100,000 listed as their "goal".

[RandySF]

This is a freaking nightmare.

[cayugafalls]

1. That is a joke, right?

I purposely did not watch...

I'm devastated. We could have done so much more.

smdh

[Thomas Hurt]

2. the goal to avoid as it were, still bunch of sick f**ks,

picked a number they are reasonably certain they will never reach.

All to look good.

That is the grift.

[LisaL]

4. Oh I beg to differ. We likely going to have a lot more than 100,000 dead people.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Hope not, certainly don't want that many to die just to stick to the amoral pig.

[robbob]

17. I agree

The doubling of casualties every 3 days is happening, right now. A week ago we were at 750 dead. Now it’s over 3,000. That means 10,000 by next week. Unless things dramatically slow down that means 100,000 dead by the 3rd week in April, and well over 200,000 by the end of April.

Let’s hope the social quarantine will be taken seriously, and work, or 100,000 dead will actually be a good outcome.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Look at it again

it said 100-240,000 next to the "hill". The "mountain" had the range with the full number of zeros needed to convey the point.

It's a subtle lie, but not unlike a lot of visual aids that Trump has used in the past.

[Solomon]

5. People keep saying he said 100,000 deaths would be a good Job but he really said

200,000 deaths would be a good job. I heard it when he said it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. I wonder what happened to the zero he promised when there were 15 cases?

I guess if you don't reach your goal, you move the goalposts. It's the Republican way.

[tblue37]

16. It got added (with a bunch of other zeroes) to the probable total. nt

[John Fante]

8. 100,000 deaths would place us at or near the top in terms of

mortality rate. Good luck spinning that into a victory, KGOP.

[safeinOhio]

9. 99,999 plus one from

His first guess. That will be the number we will remember.

[bullwinkle428]

11. They're using IHME - their current projection is around 84,000, so he's going to

do a "Joker dance down the stairs" if the total ends up below 100,000.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/

[kentuck]

12. Gotta have a big number to fit the lie to come later.

Directing the narrative.

[uponit7771]

13. REMEMBER: South Korea is out of the soup and back to near normal !!!

[spanone]

14. So don went from 15 to Zero to 100,000.....

[kentuck]

15. Gotta have that comparative number.

Otherwise, how can he claim victory?