Anderson Cooper: 'You just saw the president lying'

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Anderson Cooper stunned after Trump claims he was being ‘sarcastic’ about injecting disinfectant: ‘You just saw the president lying’

“What you just heard is the president of the United States just lying,” Cooper said. “It’s fascinating because he’s lying about something that we all witnessed just yesterday of him talking to his own coronavirus task force about research on injecting bleach, disinfectants into people, somehow cleaning them from the inside… there was no sarcasm, we have the tape.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/anderson-cooper-stunned-after-trump-claims-he-was-being-sarcastic-about-injecting-disinfectant-you-just-saw-the-president-lying/


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[maxsolomon]

1. It was speculation. "Spitballing". Why call it "Sarcasm"?

It was NOT sarcasm.

It was wildly inappropriate speculation, but at heart, he is a Mountebank.

[stopdiggin]

10. because even naming it "spitballing"

reveals a monumental (dumbfounding) level of ignorance on the part of the person throwing "spit."
So they resort to the tried and true .. just bluster and lie.

[maxsolomon]

12. It's just so weird. "Sarcasm" has been his (and his enabler's) defense for years.

But it's like they don't know what Sarcasm is.

Or that it's a great catch-all excuse for pathological Sociopathy.

Or they think the shut-ins watching Fox don't know...

[localroger]

67. It's the go-to walk back technique when you're called out on a Big Lie

This is another one of those PR things Trump has been doing for years. When something you've said blows up in your face it was just a joke, I was kidding, sorry you can't tell sarcasm when you hear it. It doesn't matter that this is itself another Big Lie on which you might get called out; it distances you from the first one, and eventually if you do it enough people get tired of even challenging them. Goebbels FTW.

[lagomorph777]

14. Not sarcasm, not spitballing. Homicide.

[maxsolomon]

15. Here's the quote:

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, if it's ultraviolet or very powerful light. And I think he said that hasn't been checked but he was going to test it. Then I said what it if you brought the light inside of the body which you could do either through the skin or some other way and I think you said you were going to test that, too. Sounds interesting. Then I see the disinfectant, knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning because you see it gets on the lungs. That you're gonna have to use medical doctors. Because it sounds interesting. The way the light killed that in one minute is pretty powerful.”

See the "supposing", the "is there a way"? He's very good at including these "outs" in his rambling gaslighting.

[stopdiggin]

24. you're right. there is kind of a "maybe you could?"

in there. And people are making this out that he said we "should" do this. Not entirely accurate.
But just incredibly and stunningly ignorant .. practically brain dead in any case. He's not going to get much relief from this quarter!

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. Yup. Goes hand in hand with his "Many people are saying....."

[maxsolomon]

45. Plausible deniability.

But that's not "sarcasm", FFS.

I know from sarcasm.

[Grasswire2]

64. Anyone who has watched Sheldon Cooper understands "sarcasm" if they didn't already. nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

70. The task force has a new member at the briefings:

[Grasswire2]

71. haha!

Is that your creation?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

72. Yes. Nearly all the satirical images in my posts have been mine.

Here's one I like:

[wnylib]

54. "Maybe you could...." is standard phrasing

for Trump. It's how he plants ideas in people's minds. The implication is clear, even though it is not clearly expressed. He's a master at this.

[RussellCattle]

31. A powerful ultraviolet light? Isn't that a taning bed? If so...

...no wonder Donald minimizes the risks of the virus. He personally burns the virus off with UV regularly.

[SergeStorms]

62. Trump's is the spray-on variety.

He stands in a little booth......well, for him a BIG booth, then the spray jets cover him from head to toe with orange spray-tan. It's like an Earl Scheib paint job for human idiots, and it washes off just as quickly.

[jcgoldie]

42. I know where he can stick his light...

... it isnt "through the skin."

[LuckyLib]

65. As he's done before, he likes to come across as knowledgeable about science.

So he’s “hypothesizing” (in this case riffing) to make it seem like he’s in the loop of what’s happening. Master bullshitter has to be front and center at all times, performing display behavior.

What an asshole!

[busterbrown]

39. The only word he could come up with n/t

[Laelth]

2. There was no sarcasm.

“Just kidding” is a classic, first-line defense for low-level people who suffer from Cluster B personality disorders when they are called out for saying something that’s obviously antisocial.

That’s what we just witnessed, and Trump’s response is tragically predictable.

-Laelth

[Paladin]

3. No sarcasm whatsoever.

trump lacks anything approaching a genuine ability for sarcasm. He can be hateful, spiteful, bullying, insulting and cruel---but sarcastic? Nope. He was serious as a covid-19 ventilator yesterday.

[cayugafalls]

4. Just kidding, next, move along...stop berating me about a joke, I can be a funny guy.

During a pandemic? You were joking? It was sarcastic? Just kidding?

YOUR THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ACT LIKE IT!

I don't want a joke. I want answers. I don't need your sarcasm, I need your leadership.

You want respect you piece of human filth?

Earn it.

[Marie Marie]

38. Trump has NO sense of humor and he does not joke.

[cayugafalls]

43. I know that and you know that, but his base thinks he is hilarious.

To them, dump is a regular guy, joking around and making fun of people, like reporters with disabilities, you know funny stuff...

We should all just lighten up and praise his wonderful sense of humor...

[jayfish]

5. What About The Post Office BS?

All the horseshit he said went unchallenged. (sorry bulls and horses)

This is why the post office is constantly struggling.

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/

In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.

If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.

Can the media not hold two thoughts at the same time?

[Mr.Bill]

6. Yes, they were literally demanding funding for pensions

of people who have not been born yet.

[The Wizard]

19. Passed in the middle of the night

to deliberately bankrupt the Post Office for the benefit of lawmakers who invested in private carriers like UPS, FedX, DHL. It's a form of insider trading.

[cayugafalls]

44. No they can't. The dump effect is in full force. He hits you with so much stupid,

you are basically paralyzed and stunned and then he dismisses you and moves on before you can recover your brain function.

I liken the effect to that of the Electric Eel when they stun their prey.

His word jumbles are the equivalent of the electric shock by the eel, except it is the brain that is paralyzed, rather than the entire body.

[Progressive Jones]

59. There are bi-partisan bills from both the House and Senate

sitting on McConnell's desk that would correct that.

McConnell, as usual, is not doing his job.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. PressSec McEnemy contradicts tRump. Says he was quoted out of context

https://www.businessinsider.com/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-lysol-comments-taken-out-of-context-2020-4

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. Lying & then trump lies about his lying. He depends on others to excuse it with

"that's just trump being trump", "he's just kidding", "it was taken out of context", "owning a lib" AND then there's metaphors for his lying: gas lighting, spit-balling, sarcasm, bending the truth, false, not telling the truth. It's really pathological lying

[napi21]

58. BAck when DT was peddling the "All will be fine" line I told my neighbor DT wasn't telling the

truth about the seriousness of the virus. She responded "Awe, he's just trying to make the people feel better." That's what his supporters all do, find a reason for anything he says & does.

Then after explaining away all of DT's stupidity, she said "I just hope we don't gets stuck with Joe Biden! His mind is gone. He doesn't even know where he's doing his campaign speech. Names the wrong location all the time." When I asked what she meant by ALL THE TIME, she said well I saw a video of one of them. ONE??? She doesn't admit that when a candidate goes from town to town making speeches, it's real easy to mistake which one you're in this stop.

[localroger]

68. Plus Trump has done the exact same thing, multiple times. nt

[dalton99a]

9. That's all he does

Every damn day

[spanone]

11. We see it everyday, Anderson.

EVERY FUCKING DAY.

[CaptYossarian]

13. I get it now. It was in Anderson's quote.

Cleansing.

This is his idea of "ethnic cleansing". I would love to see Trump write his own variation of Webster's Dictionary and his interpretation of what words mean to his feeble brain.

[onetexan]

16. Bravo Anderson for calling it exactly what it is - a baldface lie

And a dangerous one at that. God forbid, some of his most ignorant rabid followers should try it, though i wouldnt be surprised.

[gibraltar72]

17. Always keep the receipts.

[MoonRiver]

18. Been watching him lie for 4 years. Only thing new is how totally insane he sounded.

Dementia getting worse?

[The Wizard]

20. Sounded?

He's off the deep end.

[ProfessorGAC]

51. There's Another Thing Diiferent

Some in mass media are using "lie", " lying" instead of some weak euphemism.
High time.

[MoonRiver]

55. Yes, and that is awesome! Finally!

[crickets]

60. +1

[rurallib]

21. People look at a president as someone who has integrity

so you can bet somebody will try what he suggested and die

[LudwigPastorius]

22. No disrespect, Anderson, but we've seen that motherfucker lying since the 2016 campaign and before.

Trump cannot NOT lie. It's in his DNA. His very nature is to spout endless streams of molten bullshit.

Any media outlet that disseminates what Trump says must refute those lies in real time as he is covered, or simply not cover him at all.

Doing anything less is an affront to the principles that journalists aspire to or espouse.

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. Sure, Anderson, but the President ONLY lies on days that end in "y"

[True Blue American]

26. A Science expert said," We have no economy

I see no way out, it is like the last days of mad King George”

Pretty blunt there!

[ClusterFreak]

25. Whether Trump claims he was just "being sarcastic"...

...or him claiming he likes to grab women "by the pussy" was just "locker room talk", or pick your favorite outlandish comment-turned-about-faced-denial, it's all the same. He says it. It's on tape. The context is clear as day. There is nothing not to understand.

One more time, all together now: He says it, he swears up and down he never said it and blames everyone else, he gets away with it.

It truly is the story of his life.

The question is when this current chapter ends on November 3rd, will he simply get away with it again? Cuz we can't afford the epilogue of four more years.

[Wednesdays]

49. Can you just imagine him up before a judge?

A judge with a modicum of integrity, anyway.

Contempt of court charges would descend on the orange blob like a snowstorm.

[zentrum]

27. Orange was quoted word for word

....on the BBC, and in most of Europe. His words went 'round the world. They are appalled and laughing. Words cannot describe the vapid stupidity of this Orange thing.

[Reader Rabbit]

28. "You just saw the president lying."

Journalists should be saying this every time they report on one of his fallacious remarks.

[warmfeet]

29. He's a liar and a murderer.

He belongs in prison.

[c-rational]

30. The media has been equivocating for far too long about the dUmpsters lies. Are they finally

waking up?

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. I remember the first two long years of Trump when the word "lie" was verbotten on TV news

Its nice to at least see the MSM identify Trumps blatant lies and call them what they are. Why did it take this long though?

[Stuart G]

34. K and R....Thank You for posting...

[NNadir]

35. Um, announcing that Trump is lying is like announcing that James Buchanan is dead...

...that the Earth moves around the sun - although perhaps not to Republicans - that the ocean contains water, and that air contains oxygen.

Why should this be astounding?

[Cha]

37. Yeah, and how many pundits lay it out like this?

[Cha]

36. THANK YOU ANDERSON COOPER!!

[nolabear]

40. CNN has given its last fuck.

I hope the new CEO is a monster!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. Loser Donald can't even figure out how to lie convincingly.

[Beacool]

46. Love it!!!

I miss having normal and intelligent people in government.

[Yavin4]

47. People who are paid to observe and report reality actually observed and reported reality and...

without equivocation or whataboutism! Amazing.

[DBoon]

48. The Secret Service takes "jokes" about presidential assassination seriously

We take presidential "jokes" about killing citizens seriously as well

[JohnnyRingo]

50. He forgot the Borat rule of sarcasm.

After the sarcastic barb, one must delay briefly, then declare: not!!!

Not sarcasm. He was serious, and now it behooves the press to constantly ask "are you shitting us?" To every outlandish statement he makes.

[Dukkha]

52. Not only a pathalogical liar

But a spineless chickenkshit coward punkass little b*tch

[TexasBushwhacker]

53. Fine. Why the hell would one be sarcastic

about a possible "cure" when THOUSANDS of people are dying?

[Marcuse]

56. The King's speech is due to the fact that English is his second language. Lying is his first.

[MFGsunny]

57. Actual original article linked below, with credit to original reporter Daniel Dale.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/fact-check-trump-disinfectant-sarcastic/index.html

[BobTheSubgenius]

61. We were all LIED TO???

Say it isn't so.

[Wolf Frankula]

63. It's easy to tell when tRump is lying.

His lips are moving.

Wolf

[rockfordfile]

66. Yeah he lies

[colsohlibgal]

69. The Lying King

Who on earth would believe he was sarcastic.....well he is snotty sarcastic a lot but he was being serious in that ridiculous and amazing moment.

I mean when Lysol had to rebut what he said, come on. His knuckle dragging base might buy it, their gullibility when it comes to this Creep knows no bounds.

But anyone with a functioning not brainwashed brain know he was being serious.

Sorry Trumpsters your idiot idol is finally being exposed full throttle to be a dangerous clown.