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Published 1 min ago on April 26, 2020
By Common Dreams
As the world runs out of words to account for or describe the unhinged rantings of President Donald Trump when it comes to his daily briefings on the coronavirus pandemic that has rocked the United States and other nations, a new analysis published Sunday details a shocking lack of sympathy expressed by the nations highest ranking elected official.
With help from a data analytics firm, the Washington Post studied the cumulative hours of White House briefings focused on the outbreak since March 16, including a detailed breakdown of the last three weeks in which the press events have become increasingly concerning as Trump pushed unproven treatments and, just last week, suggested that patients could be injected with disinfectants as a way to cure their illness.
The briefings, as the Post notes, have come to replace Trumps Keep America Great campaign ralliesnow on pause during the global contagionand fulfill the presidents needs and impulses in the way his arena-shaking campaign events once did: a chance for him to riff, free-associate, spar with the media and occupy center stage.
According to the Post:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/out-of-13-hours-of-trump-covid-19-briefings-just-4-5-minutes-of-empathy-for-victims-analysis/
It took just thirteen hours.......................hell he's been doing this since day fucking one, when he came down a fucking escalator with paid lackey's standing on the first floor atrium making $50.00 dollars to stand there with sign.........JFC.................he doesn't give a shit about anyone, anything, unless its about himself..................the public was lucky they got 4.5 minutes.........during a pandemic.............he stood on that podium and lied over 350 times, and has now closing in on 19,000 lies..............JFC......... ..
murielm99
(30,736 posts)I find even that to be a high number. The man has no empathy.
Granted, I stopped watching after the first two. It is nauseating enough to see the recaps on the nightly news.
underpants
(182,791 posts)to do his friendly pastor routine. Then Trump steps back in to be an ahole.