Maddow: Potus has revised projected death toll 5 times in 13 days -that's a problem

[kpete]

"When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there's a problem."

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[captain queeg]

1. I'm glad someone is keeping track

There ought to be a list of how many deaths he’s projecting on each date and the list would keep growing.

[SoonerPride]

3. No matter what the number he will say it is a great job.

He could kill 320,000,000 people and address the few survivors and say "look how great I did"

[DBoon]

2. wasn't this called a "credibility gap" during the Vietnam War

When official pronouncements always shifted but never matched reality?

[yonder]

5. I think that's right and what a great frame to dust off and start applying,

liberally and as necessary.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. As Maddow said,

watch what they do,not what they say.

Example,today Trump floats idea of zero Corporate Taxes. Nothing about the on going pandemic.

[localroger]

6. He won't accept a projection that isn't in agreement with his "gut feeling"

...and as sociologists have demonstrated many times, our instinct is to project things linearly. So he is always going to be surprised by the ever-accelerating exponential growth.

[gratuitous]

7. Trump doesn't know how to shut up when he doesn't know anything

He's guessing at numbers and hoping one of them will turn out right. This isn't leadership, this is crystal ball gazing.