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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:26 PM Jun 2020

Trump on the CV pandemic just now: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."



Peter Alexander ✔@PeterAlexander

President Trump on the coronavirus pandemic, according to the pool:
"If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any."


3:00 PM - Jun 15, 2020


So glad he has his head around this...
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Trump on the CV pandemic just now: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any." (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jun 2020 OP
Fucking murdering piece of soulless shit. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #1
But but but malaise Jun 2020 #60
Something, my god. How do people stand there while he utters this complete bullshit? onecaliberal Jun 2020 #76
K and R dewsgirl Jun 2020 #2
Truth to him is entirely the fiction of his own propaganda unblock Jun 2020 #3
So if I thought I was pregnant and didn't get a pregnancy test, The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #4
K&R SharonClark Jun 2020 #11
Or if she never got a pregnancy test ... IggleDuer Jun 2020 #38
He is like a toddler. If his hand disappears up a his sleeve it is gone forever. SoonerPride Jun 2020 #5
Excellent analogy! He possesses ZERO ability to comprehend even the most basic concepts... NurseJackie Jun 2020 #18
LOL, he can't handle the concept of object permanence, The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #19
Lol, yes, especiallyi if it was a tiny hand. His reality is very flexible. nt. Hortensis Jun 2020 #28
Traitor Tot thinks if his eyes are closed we can't see him. OMGWTF Jun 2020 #40
If only when I closed my eyes he'd disappear SoonerPride Jun 2020 #49
Twitter reply : Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 #6
Had Stormi Daniels not told the NotAPuppet Jun 2020 #7
So in Trump's Bizarro World logic, testing causes CV. no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #8
Not the first time he's made this assinine assertion. n/t Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #9
Yep. SharonClark Jun 2020 #12
Trump is really some manner of idiot. sop Jun 2020 #10
Dayummm...why didn't we think of this through... ret5hd Jun 2020 #13
This is why news doctors are careful to point out soothsayer Jun 2020 #14
A special kind of stupid. liberalla Jun 2020 #15
So if I don't open my bills then I don't have SharonClark Jun 2020 #16
If you don't open them... ret5hd Jun 2020 #23
LOL - I stand corrected. SharonClark Jun 2020 #31
So if we all pretend that Trump is no longer president Kaiserguy Jun 2020 #53
Given Trump's history of not paying bills, I am 99.9% certain this is what he actually believes. NYC Liberal Jun 2020 #68
Everyone is so impressed that Trump gets this stuff PJMcK Jun 2020 #17
If you put tape over the odometer in your car LastDemocratInSC Jun 2020 #20
I wonder if that means a person can claim they weren't speeding too. Jamastiene Jun 2020 #25
Or, if I don't see a speed limit sign, there is no speed limit. yonder Jun 2020 #37
He is back to that stupid shit again? Jamastiene Jun 2020 #21
Daily I ask myself if this guy could really be "that stupid". Totally Tunsie Jun 2020 #22
How about if we stop testing people who are around him? Crunchy Frog Jun 2020 #24
Is he really this stupid or is it all just an act? smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #26
He's the stupidest man in America. sinkingfeeling Jun 2020 #27
What a total dumbass oswaldactedalone Jun 2020 #30
"Many people are saying. Many many! I don't know. Very many! But that's what they are saying. Many!" struggle4progress Jun 2020 #29
Whiskey-Tango-Alpha-Foxtrot.... sprinkleeninow Jun 2020 #32
That's the story behind my user name. Whatthe_Firetruck Jun 2020 #75
Clever! sprinkleeninow Jun 2020 #83
He's not "that" stupid, JenniferJuniper Jun 2020 #33
He's acting Mizaru superpatriotman Jun 2020 #34
*facepalm* sakabatou Jun 2020 #35
"If I muffle the sound of screaming, there is no one being killed" DBoon Jun 2020 #36
Well, ignore it and it will go away is his strategy. JDC Jun 2020 #39
Trump, "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any." Botany Jun 2020 #41
I see Operation "Just let him talk" is continuing to be a success Colorado Liberal Jun 2020 #42
Just like a repug, he left out a crucial word. "REPORTED" Ferrets are Cool Jun 2020 #43
Proves the old saying... llmart Jun 2020 #44
That means seta1950 Jun 2020 #45
Trump is as dumb as gravel but, Disaffected Jun 2020 #46
?? soooo is Trump going to try and hide Roc2020 Jun 2020 #47
If we get rid of thermometers, we'd have very few cases of the flu StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #48
Well, the worldometer numbers look way too low. ananda Jun 2020 #50
I just hope there's audio, so Sarah Cooper can do a video (n/t) thesquanderer Jun 2020 #51
Without biopsies, there is no cancer. Lakerstan Jun 2020 #52
Right?! live love laugh Jun 2020 #57
Remember the movie Deep Impact? TrogL Jun 2020 #54
How fucking stupid is this fucking, weak, obese bag of shit? Aviation Pro Jun 2020 #55
If he only had a brain.... Hekate Jun 2020 #56
Which character is it in "The Wizard of OZ" with no brain? brush Jun 2020 #69
The Scarecrow -- rather fittingly, a straw man Hekate Jun 2020 #77
He's all three rolled into one: no brain, heart, or courage. catbyte Jun 2020 #73
But there would be thousands and thousands of 'unexplained' deaths, ya moron. tanyev Jun 2020 #58
Make it stop. Please. Just make it stop! LuckyLib Jun 2020 #59
he sees increased numbers of positives as a threat to HIM Skittles Jun 2020 #61
If police stopped arresting people, we'd have no more crime! subterranean Jun 2020 #62
WAIT!!!! SO THE TESTING IS KILLING 1000 PEOPLE A DAY!!! PCIntern Jun 2020 #63
We are seeing how well THAT strategy worked for over 450 years... Tommymac Jun 2020 #64
The shame I feel for the U.S. having this moron as head of state... NotHardly Jun 2020 #65
I love the Hoarse Whisperer's response: tblue37 Jun 2020 #66
And this: tblue37 Jun 2020 #67
this mind-boggling level of stupidity is KILLING US LymphocyteLover Jun 2020 #70
I guess all those people in ICU's (800 in NC) are really OK. essme Jun 2020 #71
Hey, Einstein, if we eliminated all laws there wouldn't be any criminals. What a dumbass. catbyte Jun 2020 #72
We would still have them. They do not disappear just because you don't count them?? kentuck Jun 2020 #74
Everytime he says shit like this, I'm enraged with republicans who continue ecstatic Jun 2020 #78
The Green Mile... WyattKansas Jun 2020 #79
Trump is Onion-ing again. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #80
Calling Sarah Cooper! Cha Jun 2020 #81
and deaths would stop right scarytomcat Jun 2020 #82
"If we stop pregnancy testing right now, we'd have very few babies, if any." dalton99a Jun 2020 #84

malaise

(268,844 posts)
60. But but but
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:27 PM
Jun 2020

Last edited Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:16 PM - Edit history (1)

anyone who plans to come near him must be tested.

Throw hi in a padded room for the sake of humanity.

onecaliberal

(32,811 posts)
76. Something, my god. How do people stand there while he utters this complete bullshit?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:13 PM
Jun 2020

I would literally ask him if he’s fucking insane.

unblock

(52,163 posts)
3. Truth to him is entirely the fiction of his own propaganda
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:30 PM
Jun 2020

If it's not in the media, it doesn't exist.

Well, except for the grifting and the sex with porn stars and so on....

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,656 posts)
4. So if I thought I was pregnant and didn't get a pregnancy test,
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:31 PM
Jun 2020

would that mean I wasn't pregnant? Hey, what a way to eliminate the abortion controversy! If a woman who didn't want to be pregnant didn't get a pregnancy test, she wouldn't be pregnant and she wouldn't need an abortion at all. Problem solved.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
5. He is like a toddler. If his hand disappears up a his sleeve it is gone forever.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:33 PM
Jun 2020

He is literally too stupid to be president.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
18. Excellent analogy! He possesses ZERO ability to comprehend even the most basic concepts...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:39 PM
Jun 2020

Excellent analogy! He possesses ZERO ability to comprehend even the most basic concepts... and it's perfect to compare his mental acuity to that of a toddler who lacks the ability to understand object permanence.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,656 posts)
19. LOL, he can't handle the concept of object permanence,
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:39 PM
Jun 2020

which is something even my cat can do. If Trump can't see something it isn't there; but my cat knows her toy is under the couch even if she can't see it.

NotAPuppet

(326 posts)
7. Had Stormi Daniels not told the
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:33 PM
Jun 2020

entire world about Trump’s widdle mushroom, then the affair would have never happened.

I see how he thinks now....

no_hypocrisy

(46,057 posts)
8. So in Trump's Bizarro World logic, testing causes CV.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jun 2020

No wonder I couldn't come up with that first . . . . . . .

sop

(10,136 posts)
10. Trump is really some manner of idiot.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jun 2020

What's shocking is his moron followers will accept this stupidity as logical.

ret5hd

(20,486 posts)
23. If you don't open them...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jun 2020

there’s nothing to pay! Don’t you get it? It’s not that you don’t have to pay them, it’s that there is nothing owed!!!

NYC Liberal

(20,135 posts)
68. Given Trump's history of not paying bills, I am 99.9% certain this is what he actually believes.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:41 PM
Jun 2020

It actually all makes sense now.

PJMcK

(22,022 posts)
17. Everyone is so impressed that Trump gets this stuff
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:39 PM
Jun 2020

You know, if he hadn't been elected president, he might have gone into medicine.

It's truly amazing how Trump is so expert at so many things. He knows more about ISIS than the generals. He knows more about Covid-19 than the doctors. He knows more about policing than the cops. He's made the best vodka, the best steaks, the best casinos, the best airlines and football team and even the best university and charitable foundation. It's incredible that he has such an array of talents that he can tell us about. He did say, after all, that he's like a really smart guy who is really, really rich.

Trump is truly a Renaissance man.

That is, in the unreality of his fantasy.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
25. I wonder if that means a person can claim they weren't speeding too.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jun 2020

As long as we are in the age of Trump magical thinking, might as well try it and point out that the president said if we refuse to see something, it makes it not true. Oh, that's right. The rest of us cannot get away with sticking our heads in the sand like that and claiming nonsense.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
21. He is back to that stupid shit again?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jun 2020

Really?

That is magical thinking.

A pregnant woman is no less pregnant if she doesn't take a pregnancy test. And all of the other examples people gave his stupid ass before about how sticking your head in the sand doesn't make something go away like that.

That is one stupid man. His followers are that stupid too.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
22. Daily I ask myself if this guy could really be "that stupid".
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jun 2020

Daily the answer comes back "Of course he is, and he'll still get worse".

How does his brain even function?

Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
24. How about if we stop testing people who are around him?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jun 2020

Then he would never have to worry about getting infected himself.

oswaldactedalone

(3,490 posts)
30. What a total dumbass
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:48 PM
Jun 2020

Is this one more sign of mental deterioration? Is there anyone in the administration who can explain to him how absolutely moronic this is?

JenniferJuniper

(4,510 posts)
33. He's not "that" stupid,
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jun 2020

he's desperate. And he'd like the testing to be scaled way back so hospitalizations and deaths can be blamed on other things. Summer flu. Lyme Disease. Food poisoning! Anything but the Trump Virus.

JDC

(10,121 posts)
39. Well, ignore it and it will go away is his strategy.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:05 PM
Jun 2020

That is one dumb fuck right there ladies and gents. Pure idiocy on display.

How soon before Trump supporting states stop testing?

Botany

(70,476 posts)
41. Trump, "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jun 2020

United States of America 2,135,309 # of cases 117,426 # of deaths

https://weather.com/coronavirus/l/39.9614,-82.9988

Colorado Liberal

(145 posts)
42. I see Operation "Just let him talk" is continuing to be a success
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:29 PM
Jun 2020

I don't know why I keep expecting there to be someone on his staff to get him under control...

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)
46. Trump is as dumb as gravel but,
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jun 2020

isn't that similar to what he said two or three weeks ago which, when reported, was taken out of context?? In context what he said then was in effect, 'If we stop testing now, we'd have very few cases to report on.'

I dunno if it's the same with the recent quote but I'm doubting even Trump is that dump (unless he has finally gone completely bonkers, which I suppose is a distinct possibility).

Roc2020

(1,614 posts)
47. ?? soooo is Trump going to try and hide
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jun 2020

patients that are dying in hospitals? maybe get the army to invade hospitals and hide all the deaths. This dude is reeling right now.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
48. If we get rid of thermometers, we'd have very few cases of the flu
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:46 PM
Jun 2020

How has this man managed to convince anyone to vote for him?

ananda

(28,854 posts)
50. Well, the worldometer numbers look way too low.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:11 PM
Jun 2020

I just don't think the cases and deaths are being
reported properly.

I suspect there is a lot of under-testing too.

TrogL

(32,822 posts)
54. Remember the movie Deep Impact?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:16 PM
Jun 2020

People were really pissed off at the boy who discovered the comet, as if it weren’t discovered, it wouldn’t impact the earth.

I’ve lived with these people. That’s how they think.

Aviation Pro

(12,140 posts)
55. How fucking stupid is this fucking, weak, obese bag of shit?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jun 2020

I think he sucks and absorbs all the stupid in a 10 mile radius of his bloated carcass.

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
77. The Scarecrow -- rather fittingly, a straw man
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:15 PM
Jun 2020

The Cowardly Lion needed to find courage
The Tin Man needed a heart

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
62. If police stopped arresting people, we'd have no more crime!
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:30 PM
Jun 2020

If we stop collecting unemployment statistics, there would be no more unemployment.

This logic can be used to solve any problem!

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
64. We are seeing how well THAT strategy worked for over 450 years...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:33 PM
Jun 2020

Black Lives Matter

Whether you pay attention to the issue or not...it has been real and simmering in this country and has finally boiled over.

Ignorance is not bliss.

Whether we test or not...Ten's of 1,000's are going to die in the next 6 months.

Fucking Mass murdering asshole.

NotHardly

(1,062 posts)
65. The shame I feel for the U.S. having this moron as head of state...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:33 PM
Jun 2020
that anyone can or would work with him or for him is beyond me. There are no adults in the room.

essme

(1,207 posts)
71. I guess all those people in ICU's (800 in NC) are really OK.
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:07 PM
Jun 2020

The test made them go the hospital. No test no ICU beds taken.

What a lying sack of shit.

kentuck

(111,069 posts)
74. We would still have them. They do not disappear just because you don't count them??
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:12 PM
Jun 2020

Unless, of course, he thinks it's all a hoax?

ecstatic

(32,673 posts)
78. Everytime he says shit like this, I'm enraged with republicans who continue
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:18 PM
Jun 2020

to do nothing in the face of trump's gross ignorance and incompetence. Millions of lives are at stake and they continue to do nothing. It's called criminal negligence.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
79. The Green Mile...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:26 PM
Jun 2020

Warden Hal: 'How many years you spend pissing on the toilet seat, before somebody told you to put it up?'

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