If Trump's statement that he "purposely" slowed down Covid testing was only a joke,

[yonder]

then what was the punchline?

[Ahpook]

1. Trump and all those assholes

Pedaling backward for him.

They are the punchline, and should be ashamed of themselves. I couldn't tuck my child in at night while being a ghoul for a paycheck.

[magicarpet]

2. Don't you get it ?,...

All the dead people.

You are supposed to piss yourself laughing.

Have you no sense of humor ?

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What a sick and deranged fuck.

[Zoonart]

3. A joke?!!!!!

People are suffering and dying...out of jobs and losing their businesses.
But testing is a joke?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. It's no joke. It fits right in with a previous remark he made.

“When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

He is only worried about the numbers and if they make him look bad.

[John Fante]

11. Bingo.

[Midnight Writer]

15. Exactly. This is not the first time he has said this.

[struggle4progress]

5. Here's the punchline ... Wait for it ...

"You are so lucky I’m president, that’s all I can tell you"

[C_U_L8R]

6. The unfunniest POS and dishonest too

[ladym55]

7. Whenever Donny spews something appalling

His little sycophants follow up with the "but he was joking!" line.

It's a regular routine. And the press goes along with it.

[SoonerPride]

8. Is it appropriate to "joke" about a deadly virus that killed 120,000 Americans

The administration needs to answer for this

[yellowcanine]

9. Who is laughing?

[Marcuse]

10. He was engaging in self-mockery. Yeah, that's the ticket.

He fudges the numbers to keep them low, just like on his Form1040.

[Maraya1969]

12. We know it wasn't a joke because they did slow down testing. Remember you couldn't get a test?

Probably easier to get invited to a Royal wedding than get a Covid test in the first months.

[onecaliberal]

13. 120,000 dead is no laughing matter. That piece of garbage should be removed immediately.

What sane person would backtrack by saying it was a joke?!

[central scrutinizer]

14. It was a punch to the gut

Of 120,000 families.

[progree]

16. I didn't know for sure whether it was a joke or not until I watched the extended video (1 minute)

All's I've been reading is a couple sentences of his remarks related to testing. How can I tell from that? Eventually I ran across a video that was more than a 5 second soundbite:

https://news.yahoo.com/tulsa-rally-trump-suggests-u-145354962.html

It's clear from this that he is totally serious about what he considers too much testing being a bad thing and all's it does is find more cases

The only humor he attempted was ridiculing testing a 10 year old with the sniffles, and they find he tests positive, and "that's a case, that's a case" as if that's somehow ridiculous and somehow shouldn't be counted as a case.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. A Coin Flip

I agree with you in principle, and the "10 year old" bit was really bad, but that could have been a terrible attempt at pandering sarcasm by PINO.
But, like at everything else, he failed.
He's dumb enough to think the pandemic was a source of sarcastic humor.
Obviously, it got things wrong. Again!

[progree]

19. Oh, it (the 10 year old boy part) definitely was a terrible attempt at pandering sarcasm

But what the campaign is hoping people will believe when they are told that his remarks about too much testing was meant to be a joke, is just that -- that he was just joking when he said there was too much testing.

The video demonstrates he was entirely serious in thinking that too much testing is bad because it turned up too many cases. And the 10 year old boy part was just part of him trying to make that point.

[JI7]

18. That's the thing with all of his "jokes" . There has to be some point to it like Humor

or pointing out hypocrisy , expressing sarcasm etc.

His "jokes" have none of those things.

[Cha]

20. ASSFACE tried that "joke" excuse for being Stupid Before..

remember.. with the BLEACH/LYSOL.. whatever the fuck?

[dustyscamp]

21. Orange pos

Link to tweet

?s=20

[ecstatic]

22. He jokingly recounted a TRUE story. The "joke," if any, was the tone of voice he used

when *truthfully* RECALLING how he handled things. In trump's stand up comedy routines aka rallies, he frequently shares things that are harmful to himself because he's a narcissistic, amoral sociopath who has no understanding of what's appropriate to say and/or admit to.

We didn't need his confirmation of what obviously happened, but his admission should definitely make its way into a few ads.