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moron in chief still thinks covid is just going to disappear (Original Post) rdking647 Jul 2020 OP
Will he please disappear first? Guilded Lilly Jul 2020 #1
no he doesnt. he has learned to do this since his de-formative years. bullimiami Jul 2020 #2
He always throws in "weasel words" Caliman73 Jul 2020 #7
First it is going to drop down to 15 cases; then go to zero. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Jul 2020 #3
Because someone told him once that SARS kind of just disappeared. RGTIndy Jul 2020 #4
The idiot's in a time warp - not the good kind, of course Leghorn21 Jul 2020 #5
BSC Disaffected Jul 2020 #6
you know damed well mike_c Jul 2020 #8

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
7. He always throws in "weasel words"
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 05:04 PM
Jul 2020

Trump: "I think its going to disappear very soon..I hope.

Fox idiot: "You still believe that?"

Trump: I do, I do, yes ... at some point

Those little flourishes at the end are both tells that he is lying, and what he thinks will get him out from responsibility for what he says. Legally and technically he may be correct, because he wasn't making a predictive statement or giving specifics so "technically" he wasn't lying. He is still trying to communicate deceptively though. He knows that his followers will hear the operative phrase and he knows reporters will write snippets of the statement and the headline will not include the "I hope" or "at some point".

He is disgusting.

 

RGTIndy

(203 posts)
4. Because someone told him once that SARS kind of just disappeared.
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:33 PM
Jul 2020

Of course SARS was more lethal, and basically everyone who got it got REALLY sick in 2 or 3 days, so isolation and contact tracing was much much easier.

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
8. you know damed well
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 05:47 PM
Jul 2020

...that he is going to count the "great job we did with the Chinese virus" among the smug "accomplishments" of his tenure. Plus, his coronavirus numbers are WAY higher than Obama's ever were.

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