OMG!!!!

[Yavin4]

Excerpt from Chris Wallace's interview with Trump:

WALLACE: But, sir, we have the seventh highest mortality rate in the world. Our mortality rate is higher than Brazil, it's higher than Russia and the European Union has us on a travel ban.

TRUMP: Yeah. I think what we'll do -- well, we have them under travel ban too, Chris. I closed them off. If you remember, I was the one that did the European Union very early.

But when you talk about mortality rates, I think it's the opposite. I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.

WALLACE: That’s not true, sir. We, we, we have a -- we had 900 deaths on a single day...

TRUMP: We will take a look...

WALLACE: ... just this week...

TRUMP: Ready?

WALLACE: You, you can check it out.

TRUMP: Can you please get me the mortality rate?

TRUMP: Kayleigh's right here. I heard we have one of the lowest, maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world.

TRUMP: Do you have the numbers, please? Because I heard we had the best mortality rate.

TRUMP: Number, number one low mortality rate.

TRUMP: I hope you show the scenario because it shows what fake news is all about. Ok, go ahead.

WALLACE: OK, OK. I don’t think I’m fake news but I will -- we’ll put --

TRUMP: Yeah, you will --

WALLACE: -- put our stats on --

TRUMP: You said we had the worst mortality rate in the world --

WALLACE: I said you had --

TRUMP: -- and we have the best.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. And THIS is the very reason why there should be NO Presidential Debates.

[brush]

5. I'm thinking we should so the nation can see that his brain is gone.

He's insane. His grasp on reality is not there.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

8. nope. he is a menace. to debate him is to give him legitimacy he doesn't deserve

[brush]

17. The nation needs to see that. Hiding it would be irresponsible IMO.

[Demovictory9]

10. he talked nonsense in the 2016 debates...didn't matter. He gets enough racists to the polls in the

right states... he wins again.

[brush]

20. He has bouts of incoherence and word salad now much worse than 2016.

The nation needs to see that.

[Vdizzle]

38. Exactly.

Remember: “No puppet, no puppet... you’re the puppet.”

Nonsense.

[amuse bouche]

30. I highly doubt traitor trump will show up to a debate. He will make lame excuses,just like his taxes

Unless he can install a sycophant as moderator, there is no way

[brush]

34. If he comes up with an excuse not to debate that will not go in his favor.

As far a a sycophant moderator, there are more than one moderator. And who with a mind on their career and reputation, is going to sit there and throw soft ball questions to him?

[jayschool2013]

50. Real-time, on-screen fact-checking

by Politifact or FactCheck.org. And if they find a lie, not only is it scrolled on the bottom, the moderator has to interrupt the current speaker to point out the lie.

[Ferrets are Cool]

53. Do you really think that is going to happen?

I would bet you $1000 that I do not have to lose that it will NEVER happen.

[jayschool2013]

54. Of course not

Neither side would agree, but a journalist can dream, can't I?

[Dukkha]

51. absolutely

Insanity is repeating the same tasks and expecting different results. He'll just throw toddler tantrums and scream 'Wrong! Fake News! Everything's the best the greatest most beautiful! The best words!"

[Mike 03]

2. Look how Trump words this response:

I heard we have one of the lowest, maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world.

He's the president, and he says I heard we have instead of having a command of the facts. President Obama wouldn't be caught dead saying I heard (from someone else) some vitally important fact about an event he had responsibility over.

It also just adds to the growing body of evidence that he relies on people to tell him things, and that those people are afraid to tell him the truth about anything.

What a mess we are in, folks.

[lunatica]

36. It's a deliberate attempt at seizure of control in the interview

He says, “I heard that such and such...” all the time. He uses that phrase as a passive aggressive ploy to deflect any blame or inaccuracy away from himself and onto some faceless amorphous entity. The famous, “they say...” argument that he uses all the time. It’s “Them”.

Variations on this theme are when he says, “I’ve been told...” or “Everyone is saying...”

If someone comes back at him and asks, “Who says?” His answer is a vague, “Lots of people, everybody.”

[Midnight Writer]

46. Exactly. Just like FoxNews personalities introduce nonsense with "Many people are saying..."

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

55. Everything he says is blatant BS.

It is so disturbing that approximately 40% of US citizens are idiotic enough to be able to watch him and listen to his clueless babbling and not see him for the moronic imbecile he is.

The complete lack of reasoning ability is mortifying. I have never been more despondent about anything in my life.

[jcgoldie]

3. ...

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/trump-keeps-bragging-americas-covid-19-death-rate-among-worlds-worst/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Notice how binary he is. He says "best rate", Wallace says "7th worst", tRump says "you said worst"

On tape.

Such all-or-nothing thinking is typical of very young children. tRump has either regressed back or has never progressed from childish thinking.

[Mr.Bill]

37. I had him pegged as someone who's development was arrested at 10 years old.

Last edited Sun Jul 19, 2020, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Mary Trump says I am wrong. She puts it at three years old. Damn.

[llmart]

47. +1

I thought it was arrested development around 10 years old also. Maybe I was being a bit too generous.

[LizBeth]

4. This is interesting, I had not even consider. But, that is not an hugely bad number. There are other

European countries worse. But then I was thinking if they tested more, they would come up with more covid cases, and then that number would be lower. But then thinking more, we do not include the exaggerated at home deaths and pneumonia deaths this year comparative to history so include those numbers and it would go back up. I concluded. .... Probably balances out.

[Mossfern]

14. Is that you

saying that, or Trump?

[LizBeth]

16. Is that you

being snarky? Or what?

[Mossfern]

22. Not being snarky at all.

Maybe I misunderstood?

[LizBeth]

28. I thought our mortality rates were higher and was surprised other European countries were worse.

I do not trust U.S. numbers. That had me considering that with more test in the U.S. compared to Germany that test many, or S Korea, U.S. would find many more cases of covid bringing that mortality number even lower.

Then I considered the number of exaggerated deaths in 2020 for at home deaths and pneumonia deaths that are clearly covid, not in the mortality count would then bring the number back up.

Then I concluded that would probably balance the number to about where the mortality number truly is at.

I was simply thinking this thru because I thought we had a higher mortality rate than what we have.

[ChubbyStar]

57. Lol that is hilarious

[ChubbyStar]

56. You did not get it wrong.

Check profiles.

[H2O Man]

6. Recommended.

Yikes!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. What does "Kayleigh's right here" mean? Is Trump saying that she is a guarantee that the US figure

is a low one? Or is he saying that he is blaming her for his claim?

[MoonRiver]

11. Lord knows!

[Arazi]

12. She was standing by to give him propaganda props

She walked over during the interview and gave him a sheet with a chart on it

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. A chart with a few sharpie marks on it, no doubt (nt)

[babylonsister]

13. She has a file filled with 'facts' at her disposal.

Also, I heard/read the wh staff are telling him whatever he wants to hear, facts be damned, so perhaps she told him this?

[2naSalit]

15. A binder full of fakeness. ...nt

[MontanaMama]

29. An alternate reality binder.

[2naSalit]

33. Wait...

I'm sure she's been coached by KellyAnn so I think it's probably a binder full of alternative facts!

[lunatica]

39. He's hedging his bets.

He always calculates and makes sure he has somebody to throw under the bus.

[Mr.Bill]

41. If she is his current brain and memory,

we're in more trouble than we thought.

[Demovictory9]

9. reading that made my head hurt

[LuckyCharms]

18. Damn! This scares me to no end.

[dalton99a]

21. The president decides what reality is.

[bringthePaine]

23. def reminds of the old adage about wrestling a pig...

deny D'umbp his venue; take questions via properly distanced sources from separate locations -
still a real-time concourse

[progressoid]

24. And to think we thought GWB was the worst.

[LymphocyteLover]

25. evil demented POS has to go

[usaf-vet]

27. One fat dumb a$$ being fed "fake fact" by one lying dumb bi**h and sycophant.

Sadly to an audience of cool aide drinking fools in funny red hats. That what America now calls great TV.

Please do not give the fat dumb a$$ any free air time so he can continue to spew his delusional bulls**t!

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Drump creates the fake news

Just like in Portland. Look ... the federal forces are unidentified, they won't say who the detainees are ... anyone would ask if the whole thing is cooked up ...it's fake news, isn't it? isn't the con man's government lying to us? Until this is ALL out in the open, it's a total fabrication. He is gaslighting the country so he can control the narrative and say the election is crooked. He's told us this all along ... for more than 4 years.

[lunatica]

40. He sure has.

Anyone still falling for the notion that his default knee jerk reactions entail anything other than telling lies is still his mark.

[orleans]

32. i woke up and checked out the local fox station

and saw this interview--and watched the entire thing like -- omg--
here's a link to the transcript fox has up if anyone wants to read it

i couldn't turn away.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump

[dustyscamp]

35. This is probably the last time Chris Wallace will have interviewing Trump

And he is probably feeling relieved about that

[smirkymonkey]

42. What is the point of interviewing him or confronting him on anything when he just blatantly lies

like this ALL THE TIME! He is never truthful about anything. I think they should stop covering him completely. Just don't give him any publicity at all.

[AlexSFCA]

43. the best mortality rate in the world (meaning #1? lol)

[Lock him up.]

48. Sometimes amid the ocean of lies, the TRUTH surfaces...

Not for long...

The mortality rate is important, but the overwhelming of ICUs is critical!

Nobody (in the Press) cares about that?

BRING JUSTICE BACK AGAIN
RICO TRUMPS & ACCOMPLICES (Rs)

[fierywoman]

49. "MAGA."

[iluvtennis]

44. How do you spell STOOPID.......nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

45. How can almost 40% of the population want a leader that lies to them?

Even if they convince themselves he's lying to be "positive" and "optimistic"?

I don't get it..

[KY_EnviroGuy]

52. According to this data source, we're No. 9 re mortality rate.

Link: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-million?tab=table

Note: Click on top of the column labeled "July 18, 2020" twice to force the list to order from worst to best.

Total confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 per million people

Country................Deaths per million
San Marino...................1,237.55
Belgium.........................845.59
Andorra.........................673.01
United Kingdom...............666.31
Italy.............................579.34
Sweden.........................556.38
France..........................461.93
Chile.............................436.64
United States..............420.74
Peru.............................388.18
Brazil............................366.25
Netherlands...................357.69
Ireland..........................354.81

........(continued, it forms a very long list)

Of course, this is all based on us believing the accuracy of basic data assembled using highly inconsistent methods and with extremes in degree of honesty in reporting via political entities. For example, I wouldn't trust Russia's number (84 deaths/million) as far as I could throw Putin with one hand.

Regardless, this is nothing for Trump to be bragging about and in fact is shameful for one of the most advanced nations in the world.

KY