The 55 most shocking lines from Chris Wallace's interview with Donald Trump

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/donald-trump-chris-wallace-coronavirus/index.html

(CNN)President Donald Trump sat for an interview that aired over the weekend with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, one of the most skilled -- and best -- interviewers in the news business. It did not go well for the President.

Wallace repeatedly fact-checked Trump's falsehoods in real time -- although it didn't stop Trump from insisting he was right. (He was not right.) It was one of the best (and most revealing) interviews of Trump since he began running for office way back in the summer of 2015. I went through it and picked out the lines you need to see.

1. "If we didn't test, you wouldn't be able to show that chart. If we tested half as much, those numbers would be down."

The chart Wallace showed was how coronavirus cases have surged. Also, testing doesn't create cases. It identifies them! And away we go!

2. "I say flames, we'll put out the flames. And we'll put out in some cases just burning embers. We also have burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame like, but it's -- it's going to be under control."

*snip*

For fuck's sakes..... It was only 20 minutes.

[ellie]

1. Just a bunch of

incoherent babble.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Isn't it amazing............

to see what actually falls out of BunkerBoy's mouth when it is put into print?

[Permanut]

3. Oh, give him a break..

He was right about one thing - in about 5 billion years, when the sun blows up, the virus will disappear.

"I'll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, 'It's going to disappear.' I'll say it again."

[Baked Potato]

4. "burning embers" is bible code. Trump just forgot how to phrase it.

[Nay]

5. Please explain. Some of us are not Christians. Thx. nt

[Baked Potato]

6. There are many references to "burning embers"

in biblical passages. They, like the rest of the Bible, can be interpreted many ways. Trump can be referring to “good” embers or “bad” embers. He is evoking thoughts of fire and energy just waiting to explode, whatever side one is on. I assume there are many biblical passages and words he has been encouraged by Evangelicals to use, and like everything else, he screws it up. I think he wants people to look at him as if he is a forever burning ember of goodness just waiting for believers to use as they wish. And then sometimes the ember is used as a prop of his to evoke evilness.