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catbyte

(34,333 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:37 PM Jul 2020

'This F*cking Shit Again'--Trump Haunts His Team With Diversions to Demon Sperm

and Obsessions With Fauci

The president wanted to flood the zone with press conferences again. But the early discipline is fading.

Asawin Suebsaeng
White House Reporter

Erin Banco
National Security Reporter

Updated Jul. 30, 2020 9:55AM ET

It’d been three months since Donald Trump had given his staff a break. For weeks, some of his top advisers had repeatedly warned him that his madcap performances at the White House’s coronavirus press briefings were tanking his poll numbers and helping Joe Biden, until finally the president decided to stop doing them. Senior administration officials and task-force members were elated—their infamously stubborn boss had actually taken their advice.

But in the months following the cessation of those pressers, Trump’s numbers—nationally and in critical swing states—have kept falling. And according to two sources who’d spoken to the president this month, he began insisting that it was time to start going with his gut, again.

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“When he started doing them again [starting last week], my thought was, ‘Oh, great, this fucking shit again,’” said a senior administration official who works closely with the White House coronavirus task force. “And now we’re all talking about demon ejaculation.”

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Reached for comment on Wednesday evening, White House spokeswoman *Sarah Matthews emailed, “The president is his own best communicator and his highly rated briefings give him the opportunity to speak directly to the American people about the federal government’s unprecedented coronavirus response that has saved millions of lives.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-haunts-his-team-with-diversions-to-demon-sperm-and-obsessions-with-fauci
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*Give me a goddamned break.
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dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. Trumpers-- and Trump-- really are incapable of rational thinking-
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:46 PM
Jul 2020

(Gohmert - "I probably got the disease from the mask.&quot

Trump thinks it's because he stopped the "Briefings" that his ratings are going down... because he doesn't even notice that Covid cases have doubled in about a month. In his mind, none of that matters.

His supporters are just as irrational. I saw one (running for John Lewis's seat!) who said that the only prominent people dying of it are Republicans. (That of course isn't even true.) And that means.... what? That the doctors and nurses are saving all the Democrats and letting GOPers die? That there is no Covid and this is just a big secret plot to get Republicans into the hospital where they can be murdered?

It makes me think that maybe Q is the actual leader here-- as even Trump is now believing Q. (All the Q people are crowing that Trump tweeting an endorsement of a pizza parlor is actually a sign that they are supposed to now get ready for... something something pizzagate lock her up.)

underpants

(182,603 posts)
8. I was wondering about the pizza endorsement this morning
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 02:06 PM
Jul 2020

aaand it turned out in a vastly different turd universe than I could have possibly imagined.

So he about to drop the pizza gate hammer huh? According to the bakers.

SergeStorms

(19,186 posts)
10. Didn't the 'Q' doorknobs...
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 02:50 PM
Jul 2020

think that Trump was 'Q' awhile ago? I thought I remembered reading that someplace.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
11. "That the doctors and nurses are saving all the Democrats and letting GOPers die?"
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 03:52 PM
Jul 2020

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Doodley

(9,036 posts)
4. "Unprecedented coronavirus response that has saved millions of lives." So, the death toll would be
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:54 PM
Jul 2020

in the millions without Trump? So, Brazil has 90k deaths (second highest), China 4.6k, Germany 9.2k, but USA would have millions? That needs to be explained. There's just over half a million deaths worldwide outside USA, so how could Trump have possibly saved millions of lives?

underpants

(182,603 posts)
7. That's based on one prediction if absolutely nothing was done
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 02:04 PM
Jul 2020

No masks no distancing no wipes no hand sanitizers no staying home. If NOTHING was done. A guy in England made the prediction/calculation and was immediately attacked by the outlying RW media. Now suddenly it was like the word of god and Trump stopped it from happening by...uh....

underpants

(182,603 posts)
6. hydroxychloroquine did not come up once. Neither did the issue of demon sperm.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 02:01 PM
Jul 2020

Last line of the article

Beartracks

(12,797 posts)
12. They have a weird preoccupation with "ratings."
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 04:40 PM
Jul 2020

And the federal government's coronavirus response has certainly been unprecedented.

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