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Remenber this jackassery? (Original Post) 634-5789 Dec 2021 OP
How to medical Celerity Dec 2021 #1
Yup, and some more jackassery gratuitous Dec 2021 #2
When the village idiot ran the village. Sneederbunk Dec 2021 #3
You have to watch the whole press conference to see what a dumbshit he is. Ray Bruns Dec 2021 #4

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Yup, and some more jackassery
Wed Dec 22, 2021, 03:10 PM
Dec 2021

The former guy figured that if nobody was getting tested for Covid, infection numbers and rates couldn't be updated, and he wouldn't look so bad. So he told one of his interminable rally audiences that he told the CDC to "slow the testing down, please." When that went over like a lead balloon, his minions came out to say that he was just joking. But he wasn't:

Link to CNN story here.

Trump now says he wasn't kidding when he told officials to slow down coronavirus testing, contradicting staff
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN

Updated 10:50 AM ET, Tue June 23, 2020

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump now says that he was not kidding when he told rallygoers over the weekend that he asked staff to slow down coronavirus testing, undercutting senior members of his own administration who said the comment was made in jest.

"I don't kid, let me just tell you, let me make it clear," Trump told a reporter on Monday, when asked again if he was kidding when he said Saturday he instructed his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.


Ray Bruns

(4,111 posts)
4. You have to watch the whole press conference to see what a dumbshit he is.
Wed Dec 22, 2021, 03:23 PM
Dec 2021

He is responding to the comments earlier of disinfecting surfaces with bleach and UV light.

Of course, Donny Dumbshit either wasn't listening or he didn't understand the previous speaker's comments.

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