Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat

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Source: daily beast





The president insisted on downplaying the coronavirus by comparing it to the seasonal flu, and Fox’s hosts and medical experts acted
more as sycophants than interlocutors.

Updated Mar. 24, 2020 4:42PM ET / Published Mar. 24, 2020 1:56PM ET


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“I watched Governor Cuomo and he was very nice,” the president said of the New York governor’s press conference, which preceded the Fox News town hall, before attacking Cuomo for “complaining” about receiving only 3,000 ventilators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency despite needing, in his estimation, at least 30,000 of the devices.

“He had a choice. He had a chance,” the president continued. “He refused to order 15,000 ventilators,” Trump said, pulling out a printout of an article from far-right blog The Gateway Pundit and paraphrasing the headline: “It says that he didn’t buy the ventilators in 2015 for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead.”

“I’m not blaming him or anything else,” Trump then pivoted, “but he shouldn’t be talking about us. He’s supposed to be buying his own ventilators. We are going to help.” He suggested Cuomo has not been grateful enough for the president’s help: “We are working very, very hard for the people of New York. We are working a lot with him. Then I watch him on this show complaining.”


Throughout the chat with Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Harris Faulkner, Trump repeatedly pivoted to an earlier talking point about the seasonal flu being just as bad or worse than COVID-19. Trump obsessively referenced the annual death count from influenza.

“We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t turn the country off. Every year. When I heard the number—you know, we averaged 37,000 people a year. Can you believe that?” the president grumbled at one point. “This year we are having a bad flu season.”
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[Girard442]

1. "You know, lots of ships bump into chunks of ice. We don't get all upset when that happens."

[DEbluedude]

4. LMAO!

[sakabatou]

11. Riight, everybody was "meh" when the Titanic sunk

Fuck this motherfucker!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Fox Snooze

The intellectual content of a pea.

[LittleGirl]

3. Criminal behavior! eom

[BarbD]

5. Jumping' jehoshaphat!

How is it possible that so many people are so very downright stupid?

It boggles the mind.

Thankfully there are more sane and logical minds in the world. We will prevail.

[EarthFirst]

6. #wheresfauci

That’s all I give a shit about...

[zentrum]

7. What an obscene stain he is.

[iluvtennis]

8. As Forrest Gump said, stupi is, as stupid does.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. OH. MY. GOD. He STILL DOESN'T GET IT???

I thought maybe he learned but hes reverting to this dangerous crap?

He has to go ASAP!!!! This attitude is so dangerous! God help us!!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

16. I think that he DOES get it

and he knows that his re-election bid in in the latrine, and for that he's furious that something is tanking him and he can't control it. Five of his 6 major properties have had to shut down because of the virus.

So, he's NOT going to get re-elected and now his profits are down. He's mighty pissed off.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. PLEASE let it be true....

and hopefully he doesn't kill too many of us before then

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Flu doesn't leave large numbers of people with long term lung damage, for one thing. . . . nt

[Dem2theMax]

12. I have never in my life wanted someone to have a stroke,

and keel over and die in about 10 seconds, the way I do with him. I never knew I could have this much anger inside me for one person.

[LuvNewcastle]

14. Same here.

I just thought I hated Reagan and the Bushes. I've told my best friends that if that motherfucker dies in office, we're all going to celebrate. After all he's done to minimize this crisis and pass blame onto others, he really deserves to get this virus and suffer with it. If there's such a thing as karma, then that is his destiny. Actually, he deserves much worse.

[LakeArenal]

13. Most of us would like to err on the safe side from death.

[captain jack]

15. Just replace "This" with Trump.

[radius777]

17. Flu has a 0.1% mortality rate,

while Covid19 has about a 3% mortality rate.

3% of 325million = 9.75 million people could die, many more very sick, especially since covid19 is more contagious than the flu.