WH Yanks Surgeon General From Airwaves After Official Comments On COVID-19 Race Disparity

[riversedge]

Source: TPM





April 21, 2020 8:42 a.m.


The White House has been scaling back U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ media appearances after he commented on the health disparity between white Americans and racial minorities with regards to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The surgeon general has been absent from President Donald Trump’s daily press briefings on the coronavirus pandemic since Friday April 10, during which he spoke on the higher number of COVID-19 cases in black and Hispanic communities compared to that of whites.

“This epidemic is a tragedy, but it will be all the more tragic if we fail to recognize and address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 and an array of other diseases and risk factors on communities of color,” Adams said, adding that the Trump administration was “determined not to let that happen.”
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-house-remove-surgeon-general-media-appearances-comment-race-disparity-coronavirus-outbreak

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Trump said he wants #trumpPressConferences to talk directly to the people (just like his tweets).
no truth to be let in.

Link to tweet

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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the White House on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
By Cristina Cabrera

[Iliyah]

1. The WH is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo. . . .

predictable.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. I would have also accepted 'racist'.

[zonkers]

2. And if the Atty General had any balls (sorry to go Rude Pundit) he would resign.

He is such a stiff.

[Laelth]

3. "No good deed goes unpunished."

Why does this administration insist on proving this aphorism true, time and again?



-Laelth

[Politicub]

4. Trump thinks the surgeon general became too uppity

Trump must have been directed by his white-wing base to shelve him.

[ananda]

9. He didn't "know his place" as a subservient token.

Or he just forgot.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Some people are saying (heard that before?)

that IQ45 wouldn't know the truth if it walked up and smacked him in the face.

Well, this proves that he DOES know the truth - and doesn't want anybody repeating it!

[IronLionZion]

7. I'd like to see the truth smacking him in the face

or anything smacking him in the face would be great.

[usaf-vet]

14. I'd rather see someone kick him in the balls (sorry to go Rude Pundit) that would shut him up.

[MyOwnPeace]

16. Don't kick too hard........

you're liable to hit Moscow Mitch, Little Mikey Pence, or Billy Barr in the face! (since we're going "Rude Pundit" here)

[usaf-vet]

17. A 4fer that works for me. Each one deserves at least that. Hopefully the future has more punishments

in order for the entire bunch.

[SayItLoud]

6. The wheels on the bus go round and round...

When are those who "work" for tRUMP going to realize that they either kiss his ass or get run over?

[forgotmylogin]

8. NPR was reporting on race disparity in cases today!

So his truthspeaking was not in vain.

[llashram]

11. hmmm

I wonder why?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/coronavirus-threatens-generation-of-black-americans

No surprises from this WH ever when it comes to it's racist superheating of this society's natural propensity toward it's racist cultural affinities

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Somehow I doubt Adams is disappointed by not having

to attend the marathon pressers. Didn't Adams work for Pence when Pence was governor of Indiana?

[Historic NY]

13. We haven't seen HHS SEc. Alex Azar in a while .

[SunSeeker]

15. He was being used as a fig leaf to try to cover Trump's racism. He lied too.

Hell, just in the paragraph quoted in the OP:

“This epidemic is a tragedy, but it will be all the more tragic if we fail to recognize and address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 and an array of other diseases and risk factors on communities of color,” Adams said, adding that the Trump administration was “determined not to let that happen.” 

Adams, better than anyone, should know the Trump Administration is making no effort to address Covid-19 racial disparities.

[greenjar_01]

18. Lesson for those who still think being "on the inside" is better

There's no amount of ass-kissing you can do that will get you past Stephen Miller's Nazi screening. If it doesn't pass the Nazi test, you will be marginalized and shitcanned. Better men than Jerome Adams have already learned this lesson.