Trump Claims His 'Talent' Or 'Luck' Saved Lives As COVID-19 Death Toll Approaches 60K

[riversedge]

Source: TPM




April 28, 2020 1:33 p.m.


President Donald Trump patted himself on the back on Tuesday afternoon for his response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., even as the death toll continues to climb.

When a reporter asked Trump during an appearance in the Oval Office if the intelligence community had warned him about COVID-19 in January, the President said he “would have to check,” then pivoted to his travel ban on China.

“When I did the ban on China, almost everybody was against me, including Republicans,” Trump said, pointing out that the ban was “very early.”

“Whether it was luck, talent, or something else, we saved many thousands of lives,” he added.

COVID-19 has caused approximately 56,700 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon, according to data from John Hopkins University.

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No doubt this will be one of trumps main mantra's until nov 3!!

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[Orrex]

1. Is it too much to ask to be able to read his obituary?

Nothing violent. Just an eye-popping stroke or a chest-bursting MI.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Nope, I'll even donate toilet paper

just to make sure there's not even a trace of his stain left.

[The Magistrate]

11. An Old Joke From The Stalin Era, Sir

A old man who always read the newspapers front to back and then again, tapers off and finally stops altogether, except for a glance at the front page. His wife is a bit worried, they've been married a long time, and at that age a change of habits is troubling. So she asks him why all he does now is look at the front page. He says, I'm just looking for an obituary. She say they don't put obituaries on the front page. He says, they will this one....

[Corgigal]

2. Holy shit..

Now I have to slow down my breathing.

God, I hate this asshole.

Need some music, to take out the damage the Fat ass does to my cn system.

Anyone, who lost someone, I’m sorry.

[PatSeg]

17. I know how you feel

After all this time, I haven't grown immune to his cruel idiocy. If anything, it is getting worse. I have a physical reaction whenever he speaks, but I don't want to ever get used to it. I don't want it to ever seem normal.

[captain queeg]

3. I'll go with "something else" certainly not lucky or talented to have tens of thousands die because

Of him. And of course it’s all about him. He’s lucky he still has a job and is not behind bars. He is a semi talented con man.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. At this point, he's lucky to be alive.

[unblock]

6. Hmm why are there fewer deaths in every "sh*thole" country then?

33% of all cases and 27% of all deaths with just over 4% of world population.

That kind of luck is call "bad".

[niyad]

7. donnie, you are a fucking MURDERER. Your insane ineptitude and oversized ego KILL people.

I truly hope you contract a fatal case of this plague that you have allowed to cause so much harm.

[rickyhall]

8. He's lucky democrats abhor violence or he'd be dead.

[underpants]

9. This is very Un-like Trump. "luck"????

This shows he knows how bad it is. He’s trying to go against his nature and relate to people.

[niyad]

10. Hey, MURDERER. Yeah, you, you f'n psychopath. Travel ban?? 800,000 people left Wuhan in

December. You have no idea where they went (although the computer algorithm does. What about the 40,000 who came in with the sieve-like ban????

I pray that you, and all your enablers, and your orange kool-ade guzzling covidiots experience the pain and misery that you all have caused, are causing, and will, alas, continue to cause until you are voted out.

[DallasNE]

12. Two Points

How many people did he actually ban since it only applied to Chinese nationals. 40,000 people from China entered this country after the ban was put in place.

The data says that most of the CV-19 people came here from Europe. He eventually did a ban there too of foreign nationals but expempt places like the UK. The swiss cheese bans were obviously not effective. And now 1/3 of all cases are here in America.

And we still lag far behind in testing. Plus we end up with a dog breeder running the show.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Billions of lives

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03N0ekdWwzMjnr2kW8tmFMGW7tN8w%3A1588120926294&source=hp&ei=Xs2oXtryDq6sytMP9bW10AQ&q=trump+saved+billions+of+lives&oq=trump+saved+billions+of+lives&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoFCAAQgwE6AggAOgQIIxAnOgQIABAKUPFVWIyGAWDyjAFoAXAAeACAAbsBiAHiEpIBBDIzLjaYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjama29s4zpAhUulnIEHfVaDUoQ4dUDCAg&uact=5

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. If that's his good luck I hope nobody gets visited by his bad luck. But of course he is nuts

He's still fighting a PR war that he thinks he can win.

He thinks we are on the downslope of the curve, so open up and damn the torpedoes.

Science knows the virus doesn't care about tweets or stock markets.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Chhyna ban was leaky & Europe was not banned for the 5 lost weeks. tRump couldn't imagine white

tRump couldn't imagine white people being a problem. So New York and other places got infected from Italy, Spain and the UK.

He is so stupid.

[ArizonaLib]

16. He never talked about how many lives Hillary saved

He's about 60,000 deaths behind her on this one.

[patphil]

18. Yeah, Trump does have talent and luck.

He has a talent for fucking up everything he is involved in, and the luck to be able to walk away from his messes unscathed.

Why he is only 10 points behind Biden in the polls must be a function of how incredibly lucky he is...lucky that there are so many mindless idiots in this country...lucky that there are so many mean spirited, angry, hateful, violent people in this country...lucky that there are so many people out there who prefer faith to facts...lucky that he has hundreds of Republicans in the House and Senate who prefer to protect their jobs than protect their nation...lucky that there are so many Americans who have a callous disregard for so many other Americans.

But then I have to ask, is this luck, or is this country just incredibly fucked up?

[Warpy]

19. His snotty and short sighted refusal of test kits from Germany

while the CDC was sending out their kits with the wrong reagent has cost a lot of lives because the disease was able to spread swiftly and silently for nearly three weeks, while he and his claque all said it was a hoax the Democrats dreamed up to make him look bad.

Uh, no, President Cupcake, you did that one all by yourself. Good luck on finding adequate deodorant for the US having a third of the world's cases right now. This is a 'Murka first" statistic we would do better without.

[EndlessWire]

20. Nothing he says

will erase the stain of his administration and the theft of PPEs bought by civilians when he specifically told the states to fend for themselves. He's a robber, and his whole grifting crime family is despicable.

He's no effing hero. He gave our PPEs to China (and, I'm not saying that humanitarian efforts weren't warranted, just that this was done.) Then, our people desperately started making their own masks--but, not N95 masks, which he could have ordered to be manufactured and handed out. Now, he is stealing masks from front line hospital workers who need them to care for the sick. Why? To stockpile them. For who??

He sent 170+ broken ventilators to California. He's no hero. He's promoting a drug he apparently has interests in as a cure. Again, not a hero. He has threatened to cut states off funding in order to muscle them into compliance or punish them for being Blue.

He's a rat bastard whose only aim is to win the election and destroy our country. He's scraping off as much money as he can from our bones, while you and I are forced to wonder where our next meal is coming from. Fuck the Trump Crime Family and all their buddies.

[TheFourthMind]

21. Trump claims it could be worse, while it gets worse. Talent and luck don't know Trump. n/t

[Progressive Jones]

22. He has the greatest luck ! Like like nobody's ever seen !!! nt