Trump Blames 'Blue States' for Virus Deaths

[brooklynite]

Source: Political Wire

President Trump blamed “blue states” for increasing the nation’s death from coronavirus, suggesting that if “you take the blue states out” of the equation the United States would be far more competitive with other countries, USA Today reports.

Said Trump: “If you take the blue states out, we’re at at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level but some of the states — they were blue states, and blue-state management.”

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/16/trump-blames-blue-states-for-virus-deaths/

[Ohiogal]

1. Fuck him!

[dchill]

2. If you take the blue states out,...

...you have no economy at all.

Besides, how are you going to "take them out?"

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Remember when Hillary said deplorables

And they made a big deal about her dismissing fellow Americans.....

[Nexus2]

21. They're still pissed about it.

While dismissing 'libtards' etc.

[napi21]

4. I grew up in a blue State. If we could delete all the red States wed have a heck of a lot

better Country! Now, to figure out how to do that!!!

[Maeve]

5. Yeah, all those states with larger populations instead of empty land mass....

[DallasNE]

6. Texas, Arizona, Georgia And Florida Are Now Blue States?

I'll take that as a result.

[Lonestarblue]

16. I can only hope!

I keep waiting doe Texas to turn blue because it will be an awesome thing!

[IronLionZion]

34. If those states have fewer Trump supporters in November

[brewens]

7. He should be according to his logic. It was in the blue states first wasn't it?

So like with China, New York, Washington and California let it in to the red states. Or something like that. What if the secretly got the virus from China and intentionally let it out? I'm half surprised the Quackpots aren't already on that one.

[Rebl2]

9. Don't

give them ideas

[Initech]

8. What a fucking asshole!!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

10. If we take the red & blue states out of the equation...

Trump solved the crisis!
Zero cases overnight.

[subterranean]

11. Every country's numbers look better if you just ignore the hotspots.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Shit for brains. nt.

[Stuart G]

36. The American Assoiciation of Manure, Shit,& Bowels (which I am a member) begs to differ with you.

...While you may not seem that this is important, our association in no way, shape or form desires to
be associated with Donald Trump. Some other sentence needs to be used to identify Mr. Trump's
total stupidity. & if you believe this then you have no brains either...

.... .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .....

[BlueIdaho]

39. 😂😂😂

Well done you!

[progree]

13. Well dammit, the article says no more. Has this been fact-checked? It was certainly true in

the first 2-3 months (New York is the big port of entry for international travelers, and New Jersey as a bordering neighbor), but since then it's been southern states and the plain states (which are all red) as far as highest daily averages per capita.

And what matters is per capita as far as where you want to be as far as riskiness.

I suppose one can go here and maybe paste it to a spreadsheet...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Where the new cases are highest is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Top 20 states in per-capita new cases 7 day moving average are all Trump states.

[patphil]

14. Take Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona out and you have about 40,000 less deaths.

Sure New York and New Jersey have more that 49,000 deaths, but the overwhelming majority of those deaths occurred in the first 3 months. Since then it has been a national catastrophe.
Almost all those deaths in the 4 southern states mentioned above happened after the initial disaster on the east coast. And it's now everywhere.
Doesn't this shithead president realize that there are 32 states with over 1000 deaths?
It's not a red state/blue state thing, it's a nationwide thing.

This is a national catastrophe that Trump deliberately created by his denial and inaction.

On March 13th, Trump said, "I don't take responsibility at all."

And yet, he is most definitely responsible.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Show us the numbers, Donald.

Show us the numbers, Donald.

As if he would...

[beachbumbob]

17. takeaway 60% of the population sure, and that proves what?

[Beacool]

18. May he rot in hell when he finally does the world a favor and dies.

He's the most despicable POS to ever occupy the WH in my lifetime. I can't find one single reedemabe quality about him.

[Nitram]

19. That was Trump's Plan A. Densely urbanized blues state cities took the first big hit from

the pandemic, and he thought, "I'll just let it go and Dems will take the blame." And then it began to hit red states, and rural areas. But he is a one-trick pony. Like all Republican pols. Cut taxes! What about the emails? Benghazi! It's the blue states!

[ramapo]

20. Asshole

Simply an awful cesspool of a psuedo-human

[Cha]

22. And, Water is WET!

[Baclava]

23. He says anything he wants because its not a debate, its smashing a shovel in your opponents face

Dont waste your time with counter arguments. While everyone is trying to argue what kind of shovel it was, its merits and if it was used properly he just dumps it for a new one tomorrow and takes another swing.

He don't care, words and thoughts are just handy weapons to him, disposable, knowing by the time the opponent's response is up he's finding a new shovel.

[SunSeeker]

24. OFFS. The red states are on fire with Covid-19.

Red states just have a LOT less people, so their total numbers are lower...for now.

[SergeStorms]

28. a LOT less people....

and a LOT less education, and a LOT less factual information etc.

[SunSeeker]

35. Yes, it's pathetic. nt

[chriscan64]

25. Translation:

"I'm a bad president, but if you ignore some of the bad stuff I've done, I'm not so bad."

[Bengus81]

26. Guess Trump's ignoring all that "divisive" talk as fake news eh???

Take all the blue States "out"?? There is NO red or blue State except in the ridiculously outdated nonsense called the Electoral College.

Since IQ 45 wants to ignore population then Hawaii has had only 100 deaths, Texas over 14,000.

[marble falls]

27. If you take the "Blue States" of Texas, Florida and Ohio out of the mix we'd look a lot better ...

What? They're not Blue States?

He's a divider and not a uniter. Can he ever say a factual thing???

[packman]

29. Moran of the First Order with cluster Fucks Leaves

Now we're responsible for the virus? Now we're the cesspool (Or is it shitty states?) of the U.S.A.

[BlueWavePsych]

30. Herd Mentality

More toons here ... https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214085886

[RobinA]

31. So Educate Me

The top 10 states ranked by COVID infections per million are:

Louisiana
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama
Arizona
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
New York
Texas

Are a lot of them blue states now???

[moose65]

32. Geez. He is a moron

Doesn't he understand that he is the president of the entire country??

Can you imagine the outrage if Obama or Hillary had said something negative about Mississippi or Utah?? The right wing would have lost its collective shit (which they do all the time in their perpetual outraged world).

Just makes me SO angry when I hear him dismiss those awful Blue States.

[onetexan]

33. i saw a clip of this pathetic display of ignorance and partiality. Just deplorable!

[andym]

37. Someone should ask him about the purple states

are they partly responsible too? You know the ones that he needs to get re-elected? What do you think he would say?

[pat_k]

38. Why not just "take out" all the "blue" cities?

That would really push the numbers down.

Of cities over 250,000

52 Liberal
8 Neutral
10 Conservative

Write off all the liberal, lean liberal, or neutral cities, and here is what you're left with:

Mesa, NA
Oklahoma, OK
Virginia Beach, VA
Colorado Springs, CO
Jacksonville, FL
Arlington, TX
Anaheim, CA
Omaha, NE
Tulsa, AZ
Aurora, CO

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/9/5983959/the-most-liberal-and-conservative-big-cities-in-america-in-one-chart