Pic Of The Moment: And Republicans Call This "Straight Talk"

[EarlG]

Trump admitted he deliberately played down coronavirus threat

'I up-played it': Donald Trump disputes own admission he downplayed Covid pandemic

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[brush]

1. Tsk,tsk, tsk! He's so confused. He's so unfit.

[appalachiablue]

2. 'Up-played' ? WTH

[bamagal62]

3. Is up-played a word????

[appalachiablue]

4. salad words of the deranged

[niyad]

9. Welllll. If up-sell is recognized as a word. . .

[Harker]

10. I'll uplook it in my OED. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

13. it's in the same dictionary as "bigly"

from the 2016 debates

[Shermann]

23. You can't lie using made-up words! nt

[AZ8theist]

16. The musings of an IMBECILE

[BootinUp]

20. +1 lol

[AZ8theist]

21. Can't take credit.....

I LOVE the phrase, but first heard it from Steve Schmidt

[FM123]

5. Straight talk? Hardly.

Does this tv guy not remember that everything he says is on video (or audio) tape for the whole world to see/hear?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. That doesn't matter to his cult. And so doesn't it matter at all.

They shield him from all negative consequences.

[Gothmog]

6. K&R

[PatSeg]

7. "I still like playing it down"

As usual, I found that an odd choice of words. "Like" playing it down, not I choose to play it down. The use of the word "like" in that context sounds rather perverse and ego-maniacal.

Obviously, it is a reflection of the kind of leader and person Trump is. He does things because he likes or wants to do them, not because as president he should do them or it is the reasonable, right thing to do. His use of his very limited vocabulary is often bizarre, but also very revealing.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. One of many examples of his words exposing his deep character flaws.

But only to those smart enough and not too brainwashed to see it.

[PatSeg]

27. So often his odd use of very ordinary words

just jumps out at me. The worst one is the word "beautiful" and I have to wonder if he even knows what the word means.

"We won World Wars out of these fort bases. I’m not going to go changing them… We won two World Wars, two World Wars – beautiful World Wars – that were vicious and horrible."

"[They’re] running into death just like soldiers running into bullets… it’s incredible to see. It’s a beautiful thing to see." (Comparing doctors and nurses on the coronavirus frontlines to soldiers running into bullets.)

"You have a red button in the plane and the pilot has a huge problem in the back… He presses a button and sleeping gas comes out the entire back of the plane goes to sleep. It's a beautiful sleeping gas – it puts people to sleep."

"One of the things that we will discuss is the purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment because nobody makes it like the United States."

"We should immediately stop sending our beautiful American tax dollars to countries that hate us and laugh at our President’s stupidity!"

And of course, there's always his classic "beautiful clean coal."

Who talks like that?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

28. Good examples with "beautiful," but I tend to see it more

as a general laziness with language (among other ways he's lazy.) He's not going to bother learning to use more precise words to improve the clarity of his communication, and certainly not for any sort of interest in the aesthetics of language.

Though it seems he'll often put some effort into his word choice for the purpose obfuscation.

[PatSeg]

29. Oh yes

He is very lazy, using the same tired adjectives over and over again. For someone who talks as much as Trump does, that is a lot of "great", "tremendous", "disgraceful", and "fake". I don't think he needed a very diverse vocabulary in the business world. He was probably using the scripts over and over again.

I know what you mean about using a better choice of words when he is obfuscating, though he may have consulted one of his speechwriters first. Occasionally, I can tell when a word is totally new to him, as he is noticeably uncomfortable saying it.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. Agreed. For those and countless others reasons

everyone in our house hits Mute any time there's any chance not doing so would mean hearing that dolt speak.

[PatSeg]

31. Wise thing to do

Its not like he's going to say anything you haven't heard before.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. This is a prime example of why I think VP Biden debating rump is a bad idea.

rump has the potential for every single thing out of his mouth being a lie or counter to reality - that's not easy
to refute and explain via facts in a debate setting with moderators who aren't fact-checking.

[SergeStorms]

11. Don't believe your lying ears and eyes....

believe THE LEADER! He'll tell you what he wants you to believe, and when he wants you to believe it. Now, carry on, citizen.

[Submariner]

12. Typical Mass Murderer flip-flop

Trump Flip Flop = LIE

[pandr32]

18. We need to use 'mass murderer' constantly

[tclambert]

14. Trump says what he wishes were true and never cares what is actually true.

He's a BS'er through and through. He hopes his listeners will just accept the last thing he said without giving it any thought.

A lot of times he interrupts himself or just leaves a statement incomplete, leaving the listener fill in the blanks. Then they fill in those blanks with what they wish he had said. And naturally they agree with this imaginary statement.

[Roc2020]

15. This man became President. Still is President

and forever will share the same job title as Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Just surreal.

[AZ8theist]

17. It's not surreal. It's fucking VILE.

Think of how different the world would be if someone assassinated Hitler in 1933.

[llmart]

19. Straight talk????

More like "straight jacket" talk.

[yuiyoshida]

22. TRUMP (pointing at a MIRROR) "dON'T LISTEN TO THAT GUY! He's a LIAR!"

Mirror Trump: " What HE SAID..."

[lagomorph777]

24. There's yer next Biden ad. That audio, with titles, over footage of trailers full of body bags.