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In reply to the discussion: If the clown knew this was a pandemic before anyone else then why [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)14. Progression
First their position was "just 15 cases. In a few days it will be 2 or 3 and then it will magically disappear".
That switched to "We did all we needed to do, banned Chinese flights."
Then it was "just an ordinary flu, 10 dead versus 20,000 flu deaths".
A little later it was "just 10 dead besides all those in the nursing homes in Washington state".
That became a Public Relations exercise to tweet it away and stage photo ops where he could self-congratulate and pretend to be doing something while denying it was a problem.
Then the "It's Democrat{ic} Media hoax panic to crash the markets to get rid of Trump because impeachment failed" ploy.
Then it was named with a racist origin name (by naming after the originating area) or the "foreign flu" as if being from out of the country made it impotent.
Then it was "I know! We can break SSI and Medicare by defunding via a payroll tax holiday."
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because that's what limbaugh has been saying, like global warming. and they were going to use ebola
certainot
Mar 2020
#34
He only says what he wants to hear, because he thinks he's the only one who matters
Siwsan
Mar 2020
#5
I enjoyed it because I knew his answer would be narcissistic and obviously wrong.
Shrike47
Mar 2020
#36
Trump doesn't really govern, he just runs a corporate PR plan to make it appear he's governing
bucolic_frolic
Mar 2020
#21
Maybe it's because he lies all the time. Trump NEVER provides proof of any of his declarations.
Eyeball_Kid
Mar 2020
#33