to be watching with my jaw dropped as Trump goes into full meltdown at his press briefing?

[sadpapercourtesan]

Is anyone else watching this?! He is literally ranting like a man possessed, I've never seen anything like it. He's declared war on the media (I know we're used to him lashing out at journalists but this is on another level)

I'm watching it on CNN and they have breaking news straplines like "Trump uses task force briefing to rewrite history on coronavirus response", "Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session" and "Angry Trump uses propaganda video, produced by government employees at taxpayers' expense"

He has just said, verbatim: "When somebody is President of the United States, that authority is total"

I thought our daily briefings were bullshit

The female reporter was told "enough!"
He spent more time at his own rallys and playing golf than helping get on top of coronavirus during February.
He continues to state that the USA is top of the world on testing per capita but is in fact 42nd
He has more ppe and ventilators than needed but hospitals are crying out for them.
He brought the hospital ship round from Virginia but the governor had to apply to DT to change it's use for covid patients after thousands had died and were being fork lifted into fridge trailers.
Four countries have stopped trials on his wonder drug due to heart and sight problems in the testing pool.
He threatened India with kickback for not releasing drugs a few days after they lifted their ban anyway and he called out 3m for sending stuff to other countries and not putting america first..hypocrisy.
A Russian military plane was video recorded offloading equipment in USA...they are under trade sanction.
He made states bid against one another for ventilators from suppliers rather than one organisation such as FEMA doing the sale and then passing on the deliveries to the states in the quantities requested and at the group price.
He dies not know the difference between a generator and a ventilator
He slags off a tv station for using the same words as he did (it's just the flu) in the press briefing
He threatens WHO with no payment, then says he is considering it after being reminded that it is probably not a good idea to do that during a global pandemic.and....he owes $99m in unpaid bills from previous years.
He will not take responsibility for anything
He cannot actually finish a sentence
He ad libs so badly that he can only use tremendous and great on every subject
He hates being asked to clarify anything
When asked to say something to reassure the American public he verbally attacked the requestor
He crowds his people behind him and criticises the press for not social distancing.
His cronies refused to postpone a key vote or allow it to convert to postal and then reduced the number of polling stations from 180 to 5 during lockdown. He used a postal vote himself and then stated they are corrupt and open to fraud when the facts say fraud was about 3% amongst postal votes.
The man is a narcissist, and a very unstable non genius!

think the fact that Americans would rather have ANYONE rather than a woman as president is pretty obvious from the fact that only one woman has ever made it as her party's candidate and she then lost

She was deeply unpopular and was broadly disliked since her First Lady days. I blame the DNC for supporting her candidacy; they must have known how unpopular she was — after all she lost to Barack Obama when he was a iirc a freshman senator.

Oh and he sent the best drugs and medical support to boris but when asked what sort of support he could not answer but the drugs were great and tremendous.

Rosspoldarkssaddle
And he was not put his businesses into a blind trust like every other President before him. Ditto - won't release his tax returns.

Nekoness
Do agree with Jon Sopel's analysis of yesterday's press briefing. Yes, it was lengthy but no good comes out of it, because he can't cope with the questions. And do we really want a POTUS/Leader of the Free World who needs to be loved? Someone who is a narcissist and has such a paper thin ego, the only way he can cope is to shout slurs at anyone and everyone.
Sleepy Eyes Joe, Pocahontas, Crazy Bernie, Pencil neck Schiff, mini Mike, Fat Jerry, Crazy Nancy, and so on...
Interesting that his cult followers continually berate people to show respect to the POTUS, all while the POTUS does completely the opposite to others.

He demeans the office he holds

It's fascinating how many people are shocked by yesterday's press conference. He's like that every single day, it was a perfectly normal day at the office for him. He'll be even worse today because of the criticism as a result of yesterday's 'performance'.

It would have been satisfying to have seen a Cuomo v The Great Orange One' election race. Shame it's not happening.

He just wants to be loved.
He wants people to say nice things about him
He wants people to agree with him or else he will interrupt them
He has 'tunnel' vision on something and can't think outside of this if evidence goes against it.
He wants to give people hope, even if it's false hope.

He must be a nightmare to work for

Rosspoldarkssaddle Many of those things you are condeming him for he does not have the power to do it. Yes the states had to bid on the vents. The Federal Government (Not Trump) owns those vents. Trump has to protect those interests and he has to ask permission to do things. He does not have the power that people thinks he does. He is there to represent our country to the outside world. He can order the military because he is Our Commander in Chief. Thats his main purpose. He cannot interfere with the States. By law in our constitution it clearly states that. For the States to receive help they have to apply to the Federal Goverment. They have to declare a State of Emergency first and foremost. Then the President who is being briefed has to declare it a Federal Emergency and thats when the money and supplies start rolling out. But it doesn't come free. That help is usually offered through grants and loans and many of those are offered direct to the people. The Federal Government had bought those for a reason. They were already bought and paid for so the Federal Government can ise them for their needs. Mainly an antiquated and failing VA hospital System and use by the DOD in military hospitals world wide. Trump was going to have to ask the VA and DOD for permission to distribute these items. The world including Donald Trump needs to realize he only has so many powers he can do unilaterally. He can bomb another country but he can't interfere with the States Reserved Powers. Thats not his fault

@Leaannb so just one of those things I mentioned then....equipment. so why does he not make that clear instead of bigging up his very important role as president? It just makes people dislike him more.

So when Cuomo said he was having to compete against other states and FEMA to try to buy ventilators, he got that wrong did he? They were trying to buy from suppliers by the way, not the government.

Trump played all the media yesterday like a fiddle and again they fell for it. By declaring that he alone can reopen the USA, all the media talk points today will be about States rights and how only Governors can reopen States, directly showing as disingenuous all the cries from the Media of "Why didn't Trump do more!!". Same tactic used in 2016 where the media gave him so much free airtime he only spent $398 million vs Clinton's $768 million. The video is not meant for his detractors but to speak directly to his electorate, especially the Bernie Bros who are extremely upset right now that Biden is the nominee, they equally hate the media (hardly any media reporting on the credible sexual assault allegations by Tara Reade against Biden). I am not sure who us going to destroy Biden more the Trumpers or the Bernie Bros but this election cycle will be a doozy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JnVCUTXnY

I’ve wasted half my morning reading all the reports and oped pieces. One of my favourite lines was in The Guardian. “Even Fox News turned it off in the end”

Each time he makes a speech I think "how the fuck is anyone still supporting this" then his approval ratings go up. I can't work it out - is it the emperors new clothes where everyone who supports him in the USA is simply brainwashed?

@Rosspoldarkssaddle because he is a fucking loon and judging by his behavior yesterday the Loon actually believes he has this power. He actually believes he has these complete powers over the States. This is the best thing that could have come from this and at the most perfect time.

He’s a nut job but that’s nothing new
Hopefully people will see through the propaganda and see that his poor management of this situation has led to needless deaths and that’ll be the end of his presidency

Interesting take on it Belle. It can't be called Trump playing the media. He lost his temper. And he is widely rounded on all over the world for how he acted yesterday. Even Piers Morgan who used to be his best friend

Here is what India are saying about him...
[https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1250084648367120386]]

@Bellehathor......His behavior was so bad yesterday Bernie Sanders has decided to endorse Biden and urges all of his supporters to do the same

@FudgeBrownie2019......Money. its all coming down to money. He is riding the waves of the Stimulus Package being passed. He is riding another wave of maxed out Food Stamp benefits nationwide. And here comes the wave of Federal Unemployment being maxed out nationwide. He got money into the people's hands. Your country has to wait until May/June for economic relief. Millions of Americans are waking up to thousands of dollars being direct deposited into their accounts every day

Let me try again
twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1250084648367120386

I thought Americans got a measly $1,200 and that was it? One off, not ongoing.

Don't imagine he is riding a wave on that...
What are the 'thousands of dollars' being deposited into their accounts every day?

Millions of Americans are waking up to thousands of dollars being direct deposited into their accounts every day

Indeed. He is out-lefting the left at the moment. And the democrats have bloody Joe Biden who is declining in front of our eyes!

From what I can see Bernie’s hardcore supporters are deeply unhappy with Bernie supporting Biden. A lot of them seem to see the whole thing as a DNC stitch-up. And I don’t think they are going to easily change their vote over to Biden.

I agree with whoever said that it’s going to be a doozy of an election.

leannb Bernie endorsed Biden before Trump's performance last night, I was watching news reports about it before the Covid19 briefing.
Trump's demeanour may not appeal to middle class sensibilities but it appeals to his voters. I've said before that he has that New York "don't mess with me" demeanour, that scrappy if you mess with me I'm going to fight back and that's what appeals to some people. Look at him , he won't take their bull, he fights back, he'll fight for me and our country. There will have been a lot of people first pumping for him last night and until the Democrats understand that they'll never win.

nypost.com/2020/04/11/trumps-most-devastating-weapon-will-be-bernie-bros-insiders/

It would be funny if it’s wasn’t such a serious situation

If somebody had made a comic movie, in which a fake-tanned, tiny-handed, sex pest with the vocab of a 10-year old, and a mental age of approx 7, became president, then found himself completely fucking up management of a global pandemic and hurling abuse at journos who had the audacity to question his judgement, people would have called it far-fetched.

This cretin makes Kubrick's Merkin Muffley look like a towering intellect with impeccable judgement.

Trumpy now comparing himself to Captain Bligh who, it should be remembered, ended up in a rowing boat with his few remaining acolytes.

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250075668282576898

There will have been a lot of people first pumping for him last night and until the Democrats understand that they'll never win.

I agree with this 100%. They don’t get it, and the main networks don’t get it either, and as a result every single time they go into a hysterical tailspin about something (Russia, Kavanagh, Russia, Stormy Daniels, Russia, impeachment, now the presser yesterday) they miss the fact that large sections of the public are cheering him on. I’m not a Trump supporter, but I absolutely despise what those networks and the New York Times have become with their lack of nuance and endless panels of talking heads repeating each other’s soundbites, and because of that I find his constant antagonism towards them oddly satisfying. I can only imagine what you’d make of it if you were a Trump supporter.

3 whole years of Trump being roasted by Trevor Noah!

He's always been constitutionally unsuited for leadership and never would have gotten anywhere without his rich dad, but he does seem to have deteriorated over the last 6 months or so. The joke isn't so funny any more when there's an actual crisis to deal with.