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

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sadpapercourtesan · 13/04/2020 23:58

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 Shock

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Butterer · 15/04/2020 01:12

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EmpressMcSchnozzle · 15/04/2020 01:18

I was speechless at his decision about the WHO funding, as I'm sure so many others will be, on so many levels. Who's he going to defund next, I wonder? What beyond insane decisions is he going to make next? And just how many deaths from, and cases of COVID-19, are going to be laid at his feet when he finally comes face to face with whatever God he really believes in? How he can call himself a Christian is utterly beyond me.

My only tiny thread of hope is that a lot of the state governors are taking a more pragmatic approach to this, though I wonder how long it's going to be before he defunds the States as well.

I'm starting to wonder if he's even human, he seems to hate the rest of humanity so much.

Noti23 · 15/04/2020 01:19

He’s decided to cut funding to WHO because it criticised him over his handling of the pandemic. I’m actually gobsmacked but not surprised due to the level of irrational behaviour he’s been showing lately.

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PeytonManning · 15/04/2020 01:37

Of COURSE he is! It's questioning his judgment AND has a whole China link. So he's talking to his voting base right now. He has to. Half of them are unemployed and broke and no longer have health insurance. He's telling them, "It wasn't me! It was the WHO and the Chinese and probably NY and California, who I have taxed to shit because they don't vote for me!"

ksf5555xxx · 15/04/2020 01:44

Bloody hell. Even Piers Morgan just wrote a piece calling that meltdown a disgrace. And he's been up-the-orange-bum for the past 2 years. He'll change his tune again in a couple of weeks but...

We really are in the twilight zone !!!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8217357/PIERS-MORGAN-America-doesnt-want-King-Trump-petty-Emperor-no-clothes.html

user1471565182 · 15/04/2020 03:57

hahaha I love the fact he has to explain what emperor's new clothes means to mail readers. The Orange Trumpet has probably just been ignoring him.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 04:07

He could have just walked in and whined "it's not my faulllllllt" for an hour.

He already said that a few weeks ago.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 04:13

This is what worries me. I am sure there would be millions of Americans who watched the briefing grinning and cheering as he "owned the libs".

That's 'libtards'.
Angry Sad

This is what the US has sunk to. My DCs are all entitled to Irish passports through me, and for that I am truly thankful and they are too.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 04:21

My half-arsed theory is that for many Trump supporters, when he attacks the press, they imagine themselves releasing their anger and having the courage to shout at their ex-wives, their kid brother who went to college and got a better job, or the hispanic family who moved into the street

@BowermansNose
That's exactly what fuels this spectacle. It's the revolution of the losers. Trump is 'Everyman', the poor man's idea of what it means to get rich all by yourself, the ignorant, uneducated man's idea of sophisticated. He is the shameless boor, the guy who believes sexually abusing women makes him a man, the man who despite his unsurpassed ugliness in looks and character has always managed to be photographed with fawning women.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 04:49

USA, like us, is a democracy

It's technically a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

But actually it's a plutocracy.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america-is-not-a-democracy/550931/
Very long and worthwhile read here ^ .

As an aside, today saw the election of the Democratic candidate for the vacant seat on Wisonsin's state Supreme Court in the teeth of a concerted campaign against her, so there is still hope that the fickle voting public will have a moment of enlightenment in November.

Another aside - there are rumblings that the president will do away with the Post Office, thus in effect ending postal voting as an option for millions of Americans.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 05:07

"...Americans really will choose anything over a woman, won't they?"

Not right after having a Black President no. It was a massive jump having a Black President for eight years considering race relations in the US. A female President would have been too much change to soon.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million votes.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 05:22

Astoatora54 Tue 14-Apr-20 11:08:17

Hilary was a weak candidate
So weak that apart from Obama's first term, she got more votes than any other presidential candidate In history! The problem is the system

Yes, the system defeated her to a large extent. Or rather, her failure to see the possibilities of the system and the failure of the Democratic National Committee to understand the zeitgeist defeated her.

Her campaign slogan "It's Hillary's Turn" (words to that effect) was nauseating for its entitlement, its girlyness, its air of presumption, and a Business Insider analysis of the campaign reveals that this slogan was decided upon basically because nobody could figure out why she was running or what her attraction was as a candidate, what her compelling narrative might be.
www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-slogan-why-run-because-her-turn-2017-4

She galvanised the left of her own party against her, and she got more votes than any other candidate in history because just under three million people hated Trump and voted with their heads, not their hearts.

Klonda · 15/04/2020 05:23

Another aside - there are rumblings that the president will do away with the Post Office, thus in effect ending postal voting as an option for millions of Americans
Wouldn't surprise me. I fully expect the Republicans to suddenly take social distancing very seriously come the election. Anything to suppress turnout.

BruceAndNosh · 15/04/2020 06:29

WHO 30 January: Emergency committee reconvenes and declares public health emergency of international concern
Trump 9 March. Tweet downplaying coronvirus compared to seasonal flu which does not require extreme measures.

mathanxiety · 15/04/2020 06:34

@CatherineOfAragonsPomegranate - Warren's recovery from her stumble on the subject of her claim to Cherokee heritage is partly due to the fact that many white Americans resent affirmative action and consider it to be such an abused means of getting ahead that it doesn't matter to them if a white person tries hopping on what they see as the bandwagon.

Also because she has a stellar record in her professional life and as a Senator and legislator, a candidate with a lot going for her.

Roussette · 15/04/2020 07:24

I think this meme sums up his supporters and what they think

to be watching with my jaw dropped as Trump goes into full meltdown at his press briefing?
Jillyhilly · 15/04/2020 07:38

Defunding the WHO may be the wrong thing to do, but It has certainly played a large role in the spread of Covid-19. It utterly failed to challenge the propaganda being fed to it by China in the early stages and as a result the possibility of containing the spread of the disease was lost.

SharonasCorona · 15/04/2020 07:57

YouTube link to Trump’s rant

BruceAndNosh · 15/04/2020 09:02

The first couple of sentences in that clip made no sense. I don't mean politically or strategically. They made no actual sense grammatically or in any sense of stringing words together to convey a meaning, it was just Trump buzz words jumbled together.
I had no clue what he was trying to say

Parker231 · 15/04/2020 09:09

He has a very limited vocabulary- uses lots of buzz words which he keeps repeating. I’m sure he thinks he’s doing a brilliant job and he is wholly responsible for any success which takes place.

He tries to surround himself with people who he thinks support him but then sacks them (often very publicly) if they dare to have any independent thoughts.

AuldAlliance · 15/04/2020 09:49

BruceAndNosh
I think one reason it makes no sense is because he was about to say that the President of the US has the authority to do what (s)he likes/wants, but even he realised that was OTT, so he said the POTUS has the authority to do what the POTUS has the authority to do.
Unusually accurate for him Wink, but meaningless because he merely defined that as "very powerful."

But there are so many examples of incoherent sentences, I may be being overly generous in my analysis.

AuldAlliance · 15/04/2020 09:52
This is quite funny...
Roussette · 15/04/2020 10:46

I am a huge fan of Michael Spicer and follow him on Twitter, and all his fans including me were delighted to hear he had a spot on the US Late Late Show.

CatherineOfAragonsPomegranate · 15/04/2020 10:47

Thank you for that illuminating reply @mathanxiety. Gives it more context. Much appreciated.