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Trump Calls Criticism of His Coronavirus Response a "Hoax" as Concerns Grow: A Closer Look

Mar 04, 2020
-As

concerns

grow

about the government's handling of the

coronavirus

outbreak, the president

calls

criticism

of his

response

a

hoax

. To learn more about this, it's time for "A Closer Look." This was just another weekend in our frenetic, fast-paced political era in which major news stories appeared one after another. The Trump era has turned us all into cats trying to follow multiple laser pointers at once. Stock Exchange! Democratic primaries! Eclipse! For one thing, Joe Biden won a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, and as a result, two of his rivals, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, dropped out and announced they would endorse Biden.
trump calls criticism of his coronavirus response a hoax as concerns grow a closer look
Meanwhile, the third candidate to drop out, Tom Steyer, did so immediately on election night, a day after dancing on stage during a rally in South Carolina. to Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up." I can guarantee that when Juvenile wrote that song, that wasn't the ass he had in mind. I'm sorry, but no one wearing that tie should dance like that. You

look

like a walker at the high school prom, trying to get the nerds onto the dance floor. In fact, the last few days have been so busy that we don't even have time to talk about the super strange fact that, on Saturday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump not only hugged, but also kissed, the American flag while delivering the words: "I love you, baby." I mean, because, believe me, we could spend a whole 10 minutes on that.
trump calls criticism of his coronavirus response a hoax as concerns grow a closer look

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I mean, seriously, what is going on here? If Trump isn't careful, he'll have to pay Betsy Ross money to keep him quiet. This is more intimate than Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's performance at last year's Oscars. In fact, just to give you an idea of ​​everything that was happening this weekend, the president announced that he had negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban, and that wasn't even one of the main news stories. On Saturday, Trump held a press conference to brief the nation on the

coronavirus

outbreak, but he began by trying to draw attention to the deal with the Taliban.
trump calls criticism of his coronavirus response a hoax as concerns grow a closer look
And

look

, personally, I'm in favor of any attempt to end our longest war and bring our troops home. It's something we should have done a long time ago. But it would be nice to have a president we could trust to explain the details to us in a coherent way. And yet, even when he tried to start the press conference by talking about this deal with the Taliban, all Trump could do was ramble sleepily, as if he had just woken up from an afternoon nap. -Before we begin, I would like to congratulate all those incredible people who have worked for so long in our endless war and will very much hope that they do what they say they will do.
trump calls criticism of his coronavirus response a hoax as concerns grow a closer look
They will be killing terrorists. They will be killing very bad people. And, again, it's been... it's been a long journey, in Afghanistan, in particular, but this was a... a... very... uh, spirited agreement. There was a lot... a lot of conversation. I really think the Taliban want to do something to show that we are not all wasting our time. -You are losing your time! Just tell us what's in the deal. Honestly, I was expecting an awards show orchestra to start confronting him. -It will be... So the original goal of Saturday's press conference was supposed to be updating Americans on the coronavirus and calming fears about the government's bumbling

response

because the administration hasn't been doing much to reassure the Americans.
He put his vice president, Mike Pence, in charge of monitoring all coronavirus messaging from health officials, and Trump himself dismissed the danger at the White House on Thursday. -We have done an incredible job. Let's continue. It's going to disappear one day. It's like a miracle. Will disappear. And, from our shores, the situation could get worse before it gets better. Maybe it could disappear. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows. The fact is that the greatest experts, I have spoken to all of them. Nobody really knows. -Very well, first of all, I doubt that you have spoken to the great experts.
I can't even begin to imagine a conversation between a scientist and Donald Trump. It would be like watching Bill Gates explain the Internet to a dog. Second, it is not reassuring, in the midst of a crisis, to hear the most powerful man in the world say that no one knows what will happen. It's like hearing his captain say, "We're going through some turbulence. We may reach our destination, but no one really knows. If we do, it will be a miracle." Just because you don't know it doesn't mean no one knows it. Yes, there are unknowns, but there are also experts studying the situation right now and learning things.
Maybe you should consult with them. Instead, the administration has been busy with other, less urgent tasks. Pence, the guy who's supposed to be in charge of all this, spent Friday at a major fundraiser for Republicans in Florida. And as for the president, and this is real, The Daily Beast reported that on Friday at the White House, Trump spent 45 minutes talking to the lead actors in a low-budget conservative play about the so-called deep state. . Alright. I have many questions. First of all, why is Trump meeting with the actors of a play? I doubt he's ever seen a play in his life.
He probably chose "Hairspray" by accident, thinking it was a tutorial. I need to learn how to freeze my hair in place so that it is completely windproof. Although, judging by this photo, I will say you'd think he was starring in the Broadway adaptation of "Beetlejuice." So that's what the president spends his time doing while he should have been monitoring the evolution of the coronavirus and devising a reassuring government response, and now he and his allies are attacking Democrats for allegedly politicizing the crisis. At this very moment, health professionals are warning about the lack of accurate and widespread testing;
One infectious disease expert called it a national scandal, and yet Trump and his allies have been attacking Democrats in the media simply for pointing out these very real problems. , and Trump himself even called

criticism

of his response to the outbreak a

hoax

. -Now, unfortunately, they are politicizing and, in fact, weaponizing an infectious disease in what is basically just the latest effort to hit President Trump. -It seems that the coronavirus is being used as a weapon as one more element to bring down Donald Trump. -The reason you are paying so much attention today is because they believe this will be what will overthrow the president. -Now, Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.
Do you know it well? Coronavirus. They tried the impeachment hoax and this is his new hoax. -A hoax? I think part of the problem here is that Trump only knows five words and deception is one of them. His brain is like a Mad Lib with the same word written in every sentence. Thus, on Saturday Trump tried to defend his handling of the crisis and, in doing so, lied again about the speed of his government's response. -Since the early stages of the foreign outbreak, my administration has taken the most aggressive measures in modern history to confront the spread of this disease.
We moved very early. Experts now agree that the decision to act so quickly, despite much opposition to that decision, was... wise. It greatly slowed the spread of the virus to the United States. -No, you didn't move fast. For one thing, you never move quickly. You plod across the White House lawn in circles, like an only child searching for Easter eggs alone. Second, there is new evidence to suggest that the virus may have been spreading for weeks; The problem was made worse, in part, by the fact that we haven't done widespread national testing, which would make sense because, when the first news reports of the outbreak began to appear around the world, that's how the president responded. -The virus.
They are working hard. It seems like, in April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously disappears. I hope that's true. The coronavirus is something new that many people are talking about. Hopefully it won't be as bad as some people think it might be. And we think it's going to have a very good ending for us. Hopefully, everything will be great. Maybe there is something new because, for two days, I haven't seen much news of that type. Now, the virus we're talking about, you know, a lot of people think it goes away in April, with the heat, as the heat comes.
That will usually go away by April. But we are in very good shape. -Where did you get that idea that he's leaving in April? Are you confusing it with Lent? You know, it starts in February and usually disappears in April, but you have to give up something to avoid getting infected. I'm going to stop humping flags. However, of course, of course, somehow the president isn't even the dumbest Donald Trump to intervene in this story because, in case you've forgotten, there is a second Donald Trump and he had something really disgusting to say on Friday. -Anything they can use to try to harm Trump, they will do it.
For them, trying to take a pandemic and apparently hoping it gets here and kills millions of people so they can end Donald Trump's winning streak is a new level of sickness. -Jesus! Someone is desperately trying to get his father to love him. I do my best to make my father hug me and kiss me like that damn flag! Sorry I don't have stars and stripes, dad! I'm sorry! This is... this is the kind of crisis management situation where you need competent, apolitical people in charge. Instead, we have an administration that would rather spend its time raising money, meeting actors in a right-wing play, and hugging American flags.
All we can do, for now, is stay calm and listen to the advice of health professionals and, as for the Trump administration, just hope that... -It will go away one day. It's like a miracle. Will disappear. -This has been "A

closer

look." ♪♪

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