Indeed. Fucking Tom Cotton.
I think you’re right about this: Trump told Woodward that the virus was deadly because the implicit message ‘I’m in charge of dealing with a dangerous situation’ made Trump look like the Strong Man dealing with Momentous Affairs.
Trump, of course, wasn’t smart enough to realize that his well-documented lies about COVID being no big deal would contrast shockingly with his admission to Woodward that he knew it was airborne, highly infectious, etc.
Stuck in the past as he is, Trump was enthralled by the idea of the Most Important Reporter Ever being the one to tell the story of how he was doing in the Presidency. It wouldn’t have occurred to Trump that Woodward might report something that would make Trump look bad (i.e. the truth).
(my bolding in the quote)
The other tidbit from that book (the Michael Schmidt book Donald Trump vs the United States) that I found interesting was the speculation that Robert Mueller wasn’t at the top of his game, to put it politely.
To put it less politely, they suggested that he might have medical issues that were causing cognitive problems. This was based on his delegating key witness interviews - which was apparently uncharacteristic and the fact that he requested an assistant when he gave congressional testimony - plus the general observation that he just wasn’t as sharp as he used to be.
That was surprising. Even Jim Jordan picked up on it.
Individual 1 is surprised by the words (lies, actually) coming out of his own teleprompter.
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1304209415504101376
OMFG. What a moron!
More of a maroon, I’d say.
Thanks, Bugs. Yes, an ultra maroon.
I was thinking about Johnny Dangerously (“Did you know your name is an adverb?” is one of my favorite lines), actually, not about Bugs Bunny.
And kudos to you for “ultra-maroon”.
Sadly, that’s not quite what happened there. He stopped the prompter so he could repeat the line that his administration had added “over 200 auto and auto parts plants”, over and over and over again, to his cheering masses.
Also, according to a fact check by the Detroit Free Press, the actual number new plants was . . . one.
I would guess that most of the people there are local, so how on earth can they either not know he’s lying or not know they don’t have 20 new plants in their own neighborhoods?
I keep saying these people are going to fucking kill me, but they are taking so long.
Trump Said He’d Give Himself An ‘A’ For His Handling Of COVID-19
As of this morning, the US has 23% of the world’s coronavirus cases and 21% of the reported deaths, with about 5% of the world’s population. we;ve been close to 1/3 of the world’s cases at times. Except for a period in June, and now since about a month ago (when India overtook the US), we’ve had the highest number of new cases in the world, going back to mid-March.
One shudders to think what it would take for Trump to give himself a grade lower than a A
But that’s absurd – Trump would never give himself a grade lower than a A. He’d change reality first, at least in his own mind.
Which is exactly what he’s done.
The Blabbermouth-in-Chief just can’t shut up.
Gotta wonder how much he’s told his good friends from Russia, North Korea and God knows who.
He pisses me off every morning that he didn’t drop dead during the night.
Naw, he trolls them just like he trolls the American people: “I’ve got a good plan, a great plan; and a lot of people, very many people, in fact, say that it’s an excellent plan–but I’ll tell you about it later.”
Of course, as we all know by now, he’s got diddley-squat.
Remember when he met with Putin without any aides or translators?
And the other time when he had a translator, but insisted that the translator turn over his notes afterwards.
The magic two weeks.