This administration also shut down a program aimed at identifying potentially lethal pathogens in animals before they could spread to humans. Said program was from the Obama administration and COVID-19 originated in bats.
Prior to that, this administration made a 75% reduction to an Obama-era initiative aimed at stopping potential epidemics before they cross borders.
Trump is ultimately responsible for firing, closing, and allowing to close various programs that could have helped speed our response to this pandemic. It doesn’t even really matter if Trump personally took all these actions himself or not since they are consistent with his overall policy of reducing funding to everything except what he likes, AKA the wall and his personal coffers. And as noted above, it was not just “one guy” at the NSC who got pushed out. I don’t know why you’re so determined to make out like we only had one rear admiral nominally assigned to this.
Except that it was two key people, not a single insignificant person, and the rest of the team was reassigned elsewhere. Also, you left out the bit about you wildly speculating that the Rear Admiral might have been in charge of copier paper. And also: apple measurement.
Nope, no desperate deflection there.
This is utter gibberish. And more desperate deflection.
FFS get a room you two.
No. Don’t get a room. What they need is some social platform distancing.
Some Fox News analyst said it was a North Korean bioweapon.
When?
He is going to announce upgrading the name to CoRoNaViRuS.
15 minutes late to his own presser… I don’t think he wants to do this because it’s a tacit admission that he was wrong/lying/bullshitting all along.
How come it’s not being called TrumpVirus yet? You KNOW that if the presidential shoe was on the Democratic foot, the Republicans would have taken care of that little detail a week ago, at least.
#covfefe-45
#Covfefe-19
I think they’re still working on getting the tranquilizers right.
Also, Jim Acosta noted that he is scheduled to speak without a teleprompter.
Edit: Looks like he has a written speech.
DJIA at start of speech: 21,995.
of course he started with self-praise
Not so sure about that. This pestilence needs a more fitting name. Millions of Americans have been infected with the foxtrump virus. That way, he may not get his name on a border wall, but at least he will get it on something.
#CaptainTrumps
He sounds horrible. Has to stop every 10 seconds or so to catch his breath.
“Unlike websites of the past”
He just can’t help himself.
Even this lady is Dear Leader-ing? WTF?
They are still lying in the current press conference. A Dr. Brix is talking about the increased testing which still is not a real thing.
Do they really need to have each Big Pharma CEO come up and tongue lick Individual 1?