The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

[Ukulele_Ike]

Because Justin’s manly veins pulse with pure grade B maple syrup, whereas Jared has only glamorous ectoplasm.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Twitter has started fact checking Individual 1’s comments about mail in voting, and HE IS NOT HAVING IT!
.@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post…
…Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!

Donald J. Trump

[dasmoocher]

@ThelmaLou

Yeah, those 100,000 people just upped and died for one reason: to make him look bad. And, of course, to get the last laugh. :mad:

But according to some of his supporters, those numbers are fake–one comment I saw claimed that if someone was killed in a car crash that would be counted as a COVID-19 death. Yanno, just to make Trump look bad.

One cite about this:

Anti-Vax Doctor Promotes Conspiracy Theory That Death Certificates Falsely Cite COVID-19

Dr. Annie Bukacek, who sits on a Montana county health department board, is promoting a theory claiming that COVID-19 death rates have been inflated

One such theory making the rounds on social media is the idea that death certificates have been knowingly manipulated by medical examiners to inflate the number of COVID-19 deaths, part of a larger right-wing talking point that the government is using the pandemic as an excuse to infringe on American rights.

This theory has been propagated by everyone from conspiracy theorist David Icke (who is most notable for his endorsement of the idea that the world is controlled by a cabal of “reptilian elites,” or lizard people) to far-right figure Candace Owens, who tweeted on April 6th: “Turns out everyone is only dying of Coronavirus now. Gee. I wonder why,” linking to a New York Times op-ed about patients suffering from other ailments, such as heart attacks, appearing at hospitals in smaller numbers than usual. (Owens did not reference, as the New York Times piece does, the very simple explanation that people may simply be too scared of contracting the virus to present at ERs in the first place.)

This is obviously conspiracy by Big Mask.

[Monty]

Didn’t the damn dirty lying sack of dung declare that success for him in dealing with this pandemic would be less than fifty-thousand Americans dead? We’re now at more than double that number, so by his own admission, the jackass is incompetent as president. He should resign!

[The_Tooth]

He should be removed.

[Slash1972]

@Monty

Didn’t the damn dirty lying sack of dung declare that success for him in dealing with this pandemic would be less than fifty-thousand Americans dead?

Do you have a link for this? I believe you, but I can’t put “Monty from Straight Dope” on my Facebook feed

[Northern_Piper]

@Slash1972

Do you have a link for this? I believe you, but I can’t put “Monty from Straight Dope” on my Facebook feed

I’ve occasionally cited a few posters from here in journal article footnotes.

[running_coach]

@Slash1972

Do you have a link for this? I believe you, but I can’t put “Monty from Straight Dope” on my Facebook feed

From here.

“We did the right thing, because if we didn’t do it, you would have had a million people, a million and a half people, maybe 2 million people dead,” Trump said on April 20. “Now, we’re going toward 50, I’m hearing, or 60,000 people. One is too many. I always say it: One is too many. But we’re going toward 50 or 60,000 people.”

Four days later, the estimated death toll exceeded 50,000, though it is probably higher. On April 27, Trump said the toll was “probably heading to 60,000, 70,000.” A couple of days later, the U.S. crossed the 60,000 milestone. So on April 29, Trump readjusted.

“What we did is a great tribute to this country. But if we lost—so if we lose 65,000 people—it’s so crazy to say it. It’s just so horrible. But if we lose 65,000 people, and instead of that going the other route, we would have lost a million or a million and a half or 2 million. It’s possible. It’s possible that you lost more. But could you imagine? Look how horrible it is to lose 65 and then multiply that times many, many times. That would not be sustainable.”

[jsc1953]

@Rick_Kitchen

Twitter has started fact checking Individual 1’s comments about mail in voting, and HE IS NOT HAVING IT!
.@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post…
…Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265427539008380928

Go on, Don…what are you waiting for? Do something. I dare you.
Just what I thought: big talking blowhard wuss.

[Slash1972]

@running_coach

From here.

Thanks, but I can’t even make out what point he is supposed to be making there

[Kimstu]

TIL that identifying factually incorrect statements is “stifling free speech”.

Well, back to a little more stifling free speech on my students’ homework.

[Mr.Greenjeans]

@jsc1953

Go on, Don…what are you waiting for? Do something. I dare you.

Maybe he’ll hold his breath until he turns orange.

[running_coach]

@Slash1972

Thanks, but I can’t even make out what point he is supposed to be making there

Neither could he.

[eschereal]

umm, what?

“I don’t use insulin. Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable.”
(Individual-ONE)'s comments (Tuesday during a White House event for senior citizens) came as he veered from prepared remarks. After reading a line on the high cost of insulin, (Individual-ONE) asked the crowd of reporters if he should be taking the drug.

The fuckedup is strong in this one.

[kaylasdad99]

@eschereal

umm, what?

“I don’t use insulin. Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable.”
(Individual-ONE)'s comments (Tuesday during a White House event for senior citizens) came as he veered from prepared remarks. After reading a line on the high cost of insulin, (Individual-ONE) asked the crowd of reporters if he should be taking the drug.

The fuckedup is strong in this one.

It’s certainly strong in the link you posted…

[Senegoid]

@eschereal

umm, what?

“I don’t use insulin. Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable.”
(Individual-ONE)'s comments (Tuesday during a White House event for senior citizens) came as he veered from prepared remarks. After reading a line on the high cost of insulin, (Individual-ONE) asked the crowd of reporters if he should be taking the drug.

The fuckedup is strong in this one.

Link is doubleplusnogood. Try this one:
Trump asks whether he should take insulin despite not being diabetic, USA Today, May 26, 2020. Numerous other news outlets have the story too.

[Senegoid]

@Rick_Kitchen

Twitter has started fact checking Individual 1’s comments about mail in voting, and HE IS NOT HAVING IT!

Maybe Twitter has, or maybe Twitter will soon have, a rule like we have here at SDMB: One hint of a whisper of a threat of legal action, and you’re instabanned for life!

[Smapti]

@eschereal

umm, what?

“I don’t use insulin. Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable.”
(Individual-ONE)'s comments (Tuesday during a White House event for senior citizens) came as he veered from prepared remarks. After reading a line on the high cost of insulin, (Individual-ONE) asked the crowd of reporters if he should be taking the drug.

Trust me - Loser Donald has no idea what insulin is for or what diabetes is. He vaguely grasps that he’s been told he’s doing something very good for people by lowering its price, and those people have been very badly affected in terms of health, and who’s been more badly affected than him, right? Not even the great Abraham Lincoln (who many people are now finding out was a Republican) was affected this badly! And he’s never thought about taking it before since he’s the healthiest president ever, but maybe if he takes it it’ll make him even healthier, and he can keep presidenting until he’s 1,488 (which is a very big number that must be good because Stephen Miller keeps telling him to mention it).

[Superdude]

Trump is threatening to shutter social media platforms because Twitter fact-checked him the other day.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/trump-threatens-to-shut-social-media-after-twitter-fact-check?utm_medium=social&utm_content=politics&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-politics&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

[Ukulele_Ike]

I’m kinda surprised that he’s NOT diabetic. You know how much sugar is in those Big Macs?