President Donald Trump’s desperate effort to spin the worsening coronavirus outbreak continued on Wednesday night during an embarrassing news conference in which he actually read off a list of countries best prepared for pandemics as some sort of proof that everything is under control.
Trump and his team have been bungling the response to the virus from the beginning, even going so far as to deny there’s much of a problem at all.
This is not a good thing, however, because the public needs to take this pandemic seriously so they will be more prepared to prevent themselves from contracting it and from spreading it to others if they do.
But Trump is freaking out, not because coronavirus is spreading, but because the stock market is reacting negatively to it.
And for some reason, Trump thought he could makes things better by holding a news conference to repeat his debunked lies and doubled down on his claim that everything is under control by reading a list put together by John Hopkins of the nations most prepared to deal with a pandemic.
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To no one’s surprise, Trump repeatedly noted that the United States tops the list and he held it up to show everyone the chart.
Here’s the video via Twitter:
Trump is now reading a list from John Hopkins of a list of the countries best and worst prepared for an epidemic like it is a group of Yelp restaurant ratings. pic.twitter.com/IlJXLv947n
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 26, 2020
Social media users had comments.
…he has no idea what he’s doing…
🤭— Chris Casey (@ferrodiabloC5) February 27, 2020
Most likely an outdated list
— booker25 * Vote Blue (@Booker25) February 26, 2020
The way he congratulated the woman next to him I assumed she put it together for him in photoshop. No more sharpies.
— Ladybird (@MiaHopper2) February 27, 2020
We’re number one for the most number of people wishing someone could call Obama for us.
— Ladybird (@MiaHopper2) February 27, 2020
Ah, I see Ken Cuccinelli finally got through to the Johns Hopkins website and was able to print off some pretty charts.
Phew. Problem solved!
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 26, 2020
Trump is incapable of dealing with a global health crisis. He has gutted the government and refuses to tell the truth because it makes him look bad. Just because we are tops in preparedness, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be concerned about the coronavirus. And it certainly doesn’t mean we should take Trump at his word that it’s contained. It’s not. He’s only making it clearer that our country needs a better leader.
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