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Post by karma4u on Apr 24, 2020 15:23:15 GMT
Donald Trump has stunned viewers by suggesting that people could receive injections of disinfectant to cure the coronavirus, a notion one medical expert described as “jaw-dropping”.
At Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, the US president discussed new government research on how the virus reacts to different temperatures, climates and surfaces.
“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”
Dr Deborah Birx, the task force response coordinator, remained silent. But social media erupted in hilarity and outrage at the president, who has a record of defying science and also floated the idea of treating patients’ bodies with ultraviolet (UV) light.
Several doctors warned the public against injecting disinfectant or using UV light.
Robert Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and a former labor secretary, tweeted: “Trump’s briefings are actively endangering the public’s health. Boycott the propaganda. Listen to the experts. And please don’t drink disinfectant.”
Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, added: “It is incomprehensible to me that a moron like this holds the highest office in the land and that there exist people stupid enough to think this is OK. I can’t believe that in 2020 I have to caution anyone listening to the president that injecting disinfectant could kill you.”
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Post by cliffs on Apr 24, 2020 17:03:32 GMT
Waiting for the first disinfectant death
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Post by karma4u on Apr 24, 2020 18:57:09 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Apr 26, 2020 23:19:56 GMT
Donald Trump took to Twitter yet again for a rant against the media, and this time he confused…and misspelled…the Nobel Prize for the Pulitzer Prize.
“When will all of the ‘reporters’ who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished ‘Nobles’ so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right,” Trump tweeted.
“I can give the Committee a very comprehensive list. When will the Noble Committee DEMAND the Prizes back, especially since they were gotten under fraud? The reporters and Lamestream Media knew the truth all along.”
Of course, the “Noble Prize” is actually the Nobel Prize, and it is not given out to journalists. The Nobel Prize is given out annually in six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, Literature, and Peace. Occasionally, journalists have won the Nobel Literature Prize, but none have done so for investigating Trump. The most recent journalist to win the award was Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich in 2015 for her work documenting life under the rule of the Soviet Union.
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Post by cliffs on Apr 28, 2020 11:15:43 GMT
CBS News ✔ @cbsnews Trump: "There has been so much unnecessary death in this country. It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way. And the whole world is suffering because of it." www.cbsnews.com/coronavirusThe man just has no freaking backbone. |
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Post by cliffs on Apr 28, 2020 11:32:33 GMT
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he takes no responsibility for a spike in cases of people misusing disinfectants after he wondered aloud last week about possibly injecting them as a treatment for coronavirus.
When asked Monday about the increase of people in some states ingesting disinfectants Trump answered: "I can't imagine why."
When pressed about whether he takes any responsibility, Trump said, "No, I don't."
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Post by karma4u on Apr 29, 2020 0:39:04 GMT
After how many deaths Donald ?..you disgusting POS.
During a news media availability at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump was presented with a comment he made more than two months ago.
“Today the U.S. hit a grim milestone of 1 million cases of the coronavirus,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said. “Back in late February, you predicted that the number of cases would go down to zero. How did we get from your prediction of zero to 1 million?”
“Well,” Trump replied, “it will go down to zero, ultimately.”
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Post by karma4u on May 8, 2020 21:38:50 GMT
As of this morning, according to NBC News' latest tally, there are nearly 1.27 million cases of the coronavirus in the United States. The death toll, meanwhile, is nearly 77,000.
It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning and offered yet another death toll forecast.
"They said, 'Sir, you have to close the country.' Nobody ever heard of a thing like this, but they were right because if I didn't we would have lost 2 million, 2 and a half million, maybe more than that people, and we'll be at 100,000, 110,000 -- the lower level of what was projected if we did the shutdown."
Let's take a moment to review the last few weeks.
On Monday, April 20, the president said he believed the overall American death toll from the pandemic would be between 50,000 and 60,000 people. Later that week, the president's forecast had already been exposed as tragically wrong.
Exactly one week later, on Monday, April 27, Trump said the overall American death toll would "probably" be between 60,000 and 70,000 people. It took about four days for this projection to be discredited, too.
On Wednesday, April 29, the president suggested the number of fatalities in the United States could be as low as 65,000. Predictably, we soon after passed that projected total.
On Sunday, May 3, Trump acknowledged that he was moving the goalposts again. "I used to say 65,000," the Republican said, pointing to a total he promoted just a few days earlier. "And now I'm saying 80,000 or 90,000."
At the same event, the president upped the projection once more: "Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people."
All of which led to this morning's revised total of between 100,000 and 110,000 fatalities.
Circling back to our earlier coverage, when I say I don't know why Trump keeps doing this, I'm not being coy or facetious. I honestly have no idea. There is no upside to a president, every few days, presenting a new projected death toll, seeing the actual number climb, and then starting the process anew.
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Post by karma4u on May 9, 2020 23:33:26 GMT
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Post by karma4u on May 17, 2020 0:33:54 GMT
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Post by cliffs on May 18, 2020 14:37:16 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and officials are crafting proposals to push American companies to move operations or key suppliers out of China that include tax breaks, new rules, and carefully structured subsidies.
Interviews with a dozen current and former government officials, industry executives and members of Congress show widespread discussions underway - including the idea of a "reshoring fund" originally stocked with $25 billion - to encourage U.S. companies to drastically revamp their relationship with China.
President Donald Trump has long pledged to bring manufacturing back from overseas, but the recent spread of the coronavirus and related concerns about U.S. medical and food supply chains dependency on China are "turbocharging" new enthusiasm for the idea in the White House.
If we keep this guy in office, he is going to bankrupt us for sure.
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Post by karma4u on May 27, 2020 5:38:23 GMT
Perhaps Howard Stern, of all people, said it best: “The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most. The people who are voting for Trump for the most part … He’d be disgusted by them.” The tragedy is that they are not disgusted by him in return.
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Post by karma4u on May 27, 2020 20:16:12 GMT
President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning threatened that Republicans will try to close down social media platforms after Twitter, for the first time, added a fact check to his tweets, specifically ones concerning his unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting fraud.
Trump said, in a tweet not naming any platforms, that "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen."
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Post by cliffs on May 27, 2020 21:16:53 GMT
Sigh
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Post by joegolferg on May 28, 2020 8:26:55 GMT
And they have the brass neck to criticise Chinese censorship and authority...
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