Trump calls coronavirus Democrats' 'new hoax'
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said at a rally on Friday.

President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “politicizing” the deadly coronavirus during a campaign rally here on Friday, claiming that the outbreak is “their new hoax” as he continued to downplay the risk in the U.S.
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said. “They have no clue, they can't even count their votes in Iowa.”

“This is their new hoax,” Trump continued, adding that attacking the White House’s response to the coronavirus had become the Democratic Party’s “single talking point.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-...w-hoax-n1145721

Does Trump Know Senate Republicans Can’t Make the Coronavirus Go Away?
Donald Trump has built his formidable career in public life atop one fundamental insight: What passes for reality in American society is far more malleable than most people are inclined to believe.

The mogul became a great businessman by playing one on TV. He turned himself into a viable candidate for the presidency by having the audacity to present himself as such. And throughout his first term in office, Trump has overcome indisputable evidence of his own gross malfeasance through sheer force of mendacity (along with a little help from his friends). The president’s “fake it till you shake it” strategy has gotten him out of one improbable jam after another. In collusion with Fox News and congressional Republicans, Trump transformed his campaign’s manifestly unsavory contacts with a foreign government into a tale of FBI overreach; his well-documented attempts to engineer legal troubles for his domestic political foes into a story about a “witch hunt” over a “perfect phone call”; and a historic rebuke by members of his own party into “total exoneration.”
Thus, from one angle, the fact that Trump is trying to bluff his way out of an incipient pandemic makes sense.

But from every other angle it’s batshit insane. ...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/...vaney-lies.html

Trump administration considers (this is not a joke) tax cuts to respond to coronavirus
In other words, the situation is your worst nightmare of what a global pandemic would look like with Trump as president.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1922834

Stephen Miller’s new wife is in charge of approving all coronavirus communications
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney sent out a government-wide email ordering all official communications to go through Miller, who recently married White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, reported CNN.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/stephen...communications/

Trump Identifies the Real Coronavirus Victim: His Presidency
The president has made it clear he wants his deputies to blame Democrats and the media for hyping fears.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-iden...-his-presidency

CDC's First Press Briefing Since Pence Took Charge Of Coronavirus Was Full Of Praise For Trump's Response
Employing a distinct shift in tone from a prior press briefing on Tuesday, a director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention praised President Donald Trump's containment strategy and avoided using any language that would trigger concern over what some health experts are calling a global pandemic.
https://gothamist.com/news/cdc-pence-cor...e-press-control

Die neue Informationskontrolle beginnt zu wirken. Fast wie in Nordkorea.

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Trump’s Contempt for Expertise Is Guiding His Coronavirus Response
This would be startling if it didn’t match how he always purges unwelcome news from within his administration and from his reality.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020...e-contempt.html

Trump ist ehrlicher als Obama und Hillary.

Fox & Friends agrees with Trump that coronavirus is a “hoax”
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus...AA4PCbT_vU1KBuI

White House reportedly shutting down media appearances by disease expert Dr. Fauci
Then on MSNBC’s Friday edition of MSNBC Live with Hallie Jackson, Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) — whose district has become a focal point of the outbreak in the U.S. and who has blamed inaction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — said he had heard directly from Fauci himself that his planned media appearances had been called off.
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus...expert-dr-fauci

Pompeo: Trump Administration Is The Most Science-Friendly White House In History
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration has relied on science more than any other in history.
The Trump administration is now notorious for its anti-science stance — or at least science that contradicts its views on climate change and other significant matters.

But that did not stop Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from making the laughable assertion that President Donald Trump’s White House “has relied on science far more than the previous administration, and I would argue more than any administration in history,” according to MSNBC.

Pompeo’s comment came during an event in Kansas, when he was asked about the administration’s troubled relationship with scientists by a Kansas State University physics professor.
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"In order to explain and predict Trump's behavior, you have to begin with awareness that he is essentially a predator. Once you keep in mind that Trump lacks a conscience and lacks empathy, he becomes very easy to follow.
Unlike normal people, who are complex, he's basically running on a very simple and very disordered program."
- Dr. Lance Dodes, Psychiatrist

Harvard Psychiatrist: Trump Is A Predator Who Lacks Empathy Or A Conscience
Dr. Lance Dodes warned last year that President Trump is "essentially a predator" and a "successful sociopath."
President Donald Trump’s fitness for office on numerous levels has been the subject of debate since Trump took a ride down the escalator to announce his candidacy for the 2016 election.

But in the time since, it has become increasingly clear to mental health experts that Trump simply is not like most people — and his narcissistic and malignant tendencies present a danger to the United States, both at home and abroad. ...
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...Ifg-JHxtl3yCZjU

MAGA Fans Invent Conspiracy Theory On COVID-19: 'Blue States Inject People With The Virus' To Hurt Trump
Fans of President Donald Trump on Twitter over the weekend put forth theories about why reports of the coronavirus have been mostly confined to states controlled by Democrats.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/maga-...1Ki7vLozEVnxrkk

AP FACT CHECK: Trump revives false claim on wall at CPAC
President Donald Trump asserted anew on Saturday that Mexico is paying for his border wall, even as his administration shifts billions from the Pentagon to cover some construction costs and Mexico pitches in nothing.

A look at some of his claims from his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:

TRUMP, on Mexico and his border wall: “Yes they are. They’re paying for it. And they’re OK with it. Mexico’s paying for it.”

THE FACTS: That’s false. Mexico is not paying for the wall. And far from being “OK with it,” Mexican leaders flatly rejected the idea when Trump pressed them early on.
https://apnews.com/28e60e866f6d32cdadedd...P3LFGH1P2e6A1eE

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"All right, Chuck."

"All right, it's Chris, but anyway."

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Trump Fans Cheer As Coronavirus Hits Blue States

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‘Democrats really must stop’: Trump begs his critics to quit treating him like he treated Barack Obama
During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Donald Trump repeatedly took to Twitter to attack President Barack Obama’s administration for its public health measures, arguing that all of the medical experts were wrong and that the United States should close its borders to Africa, even though this would prevent doctors from traveling and make matters worse.

Now, in 2020, Trump is facing COVID-19, a far more widely-spread virus, and his administration is facing serious questions about everything from messaging to whether they are following their own containment protocols. But the president, at a rally in North Carolina on Monday, complained that all of these questions are unfair and Democrats are just trying to make him look bad.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/democra...d-barack-obama/

Defense secretary warns military not to challenge Trump on coronavirus
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told officers not to take efforts against coronavirus that don't fit into Trump's public relations messaging.

The secretary of defense last week warned overseas military commanders not to take measures to fight the novel coronavirus that do not fit into Donald Trump's message that he has the virus under control, the New York Times reported Tuesday morning.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-t...itary-covid-19/

Pastor: States That Voted Against Trump Will Not Be Spared From Coronavirus
Right-wing pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth said the rest of America will be spared due to Trump's support of Israel.
Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth believes the places in America that will see coronavirus outbreaks are those states that voted against President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, according to

The right-wing pastor said other areas of the country will be protected against the virus, which globally has infected more than 88,000 people and killed over 3,000.

Shuttlesworth’s comments came as he predicted that “America will be minimally affected” by the global outbreak, due to Trump’s support for Israel.
“I exclude from my prediction the Pacific Northwest, California, and New York, because in a God honoring nation, those are four places that have chosen to give God the middle finger in the shape of an Empire State Building lit up in pink to celebrate the passage of the [legislation] that you can kill a baby,” the pastor said. “So if it did hit Washington state hard, with that government there, Oregon, with that government, California. Let me tell you: your government matters. If it hits New York, you will not see me surprised.”
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If everyone was a little bit shameless, it might deflate the ‘anti-woke’ right
The human need for transgression is key to the backlash. Liberals must allow room for this without it harming others

There was a time when being rightwing meant being conservative in the truest sense; committed to order, civility and restraint. No longer.

The Reagan/Thatcher years began to change things, as neoliberal economics destabilised societies by slashing and burning the state. And in recent years, this lust for destruction has been accompanied by a gleeful lack of restraint in language and behaviour.
Donald Trump, of course, is responsible for the final triumph of rightwing incivility. His instinctual genius lies in recognising that so many of the defences against naked power and abuse are rooted in unspoken social norms. Trump stared out these defences and they melted away: he revels in being ignorant, abusive and cruel. Where Trump went, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and other proudly vile politicians have followed.

Alongside the politicians in this vanguard, constantly probing the boundaries of acceptability, are the champions of “anti-wokeness”. Consider Brendan O’Neill, the editor of Spiked – a contrarian so consistent in his contrariness that he is totally predictable. Or consider Piers Morgan’s matey smugness, Laurence Fox’s pretentiousness and Rod Liddle’s sneeriness. Such figures delight in shrugging off the restraints of decency while self-righteously claiming to be victimised by the woke “establishment”. Toby Young’s new Free Speech Union embodies all the shamelessness of this movement: claiming to be oppressed from a position of power, and disguising abuse as self-defence against those who threaten liberty.. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-right-liberals

Trump: Public Health Menace
You just shake your head in disbelief at the utter idiocy of this man, and his reckless irresponsibility. The President of the United States going on national television to jaw about this pandemic that has brought China and its economy to its knees, and now threatens the entire world, talking like he’s Cliff Claven at the bar in Cheers!

Where do you even start with what Trump said tonight? All the good work that the people in the executive branch below him are doing to fight this pandemic is completely overshadowed by this nitwit going on Hannity to say things that are not only untrue, but dangerously untrue. Listen to the clip — a simple recap can’t do it justice. The man just opens his mouth and foolishness falls out. ...
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/...ce-coronavirus/