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An Unhinged Trump Just Lashed Out at NYT’s Maggie Haberman During No-News Press Conference, ‘Third Rate Reporter!’
We have no idea why Trump believed he needed to have another press conference today. One wasn’t originally scheduled. We can only guess that he just couldn’t pass up the chance, because he went straight to partisanship, blaming Democrats for not bending to his well on the Paycheck Protection Program in the first minute.
This is how Trump begins, interpreting everything to his benefit:
The US has the most coronavirus deaths in the world, but Trump begins the April 18 #TrumpPressConf by claiming America "has produced better health outcomes than any other country, with the possible exception of Germany." pic.twitter.com/puRZgsvIeh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
He continues to say that everything was “completely broken,” one that he inherited, despite him being president for over three years now.
"We started with a broken system from a previous administration or administrations" — Trump ludicrously tries to blame Obama for not preparing for a virus that didn't even exist under years after he left office pic.twitter.com/sgqvHHWhPD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
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Trump continued to throw out numbers that don’t mean anything to anyone, “four million tests,” “tremendous unused capacity” and talking about the “tremendous testing program.” He actually said that hospitals didn’t even have ventilators before he became president, which will come as news to every hospital out there.
Trump then did a disgusting reenactment of the swab taken “up your nose,” and then bragged that he had the new “Abbot test” that is saliva-based.
He went right back to “inherited a terribly broken system.” Even though there is a shortage of both supplies and medications, Trump almost sounded as though he was bragging for having ended it, using the disease and virus in the past tense – he genuinely has no plan to do much from this point forward. He sees it as a job completed.
"We started with garbage" – a claim Trump keeps making that has been repeatedly fact checked as an exaggeration and mostly false
— Chris Jansing (@ChrisJansing) April 18, 2020
At ten to fifteen minutes in, it was clear he had nothing to say. He is already repeating himself, saying that this was a total “witch hunt,” and that he did very well.
The President claims he inherited “broken junk” when it comes to testing pic.twitter.com/gjJw3342xx
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 18, 2020
Trump hasn’t said a single thing newsworthy in the entire press conference, it’s all a campaign rally speech, and just as rambling.
No news at this briefing so far.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2020
Trump again put the entire bit of blame upon China, mentioned again that it should have been stopped. He oddly then said that the stock market is “smart,” because it is up from the basement to which it temporarily sank, and we might add that’s where it stands “for now.”
Trump is boasting about how good the Dow used to be, and how it didn't fall as low as it could have. If you'd told me that it'd be "much, much higher than when I started" even after this "plague," "I think we have tremendous momentum…big election coming up…"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 18, 2020
Trump is down to rambling stream of consciousness, using the “baby voice” thing he does, and covering things 3-4 times over, seemingly unaware that he’s already mentioned it.
This is embarrassing enough to make one squirm. He even got to the point where he was talking about the horrible story in the New York Times about his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, breaking into tears.
At that point, MSNBC cut the coverage, like a referee at a boxing match.
Trump then decided to attack the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman, and it was unreal:
An unhinged Trump trashes Maggie Haberman: "She came out and said Mark Meadows was crying. And they made it sound — and it's okay if he did. I mean, look. But I think he was crying probably really for the wrong reason. They had it down. But he's not a crier … she's fake." pic.twitter.com/6CZUGTzszp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
Here is the conclusion of one of the most unhinged and bizarre rants I have ever heard Trump go on. Keep in mind this is a press briefing about a pandemic that is killing over 1,000 Americans each day right now. pic.twitter.com/3PGe9MsOQb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020
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