{"id":44464,"date":"2020-03-18T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44464"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T22:55:08","slug":"the-most-flagrantly-dishonest-and-idiotic-trump-tweet-of-2020-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44464","title":{"rendered":"The Most Flagrantly Dishonest and Idiotic Trump Tweet of 2020 (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days Donald Trump has shifted his tone on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) to one that appears more appropriately concerned about the threat that it poses to Americans and the world. But while he seems to be reluctantly recognizing the risks going forward, he is still fixated on assigning blame to others and paying undeserved tribute to himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-toilet-bathrobe.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Toilet, Bathrobe\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42262\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3393375627343875\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked how he would rate his response to the coronavirus crisis, Trump inconceivably gave himself a <em>&#8220;10.&#8221;<\/em> Sure, if that&#8217;s out of 100. He also claimed, in an epic feat of gaslighting, and after downplaying the matter for weeks, that <em>&#8220;I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic&#8221;<\/em> <em>(see video below that documents his lies)<\/em>. But for sheer stupidity and\/or rabid dishonesty, Trump has still not surpassed this tweet from February 24:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC &amp; World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1232058127740174339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In that one Twantrum, Trump managed to get two very consequential things horribly wrong. First of all, as noted above, the coronavirus was very much NOT under control. On February 24, there were only 42 confirmed cases and zero fatalities in the U.S. That has now risen to more than 7,300 infected people and 135 deaths. If that&#8217;s what Trump considers <em>&#8220;control&#8221;<\/em> we are all gonna die.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s management of this crisis has been an unqualified disaster. He ignored the peril for far too long. He disbanded the pandemic office at the National Security Agency. He refused to use the test kits provided by the World Health Organization. He relied more on his Fox News sycophants than on scientists. He trivialized the matter as a political <em>&#8220;hoax&#8221;<\/em> that he imagined was perpetrated by Democrats. And he sought to blame previous administrations (translation: Obama) for burdening him with an archaic and inefficient system. The truth is that he gutted the system himself and did nothing to restore it.<\/p>\n<p>As for his investment advice, it&#8217;s hard to image that it could have been worse. The stock market that was <em>&#8220;starting to look very good&#8221;<\/em> to Trump on February 24, has dropped more than 7,000 points (30%) since then. And that was after the Federal Reserve gave Trump <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44431\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the ill-advised interest rate cut<\/a><\/strong> he lusted after. All of the gains for the past three years &#8211; the whole of Trump&#8217;s presidency &#8211; have been wiped out. Anyone who acted on Trump&#8217;s analysis has lost a fortune. But then, it&#8217;s hard to sympathize with anyone who would take financial advice from a trust fund baby with six bankruptcies, a long list of defunct companies, a failed, phony <em>&#8220;university,&#8221;<\/em> and a charitable foundation that was found to be fraudulent?<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a bit of relatively good news. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44450\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The American people aren&#8217;t buying Trump&#8217;s BS<\/a><\/strong>. A recent poll found that only 37% trust what he says about the coronavirus. That&#8217;s the predictable result of having <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/01\/20\/president-trump-made-16241-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-three-years\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lied more than 16,000 times<\/a><\/strong> since he was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that&#8217;s a dangerous position for a nation to be in when it faces the sort of hardships that the U.S. faces today. Under the circumstance, we should have someone at the helm that isn&#8217;t a malignant narcissistic and a pathological liar. And with any luck (and a lot of hard work) we will have new, respectable leadership by next January. That is, if Trump hasn&#8217;t killed us all before then.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&#39;s not allow Trump to rewrite his history of negligence, failure and lies. Here&#39;s the truth:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sSY6B4pn5V\">pic.twitter.com\/sSY6B4pn5V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1240133287596736515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days Donald Trump has shifted his tone on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) to one that appears more appropriately concerned about the threat that it poses to Americans and the world. But while he seems to be reluctantly recognizing the risks going forward, he is still fixated on assigning blame to others and paying undeserved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[219,1,1200,8],"tags":[1397,554,1141,1163],"class_list":["post-44464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-toilet-bathrobe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bza","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44329,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44329","url_meta":{"origin":44464,"position":0},"title":"Trump Visits Fox News to Wax Idiotic About Both Economics and Pandemics","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/6\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From the first days that the coronavirus was reported to be spreading throughout the world, including in the United States, Donald Trump has sought to minimize the risks and the potential that it could escalate into a full blown pandemic. 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