{"id":45224,"date":"2020-05-10T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45224"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T03:01:25","slug":"trump-flagrantly-lies-about-great-marks-for-his-catastrophic-coronavirus-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45224","title":{"rendered":"Trump Flagrantly Lies About &#8216;Great Marks&#8217; for His Catastrophic Coronavirus Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It gets harder every day to tell whether Donald Trump is simply the pathological liar he has been his whole life, or if he is suffering from acute delusional dementia. His relentless flow of bizarre commentaries on television and on Twitter are teetering ever more over the edge of sanity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-virus-sick.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, coronavirus\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44516\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3526250480723055\" 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>On Sunday morning Trump unleashed his regularly scheduled tweetstorm of wild rants and bitter harangues. It consisted of 102 total tweets, including 83 retweets from notorious Trump-fluffers and Fox News bootlickers. The vast majority of these tweets (76) were focused on utterly fictional historical rewrites of Trump&#8217;s unsavory associations with Russia and his disgraced former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn. These are Trump&#8217;s vain and transparent attempts to deflect from the devastating consequences of his negligence and incompetence that has taken the lives of nearly 80,000 Americans to date.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Trump eventually posted a total of 124 tweets for the day, marking a new record topping his (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43470\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">123 tweets on December 12, 2019<\/a><\/strong>. Many of his late-night tweets were bitter and dishonest attacks on President Obama. Trump just can&#8217;t contain his rancid jealousy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s notable that in this avalanche of Twitter detritus there were only three tweets that referenced the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. And none of those expressed condolences for the sick or deceased. That&#8217;s three out of 102. Predictably, the only thing that Trump showed he had concern for was himself and his public image:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are getting great marks for the handling of the CoronaVirus pandemic, especially the very early BAN of people from China, the infectious source, entering the USA. Compare that to the Obama\/Sleepy Joe disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu. Poor marks, bad polls &#8211; didn\u2019t have a clue!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1259450328048709633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder from whom Trump is getting those allegedly <em>&#8220;great marks.&#8221;<\/em> Could it be John Barron, his alter ego\/PR agent? Or maybe Sean Hannity, who is himself a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44953\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">major source of infection and death<\/a><\/strong>? It certainly isn&#8217;t from any reputable source in the media or the public health community.<\/p>\n<p>As he does ad nauseam, Trump praised his <em>&#8220;BAN of people from China&#8221;<\/em> which wasn&#8217;t actually a ban since some 40,000 people came in after it went into effect. It is also false that China was <em>&#8220;the infectious source, entering the USA.&#8221;<\/em> Epidemiologists have concluded that the coronavirus <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/york-coronavirus-outbreak-originated-europe-study-finds\/story?id=70062642\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">came to the U.S. via Europe<\/a><\/strong>. In either case, it spread unchecked for two months while Trump did nothing but insist that it was <em>&#8220;totally under control&#8221;<\/em> and would just disappear miraculously. In the meantime he bragged about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44770\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his <em>&#8220;ratings&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45125\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his polling<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump&#8217;s ludicrous comparison to how President Obama and Vice-President Biden handled H1N1 (Swine Flu), he is leaving out the fact that Obama declared a health emergency very soon after the virus was discovered in the U.S. There were a total of 12,469 deaths over the course of a year. Trump has bested that by being directly responsible for 80,000 deaths in only three months. And still, at the top of his mind is how Obama\/Biden fared in the polls. His perpetually petty shallowness is stupefying. Here&#8217;s a more relevant comparison between Trump and Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? Donald Trump two months ago today: &quot;&#8230;22 deaths. Think about that!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>?? Now: 78,000+ dead. And he still has no national strategy. Think about THAT! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AR8KpETY8a\">https:\/\/t.co\/AR8KpETY8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1259225292452671489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Finally, while most of Trump&#8217;s tweets this Sunday were self-serving, irrelevant to what America cares about today, and flagrantly dishonest, there was one that is troubling, but which might get overlooked. Trump tweeted simply that it&#8217;s <em>&#8220;So great to see our Country starting to open up again!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So great to see our Country starting to open up again! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ceXFk4iWBX\">https:\/\/t.co\/ceXFk4iWBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1259449226465083394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. While the nation and the world is living through a deadly pandemic, Trump took the time to use his official Twitter account to promote his own golf resort. That is not only insensitive, egocentric, and greedy, it is likely illegal. It is unquestionably unethical. Not that Trump has any qualms about that. Although this violation of law and ethics pales in comparison to Trump&#8217;s callousness with regard to the death toll that is ravaging America, it is emblematic of his tunnel-blind, narcissistic, sociopathic world-view. That is what&#8217;s getting so many people sick and worse. And he just doesn&#8217;t care.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It gets harder every day to tell whether Donald Trump is simply the pathological liar he has been his whole life, or if he is suffering from acute delusional dementia. His relentless flow of bizarre commentaries on television and on Twitter are teetering ever more over the edge of sanity. On Sunday morning Trump unleashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44516,"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":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[183,1397,554,377],"class_list":["post-45224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-virus-sick.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bLq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46053,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46053","url_meta":{"origin":45224,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Lets Trump Get Away with Dangerous Lies About the Coronavirus","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/28\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week Donald Trump announced that he would be reviving his Coronavirus Task force Briefings (aka Trump reelection campaign photo-ops). 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