{"id":50342,"date":"2021-08-08T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50342"},"modified":"2021-08-16T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:37:00","slug":"huh-on-fox-news-trump-asks-imagine-if-there-was-coronavirus-when-i-was-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50342","title":{"rendered":"HUH? On Fox News Trump Asks ‘Imagine If There Was Coronavirus When I Was President’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most of his time in the White House Donald Trump’s mental acuity was questioned. And for good reason. Despite his own hysterical references to himself as a “stable genius<\/a><\/strong>,”<\/em> Trump also believed that stealth fighters are actually invisible, that windmills cause cancer, that we should nuke hurricanes, that George Washington\u2019s Army took over airports, and that injecting bleach will cure COVID. It’s not exactly a record of cognitive fitness.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

In his post-presidency, Trump has not fared any better. And on Saturday night he displayed a deficiency of cerebral functioning that should trigger alarm among his medical caregivers. Trump called into Fox News for a tongue-bathing “interview”<\/em> by the ultra-bombastic Dan Bongino, a pundit whose experience consists of having been an NYPD officer, a three time loser for Congress, and a big mouth with which to shout down anyone who disagrees with him.<\/p>\n

During the doting discussion Bongino sought Trump’s views on COVID mask mandates. “You didn’t have as much information when you got in office,”<\/em> Bongino softballed. “It was a new virus, obviously. Where do you stand on these mandates?”<\/em> Setting aside the fact that Trump knew very well the deadly severity of the coronavirus early on<\/a><\/strong>, he nevertheless replied with an incoherent jumble of nonsense:<\/p>\n

“Could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus – you know, now they like to call it, they have new names and they have other new names – but it’s exactly what we had, we had the same thing. If that were me, they would say ‘what a horrible thing, what a horrible job.’ I don’t ever hear that. And these are numbers in some cases that are equivalent to what it was, but we don’t hear that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1424195207088676865<\/p>\n

Does Trump really think that people need to “imagine”<\/em> what it would have been like if there were pandemic while he was in office? The obituaries of more than 600,000 Americans might serve as a grim reminder. And the people did say “what a horrible job.”<\/em> Then they voted him out of office by a seven million vote margin that, in his reality-averse stupor, he still refuses to acknowledge.<\/p>\n

However, Trump actually contradicted himself in the same comment. He began by suggesting that it required imagination to conceive of a viral pandemic during his term. Then follows that by conceding that it was “exactly what we had.”<\/em> So which was it? And leave out the babbling about different names.<\/p>\n

Of course, neither Trump nor Bongino recognize that the current wave of COVID is the result of the new Delta variant. Nor do they acknowledge that the horrendous surge is mainly among the unvaccinated, whose resistance has largely been driven by Trump and Fox News<\/a><\/strong>. If they wanted to mitigate the harm, they could, but they obviously don’t want to<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is the reprehensible level of discourse exhibited by Trump and his fluffers on Fox News. And yet, Trump is still regarded as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. Which tells you everything you need to know about the GOP, Fox News and Trump.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For most of his time in the White House Donald Trump’s mental acuity was questioned. And for good reason. 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