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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump this morning on Covid-19: "This thing's going away. It will go away like things go away."
Tweet, from Biden's director of Rapid Response, with video of Trump saying that (on the phone to Fox & Friends this morning):
Link to tweet
"This thing's going away. It will go away like things go away."
As if that's not bad enough, Trump said "It will go away like things go away" in a singsong tone.
North Shore Chicago
(3,369 posts)would go away.
Cirque du So-What
(26,061 posts)although I dont want lawsuits against him to disappear after hes out of office.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What an amazing coincidence.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)tanyev
(42,721 posts)Has he realized that he'll have to pay for that himself after he leaves the White House?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Count on that.
MineralMan
(146,364 posts)"It is what it is."
Trump Is Like the Honey Badger. He Don't Care.
tanyev
(42,721 posts)But the rotund, hairy omnivores were apparently an alarmingly regular topic of conversation in the White House during the early months of Donald Trumps presidency, according to Daily Beast reporters Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng. The authors detail Trumps preoccupation in their new book, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trumps Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington.
The questions would arise at such opportune moments as when Priebus was attempting to brief the president on matters of healthcare initiatives, foreign policy, or Republican legislative agenda, they wrote. Are they mean to people? Trump reportedly asked Priebus, perhaps thinking of badgers very long claws, which they use to dig the burrows that make their home. Or are they friendly creatures? Trump would also demand to see photos of badgers, ask Priebus to give details on how badgers work, and wanted to know if they had a personality or were boring.
Priebus was also called upon to explain how the critters function and behave, what kind of food they like, and how aggressive or deadly they could be when presented with perceived existential threats.
Markay and Suebsaeng said Trump would frequently derail important policy discussions with questions about the animals.
An obviously enthralled president would stare at Priebus as the aide struggled for sufficiently placating answers, all the while trying to gently veer the conversation back to whether we were going to do a troop surge in Afghanistan or strip millions of Americans of healthcare coverage, they wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/14/are-they-mean-donald-trump-obsessed-with-badgers-new-book-claims
Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)He actually believes that. Its just a typical behavior of a person with an advanced Cluster B personality disorder. Their brain pathology gets worse as they age. Trump is an advanced case.
-Laelth
ok_cpu
(2,061 posts)Squinch
(51,105 posts)the numbers have dropped quite a bit.
70K to 50K a day. Within two days.
This terrifies me. If we don't have reliable information about this, we're all in big trouble.
NCDem47
(2,260 posts)1. See if the robots have taken over.
2. Get AWAY from this moment in time.
3. See how historians write about Trump and this moment in history. Pretty sure it will not be favorable.
malaise
(269,517 posts)He is going to be beaten mercilessly
Blue Owl
(50,665 posts)RainCaster
(10,977 posts)"If I say enough times that I can fly, it would be true."
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