Thus far Trump’s response strategy to the pandemic consists of having a press conference around normal close of business where he allows reporters to ask questions, instead of answering questions he tells them how much he dislikes them personally.
BREAKING: Trump will nominate Cory Wilson to the 5th Circuit (he was nominated to a district court last year but never confirmed).
Wilson has repeatedly attacked the Affordable Care Act & defended discriminatory photo ID laws. Truly awful civil rights record. We will fight this. pic.twitter.com/lXOZPZeqR3
I’ve never heard him thank healthcare workers, or talk about the victims of this.
Pres. Trump denied downplaying the threat posed by COVID-19 in the U.S., calling Jim @Acosta's use of direct quotes 'snarky' pic.twitter.com/7ONoJZ3hrj
We're donating two million surgical masks for those on the front lines in New York as part of our efforts toward COVID-19 relief. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts to those who are working tirelessly every day to help others. We are #StrongerTogether. @elcompaniespic.twitter.com/09yD1RAeYu
How about the Pentagon?
Governors have been asking/begging for a way to co-ordinate the medical equipment supply chain:
“Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenge of medical resources in the U.S. not being applied where they’re needed, and the possibility that the Pentagon may be best suited to serve as a central coordinating power that sees to national coronavirus response as the epidemic grows and shifts.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pentagon-may-be-best-option-to-coordinate-medical-equipment-supply-chain-81406021965)
I saw that last night and thought that sounded like a great idea. It will fall on deaf ears. The thing is, he doesn’t WANT to help. Not really. He tinkers around the edges to make himself feel good and put up the appearance, but basically, he’s culling the herd. He doesn’t give a shit
from recent CNN piece: "There are signs that he does not fully understand the stakes nor is willing to relegate his own interests in favor of the common good."
We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall. https://t.co/K8Ucu7iVDK
Governor Bullock (D-MT) spoke to Fauci at WH conference call yesterday, stressing how much his state needs assistance.
FAUCI:
Do you have any system in place that you feel can adequately identify cases and isolate and contact trace them, or are the capabilities and resources there that that’s not something you can do, given with what you have?
GOVERNOR BULLOCK:
Yeah Dr Fauci, we are trying to do contact tracing, but literally we are one day away if we don’t get test kits from the CDC, that we wouldn’t be able to do testing in Montana.
We have gone time and time again to the private side of this, the private market, and where the private market is telling us is that it’s the national resources that are then taking our orders apart.
Basically we’re getting our orders canceled.
That’s for PPE, that’s for testing supplies, that’s for testing equipment.
So while we’re trying to do all the contact tracing, we don’t have adequate tests to necessarily do it, we don’t have the PPE along the way, and we’re not finding markets to be able to do that along the way or private suppliers.
So we do have to rely on the national chain of distribution or we’re not going to get it. But we’re doing our best to do exactly that — and like Gallatin County would be an example where we have almost half of our overall state (…..) so we are trying to shift the supplyes to really isolate that and do contact tracing, but we just don’t have enough supplies to do the testing.”
Whereupon the Arsing, Lying, Fake CIC,
Wrestling Match Game,show Host CUT IN and told a dangerous slew of lies,
including that he knew nothing about the dire, critical, desperate, deadly
need for testing kits across the nation.
TRUMP:
“Tony, you can answer it if you want, but I haven’t heard about testing,
but I haven’t heard about testing in weeks.
We’ve testing more than any nation in the world.
We’ve got the great tests.
And we’re coming out with another one tomorrow that’s, you know, almost instantaneous testing.
But I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.”
Breaking: CNN anchor @ChrisCuomo has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The network just informed staffers in New York. Chris is feeling well, and will continue anchoring from home. https://t.co/53yTgDJaS7
Andrew Cuomo talking about his brother Chris’s positive test for #coronavirus: "He’s smart; he’s social distancing; but he winds up exposing himself” to the virus.
Chris Cuomo please get well….thank you to the Cuomo brothers who have been lifting our morale, our trust, such a contrast to King Doom dystopia. Trump PR killing spree show must…end…soon.
Well, it's official. Thousands of Korean workers on US bases here will be furloughed starting tomorrow, since the US and South Korea couldn't reach a military cost-sharing deal. South Korea's foreign ministry today said they were informed of the furloughs by USFK.
This clip is great because it's possible to watch it and imagine Donald Trump is a The Price is Right model and not actually president of the United States. https://t.co/tVMol9LVQZ
Trump the demented dunce placed the COVID-19 test unit upside down after he unboxed it….and left it that way. Yes, not being able to figure out simple things is a dementia sign. Whether it's this or hundreds of thousands dead, what do people need to demand his removal? https://t.co/kxfOOrqX8K
In order to combat COVID-19, we need both a decisive public health response and a decisive economic response. I’ve laid out exactly what I would do if I were president during this crisis, take a look: https://t.co/Q58OQW6tQO
Gov Cuomo making a plea to put politics aside. "The virus doesn't attack and kill red Americans or blue Americans. It attacks all Americans." #coronavirus
“Last month Trump was assuring us that the U.S. only had 15 cases and they would be down to zero in no time — and now pretty much any number below 2.2 million is proof that his genius leadership saved hundreds of thousands of lives. He also insulted reporters and claimed the hospitals don’t really need all those masks, insinuating several times that he thinks doctors and nurses are either hoarding them or selling them on the black market. ” (Salon)
—Decades of crimes past and untold present corruption intrude on his magical reality….
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My cousin’s adult son (whom I haven’t seen since he was a young boy, although I have seen all of my cousins pretty regularly over the years although we all live in different states now) posted some haughty trumpette stuff on FB last night, in response to something I replied to my cousin (which was against trump) (we don’t normally go there on FB, but who can control all that now). Both of his parents are strong Democrats.
Seeing it this morning, I shrugged my shoulders, knowing my cousin would be embarrassed, and went on with my day (it was about a lie trump told – not a life or death issue).
When I went back to FB just now, I see that my niece and my other cousin’s adult daughter both trampled him with facts. He came back and wrote something like “not everything’s political blah blah blah.” Ha!
Was thinking of responding to him (but I won’t, because it would embarrass my sweet cousin) with four choices:
1. Bless your heart.
2. You were so cute when you were a little boy.
3. ‘Sir,’ I said to the universe, ‘I exist.’ ‘That,’ said the universe, ‘instills in me no sense of obligation.’ (slightly different than the real quote, but it’s how I’ve used it my whole life!)
4.
Deeply
Empathetic
Men and women
Of
Character
Rationality
And
Truth-telling
I could never be on Facebook. You are one strong cookie.
I don’t think there are any Trump supporters in my family or at least I haven’t discovered any. I just can’t even talk to those people. I am very unforgiving right now. It does not feel good but there it is.
I’m on FB to keep in touch with my grandchildren and a few relatives, and I never usually discuss politics, although I only hang with Democrats in my real life and my relatives are Democrats (but for, apparently, at least one of their offspring)! (I’ll “throw you off my porch,” if you dare try to convince me otherwise!) Even since trump has been involved, I barely have mentioned him. But this year I’ve changed that a little and will post something small that more or less relates to him. Anybody who knows me knows where I stand. And I’m not that strong because in my mind I wanted to hit my cousin’s son with a board, poor misguided guy, and I don’t even believe in violence of any kind. 🙂 Hang in there!
Senator Chris Murphy to Hayes:
“It sort of feels like Ukraine all over again. You know, the president is, you know, now instead of using foreign aid, using emergency relief in order to try to get people to do his political bidding. The message seems pretty clear: if you criticize the president, then you are going to get attacked and you are potentially going to have critical medical supplies with held and if you get the president’s back politically, we’ll send you what you need.”
…deja vue..let’s see the unredacted.
Trump to the bathroom mirror: Be nice to me or I’ll only play ball with my governor faves,
especially that trump-trooper numbskull deSantis in that state where we’re going to kill millions of seniors.
Yeh OK some of them voted for me, but every never-trumper that dies gives me the kind of win I truly appreciate.
Matt Levine, 21, went to Texas on a spring break trip even though his dad urged him not to
When Matt returned to NY, his dad refused to pick him up from the airport and has since told him he's not allowed to stay at home where his grandparents also live.https://t.co/xJ4Mh5QxBa
I have a good feeling about AZ not only electing Mark Kelly as our junior Democratic Senator ( making BOTH our senators Democrats!) but seeing the state turn blue…. we shall see. It could happen, and ironically, it could be because of trump.
🙏🤞🙏
Since 2002, TX, NM, FL, NV, and AZ are States that when Ds Vote they should win.
GA, LA, MS, SC, NC; States that when Black & White Dems Vote, they should win.
It’s possible there will be a realignment in the process now.
CA, NM have tilted Blue. NV is still tilting Blue.
The rest, ONLY time will tell.
Trump wants to keep you from voting. So make sure you go to https://t.co/KTm21qea8f & register today. Call your friends & get them to register too. A candidate who wants to prevent you from voting because they fear you won’t vote for them is one well worth voting against. https://t.co/isthwFpXDw
Joe Biden will be on CNN today at 3:20pm, and he'll be on MSNBC tonight at 11pm. At some point during the day, pundits on both networks will continue to insist that Biden is in "hiding."
Video of Putin sharing an elevator ride 6 days ago w the chief doctor of Kommunarka hospital Denis Potsenko who tested positives for #coronavirushttps://t.co/SmRhYJeTf9
Abbott is failing Texas and will cause people to lose their lives. A real leader would have implemented a statewide shelter in place by now. Let’s push him to do the right thing while there’s still time. Call him at 512-463-2000 & retweet to save lives in Texas. https://t.co/HRgi3PYbIh
Striking another blow against Gov. Ron DeSantis, a federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a ruling that felons who have served their time but are unable to pay “legal financial obligations” must be allowed to vote. https://t.co/nb0jF7zJxl
🗳️Speaker Pelosi: "We're going to MOVE to vote by mail..The integrity of our election system is central to our Democracy..I don't know how anyone could oppose our enabling our states to have vote by mail..Public opinion will weigh in on that!"#COVID19pic.twitter.com/vSr4cHrupo
Good, I think that when people can sit in their own homes by themselves and think long and hard the direction that they want their country to go in they will vote (hopefully) in their own best interest.
Democratic Rep. Max Rose announced he has been deployed to the front lines of the nation's coronavirus epicenter in New York as a member of the National Guard. https://t.co/SSULtuQGN3
You've lost the Constitution You've lost our 3 co-equal branches of govt You've lost the court system You've lost the immigration system You've lost the education system You've lost our planet earth You've lost free and fair elections You're about to lose your family and friends
We have extra FDA-approved ventilators. Will ship to hospitals worldwide within Tesla delivery regions. Device & shipping cost are free. Only requirement is that the vents are needed immediately for patients, not stored in a warehouse. Please me or @Tesla know.
Its like every governmental institution has been hollowed out. Are you telling me the fucking Pentagon doesn’t know where to send fucking ventilators? I mean we can chase ben laden all across the world and bring him to justice but we don’t know where to send a fucking ventilator.
We watched this video and my husband actually made one last night from a bandana that we had. We just don’t have the pony tails holders. FF to this morning: I have a seamtress lady who can do anything. I took 6 bandanas to her this morning (dropped on her front porch). She has them ready for pick up. She actually got 7 masks out of the 6 bandanas I took her. Charged me $20 to do that!!!
Trump says he hasn’t heard about testing in weeks. Maybe in his own delusion & dismissal of real needs he’s not paying attention. But just b/c he isn’t hearing doesn’t mean it’s not being said.
This is why we must have a mass movement of poor people—to make them hear us! pic.twitter.com/UWgnlu8QsY
— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) March 31, 2020
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JUST NOW— Gov. Ron DeSantis says the White House task force hasn't told him to issue a statewide stay-at-home-order: "The task force is not recommending this. If they do, that’s something that would carry a lot of weight with me."
Stupid @Franklin_Graham put a Field Hospital and a wet field , any Army private know if you put tents in wet ground it going to get muddy , hospital should be on concrete or in a arena #samaritan purse wanted the media shots , 45 mph wind and rain will crap these
If Biden is going to win, says @davidplouffe, he has to figure out how to challenge Trump on the turf where few have been able to challenge him: the news cycle https://t.co/VAAQrcgX6p
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Morning everyone . Thank you healthcare workers. All of you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thread
I’ve never heard him thank healthcare workers, or talk about the victims of this.
Good Morning, TODbots.
Thank you, NW👒💁♀️🤗😍
Congrats, Marleysperson on your Au🥇
Bringing this from the last post;
Wow!!!❤️❤️
How about the Pentagon?
Governors have been asking/begging for a way to co-ordinate the medical equipment supply chain:
“Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenge of medical resources in the U.S. not being applied where they’re needed, and the possibility that the Pentagon may be best suited to serve as a central coordinating power that sees to national coronavirus response as the epidemic grows and shifts.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pentagon-may-be-best-option-to-coordinate-medical-equipment-supply-chain-81406021965)
McNeil suggested giving the Pentagon control…running the sharing of ventilators nationally like a library.
I saw that last night and thought that sounded like a great idea. It will fall on deaf ears. The thing is, he doesn’t WANT to help. Not really. He tinkers around the edges to make himself feel good and put up the appearance, but basically, he’s culling the herd. He doesn’t give a shit
As I was saying….
Also Here:
NY Gov. Cuomo holds news conference on coronavirus – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Things just keep getting worse.
Oh jeez:(
Governor Bullock (D-MT) spoke to Fauci at WH conference call yesterday, stressing how much his state needs assistance.
FAUCI:
Do you have any system in place that you feel can adequately identify cases and isolate and contact trace them, or are the capabilities and resources there that that’s not something you can do, given with what you have?
GOVERNOR BULLOCK:
Yeah Dr Fauci, we are trying to do contact tracing, but literally we are one day away if we don’t get test kits from the CDC, that we wouldn’t be able to do testing in Montana.
We have gone time and time again to the private side of this, the private market, and where the private market is telling us is that it’s the national resources that are then taking our orders apart.
Basically we’re getting our orders canceled.
That’s for PPE, that’s for testing supplies, that’s for testing equipment.
So while we’re trying to do all the contact tracing, we don’t have adequate tests to necessarily do it, we don’t have the PPE along the way, and we’re not finding markets to be able to do that along the way or private suppliers.
So we do have to rely on the national chain of distribution or we’re not going to get it. But we’re doing our best to do exactly that — and like Gallatin County would be an example where we have almost half of our overall state (…..) so we are trying to shift the supplyes to really isolate that and do contact tracing, but we just don’t have enough supplies to do the testing.”
Whereupon the Arsing, Lying, Fake CIC,
Wrestling Match Game,show Host CUT IN and told a dangerous slew of lies,
including that he knew nothing about the dire, critical, desperate, deadly
need for testing kits across the nation.
TRUMP:
“Tony, you can answer it if you want, but I haven’t heard about testing,
but I haven’t heard about testing in weeks.
We’ve testing more than any nation in the world.
We’ve got the great tests.
And we’re coming out with another one tomorrow that’s, you know, almost instantaneous testing.
But I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.”
Did “Tony” address this question? WTF Trump “But I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.” Must be deaf. Or not listening.
Video: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/national-covid-response-useless-for-coordinating-medical-supplies-81405509922)
Chris Cuomo please get well….thank you to the Cuomo brothers who have been lifting our morale, our trust, such a contrast to King Doom dystopia. Trump PR killing spree show must…end…soon.
Yeah, a regular Vanna White, that one.
Now turn around and get back in the fridge.
No. Worse than Vanna
👀
Good West Coast morning Nerdy & TOD family
“Don’t let the polls fool you: Trump’s bizarre coronavirus show isn’t working”
“Yes, his numbers have ticked upward for now.
But compared to every other major world leader,
he’s still a clown.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/03/30/dont-let-the-polls-fool-you-trumps-bizarre-coronavirus-show-isnt-working/)
—don’t miss!
got the gift…just let me listen to this guy all day.
In total agreement
“Last month Trump was assuring us that the U.S. only had 15 cases and they would be down to zero in no time — and now pretty much any number below 2.2 million is proof that his genius leadership saved hundreds of thousands of lives. He also insulted reporters and claimed the hospitals don’t really need all those masks, insinuating several times that he thinks doctors and nurses are either hoarding them or selling them on the black market. ” (Salon)
—Decades of crimes past and untold present corruption intrude on his magical reality….
i love hearing about these things from Michelle Obama.
stunning talented woman
Love that. Love Lilly. Love the way President Obama invited her to attend the signing ceremony!
I seem to recall that was one of his first acts as POTUS. Just always, always, always there for us, for the greater good.
My cousin’s adult son (whom I haven’t seen since he was a young boy, although I have seen all of my cousins pretty regularly over the years although we all live in different states now) posted some haughty trumpette stuff on FB last night, in response to something I replied to my cousin (which was against trump) (we don’t normally go there on FB, but who can control all that now). Both of his parents are strong Democrats.
Seeing it this morning, I shrugged my shoulders, knowing my cousin would be embarrassed, and went on with my day (it was about a lie trump told – not a life or death issue).
When I went back to FB just now, I see that my niece and my other cousin’s adult daughter both trampled him with facts. He came back and wrote something like “not everything’s political blah blah blah.” Ha!
Was thinking of responding to him (but I won’t, because it would embarrass my sweet cousin) with four choices:
1. Bless your heart.
2. You were so cute when you were a little boy.
3. ‘Sir,’ I said to the universe, ‘I exist.’ ‘That,’ said the universe, ‘instills in me no sense of obligation.’ (slightly different than the real quote, but it’s how I’ve used it my whole life!)
4.
Deeply
Empathetic
Men and women
Of
Character
Rationality
And
Truth-telling
***
I feel better already! The end.
I could never be on Facebook. You are one strong cookie.
I don’t think there are any Trump supporters in my family or at least I haven’t discovered any. I just can’t even talk to those people. I am very unforgiving right now. It does not feel good but there it is.
Right there with you
I’m on FB to keep in touch with my grandchildren and a few relatives, and I never usually discuss politics, although I only hang with Democrats in my real life and my relatives are Democrats (but for, apparently, at least one of their offspring)! (I’ll “throw you off my porch,” if you dare try to convince me otherwise!) Even since trump has been involved, I barely have mentioned him. But this year I’ve changed that a little and will post something small that more or less relates to him. Anybody who knows me knows where I stand. And I’m not that strong because in my mind I wanted to hit my cousin’s son with a board, poor misguided guy, and I don’t even believe in violence of any kind. 🙂 Hang in there!
Hahahaha! I admire you THOROUGHLY.
Same. Totally unforgiving…
I hope there is an eminent domain type of law or whatever you call it , in Australia.
This is why I am in favour off some kind of nationalization.
Senator Chris Murphy to Hayes:
“It sort of feels like Ukraine all over again. You know, the president is, you know, now instead of using foreign aid, using emergency relief in order to try to get people to do his political bidding. The message seems pretty clear: if you criticize the president, then you are going to get attacked and you are potentially going to have critical medical supplies with held and if you get the president’s back politically, we’ll send you what you need.”
…deja vue..let’s see the unredacted.
Trump to the bathroom mirror: Be nice to me or I’ll only play ball with my governor faves,
especially that trump-trooper numbskull deSantis in that state where we’re going to kill millions of seniors.
Yeh OK some of them voted for me, but every never-trumper that dies gives me the kind of win I truly appreciate.
So Adorable….:-))
a very little darling…thanks for being here.
OH MY GOODNESS. What a sweet little girl!!
So cute 🙂
She is way past being adorable. 🙂
Excellent! It’s called being responsible
Good, its time for that kid to put on his big boy pants.
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I have a good feeling about AZ not only electing Mark Kelly as our junior Democratic Senator ( making BOTH our senators Democrats!) but seeing the state turn blue…. we shall see. It could happen, and ironically, it could be because of trump.
🙏🤞🙏
Since 2002, TX, NM, FL, NV, and AZ are States that when Ds Vote they should win.
GA, LA, MS, SC, NC; States that when Black & White Dems Vote, they should win.
It’s possible there will be a realignment in the process now.
CA, NM have tilted Blue. NV is still tilting Blue.
The rest, ONLY time will tell.
Here’s praying that we all vote and that this is the year it finally happens.
Register to vote. Do it now. Lives depend on you
He is not on CNN. 😦
BEAUTY BREAK
I live five minutes out of Austin and you would never know that there’s a raging pandemic taking place. Abbott is as useless as tits on a bull.
Good for her. Hope they listened and heard
UGH
PA passed a bill allowing PA to vote my mail…i applied for my ballot on line today…
you can also register to vote on line…
Good, I think that when people can sit in their own homes by themselves and think long and hard the direction that they want their country to go in they will vote (hopefully) in their own best interest.
Be safe
WAKE UP, AMERICA
hmmm…do you think he just wanted his fame too….am i being wrong here
Oh, snap.
Devastating ads
I can only smh … I think the govt is out to get its own ppl.
Its like every governmental institution has been hollowed out. Are you telling me the fucking Pentagon doesn’t know where to send fucking ventilators? I mean we can chase ben laden all across the world and bring him to justice but we don’t know where to send a fucking ventilator.
WOW..
We watched this video and my husband actually made one last night from a bandana that we had. We just don’t have the pony tails holders. FF to this morning: I have a seamtress lady who can do anything. I took 6 bandanas to her this morning (dropped on her front porch). She has them ready for pick up. She actually got 7 masks out of the 6 bandanas I took her. Charged me $20 to do that!!!
Now that’s teamwork!! Congrats on the hook-up!!
“Trump has fallen for an old Cold War propaganda trick by agreeing to accept a planeload of medical supplies to fight the coronavirus from Putin.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/31/trump-putin-russia-medical-supplies.html)
I don’t know … with this level of orchestration … PP should be a symphony conductor.
Meanwhile:
“The Trump administration thinks that governors and local officials are lying about the level of supplies that they need, so they are making them prove it before providing aid.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/31/trump-thinks-governors-are-lying-about-needing-medical-supplies.html)
UNBELIEVABLE
Effing idiot. He’s the freaking Gov. Just go away! 😖
Just coz we all need a cackle a day these days!
He’s killing people. Right this moment
Gov Cuomo talking about his little brother, Chris Cuomo.
This is LOVE.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/only-about-you/
AZ in the bullseye