Is Trump being truthful about the coronavirus?

[The Original Tree]

Of course he is being honest. It's The Left that is praying for an epidemic and dead people everywhere.

Looks like California is going to lose some seats back to The GOP because of this fear mongering, and people being upset with being lied to about Russian Collusion, and Ukraine Delusion.

And we just took out another terrorist.

Air strike 'kills al-Shabab commander in Somalia'

California GOP candidates ahead in six of seven districts lost to Democrats in 2018

 

[Lakhota]

Trump can't lie his way out of this crisis!

CAPTAIN CHAOS: MISINFORMATION SPREE AS CRISIS DEEPENS

 

[katsteve2012]

This is not a good time to have an incompetent, narcissistic, pathological liar as the prez.

i would preface & say donny is a malignant narcissist:

How to Tell You're Dealing with a Malignant Narcissist
The intentional destruction of others while pathologically loving the self.
Posted Feb 22, 2017
[...]
Malignant Narcissism

I want to explore with you the darker side of narcissistic personality disorder, where aggression, antisocial behaviors, and suspiciousness are as prominent as their poor sense of self, fragility, and egocentricity. (Below is a video clip that explores the symptoms of malignant narcissism.)

A person with malignant narcissism has the potential to destroy families, communities, nations, and work environments. This condition reflects a hybrid or blending of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. Psychologist Eric Fromm termed the disorder in 1964. Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg later delineated the symptoms of the condition and presented it as an intermediary between narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.

Why is the behavior of malignant narcissism often considered dangerous?

Individuals with this profile can form connections with others. However, they process information in ways that can hurt society in general, but also the people who love or depend on them. Family, co-workers, employees, and others in their lives often have to walk on eggshells to appease a fragile ego and minimize the occurrence of their unstable, impulsive, or aggressive behaviors.

They lash out or humiliate others for infractions of even the most frivolous nature (for example, you gave an opinion that differed from theirs; you demonstrated confidence, and it made them look bad; you told a joke that involved poking fun at them).

For some, their grandiosity and protection of their fragile "true self" can be at such extreme levels that they will lie and give the impression that simply because they say it, that makes it reality. Many will become angered if their lies are challenged with truth or facts. Of course, this can create problems for the people close to them, as this pattern of behavior can easily veer into gaslighting.

Malignant narcissism is a blend of two disorders that pose problems interpersonally for their victims — narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. It is not uncommon for others to feel anxious, intimidated by, and fearful of people with this condition. The combination of poor empathy coupled with aggression, hypersensitivity, and suspiciousness can bring pain to others.

Those who interact with malignant narcissists often consider them jealous, petty, thin-skinned, punitive, hateful, cunning, and angry. Given their shallowness, they are not regulated emotionally and have beliefs that swing from one extreme to the next.

Their decisions can hurt others, because they rank relationships and people based on superficial standards and categories. They want to land on top, even when pretending to be altruistic or engaging in an activity that should not be "all about them." They often view the world through a primitive binary lens (for example, winner/loser; smart/dumb; rich/poor; pretty/ugly; black/white) — all the while sustaining the belief that they are superior. This is likely associated with problems processing emotional information, which reflects faulty neurobiology.
[...]
How to Tell You're Dealing with a Malignant Narcissist

Very similar to a "narcissistic sociopath"

 

[Chuz Life]

Do you trust him? Do you believe him? It seems to me that he is much more concerned about the economy and his reelection than the truth about the coronavirus. He seems to be in daily contradiction to the scientists and public health officials. What do you think?

If Trump is wrong, so are the medical Professionals at WEB-MD

Coronavirus, Article from "WEB-MD"

 

[playtime]

Mixed White House messaging on coronavirus sparks internal frustration
White House officials acknowledge President Donald Trump is simply not on the same wavelength as his team but say there isn't much they can do to change his public tone.
Mixed White House messaging on coronavirus sparks internal frustration

PALM BEACH, Fla. — White House officials are growing increasingly frustrated at what they see as President Donald Trump's consistent bids to downplay the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, a tendency that has led to a clash in messaging with public health officials.

Those mixed signals were on display Sunday as the top infectious disease doctor at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci, warned the elderly and medically vulnerable to avoid large crowds and long trips or cruises and Surgeon General Jerome Adams told the public to be prepared for more cases and deaths.


But the message Sunday morning from Trump on Twitter was praise for his administration's response, which he called a "perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan," and blame for the media, which he said was "doing everything possible to make us look bad."

The president also told reporters Saturday night that he wouldn't be postponing his political rallies, which can attract upward of 15,000 attendees, and wasn't concerned about the virus getting closer to the White House.

Multiple sources familiar with the discussions acknowledged that Trump is simply not on the same wavelength as the rest of his team, but they said there isn't much they can do to change his public tone. Trump has been advised by some close to him to let public health officials, rather than the politicians, take a more forward-facing role, according to a person familiar with the conversation. But a person close to the White House said Trump thinks it helps him politically to keep doing what he has been doing.

That has left aides feeling discouraged over their efforts to get out a more comprehensive message about what needs to be done to prepare the public for likely hardships and major changes to their daily lives that could be ahead, said one White House official.

NBC the same media source that brought you Trump Russian collusion the Steele Dossier and the Schiff Sham not brings you the coronavirus scare of 2020

by questioning anthony fauci?

Why believe a media that lies to you so many times?

um - what?

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2020 is an estimated $5.9 billion.

Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Read Dr. Fauci's Biography

NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

shrugs irony you'll believe anything fake news Russia Russia Russia

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is such a non counterpoint to actual truth & facts it's pathetic.

you would rather believe capt crazy pants & his 'hunches' rather than a bonafide scientist? wipe the cheeto dust off your lips.

 

[playtime]

This is not a good time to have an incompetent, narcissistic, pathological liar as the prez.

i would preface & say donny is a malignant narcissist:

How to Tell You're Dealing with a Malignant Narcissist
The intentional destruction of others while pathologically loving the self.
Posted Feb 22, 2017
[...]
Malignant Narcissism

I want to explore with you the darker side of narcissistic personality disorder, where aggression, antisocial behaviors, and suspiciousness are as prominent as their poor sense of self, fragility, and egocentricity. (Below is a video clip that explores the symptoms of malignant narcissism.)

A person with malignant narcissism has the potential to destroy families, communities, nations, and work environments. This condition reflects a hybrid or blending of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. Psychologist Eric Fromm termed the disorder in 1964. Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg later delineated the symptoms of the condition and presented it as an intermediary between narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.

Why is the behavior of malignant narcissism often considered dangerous?

Individuals with this profile can form connections with others. However, they process information in ways that can hurt society in general, but also the people who love or depend on them. Family, co-workers, employees, and others in their lives often have to walk on eggshells to appease a fragile ego and minimize the occurrence of their unstable, impulsive, or aggressive behaviors.

They lash out or humiliate others for infractions of even the most frivolous nature (for example, you gave an opinion that differed from theirs; you demonstrated confidence, and it made them look bad; you told a joke that involved poking fun at them).

For some, their grandiosity and protection of their fragile "true self" can be at such extreme levels that they will lie and give the impression that simply because they say it, that makes it reality. Many will become angered if their lies are challenged with truth or facts. Of course, this can create problems for the people close to them, as this pattern of behavior can easily veer into gaslighting.

Malignant narcissism is a blend of two disorders that pose problems interpersonally for their victims — narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. It is not uncommon for others to feel anxious, intimidated by, and fearful of people with this condition. The combination of poor empathy coupled with aggression, hypersensitivity, and suspiciousness can bring pain to others.

Those who interact with malignant narcissists often consider them jealous, petty, thin-skinned, punitive, hateful, cunning, and angry. Given their shallowness, they are not regulated emotionally and have beliefs that swing from one extreme to the next.

Their decisions can hurt others, because they rank relationships and people based on superficial standards and categories. They want to land on top, even when pretending to be altruistic or engaging in an activity that should not be "all about them." They often view the world through a primitive binary lens (for example, winner/loser; smart/dumb; rich/poor; pretty/ugly; black/white) — all the while sustaining the belief that they are superior. This is likely associated with problems processing emotional information, which reflects faulty neurobiology.
[...]
How to Tell You're Dealing with a Malignant Narcissist

Very similar to a "narcissistic sociopath"

donny has no empathy - the first marker of a sociopath.

 

[berg80]

I watched Maddow's show last night. She began with the story about the admin refusing to go along with the CDC's recommendation that elderly and vulnerable people not fly on commercial flights. She then mentioned the admin's denial anything like this happened.

However, near the conclusion of the segment she played a recording of a phone conference members of the CDC held on the c-virus. It made clear, without being filtered by hacks in the admin, what the CDC's position is regarding the virus and what precautions should be taken. That message is not the same one being promoted by the Liar-in-Chief and his minions.

It made absolutely clear in vivid detail how Trump is jeopardizing the public's health by not allowing the assessments of the medical experts to be disseminated.

 

[berg80]

With coronavirus, the Fox News-Trump feedback loop will get people killed
With coronavirus, the Fox News-Trump feedback loop will get people killed

More Americans are going to die from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 because President Donald Trump is watching Fox News and listening when the network’s hosts minimize the risks posed by the deadly epidemic. I can’t put it any more plainly than that.

Since 2017, I’ve reported on how Trump’s obsessive watching of Fox turns into hyperaggressive tweets and government policy. This Fox-Trump feedback loop has dictated presidential pardons, federal contracts, and even a partial government shutdown.

It is dangerous to have a highly suggestible president who prefers to listen to a cable network’s propagandists rather than experts. The result is a broken policy process where officials are forced to fight the president’s television for his attention -- even trying to reach him directly by appearing on his favorite shows.

Since I began studying the Fox-Trump feedback loop, I have worried the most about two scenarios where the president’s Fox obsession could prove uniquely disastrous: the prospect of a military confrontation with a nuclear power and a global pandemic. As of yet, we’ve avoided the first. The second is here.

The coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people in at least 97 countries, with a death toll now approaching 4,000. In the United States, at least 34 states and the District of Columbia have confirmed cases for a total of more than 500 infected people -- surely an undercount because there’s a lack of available test kits. Thousands are being asked to self-quarantine in the hope of minimizing community spread and preventing a drastic shortfall in hospital beds.

The U.S. was not prepared to respond to the coronavirus -- in no small part because Trump had hamstrung the nation’s pandemic response capabilities. The Washington Post detailed Saturday the “many preventable missteps and blunders in the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis — the embodiment of an administration that, for weeks, repeatedly squandered opportunities to manage and prepare for a global epidemic.” The problems started from the top: Trump “has undermined his administration’s own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak — resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear,” Politico reported the same day.

Trump’s lax response to the spread of the coronavirus mimics the reaction of his favorite network -- and that’s no coincidence. The president is shunning aides who provide him with negative information about the epidemic and basking in Fox’s glowing coverage. On Friday afternoon, amid a rambling and incoherent press event at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Trump downplayed the threat posed by the disease, praised his administration’s response, lashed out at Democrats, and told reporters that he was getting information about the spread of the coronavirus from Fox.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Trump keeps telling the truth. The democrats counter with a tsunami of lies.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

NBC the same media source that brought you Trump Russian collusion the Steele Dossier and the Schiff Sham not brings you the coronavirus scare of 2020

by questioning anthony fauci?

Why believe a media that lies to you so many times?

um - what?

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2020 is an estimated $5.9 billion.

Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Read Dr. Fauci's Biography

NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

shrugs irony you'll believe anything fake news Russia Russia Russia

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is such a non counterpoint to actual truth & facts it's pathetic.

you would rather believe capt crazy pants & his 'hunches' rather than a bonafide scientist? wipe the cheeto dust off your lips.

Again I have seen you believe every fake news story that fake news has released. Game set and match

 

[hadit]

The Trump administration is on top of the virus. Much more so than if a Democrat was in office. It's why he declared a public health emergency back on Jan 31 and started quarantining people who flew in from certain areas. 1.1 million tests this weekend and 1 million more early next week. Private companies getting involved.

It sounds like a promotion for Trump's BS lying. So, provide proof with a link or admit you are a brainwashed Trump sucker.

His history is that he expects people who he is in charge of to produce. He sees the flak thrown at him by the propaganda shills as a deterrent

His history is he lies and misinforms to cover-up his failures and blunders. Shortly after he assured the country anyone who needed testing for Coronavirus could and would be tested, official spokesperson VP Pence announced during a press conference the test kits were not available in quantities needed but promised they would be....soon, confirming Trump was lying and misinforming.

The two statements are not contradictory. Trump was saying that testing would occur, and Pence was giving details about when and how it would happen. If Trump had said, after being told that testing kits were on their way, that people would NOT be tested, then he would have been lying. So you got it backward.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

So, this new desperate reach of the month caused by Fake News and their bots will now be.. "Trump created the coronavirus"? Even though it all started in China. Trump had the flights not coming into the U.S months ago already. Sad how these Trump hater are resorting to politicizing this flu.

Where was the outrage about H1N1 when nObama was president?

Where's their hysteria over the normal flu, its killed 17,000 Americans this flu season.

The flu is understood and managed, dope.

 

[playtime]

by questioning anthony fauci?

Why believe a media that lies to you so many times?

um - what?

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2020 is an estimated $5.9 billion.

Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Read Dr. Fauci's Biography

NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

shrugs irony you'll believe anything fake news Russia Russia Russia

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is such a non counterpoint to actual truth & facts it's pathetic.

you would rather believe capt crazy pants & his 'hunches' rather than a bonafide scientist? wipe the cheeto dust off your lips.

Again I have seen you believe every fake news story that fake news has released. Game set and match

anthony fauci reports to trump you dumbass. & donny sure as shit said that to hannity.

56 seconds in.

 

[BluesLegend]

So, this new desperate reach of the month caused by Fake News and their bots will now be.. "Trump created the coronavirus"? Even though it all started in China. Trump had the flights not coming into the U.S months ago already. Sad how these Trump hater are resorting to politicizing this flu.

Where was the outrage about H1N1 when nObama was president?

Where's their hysteria over the normal flu, its killed 17,000 Americans this flu season.

The flu is understood and managed, dope.

This season the flu has killed 17,000 while the Coronavirus has killed 30. I'm sorry which one is managed?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Is Trump being truthful about the coronavirus?"

Of course not.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Oh, sheesh. Trump's quick response, especially his travel ban, is the reason that the U.S. has had fewer Corona virus cases than many other countries. During the first few days after the outbreak, your liberal buddies were berating Trump for "over-reacting" to the virus; some even claimed that his far-reaching travel ban was "racist." Now we see that his response was both timely and wise.

AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness

 

[Hutch Starskey]

So, this new desperate reach of the month caused by Fake News and their bots will now be.. "Trump created the coronavirus"? Even though it all started in China. Trump had the flights not coming into the U.S months ago already. Sad how these Trump hater are resorting to politicizing this flu.

Where was the outrage about H1N1 when nObama was president?

Where's their hysteria over the normal flu, its killed 17,000 Americans this flu season.

The flu is understood and managed, dope.

This season the flu has killed 17,000 while the Coronavirus has killed 30. I'm sorry which one is managed?

Obviously the flu, dope.

 

[Lakhota]

SHOCK REPORT: W.H. ORDERED C-VIRUS TALKS ‘CLASSIFIED’

CLASSIFIED? Trump is pure evil. All he cares about is his reelection. Dangerous and sad...

 

[g5000]

Is Trump being truthful about the coronavirus?

 

[g5000]

Fact check: A list of 28 ways Trump and his team have been dishonest about the coronavirus