Trump reached a new level of horrifying in today’s nightmare “press conference.”
Trump prematurely declares victory on the coronavirus: "We have met the moment and we have prevailed." pic.twitter.com/YhmwI2BwA3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2020
Prevailed? We still have the highest rate of infection per capita on the whole planet, don’t we? Along with the highest number of deaths per capita? If that’s prevailing, what would abject failure look like?
Turns out he meant we have prevailed in testing. We haven’t, of course, but that’s what he meant.
TRUMP: "You never prevail when you have 90,000 people [dead], 100,000 people, 80,000 people as of today." pic.twitter.com/6i6Bg07SUZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2020
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