The rampiad
The bit where he says we have to test for the virus less, so that we won’t know how bad it is.
The crowd cheers this murderous claim.
2.19 minutes on his Adventure Going Down the Ramp – and he’s only begun.
He claims he had a whole conversation with the general about the ramp when we know he didn’t – we saw the clip where the general makes the “here we go” sign with his hand and off they go. There was no conversation.
A hand puppet would make a better president.
‘”Here’s the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘slow the testing down please!'” — Trump
The crowd cheers this murderous claim.’
He is almost certainly talking about one or more of THEM.
To be honest, an omelet would make a better president, and it’s going to spoil after only a couple of days.
“I can’t fall with the fake news watching.”
Because then they would… accurately report what happened?
@#3 Falling is pretty common, everyone has done it a time or 2, some even on camera. That’s not the image he’s going for though, it would humanize him too much. He can make fun of others, but caught being human? God forbid. He makes fun of people, mocks them, and calls them names. He’s too prideful to ever be caught on camera actually having a fall and showing he’s just as human as the rest of us. This is what I mean by him lacking humility. Getting dragged for not falling was probably something he didn’t expect. Trying to play it off like some stand up comic is pathetic.
@4: Oh, I don’t blame him for not wanting to fall, or for not wanting cameras to record him falling. Common or not, it would be embarrassing. I wouldn’t want someone to film me falling on my ass. I just thought it was funny to worry about fake news organizations accurately documenting events.
It might be embarrassing to some, but I’m not so sure about him. He wasn’t embarrassed about being impeached, even Nixon resigned to avoid it, and Clinton was visibly humiliated. I think he just uses this excuse to take yet another shot at the media, because he was criticized for walking more carefully down a ramp than people thought he should have.
@#6: President Harry Truman said of Nixon: ‘I do not believe that the son of a bitch knows the difference between telling the truth and lying.” Ramps, slippery or otherwise are not Trump’s problem. He is a toddler in the big kids’ pool, and he is in over his head. He is not the blind trying to lead the blind. He is a clueless toddler trying to lead a diminishing following of clueless toddlers. Nixon probably knew at least that Britain was a nuclear power. Trump did not.
Beside President Pussygrabber, Nixon has the stature of Abraham Lincoln.
Nixon was actually quite intelligent. Warped, but intelligent.
@#7&8 Agreed, Nixon was no idiot, and yes, corrupt, but did seem to have the capacity for embarrassment. Trump is a whole ‘nother thing, a dreadful one.
Two months ago, Nick Cohen psychoanalysed Trump and his cronies rather well, IMHO:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/bluff-bombast-blame-all-trump-can-offer-coronavirus-crisis