People are tired of coronavirus

Trump is in Las Vegas, where he should stay until he is imprisoned.

Trump joined a campaign staff call from his hotel in Las Vegas, where he is staying before his two campaign rallies in Arizona later today.

The president tried to instill confidence in his campaign staff, insisting he would win the election, despite the recent disappointing polls.

He insists a lot of things. Insistence doesn’t make it true.

He relieved his frustrations by trashing Fauci.

“People are tired of coronavirus,” the president said, according to reporters who listened in on the call. “People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.”

We’re tired of coronavirus – you don’t say! Here I thought we were loving it, with all the deaths and miserable protracted illnesses and restrictions and deprivations. And yes how very sensible to get angry at the medical experts who advise us on how to reduce the spread of the virus, and how sensible and reasonable and fair to call them idiots, especially when you yourself are…not conspicuously intelligent or thoughtful.

He said Fauci had been around too long. (You know someone else we could say that about? Of course you do.)

The president also claimed (without evidence) that the US death toll would have been as high as 800,000 if he had followed Fauci’s advice.“Fauci is a disaster,” Trump said.

Without evidence and without anything else. No reasons, no explanation, no chain of reasoning, no argument – just a stupid assertion, as always. His name should be Stupid J. Assertion.

Yesterday this happened:

Comments

6 responses to “People are tired of coronavirus”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    He’s publically trashing Fauci because Scott Atlas is prepared to spout the lines that Trump wants people to believe. Twitter isn’t playing ball, though.

    Twitter has removed a tweet by Scott Atlas, a controversial scientist who has Donald Trump’s ear, in which he wrongly stated that masks fail to protect against coronavirus. […] On Sunday, Twitter took down the tweet in which Atlas said: “Masks work? NO.” The company said the post violated its policy on Covid-19 misinformation that prohibits “sharing false or misleading content which could lead to harm”.

    Meanwhile, there’s a suggestion that Atlas may be getting a touch above himself.

    The Post reported that at one meeting in the Oval Office, Atlas placed himself behind the Resolute Desk after Trump had left the room.

    Because one over-stuffed, under-qualified dolt sitting there wasn’t insulting enough to the office and all that it represents.

    A neuroradiologist, Atlas has no training in virology or epidemiology yet is understood to have become the key scientific influence on the president […]

    But he looks the part, and that’s the important thing, right?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/19/scott-atlas-twitter-removal-false-coronavirus-tweet

  2. Papito Avatar

    I’m tired of coronavirus.

    But if I got coronavirus, I would probably be even more tired.

  3. iknklast Avatar

    But he looks the part, and that’s the important thing, right?

    Well, and he says what Trump wants him to say. A lot of the “central casting” appointments Trump made early on are…gone! Because they mistakenly assumed they were hired to do a job, and not kiss Trump’s ass.

    Papito, that is exactly what I was thinking. Yes, I would like to go back to living life, but I also want to be able to continue living life, and coronavirus might not let me do that.

  4. twiliter Avatar

    Donnie Dipshit shows us again how vile he is, as if we didn’t know already.

  5. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Clearly the rush to pump Trump full of steroids meant that he didn’t get to feel the full debilitating effect of the virus. Had he suffered even a half as bad as others did he might just have some empathy and understanding of the need to keep up precautionary mea….what am I saying? This is Trump, for Christ’s sake. He could watch his entire family suffer agonies and still appear at his rallies with that stupid grin and tiny thumbs-up gesture, shouting that he feels great and open everything and lock ’em all up.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    And not even just stupid grin and tiny fists making tiny gestures – he gets high on those rallies. He relaxes more and ad libs more, and he kind of roars at the crowd. He was high that way when he did the Biden-gesture-parody with his tongue sticking out. It’s a gruesome spectacle.