Posted on 03/31/2020 1:51:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - For a few moments in the Rose Garden, the coronavirus pandemic is a bucking bronco with President Donald Trump on its back. His arm swings an invisible rope. He seems to be hanging on for dear life.
“Ride it like a cowboy,” he growls. “Just ride it. Ride that sucker right through.”
This rodeo riff came during the daily White House coronavirus task force briefing, where science meets all things Trump.
It’s where the teetotaling president serves a 5 o’clock cocktail of public-health policy, twisted facts, invented achievements, performance art, hectoring, cheerleading, erraticism, improvisation, self-praise, pet theories and a dash of eloquence. Shaken not stirred. Late in starting, finished when he feels like it.
The self-styled “wartime president” is, at least, a showtime president. He’s enjoying the high ratings of his briefings and boasting they’re up there with “The Bachelor.” Meantime on the streets of the country, people are recoiling in the wake of each passing stranger’s exhalation. In jammed hospitals, patients are fighting for life. The death toll arcs upward.
Still the show must go on.
As the briefing slips into its second hour, it becomes apparent that Trump is conditioning Americans to expect far more deaths from COVID-19 than anyone would think from his history of minimizing the crisis. Gone is the talk about the virus maybe going away like magic in the warmth of spring.
The sun is slanting low in the garden as Trump brings this briefing to a close.
“I want our life back again,” he says.
“I want our country back.
“I want the world back.
“I want the world to get rid of this.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
I love that....(D-AP)
it’s exactly the case and we should label them all that way.
What is this idiot doing to help in this crisis? It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and carp.
It sounds like the writer thinks he is providing NEWS.
He must be confused.
Read this AP drivel.
And they wonder why nobody with a functioning brain believes anything they write.
It really is a society of two worlds.
Like David Morrissey in the SciFi piece “The City & The City”, living side by side, but trained not to see the other, right in front of them.
The think the tickets are free.
If you are not entertained, you probably shouldn’t be returning day after day.
I think he really enjoys looking the enemy straight in the eye and setting them straight, so I look for him to continue this in some fashion.
Partisan Media Shills update.
It’s the high point of the day around here. Cant wait to see Trump call out the “reporters”.
I guess the absence of Mass is affecting me...I just want all these media AH’s to die.
Is this Calvin related to Carl ?
I looked at one of Calvin’s links in his article. “Fact check” Calvin is definitely a man on a mission.
Snarky bass turd suffering from a cranial/rectal inversion.
Calvin is certainly a nasty little bitch, isn’t he?
Dear Calvin: Keep it up. The few Americans who don’t already know the media is infected with terminal TDS are catching on.
just noting - Calvin often teams up with AP’s gloBULL warming shills, Hope Yen and Seth Borenstein.
Just wait until President Trump skips a day.
“Trump hides from the media when he needs to be visible leading this country through this crisis....”
Would Calvin be any relation to Carl Woodward of the WaPo Watergate team?
Oops, I mean Bob Woodward.
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