Posted on 04/19/2020 1:05:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Piers Morgan said he is horrified by how his “friend” President Trump is handling the coronavirus crisis.
The British media personality said Trump has turned his daily briefings on the pandemic into a partisan affair, which Morgan argued shows Trump is more concerned with winning November’s election than saving lives.
"I've known him a long time. I consider him to be a friend, but I've been watching these daily briefings with mounting horror, frankly, because this is not what the president should be doing. He won't want me saying this, but I'm gonna say it anyway," Morgan told CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday.
Morgan said all Trump had to do was be calm, show authority and empathy, and tell the truth.
"At almost every level of that, Donald Trump at the moment is failing the American people," he said. “He’s turning these briefings into a self-aggrandizing, self-justifying, overly defensive, politically partisan — almost like a rally to him."
“Donald Trump, if he’s listening to this or watching, you will win the election in November if you get this right," Morgan added. "If you stop making it about yourself and make it about the American people and show that you care about them over yourself, you will win. … If you don't get it right, more Americans are going to die.”
Nattering, silly men and women who because of some voice, some talent other than one that actually produces some good have the gall to sit in judgment of those who have the responsibility to govern.
Everyone has opinions, but these celebrities have the media to carry theirs.
Morgan's opinion is worthless.
Yep. Real friends go on CNN and trash their best buddies. Although some would probably make a phone call.
Everytime leftists attack President Trump, they are really attacking you and I, folks.
Leftists thirst for absolute power, folks. They would kill you if they knew they could get away with it.
JoMa
Everybody is an armchair quarterback on Trump’s work these days.
Same stuff. Yet every now and again he throws a gem in there.
Me too, and I love Trump.
When I walked my dog tonight, I had my Trump shirt and MAGA red hat on and my dog was wearing her Trump sweater, so there is no doubt of my loyalty.
I am growing weary of the same routine.
I'd like to see Trump have the VP read all the daily stats and the routine crap and then have Trump come out just for questions and then burn a reporter at the stake. Literally.
Yeah, this didn’t need to be made public. I’m not defending Piers Morgan in any way — just saying that briefer briefings would be better.
Yes he was!
It’s mandatory that if you appear on CNN you have to say something anti-Trump or you will never be invited to appear again.
Meh.
Hey Peirs-of-crap I have yet to hear how you facists did ANYTHING to stop this! When all anyone can do is bitch about something, you know they have no clue to jack crap!
hmmmm Piers has totally flipped. Possibly because he might be compromised by the anti POTUS billionaire gang and told to stay to their script or else...MHO!
Who cares? He is just a failed British media something or other.
Piers -
if we are talking per capita deaths -
UK would equal 88,000, compared to the United States’ 40,566.
pity the FakeNewsMSM WORLDWIDE spends all day talking about the shocking US death toll.
roughly speaking:
London has approx. 22% of UK deaths
NYC has approx. 25% of US deaths
FakeNewsMSM rarely singles out London; but freaks out over NYC 24/7.
enough of the anti-US panic porn.
should have added it’s more likey NYC has even more non-covid-caused deaths in their total than the somewhat padded London official total.
I thought this ring piece was coming around...I guess I was wrong,
also should have added source for London because it’s barely mentioned by MSM.
18 Apr: MyLondon: London coronavirus: Weekly death total reaches record high as almost half are linked to Covid-19
More people died in the week ending April 3 than ever before in London since records began
by Claire Miller
...while the latest death toll data from the NHS shows 3,522 people have now died in London’s hospitals from the virus in London since the outbreak began...
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/london-coronavirus-weekly-death-total-18111246
UK deaths - 16,060
Uhh.. no Piers. He’s using the press conferences to tell the public the truth that you and your media friends won’t.
Well, by all means ... let’s put Piers in charge and see how well he would do.
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