'We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps,' Trump says of deaths, and 'Nobody blames me for that' on job losses
Today, in an exchange with a noted fan on Fox Business, impeached and manifestly unfit President Trump said a bunch of really dumb untrue things on live television that made no sense at all.
Join us now @POTUS @realDonaldTrump now. @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/ejjfL2RQJs
- Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 14, 2020
Look, there's nothing good about what happened with the plague, okay? Especially the death. But the one thing is, it said, Trump was right,'" the president, referring to himself in the third person, told host Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business.
Look, there's nothing good about what happened with the plague, okay? Especially the death. But the one thing is, it said, Trump was right,'" the president, referring to himself in the third person, told host Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business. https://t.co/F1o0vYZsl5
- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 14, 2020
'We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps,' he said, moving the projected death toll from COVID-19 yet again.
"We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps" -- Trump just moved the goalposts *again* about the projected US coronavirus death toll pic.twitter.com/salNr4Ho1g
- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020
The economy is a mess, and Trump addressed this, too, in a very Trumpy way.
Nearly 3 million more Americans filed unemployment claims this week, the Department of Labor announced today, and 8 straight weeks of job losses from the coronavirus crisis now total 36 million. It's a bloodbath out there and many Americans are suffering with unemployment and no job prospects or government subsidies in sight.
Here's how Trump responded.
MARIA BARTIROMO: But now, we've got 33 million people filing for unemployment. We've got 20 percent --
TRUMP: Nobody blames me for that.
Credit and blame game.
BARTIROMO: But now, we've got 33 million people filing for unemployment. We've got 20 percent --
TRUMP: Nobody blames me for that.
- Annie Karni (@anniekarni) May 14, 2020
Ah well, nevertheless.
There were truckers honking horns, too.
There were honking horns during Trump's interview with Bartiromo.
T: "You know what that is?"
B: "Trucking protesters."
T: "They're not protesters, they're supporters of me."They're protesters. They chanted "we want Trump" *to get a meeting with Trump.* https://t.co/OdXGHrHUPJ
- Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 14, 2020
Previously on Thursday:
Nearly 3 million more unemployment claims in U.S. as COVID-19 job losses total 36 million
"They would rather see our country fail, and you know what that means because part of failure is death. They would rather see that than have me get elected." -- Trump claims that Democrats would rather have Americans die than him win a second term. Bartiromo agrees with him. pic.twitter.com/dRA4ZHAWks
- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020