“It’s gonna go. It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone. It’s gonna be eradicated.”

Now that his sanke oil cure didn’t work out he’s just falling back on pure, unadulterated magical thinking.

Here are the highlights of one of yesterday’s press appearances. If this is a pivot it’s 360 degrees:

"We've tested more than all countries put together" — this is a lie. Not even close to true. pic.twitter.com/fBBoLHyBJZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

"You shouldn't be hearing about testing, but that's the last thing [the media] can complain about I guess … I don't know that all that [testing] is even necessary" — Trump downplays importance of testing, which he suggests is a luxury (experts say more testing is necessary) pic.twitter.com/2eMSedp4aR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

Trump has met with corporate CEOs at the White House for three straight days but it's unclear whether he's talked to the family of a single coronavirus victim whose family he didn't already know https://t.co/YEBHfchchS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

For the second time today alone, Trump falsely claims that the 1918 flu pandemic happened in 1917 pic.twitter.com/4SDdtSdrBX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

It’s because of the movie. I’d bet my life on it.

REPORTER: Without a vaccine, why do you think the virus will just be gone?

TRUMP: "It's gonna go. It's gonna leave. It's gonna be gone. It's gonna be eradicated." pic.twitter.com/WdGkrVaAx7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

"If we lose 65,000 people" — Trump has moved the goalposts from no deaths to fewer deaths than the Swine Flu to 60,000 deaths & now to 65,000 or 70,000 deaths.

He's positioned himself to proclaim any death toll smaller than 2 million Americans as a reflection of his good work. pic.twitter.com/y0pOhf3iEE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020

Meanwhile, here he is hard at work ~~this morning~~ last night:

I must admit that Lyin’ Brian Williams is, while dumber than hell, quite a bit smarter than Fake News @CNN “anchorman” Don Lemon, the “dumbest man on television”. Then you have Psycho Joe “What Ever Happened To Your Girlfriend?” Scarborough, another of the low I.Q. individuals!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2020

That’s when he isn’t wanking furiously about the Russia investigation.

He’s worse than usual. And he could win re-election anyway. I guess it serves us right for ever allowing such a monster to get within a mile of then the first place. But little kids don’t deserve this.