That was March 20th, the day he started aggressively pimping Hydroxychloroquine. Here’s my rundown of that day’s White House press atrocity:
At the daily Trump White House rally, MSNBC’s Peter Alexander asked the president :
There are 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, and millions who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?”
That is a totally reasonable question and an opportunity for Trump to say he understood people’s fears and that he and his team were working night and day to ensure that we get through this as best we can.
But Trump went batshit on Alexander:
CNN’s John King reacted appropriately after the rally was over:
What the president did to Peter Alexander was reprehensible. The people are looking for answers. They do want hope, they do want support, Mr. President. That was a very fair question. Kaitlan, this is a Trump trademark.”
“It was striking that this came — forgive me — this bullshit attack on fake news came just moments after the Secretary of State said the American people need to be careful about where they get their information, to go to sources they can trust.
Even Dana Bash was upset by this press conference and she has been cheerleading his press conferences.
This was a grotesque press conference, one of the worst he’s ever done.
Here are just a few of the highlights:
Whatever goodwill the media gave him on Monday, declaring him to have pivoted to become a “wartime leader” was just smashed to bits today. Which is good on the one hand. Many people are at home and may not have been fully aware of what a deranged imbecile Trump really is. But it’s terrifying that this man is in charge of the federal response to this monumental crisis.
I hope people take heart in the Governors and Mayors who are stepping up. They are all we’ve got.
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As we learned later he knew very well how bad it was. He confessed to Bob Woodward that it was a deadly threat yet he purposefully downplayed the threat. He was worried about it wrecking his re-election campaign and so he wrecked it himself by acting like a freak in front of the whole country which was locked down and glued to the television and saw this imbecile in charge of a deadly crisis.
I know it was a bad time and nobody wants to relive it but damn … why would anyone in their right minds, knowing what we know now, want to put this man back in the White House after that horrific performance? I honestly cannot wrap my mind around it.