“What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!”
-DJT, Idiot in Chief
After over a month of almost daily campaign rallies press briefings that should have informed and updated the public accurately on the deadly COVID-19 virus but instead featured an incompetent ‘leader’ who attacked the press, contradicted himself, his healthcare professionals, and suggested they look into injecting us with disinfectants to rid us of the virus, Trump has thrown in the towel. He took to Twitter to whine about why he has chose to do so.
What better way to deflect from the fact that Trump’s daily briefings have tanked his approval ratings and showed the world just how grossly incompetent he truly is than to blame the press for his own words, conduct, inconsistencies, and incompetence?
Donald Trump’s own words caught on tape and video:
***See the previous tweet, right above this^^^one to see who the pathological liar directed his questions and statements to.
Snopes has more information and context on Trump’s comments.
On February 28th, 2020, Trump said: “We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.”
As of 4:05 PM, PDST, the United States now has 954K CONFIRMED cases of COVID-19 and 53,683 deaths:
