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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We are very prepared to handle it." - Donald Trump
No, he's not!
He's not prepared to handle shit!
(That was his response when asked about the corona virus returning in the fall)
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)kentuck
(111,052 posts)He's a lying asshole.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)Q Mr. President, the CDC said yesterday that they believe its inevitable that the virus will spread in the United States, and its not a question of if but when. Do you agree with that assessment?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I dont think its inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, were totally prepared. We have the best people in the world. You see that from the study. We have the best prepared people, the best people in the world.
Congress is willing to give us much more than were even asking for. Thats nice for a change. But we are totally ready, willing, and able. Its a term that we use. Its ready, willing, and able. And we have we have its going to be very well under control.
Now, it may get bigger, it may get a little bigger. It may not get bigger at all. Well see what happens. But regardless of what happens, we are totally prepared.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/
"... fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't get fooled again." - Another Failed President
sop
(10,102 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)His lips are moving.
He is a blowhard. Everything out of his mouth is a lie followed by illusions of grandeur. Someone at some point needs to point out to him if he has got to toot his own horn that much, it means no one else thinks he is as great as HE thinks he is. It means he sucks so bad that ONLY HE thinks of himself as great.
I'm so sick of his illusions of grandeur. The reality is so much worse than having NO leadership at all.
Lock him up.
(6,918 posts)Unbelievable, but true.
After all the lies and the silly brags, and the failures, and the tens of thousands dead, 38% still think he's the Second Coming...
ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)He was wrong about it. No reason to think he'll be any more accurate this time, except...
People are more attuned on how to respond, no matter what PINO says.
Incompetence is a dangerous element in high office.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)If it was just incompetence and he would listen to others for advice, we could handle that. But his incompetence is coupled with all these other negative traits, including the belief that he knows more than anybody else about everything.
ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)But, I think incompetence in high office is directly coupled to the hubris displayed.
If someone with typical self awareness were under review, they're unlikely to always think they're the smartest one in the room, all the time, when it's unwarranted.
So, kind of part & parcel!
kentuck
(111,052 posts)But we have survived incompetence before. Trump has a unique incompetence.
ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)If CV hit during 43, would it have been better?
kentuck
(111,052 posts)But I doubt that George W would have contradicted the scientists and the doctors during a pandemic?
sop
(10,102 posts)and claim Joe personally sent Hunter to bring back the disease from China to make him look bad.
Squinch
(50,911 posts)Fyrefox
(300 posts)Trumps understanding of science and history is grossly inferior to that of a substandard high school student, so how could he be prepared for anything? Hes only adept at manipulating and tapping into the emotions of his base, who form a disturbing percentage of the population...
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)dalton99a
(81,392 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)jaxexpat
(6,802 posts)"We are very prepared to handle it, but that's not our responsibility, that's fake news. So we probably won't, it could happen, we'll have to see, nobody could predict such a thing. Next question." - Donald Trump
kentuck
(111,052 posts)Other than to supplement the crazy.
Botany
(70,447 posts)"We are very prepared to handle it."
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)15 cases and going down to zero.
That's his baseline.