Trump trade adviser: Rally comment on reducing Covid testing was just a joke

[alp227]

Source: Politico

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday that President Donald Trump was only joking when he said he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing for the sake of optics.

Speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,“ Navarro repeatedly said, "Come on now, Jake. You know it was tongue in cheek. Come on now. That was tongue in cheek," cutting off Tapper as he repeatedly asked about the president's remarks.

"I don't know that it was tongue in cheek at all," Tapper retorted.

"That's news for you, tongue in cheek," Navarro said with a dismissive laugh.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/21/navarro-trump-coronavirus-testing-331725

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America has lost 120,000 people to the virus, and this excuse of a president still wants to joke about it?

Then again, this CNN analysis shows it's not the first time (but doesn't mention that time Trump was being "sarcastic" about injecting bleach as a treatment.)

[StarryNite]

1. The joke was the orange piece of shit that said it.

[rurallib]

2. Trump does not know how to make a joke.

[unblock]

3. When he loses in November, and we look at the graves and rubble and broken dreams in his wake,

he will say it was all just a joke.




We know it as all one long, sick joke.

But no one is laughing.

[Newest Reality]

4. No. It wasn't.

No. It wasn't a joke and it wasn't delivered as one.

This post-rationalizing is really getting so ridiculous that it stands out like a sore thumb. Prevaricating in response to a reveal or admission is the joke.

It's good to see them digging a nice deep hole and pouring oil down the sides as they jump right in. You really can lose any veracity you feigned very quickly and easily that way. The hubris may be allowing the law of impermanence to finalize the deal on this dark cycle of deception.

[yellowdogintexas]

34. not to mention that is not the first time he has said it. nt

[yaesu]

5. yeah, the "its just a joke" excuse is getting old, why not just say, yes, tRump is dumb enough to

say this and yes it will cause other countries to rightfully ban travelers from the US.

[LakeArenal]

6. Trump doesn't tell jokes.

He is a joke. He only claims it’s a joke once his panties are full of bullshit.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. Trump NEVER jokes. He ridicules, he insults, he humiliates, he's sarcastic,

but he never jokes. He has no sense of humor. None.

His minions rush from show to show claiming ad nauseam that Trump was "just joking," but when he was directly asked, "Were you kidding?" he immediately responds, "I never kid."

Sounds like a Lincoln Project ad in the making.

[relayerbob]

7. The only joke was the one talking

[captain queeg]

8. Satire...that's their fall back nowadays when he says something incredibly stupid. And true.

[catbyte]

9. Even if it was just a "joke," what's funny about a disease that's on track to kill 200K Americans

by October? Asshole. Pardon my Français.

[Lochloosa]

11. My reaction. Not funny at all.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Going to make a great ad - 120,000+ dead Americans is a joke.

[TomCADem]

21. Exactly. Only The Right Wing Would Think Thousands of Americans Deads...

...and many more hospitalized would be funny.

[Mr.Bill]

12. Yeah, when 125,000 people die because of the incompetance

of one idiot, what I really want to hear is that idiot telling a joke about it.

[jalan48]

13. What's the joke?

[Bengus81]

14. Trump writing yet another Biden ad or one for the Lincoln Project.......

[central scrutinizer]

15. Schroedinger's douchebag

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181351469|

[DBoon]

16. Then that Hitler guy was a thigh-slapping comic genius

nt

[IggleDuer]

17. Tongue in cheek?

Navarro’s tongue. Trump’s cheek.

[SunSeeker]

18. Uh no, that is EXACTLY what Trump did FOR MONTHS.

That is why we have 120,000 dead.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Ok, It Was A Joke

Hey Petey, notice we're not laughing.
So, you just established that PINO is also a failure at humor.
Keep the list going, Petey!

[murielm99]

20. Bullies often do that.

They say or do something that goes too far, then they say, "I was only joking. Can't you take a joke?"

[Solly Mack]

22. No, it wasn't. It was the truth slipping out in a boast

as is Trump's way. A truth that didn't play well and one his handlers would have him keep to himself. So now they're all going to attempt to spin it away.

Trump classified Covid 19 meetings, all meetings, with all related agencies and groups working on the coronavirus under federal - the White House - directive.

So, yeah. He did tell them to slow down testing and he told them they couldn't tell anyone what he was saying.

[Jim__]

23. Video: Does he sound like he's kidding?

He gets to slow the testing down at about 1:40:

[regnaD kciN]

24. In other words, Boilerplate Excuse #3...

...to be trotted out after Boilerplate Excuses #1 ("fake news!" ) and #2 ("lying liberal media" ) don't wash.

[mvd]

25. The Con has no sense of humor and never laughs

So no, it is not a joke.

[rpannier]

26. Interesting how when he says things we're always told "He says what he thinks."

Then when he says really, really, really stupid things -- he was joking

[Nevilledog]

27. Then that means he thinks COVID-19 and the testing for it are a joke.

[D1Wheeler]

28. jokes

Everything is always joke with this Admin. Quit and go write comedy losers

[keithbvadu2]

29. Of course he was 'joking' when he said he would uphold the Constitution.

Of course he was 'joking' when he said he would uphold the Constitution.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

[samsingh]

30. so how do we know when trump is joking or not?

when he says something is classified, is it a joke? And when he says it's not a joke, is that a joke? When he says he is good at fixing the economy, is that a joke?

Maybe everything he says is a joke?

[Initech]

31. He is such a massive piece of shit.

[saidsimplesimon]

32. Arizona lost opportunities to save lives.

How many deaths were avoidable? I'm talking to you Gov. Ducey, and all my representatives in the Congress and Senate.

[Hugin]

33. This whole 'joke' cover story to hide Trump's obvious decline into senility is wearing mighty thin.

Also, it's pure propaganda of the worst sort when Americans need to know what's really going on the most.

Disgusting.

[BlueIdaho]

37. Navarro is a complete and total dick.

His blindly devotional sycophancy would win him a place in Hitlers’s bunker as well as Trump’s.