In new reporting, the Washington Post details the president's 'desperate' attempts to reopen the country as the coronavirus pandemic raged. The panel discusses. Aired on 5/4/2020.
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WaPo Reports On Trump's 'Desperate' Attempts To Reopen The U.S. | Morning Joe | MSNBC
If Trump was the leader of a third-world country, America would’ve bombed it by now.
@Haha Jiang Russia is not a communist country.
@Hamberder King Now that is a pathetic comment. Besides, do you live in the U.S.? If so move to Mexico.I hear it is paradise for Mexicans. Government drug cartel, human trafficking, lot’s of good paying jobs. Social benefits. Americans like you can go there. The wall will be paid for by Mexico, to keep Americans from crossing the border.
@Rain WalkerShoots the dictatorship theory down the drain doesn’t it? Federal government let’s states manage their own money. What was the governor of N.Y. doing with the money? Lighting up the empire state building in pink? Most of state money is going in his pocket. New York should always be prepared. No excuse for that state not to have medical supplies. Also, the state has the highest taxes. Where is the states money? Hmmm…
@Jennifer Love I’ll get off this thread. So many ignorant Americans, so little time. Good-day.
@LINDA Krysiak Tut Tut, little girl, you are too vulgar. Why don’t you go back to your kindergarten
I have to mute Donald Trump from now on. I can’t even stand his voice let alone his BS.
@Nero I can hardly wait for it. I definitely want to watch him circling the drain!
@Delta Blues you think! Dont have a melt down when he wins!!!
Rebbeca Elder is there one good quality about donald…or is that what you like about him? He’s dumb, rude, obnoxious, brags, blames others, grabs women by the *****…. he takes no responsibility for the 70,000 Americans that have died…. there’s no way he will be re elected he failed… don’t melt down be glad he’s gone in November
@Gnirol Namlerf
Get used to it chump. Trump’s your president for four more years.
@Nathen Leach As opposed to you, the cult member LOL LOL LOL
You know who he is listening to reopen so quickly? : The rich owners and ceos of the big companies and wall street! Sadly, the ones who OWN OUR POLITICIANS BECAUSE IT IS LEGAL HERE TO PUT MILLIONS INTO CAMPAIGNS…
Citizens United was one of the worst things for the US
💯
@MrDonsullivan true. What I said is also ABSOLUTELY TRUE. AND THE REAL REASON WHY THEY WANT TO REOPEN SO FAST
Lobbying is the most corrupt undemocratic practice and proves that the rich do what they want when they want.
@Fran Riding Yep! They are stealing from us before killing us, or vice versa.
For the Record.
USA opens today. Give it 14 days watch people in those re opened states flop dead like fish . just like in Chyan-a
How do you know you’re not wrong Carl? It hasn’t been 14 days yet, genius.
@Glitzy Glam you think we’re all stupid enough to not believe our own eyes?
@Carl Martinz So we can revisit this in a month and see if you had facts right?
@Endof Civ for the sake of everyone, i hope im wrong.
@teek75ifty What are you getting at moron! Are you just trying to prove how moronic you are? Oh yeah you’re a moron. Moron!
Instead of “Pushing the election back” as Trump has suggested, can we have it this summer please?
loriar1027 So when did Trump ever say he was moving the election date? An imbecilic hypothetical from the Washington Post is not Trump speaking. You need to learn to actually read the article you’re citing.
MrDonsullivan My point in posting the article wasn’t to say that he actually proposed it yet, but that at least half of Republicans would go along with him if he did, so it’s not all that far fetched to think he might. He has a long track record of lawlessness, so it’s within his scope to attempt it. Your attempt to use insults to deflect from this reality is just silly.
Deconstruction 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@loriar1027 He can postpone the election perhaps, but that won’t change the date that his term ends.
Say hello to president Pelosi!
It’s in the Constitution.
drew pedersen Based on what I’ve been reading I don’t think he can legally postpone the election either— though legality never stopped him from doing anything. But I have no objection to a President Pelosi. In fact I’d prefer her to Biden, truth be told. But make no mistake, I’ll vote for Biden.
A disgusting, repugnant man who was able to seize power by exploiting a broken, corrupt and dysfunctional political system.
Well said !
@ICU america –Hopefully your political analysis is on target. Your argument would come off more intelligently if you knew how to spell. “There a fickle lot” should read “They’re a fickle lot.” You mean they are. The term “there” relates to a place… as in “Get the ball over there.”
No he didn’t manipulate the system at all. The system worked perfectly for him in fact. What he did manipulate though is the fear, insecurities and prejudices of rural and uneducated American. Take a look at his support base and tell me otherwise.
@Ol’ Arbogeezy I’ll take uneducated over the violent rioting burning ceybaby mob of the left any day!
@Ol’ Arbogeezy you GOT it, COVIT
Reps will care when the death toll goes through the roof, People did the same thing in 1919 the result was dreadful good luck America get trump out now or die trying.
Derrick Mahon Dear Derrick, I am on topic. I’ve seen your posts, and they all seem to indicate everyone who does not agree with you is stupid, insane, or on drugs. Fine.
You have freedom of speech, as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually _try_ it. That seems the standard of the day.
If you don’t agree, we will assert busting through security at a State Capitol with pretty fearsome firepower is just ok.
I don’t care about how the economy was. What I feared about Trump was how he would deal with a rear crisis, whatever that might be. Chi’s response to COVID-19 is more abysmal and arrogant than I thought possible. Probably more abysmal than Rachel thought possible.
If you had been bright, you would have taken your winning at Trump’s Americana Casino six months ago and put it into physical gold.
Apparently you did not. That frustration and anger are apparent; I feel you pain.
You need to stop acting like a little red snowflake, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and finally realize who most Americans knew in 2016: Trump is a dangerous demagogue who was willing to sell you any false dream he could. Your newfound wealth was an illusion.
Trump doesn’t care about you, or me, or anyone.
His actions are pathetic. Comparing himself to Lincoln and indicating he is more unfairly treated than Lincoln?
That is whining, feeble, deplorable self-pity.
Is that you standard for a President?
Trump has jumped the shark. If we are lucky, the air will go out of him, and we will have a bathetic collapse to his presidency.
So 1. Fight a losing battle.
2. End it all in a swamp of self-pity
3. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work for anybody who will get rid of Trump through the political process.
4. Don’t we both have time now? Aren’t we both getting unemployment?
Quit your reverie of the lost cause and the good live with the old folks at home.
Work for change. It’s not too late for you to do the right thing.
Winston Marajh Anybody would have. Stop this is versus them. False equivalence. Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party would have done better. The Workers and Families Party would have done better.
The Pastafarians would have done better.
The Anarchists would have done better.
The Nihilists would have don’t better. At least they don’t pretend to stand for anything.
@majtom58 everyone in the world except maybe the Brazilian president did better than Trump!
robert coleman… I saw a documentary, on the flu of 1919, 550,000 people died in America. I never knew, about it.
Barbra M Even more. In fact, they aren’t quite sure. There are several excellent documentaries. 3 waves. The second the worst.
This is a good one. A younger Fauci is a big part.
The Liberty Loan drive in October 1918. Philly knew it should not have lifted their “social distancing” for a parade that had a crow in the hundreds of thousands. Two days later, the citizens started to feel the consequences.
https://youtu.be/XkGi9FKZzDI
From what happened these three months in USA, people now realize how bad if they have a wrong person to lead the country. Trump is not the right person for sure. Let him go away in Nov.
November is too late…. You guys need strong national level leadership. I’m not in USA but i have loved ones over there and it is devastating watching what is happening in your country.
Buddy Buddy hey BUDDY BUDDAAYYYYY
Mama T sadly it isnt just happening to our country
Mama T I agree completely
With the amount of food Donald Trump consumes, at least 4 worthwhile human beings could survive, and one useless human being could DIE.
When he loses the election in November he will still be blaming Obama.
@Petyr Kowalski oh and remember last election when Trumps “approval ratings” were far below Hillary’s? 😂😂
Terry Bryant so his bankruptcies, losses, narcissism, pathological lies, lack of international credibility, failure to respond fast enough to this pandemic…. None of it is his fault? What are you smoking?
@Petyr Kowalski I’m smoking really good weed but that’s besides the point. No the bankruptcies weren’t his fault. It was actually very sophisticated the the way he saved them from going under. For starters he wasn’t managing the businesses that when bankrupt and it’s wasn’t the people who were running its fault either. If you’d read more than just a head line you’d find it was the economy. As far as his international credibility you clearly haven’t been paying attention especially in Asia. Now as far the pandemic, when he was advised to place a ban on Chinese nationals way back in January the WHO, democrats and all the left news outlets were calling him an authoritarian with racist undertones… they were trying to block his ban while we were getting our fist cases. They were encouraging large crowds.. he listened every time he was advised.. I can prove you’re being manipulated
@Arnulfo Alvarez can’t be done…already the crops are rotting in the fields…..besides who gonna do the meat packing?… definitely not the lazy WASPS
Yeah. All you lazy dependant democrats stay home. Pick up the unemployment and welfare checks. Tell yourselves you are special. The privately owned federal reserve is printing and dispersing all that cash just for you and will expect nothing in return. Your ignorance is your own undoing.
The same circus and the same clown’s performance , total absence of reality.
TRAITOR TRUMP!!!!!
goldfinch12 The Blind Leading The Blind On All Sides.
“ How Are All Those Nations In The War zones ? No Separation orders There Right ?
I am not endorsing this whole story though…
// W i l s o n
The US military sent a special plane from Wuhan to receive
Global Exposure Network Today
In the United States, you have to surrender the 5 special soldiers who were returned by a special plane after the Wuhan Military Games, and let WHO verify the truth!
To find out whether the virus originated in the United States, it is actually very simple. You only need to have the WHO re-examine whether the five soldiers had the same C family new crown pneumonia as the Wuhan patients or not.
Now, the main points of suspicion in Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Germany and other countries are:
1. At the end of October 2019, why did the United States spend large capital to send a special plane to pick up five sick athletes from Wuhan?
2. The performance of the US team was incredible. It scored 0 points and 0 gold medals (133 gold medals for the Chinese team), ranking 35th. Is the 369 soldiers sent by the United States a special group who cannot shoot? Were they Biochemical soldiers instead? The most questionable is why the United States used special planes to take away five sick athletes from Wuhan, because the military games were over at that time. If they were suffering from common diseases, why not wait 2 days and return to the United States with their 360 odd soldiers? Or why not take a regular civil airliner at Wuhan International Airport?
However, if these soldiers are biochemical soldiers who accidentally poisoned themselves, they must return to the United States before the illness worsens…
The problem is that those five people have disappeared. There are five families of neocrown viruses as the ABCDE family. The AB family is a parental virus, the C family is their son, and D and E are the sons of C.
In the 80,000 cases in mainland China, there is only the C family, while in the United States, ABCDE is all. C is the son of AB. Without parents, how could he have a son?
In August last year, the largest biological and chemical weapons base in the United States was shut down urgently, followed by a major outbreak of the “flu” in the United States, which has killed more than 10,000 people.
In late October, the Wuhan World Military Games was held, and American soldiers went shopping.
In November, patients with new crowns appeared in Wuhan, and now it is a worldwide outbreak.
Then:
1. Who is case 0 in the end?
2. Is the seafood market really the source of the epidemic?
3. What is the purpose of the US Biochemical Weapons Laboratory to develop and synthesize coronaviruses?
4. Why did the U.S. largest biological and chemical weapons base close in August last year?
5. Why did the American Institute of Stone XX team contribute thousands of Chinese chrysanthemum?
6. Gene sequencing, why is there only a C family virus in China? In the US case, ABCDE is all.
7. The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Response said that in the past there were some cases in the United States that were thought to have died from the flu, but actually died of infection with the new crown virus. Can the medical records of these deceased be published?
With all the above questions, I hope the United States will give the world an account. //
goldfinch12 hey, that’s an insult to clowns😁. He is an absolute liability and trying to blame everything that is happening on the previous administration is frankly bordering on fantasy and insanity. I wonder who he is actually listening to other than some voodoo witch doctor to magically rid the country of the pandemic.😆
The first stage hasn’t peaked yet, let alone a second stage.
Mira Rift This is what half the “experts” gabbing over arguments fail to say.
@Lucas Patrick I strongly agree. I hate how so many think it’s being over blown when pretty much everything they are being told is already churched up.
You must work for MSLSD
Yeah. Some Republicans are even on their third wave. It must be difficult for them to understand that a wave needs a trough between peaks.
So true mira 😭😭😭
The concept that Jared and Ivanka are voices of reason in the WH has to die. They may not be as nasty as Donald, but they are every bit as delusional.
They are all corrupt
@Sara Livermore … understand and thanks for clarifying that 😊
Steven Miller and Jared Kushner run the country. Both are racist divisive scum.
@Sara Livermore Seems so long ago when Dump said “only the best people” we now know he meant “sleazy cronies who donate to me”
Jared is pretty nasty. His background is as a slumlord who owns substandard housing and screws low-income tenants until he evicts them.
Trump has exhausted America with his deadly stupidity.
a. somerset Not just America.
a. somerset nothing change if YOU dont VOTE!! End the gop swamp in november
a. somerset & i’m starting the rumor, corona
virus came fr el presidente’s liasons w/ some
of his promiscuious, unamerican paramours.
The great Dr. Fauci was saying as late as February that the virus would NOT have a big impact on the U.S.!!! And the World Health Organization was saying the virus could not be spread person to person!!! Trump had already shut down air travel with China!!!
J. Lo
Just – quiet!
If trump hates you it probably means you’re a decent person.
A “fake” person , to boot !!!
Or not pretty, or want the truth.
If Trump hates you it’s because your a threat to his little intelligence.
“This is a pandemic, I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
“Sir, this is a McDonald’s drive-thru…”
hilarious
@The Insane Shecklador no doubt about that
I wish you would have advised the Chinese and WHO then.
May God Bless You and Yours!
99.7 % haven’t even been hospitalized, .3% death rate, sounds like complete BS to me. Get back to work you lazy people.
@michael P Um, I was at work today at a Emergency Room with COVID patients. Also, stop being a shill for corporate America. Finally, .02 is the death rate for the flu … .3, where did you get that? If that is the case that means 228,450,000 people in the world will die …
The Trump administration doesn’t care about the American people, they just care about what is best for Trump
David I think the Trump Admin are all afraid of Trump
The Trump administration has become some kind of weird death cult.
Sweetnbrownsugar I get you, it’s terrifying, even more so when know this is only the first wave. Take care, be safe, bless you.
@arniebarb123 were the enemy … Take your head out of the ground … Your own party can’t stand him and think he’s no good like seriously we just want a president who is sane and has some sort of mentality a president should have …he can go back to business and let a real politician take over ….I love seeing Republicans wake up to who he really is and then ya see people like you who are just either brainwashed or ignorant to reality
He on Friday that the us death toll would now only b 80-95 thousand deaths…..it will b 100 thousand in 2weeks…..trump and boris must b related
David Hinsley Every cloud has a silver lining. When does NASCAR start up again?
Corona Don strikes again.
Monumental doofus. History books will chronicle his stupidity for people of the world to read and ridicule, every year for the next thousand plus years.
Only maybe a few decades
History will not be kind to these over educated henchman. This a cult nothing more. It’s sad to watch a friend get programmed.
When trump said, “it will miraculously disappear”, did he mean the usa population?
@Ol’ Arbogeezy unlikely, because it takes a year or more to make. That’s been a fact since before the pandemic. Also because if there was a vaccine we wouldn’t see any rich and famous people getting sick.
Heck see the movie contagion. Made 10 years ago now? The time is spent in human trials and they cant speed that up.
@Andrew Newman we COULD stop the flu in its tracks but too many anti vaxxers out there.
He meant himself when he flees the country with his daughter wife
Corona Don is the grim reaper
Only the people that doesn’t matter
It’s frightening to have someone who’s mentally ill as POTUS.
@Derrick Mahon speaking of Reagan, how do you feel about the Iran/Contra scandal? Are you ok with funding a war in South America with money from drug sales? How about the arms for hostages part of the scandal … Remember that? Remember how Reagan lied and said he would never do that, yet he did….?
@alkhami1 So again for everyone watching can you please tell me who brought and who fought to keep racism? I think it was the demonrats. But again please correct me if i am wrong.
Hahahahahahahahahaha you do realise what your describing is what the demonrats do every election year. Funny how you dont see that.
No i am from the republic of ireland. Not even from america but i have studied america from a historical point of view. History isnt nice to the demonrats. Hypocrites
@Derrick Mahon Trump said he wouldn’t accept the result if he lost, people made comments based on what Trump said. If I said I was going to murder you and people heard it, would I attack them for repeating it, because I didn’t murder you?
@alkhami1 Whos said anything about regan??? i didnt. No i agree with trump when it comes to war. Get the troops out. So you agree with trump when it comes to war then???
@Derrick Mahon I used Reagan as a reminder of the treachery of the republican party. As to whether I agree with Trump will regards to war or anything else, I will say this. I breathe air, Trump also breathes air, so we have that in common. Like breathing air, just because we may have something in common, that doesn’t mean I find him agreeable.