President Donald Trump Downplays Coronavirus Amid CDC Warning | Morning Joe | MSNBC

This week, federal health officials warned Americans to prepare for the coronavirus to become a pandemic, yet the president is tweeting 'USA in great shape!' The panel discusses Trump's response to the threat of the coronavirus. Aired on 02/26/20.
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President Donald Trump Downplays Coronavirus Amid CDC Warning | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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  1. I had no idea that tRump University had a Medical School? I take it our very stable genius gave himself an honorary degree in Medicine

    1. he admitted, he just learned NOW that in HIS Nation, 23,000-60,000 people DIE OF FLU every year.i knew that & I’m just your average mother. I dont think he is qualified to be our president

  2. “The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.”
    “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

    1. @ferret150 High school math competency check: What answer do you get for this problem?: To reduce its inventory, a warehouse runs a sale on silicon ingots. The sales rate (ingots sold per day) on day t of the sale is predicted to be 40/t (for t ≥ 1), where t = 1 corresponds to the beginning of the sale, at which time none of the inventory of 200 ingots had been sold. Find a formula for the total number of ingots sold up to day t. C(t) =

    2. @Daniel Duvalle you still don’t know what socialism is do you? That’s why you keep going on these weird tangents. If you are just going to refuse to answer a simple question, I will assume it is because you are incapable. Have a fun time being mean. Have fun using authoritarianism to steal the wealth from others that you are to lazy to produce. Have fun with your genocidal ideology.

    3. @Daniel Duvalle because you keep refusing to answer two simple questions I will keep asking you. What is socialism? And what is the difference between socialism and capitalism with strong social welfare programs?

    4. ferret150 What planet do you think you live on? Why in the world would you think I’m obligated to answer random questions for a thoughtless and inconsiderate stranger, liar, and fraud like you, Mr. Self-appointed thought-police ?

    1. Col. Sanders agrees with Trump’s Bureau of Labor Statistics “historically low unemployment” rates. Bernie’s planning on “cooking the books” like Obama did.

  3. To all you Republicans who think government is too big and we need LESS regulations….good luck with that philosophy.

    1. @Aliens Check the history. The recession was ALREADY going on BEFORE GW Bush left office. OBAMA DIDN’T BECOME PRESIDENT UNTIL LATE JAN., 2009.
      Obama ENDED the Bush eta recession. There’s always a lag time between creating a policy and seeing its results.

    2. @Howard Kerr How is democraps run cities on the west coast with disease urine feces and needles everywhere from the homeless? But DO NOT offer a plastic straw, that is so important!!

    3. Durrrrp. Less on some things, not everything. That’s the problem with progressives they think everything can be reduced to a simple soundbite.

  4. This is what happens when you rid government of highly qualified officials in place of political loyalists. Democrats need to scream from the rooftops that Trump cut the CDC budget in 2018 and dismantled agencies that was formed to work with the CDC. This is a failure of leadership and competence. The World Health Organization needs to figure out why most of these viruses come out of China?

    1. Dismantling of such agencies should require consent from Congress to avoid depleting essential government protection efforts.

    2. +Rachelle Revis Expanding the CDC budget won’t help our health in the same way putting more money into education doesn’t help our kids. People need to realize that Trump is the feature, not the bug. If you think that the director of the CDC gives a dang about the health and welfare of the people, you’re mistaken. Like the NRA, the top doesn’t care. The bottom line is the bottom line for those people. The CDC should have their budget cut if not eliminated. Trump has done little in removing the excess spending with these industries, including the defense industry and the pharmaceutical industry.

  5. Reap what you sow, that’s what happens when incompetent, unqualified, and unprepared individuals to positions that they have no business being in nor running them. No surprise and no end in sight.

  6. Kennedy is wrong. Wolf’s job is not to keep America safe. His job is to protect and defend Trump. His job is to lie for Trump. His job is to keep his lips firmly planted on Trump’s rear end.

  7. Somebody should tell him that since he could probably heal people just by his divine touch he should go visit Wuhan province to get some adulation.

    1. Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it, “all men are created equal except negroes.” When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, “all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty–to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855

  8. This is what happens when you have too many ACTING secretaries in your administration. Trump values LOYALTY above competence.

    1. 🤔Perhaps corporate profits has finally come backwards to haunt our out of controlled greeds ⁉️🤦‍♀️😳

    2. 🤔They asked for #BRIGHT LIGHTS and suddenly rediscovered #Revelations soundbites from a #CULTS chosened #Prince of Darkness..”!

      🤦‍♀️🤒🤦‍♂️🌏🎺☻LET THERE BE DARKNESS…

  9. You mean the guy with no experience that millions of “smart” ppl 😂😂thought they should vote for keeps putting incompetent ppl around him?? No…lol no way we could’ve predicted this!🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

  10. John Kennedy Senator you voted to not keep us safe in the fake impeachment trial so your grilling this man is irrelevant

    1. And a set of front teeth for John Kennedy (not the famous Kennedy)?!? Even George Washington had wooden ones made to help him look “somewhat intelligent” beyond Louisiana’s toothless ..y’all.

    1. @@David Dennison Know one cares who is paying for the wall. We, the people want it built. Less expensive to build a wall than the taxpayers to care for illegals bills.

    2. @Carrie there is a wall Obama care is theft,and corona is the globalist trying to lock down cities for martial law you’re welcome 👍

    3. @Nancy Crisman What do you mean nobody cares
      who pays for the wall? I care, many people care. We are facing an epidemic
      With Corona Virus and tRump cuts the CDC budget? The vanity wall won’t save you from that.

    1. I’ve been watching politics for 40 years and republicans always cut the CDC and FEMA. W. Bush cut FEMA right before Katrina, and look what happened there.

  11. How can one make these kind of political statements around a Medical issue: “how much below 2%?” Talk about politicians disconnected from real World.

    1. 56000 die in USA every year from common flu. 6000 people die of flu every year just in California. The numbers of death from corona virus is not alarming compared to common flu. SO TRUMP IS RIGHT! I am in Florence Italy right now. 7 corona virus death been people that are elderly and had other debilitating heathy condition.

    2. @SHINY DIAMOND I agree with you. People are getting Cray cray… I think it’s a ploy… it attacks the elderly and the youngest babies… so can many things including the common flu. I think it’s another distraction tactic. What are they distracting us from… can you tell me this please madam

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