On August 14, the coronavirus pandemic was on fire in the US. More than 168,000 Americans had died, with more than 1,300 deaths that day alone. But when President Donald Trump called legendary journalist Bob Woodward, it was to find out one thing: He had recently learned that Woodward's new book "Rage" was done and would be coming out in September, and Trump wanted to find out how he'd be portrayed.
It was their 19th conversation, following 18 interviews that formed a key component of Woodward's book. Trump had privately told Woodward in February he knew critical details about how deadly the virus was, and in March admitted he was playing it down.
On August 14, Trump peppered the veteran two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with questions about the book and what exactly was in it.
CNN has obtained excerpts of the 10-minute conversation, which show Trump was more focused on the economy than the public health crisis. As the two debated Trump's response to the pandemic, Trump finally asked: "So you think the virus totally supersedes the economy?"
"Oh sure. But they're related, as you know," Woodward responded.
"A little bit, yeah," Trump replied.
"Oh, a little bit?" Woodward asked.
"I mean, more than a little bit. But the economy is doing — look, we're close to a new stock market record," Trump said.
#Woodward #Trump #CNN
By “nothing more could yave been done” he means he did as much “nothing” as he could. I’ve never heard of anyone putting so much effort into doing “nothing” as trump has.
OMG!!!!
https://youtu.be/FSSFgWlDbJU
@Very Hot <<-- Russian
Trump’s entire presidency has felt like being tied to a chair, watching a toddler play with a loaded pistol.
@Ddd Mcg OMG!!!!
https://youtu.be/FSSFgWlDbJU
OMG!!!!
https://youtu.be/FSSFgWlDbJU
@Ddd Mcg No, Boris, donnie has been president for nearly 4 years,
The resident in the WH has made me feel like I have been living in an abusive household for the last 4 years.
Not one word of sorrow over the loss of life the pain people went through.
@Ant Clerfont Say his Name: DONALD TRUMP!
@Bill Wilson Donald Chump to me
@A Rod Dude, that’s not the damn point, the point is people died anyways from a virus that we have nothing for, one of my former teachers from a few years ago died from it and was only 30. Thats pretty young and not old people
Elie h… Trump saved your life. How about thank you instead of bitchin.
@Gary Quarty Wow
Lives be Damn.. the Stock Market is good. That’s the pathetic President we have.
Explain 220k dead in Europe and South America in meltdown. Trump?
@Robert Clawson where’s their videos saying it will go away..don’t worry stocks are good. Its a Hoax. STFU
@Robert Clawson Trump? You mean Mr. “It will just blow away”?
Please stfu, with your “Whataboutism” BS!
It’s about Trump! He’s the president. Stop trying to deflect, with others who are not, the president. These things are happening under his watch!!
Deal with it, Boris!
So many died. Take a minute to remember them. RIP.
Love to the surviving members.
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As a Nurse, I take great insult at him saying “He’s doing a great job”. I’ve lost work mates. He’s sick.
@Keith Why do you say “cult” is that a better put down than “deplorable” …I bet it has the same effect as it did in 2016. When will the left learn? Good salesmanship does not begin or end with insults. God Bless you 🙂
@Elizabeth Heyenga Either is your useless response.
@david clark
Psychopathic Epidemic
Is a book…recent book..relevant book
Every American should read…Trump and his corporate owned Republican enablers…..use of media, internet, christian’s, in a propaganda blitzkrieg,
is detailed anecdotally.
Trump needs to do more to prevent car accidents it’s his job to keep us safe from automobiles. They kill a lot more people than Wuhan flu. I know some one that died in a car crash.
@Gary Quarty If we crash he is responsible.
– Crimes Against Humanity
The only thing Trump will be known for.
But his cultists thinks he’s the greatest ever!!!
What do you say to them?
@EX Democrat K <------1 month old troll account.......FAIL!
51% approval rating for Trump…Racist Biden has no chance !!!
@Hale Hafa <<-- Russian
@TrumpRulesYou_ DealWithIt Only on Bizarro World does Trump have 51% approval. LOL
“Nothing more could have been done on virus (that would have benefited me)”
this is the “i alone can fix it” guy so no surprise that he hit his limit on covid
If Trump was a vaccine researcher it would be done unlike these career government slobs that are waiting on retirement.
Obviously Trump never figured he would need the Hispanic vote in AZ, TX, and FL.
@Elizabeth Heyenga That was a lie. But, I’m used to young left wing nuts like you lying. Nothing new….Name one thing that President Trump did that was racist? Oh wait…he lowered unemployment for blacks and Latino’s to its lowest point in history! Hold on….that’s a good thing. Well it us cool to call him a racist in left wing nut bag circles so you go do your thing around people who don’t know the facts….
@Jay Larkin I’ll do better and name 20 things Trump has said or done that were racist.
-He said immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries.”
-He asked a Korean-American intelligence analyst where “your people” are from, and implied that her ethnic background should determine her job.
-He took more than 48 hours to denounce the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
-Some of his top advisers and Cabinet picks have histories of prejudice.
-He denied responsibility for the over 900 racist incidents in the 10 days that followed his election.
-He launched a travel ban targeting Muslims.
-He attacked Muslim Gold Star parents.
-He claimed a judge was biased because “he’s a Mexican.”
-The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.
-He refused to immediately condemn the white supremacists who advocated for him.
-He questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
-He trashed Native Americans, too and referred to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas.
-He encouraged the mob anger that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park Five.
-He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester.
-He called supporters who beat up a homeless Latino man “passionate.”
-He stereotyped Jews and shared an anti-Semitic image created by white supremacists.
-He treats African-American supporters as tokens to dispel the idea he is racist. He said “Look at my African-American over here.”
-He mocks Asian Americans and said he may have supported Japanese internment.
No Mexican should vote for him and if they do, they need to go to that border and kiss all the children goodbye.
@Jay Larkin You are delusional tRump is claiming something that he never did and you are repeating it because he did and made you believe it, Obama gave him a great economy and he fucked it up! BIDEN WILL CRUSH HIM🤪🤣🤣
THEYLL VOTE FOR HIM. THEY DONT HAVE A CLUE.
We are “human capital stock” to the Trump administration. Just slaves. Property to fuel the economy.
This is news?
We’re humanure to him and his kind.
to be honest that is all you are to anyone in the Republican party for the last 40 years…
The day he proclaimed himself as a wartime president I knew he would dodge it.
@efs 1066 Did any of what? The Strategic Supply was filled with 85 million masks. Bush set a restocking level of 100 million masks. Obama’s admin bought other stuff and tried to cut the CDC twice. They ran it down to 30 million masks. Then handed it off to Trump 70 million short. Trump ordered 500 million masks. HHS estimated the US needed 3.5 billion masks. Why can’t you Google 500 million masks? You can’t Google? 1)https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/03/fact-check-did-obama-administration-deplete-n-95-mask-stockpile/5114319002/ 2)https://marker.medium.com/how-3m-gambled-its-reputationtion-the-n95-mask-e266a2fd8933 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5DCQhXKlY&ab_channel=JosephHewes
Robert Clawson That link doesn’t actually support your point. It just highlights that Trump had 3 years to replenish stockpiles and didn’t.
@Study Zen Trump did replenish stockpiles after Obama fnck ups. As usual Trump is held to a higher standard that Obama failed. Trumps succeeds where Obama fails and Biden can’t even hold a candle to Obama. There were three links and I ran them together. I usually don’t spoon feed adults public information the way CNN does.
Robert Clawson I don’t know about that… Trump wanted Obama to design after 2 Ebola deaths, but he’s at 200,000 COVID deaths… 🤷🏻♂️
@Robert Clawson lol you’re not even good at trolling.
He thought he’d just deny this book and say fake news like he does with all other former trump people who’ve written books about his character. Only this time Woodward taped everything so everytime he denies something, new tapes come out 🤣. Can’t run from the truth this time don the liar, he is laid bare for all of us to see how compromised a man he is.
Woodward had to talk to trump as if he was a child.
BARTETMEDIA: Woodward is the consummate draw-them-out journalist.
He knows Trump is not an adult. He matched Trump’s speed very shrewdly, while still speaking in an authentic style true to his renown– which would seduce Trump by the implications of fame.
It was masterful of Woodward, but, at the same time, getting Donald Trump to unconsciously confess to being a complete psychopath isn’t very difficult.
Just a few cues here and there that reinforce high status. Voila. He’ll sell the farm.
@Pilfer Bean shallow, hollow, evil TRAITOR who is DESTROYING democracy.
@Pilfer Bean True That!
because he IS a child., Just an extremely mean one
Um. He is a child.
Why does he keep saying he acted early? He called it a hoax from Jan to March
LOL he did not. you are just making stuff up. He stopped all travel to and from China i early January! My gosh you left wing nut bags will say anything to hurt Trump…wont work
@Jay Larkin
RIP 200k Americans.
@Jay Larkin Jan? Dang then he knew before we did and yet? STFU!!!
I would rather go to a Klan meeting wearing a Malcolm X t-shirt, than be a trump supporter!
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Do current Klan members even know who Malcolm X was?
@Toni Glick With a name like Malcolm X. They know he ain’t white! . Google know who Malcolm X is
But it sounds like something a Trump supporter would do.
90 minutes after the call on August 14 Trump tweeted Woodward’s book Rage was fake. Enough said.
Everything pointing out about trump… fraud, criminal activities, lies… trump calls fake news… trump is the fake
“the donald” THE ANTI-CHRIST
AMERICA IS MYSTERY BABYLON
“Conform no longer with the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.”
💝JESUS 202O💝
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But BLM is being blamed on all kinds of stuff,
But we have a President who display NO LIVES MATTER….
@Jay Larkin I am not shocked at all that right wing trolls bought that domain and redirect it to Biden’s in a pathetic but failed attempt to associate him with antifa. You guys will have to do better than that. The best part is one of your idiots paid $37,000 for the domain name. Fail.
@Jay Larkin And with 200,000 dead, Trump’s fake ban obviously failed. Trump allowed 40,000 people into the country after his travel ban anyway. Swing and a miss.
@Jay Larkin Antifa. com was bought by right wing trolls, you idiot. Besides, there is no such organization or group called antifa. it is a political ideology meaning anti fascist. Every American should be antifa.
@Jay Larkin Antifa also showed up at Normandy with battleships and artillery. You have a problem with that?
@Jay Larkin Red states are the welfare states that contribute far less in tax dollars than they take. Blue states are carrying the red states.
Trump sounds like a little kid begging his teacher for something.
@IPreferPresidentsWhoDontCowerInBunkers M By the way you don’t know the meaning of the word “sociopath” Quick run to google come back and post it. And then you can explain how someone can make such a diagnose from watching him on television. The lefts hate for the President is pathetic…and yet funny at the same time. I will be thinking of you the night Trump wins reelection. Will you cry, or scream and holler? LMAO
@IPreferPresidentsWhoDontCowerInBunkers M I prefer a conversation with someone who can give me 47 accomplishments by Joe Biden but all you little b!tches offer is vote blue no matter who. Secret Service decides when US Presidents go in the bunker. I also prefer people who are not ignorant AF. ~All Progressives.
@Jay Larkin Give it up. No one is falling for that BS. Biden is in better shape and more coherent than Trump any day. He’s on video running up stairs, riding a bike, and has given several clear intelligent speeches this week alone. Trump is illiterate and cannot even say words like anonymous, states, Thailand, and Yosemite without slurring his way through them. He has to hold an adult’s hand when walking down a slight ramp, can’t stay focused on one topic without straying off into how many times he flushes a toilet, cancer windmills, or bags of soup, and couldn’t ride a bike if his life depended on it.
@Jay Larkin Really? You’re going with the Robert Bryd nonsense? Byrd denounced his racist past and became a fighter for civil rights. The NAACP even honored him. Do you think they would ever honor Trump? Do you really think the KKK is going to be voting for Biden? LOL. Fool
@Jay Larkin I guess you must have an issue with Ivanka being granted multiple Chinese patents the day she had dinner with Xi, right? If
Trump is simply soulless and totally void of any humanity.
@Jay Larkin Does it make you mad that everyone here thinks you are a lying moronic troll?
@Taylor Fox No because I know that everyone here is a lying moronic troll. By the way did you notice that you show up with no facts…ever? Do me one favor please. Think of me on election night when Senile Joe the hair sniffing pervert who confuses his sister with his wife loses.
@Jay Larkin Dude all of that information was already in the works since even before you decided to tell me about it. And you know what? I’m not even gonna respond to those facts that are past tense. Since now, millions have filed for unemployment benefits since after this Coronavirus took place, Trump rolls back Obama era policies that ACTUALLY benefitted millions of americans now grinded them to a halt and those Americans under the Obama era healthcare and medical expenses could be covered, Trump, cannot . So your information still weighs a hell of a lot less than what Obama did in his years in office… Its still further from the truth. TRUMP still to this day still doesn’t know when Mexico would pay for the wall because you know why? Uh oh, Mexico says HELL NO, they already have maximum financial problems there and infrastructure problems. But that’s besides the point. Your information still subtracts out of every information you gave me that I’ve already read about. That information was already covered by Fox News, now I bet you don’t watch that news network since they were the ones who still support and loved Trump and actually reported on those so called “good” choices he’s made to benefit the economy. But yet that still leaves behind the other fact that Trump has no idea how to react to a situation such as this, Nor react to how to heal the suffering and forgotten. You’re peddling the same information that everyone even these people already was accustomed to. So again, those were short lived accomplishments. So in contrast, Obama already fulfilled all of those jobs, unemployment, and benefits that already helped and actually SAVED more people than what Trump tarnished and threw away. So your again, haven’t enlightened me enough. Since Obama was in office, millions of people were healing under having no healthcare insurance and now I’m sure that there were some plot holes that needed to be fixed in that system, but it proved more useful nonetheless. You haven’t enlightened me at all with what you said so your argument makes no sense now.
Jay Larkin Wait… you called Joe Biden a pervert?
A 👏🏼 Trump 👏🏼 Supporter 👏🏼 Calling 👏🏼 Joe 👏🏼 Biden 👏🏼 A 👏🏼Pervert 👏🏼
It’s like you don’t even sense the irony…
@Jay Larkin NO facts? So trump doesn’t lie on a daily? The draft dodging moron didn’t insult Dead Veterans and their families? trump didn’t steal money from a veterans charity? trump didn’t lie to the American people by telling them the virus is no worse than the flu? Tell your boss putin he could hire better trolls.