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For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk cavalierly.

No he has not.

So he never said any of the things he's on record of having said?

when you say something is a hoax

‘REMARKABLE’: CNN Anchor Praises Trump On Coronavirus: ‘Kind Of Leader That People Need’

On Tuesday, CNN anchor Dana Bash applauded President Donald Trump on his handling of the China-originated novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, praising Trump as the “kind of leader that people need” in this time of crisis.

After dismissing criticism from media reporter and American neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, Bash said Trump’s “tone” over the past two days should be applauded on an “American” and “human” level.

People determine what he means when he says something.

Border Patrol releasing thousands who were exposed to diseases like tuberculosis
· April 30, 2019

Beginning in August 2014, right after the influx of Central American teens, there was an outbreak of enterovirus D68, a respiratory illness, which many experts increasingly believe to be the cause of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a mysterious polio-like disease that causes paralysis but starts out as what appears to be an innocuous cold.

Obviously this proves my point. He's completely changed his position. He's only a month late.

Feb. 26: "Because of all we've done, the risk to the American people remains very low."

Feb. 28: "I think it's really going well."

Feb. 28: "It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear."

Feb. 28: "This is their new hoax."

March 4: "Some people will have this at a very light level and won't even go to a doctor or hospital, and they'll get better."

March 10: "... it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

March 11: "I think we're going to get through it very well."

March 12: "It's going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with
China, we have 32 deaths at this point..."

March 15: "This is a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control over."

March 16: "If you're talking about the virus, no, that's not under control for any place in the world."

March 17: "I've always known this is a, this is a real, this is a pandemic … I've felt that it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."

Watching you people dance to the discordant and stumbling tune of an obese demented real estate huckster who paints himself with orange makeup and wears a stupid comb-over never ceases to amaze me.

Obviously this proves my point. He's completely changed his position. He's only a month late.

in the words of #45

Seeing you resort to ad hominem, never ceases to amaze (nor impress) me.

If nothing else, this "crisis" highlights for all and sundry, just how pathetically fragile, the whole neoliberal "free market" capitalist system has become.

I'll give you one guess who pushed very hard for such a system to remain, and your president whopped her arse in the last election.

If none of those things happened he'd still be selling us timeshares.

no one showing the least sense of embarrassment, let alone contrition, says it all.

The problem is whether the system gets replaced before it gets destroyed.

Who cares?

I don't believe he's earned the unequivocal support he gets from some quarters of the media, the web, and this forum.

The president's 180º pirouette in the space of two days and the movement of his base and media cheerleaders behind him, no one showing the least sense of embarrassment, let alone contrition, says it all.