Live Blog sort of, as Trump is doing his usual shout outs to cronies. Doing shtick. very few mask-wearers.
Trump says “some people” can't figure out what the “19” in COVID-19 is for. “I said, that's an odd name,” he adds. He continues:
“Some people call it the Chinese flu. The China flu. Right? They call it the Chi-NA, as opposed to China. The Chi-NA.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020
Trump, on script, says the behavior of the “left-wing mob” that is tearing down statues is “not the behavior of a peaceful political movement. It's the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants.” He adds, “They don't love our country.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020
Trump says young conservatives are the real elite, since they're smarter and better looking than the so-called elite, except the so-called elite has one thing going for them, and that's that they're “more vicious, they are vicious people.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020
Mentions Ghandi and Churchill because Trump wants other countries to tear down statues. It’s on CSpan, as CNN, MSNBC, and even FoxNews were not covering it. Then again, “Hydrosonic missiles”. Now FoxNews has cut to it, only to cut away again.
Because Aunt Jemima is the hill you want to die on
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