Another Trump Presser: without a case of the claque, Trump still wants to kill social security

Started at 547pm ET Apparently like the Germans and Pearl Harbor, for Trump, the second World War ended in 1917.

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Trump starts with more disinformation using a Virginia example

Trump pimps stock market — usual blah-blah….

(550pm) whoa, something happened and Trump abruptly leaves after a secret service agent came to podium. Looks like an external threat — there’s a door lock-down at the WH. Photographers in the briefing room are at the windows trying to get a view. External view of WH has Secret Service out on roof. Uniformed Secret Service is patrolling with automatic weapons. The perimeter was extended a while ago.

@DanaPerino reports the sounds of shots fired near the White House, developing

Trump comes back in. (600pm)

There was a shooting outside, someone was injured by secret service — now under control. Trump wasn’t taken to the bunker.

According to @POTUS perp shot outside White House by the Secret Service #getsome https://t.co/UVo5qqNKjC

— Angel L Maysonet🇵🇷👮🏻‍♂️🐷 (@bigricanman) August 10, 2020

Trump yammers about “the world being a dangerous place”.

Trump returns to prepared text… “China Virus” (CV) blah-blah claims of “auto boom”, more bafflegab. (We are still in a recession) claims a 20% growth rate for Third Quarter. refers to “pandemic contraction”. “tremendous progress” uses the word “resolvement” for vaccine development.

Refers to Saturday circles back to stock market, accuses Democrats of bailing out poorly running states. Repeats his Saturday stunt EO and Memos. Mentions yet again a middle-class income tax cut.

CV again on COVID news, repeats his testing/case BS yet again claims 2-day wait for lab tests. Mexico, and Latin America. Does is usual ventilator brag, lies about wall again -— still 3 miles of new wall. Tries to connect wall to keeping COVID out.

Trump does usual blah-blah “vaccine by the end of the year”. Mentions therapeutics to try to confabulate them. CV again cites long-term care and nursing homes. Usual boilerplate, lies about death data. Selective comparison with EU. More China blaming. Mentions AZ TX FL, tries again to connect COVID to breaching southern border. “we’re monitoring very strongly”. Trump tries to pimp “underlying conditions” (comorbidities) recalling his trying to rebrand Obamacare on Friday and Saturday. Trump goes sing-songy, getting bored with reading repeats his Saturday threat to end social security and medicare. Tries to blame evictions on China.

Here’s the WaPo story about a nonprofit sending out absentee ballot applications with a wrong address on many of the return envelopes. Again, this has nothing to do with voter fraud and doesn’t augur a “rigged election.” https://t.co/7Ig1D0jw1h https://t.co/tfASxWNopP pic.twitter.com/OknfvUygnV

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Trump boasts about positive economic numbers, from the stock market to housing, again touting the record job growth of 9M from May through July without mentioning that it followed a decline of 22M.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Trump again falsely claims that the US increase in cases was just a result of how many people the US is testing. He again falsely claims India has tested 11 million people; it was more than 20 million as of eight days ago.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

As always: https://t.co/Zmsb6wnrNH

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

QUESTIONS

Q: UI payments, when?

Mnuchin says by end of next week.

Q: have all the governors signed on to this?

Trump punts

Q: incident outside?

Trump punts

Q: 97,000 kids testing positive?

Trump claims it’s a “tiny fraction of deaths” “I think schools have to open”

Trump touts “encouraging signs” in improvements in case and hospitalization numbers over the last week. There have been declines; the numbers still remain high. Charts: https://t.co/Jo8YCQ7aHu

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: Biden against God?

Trump tries to link Biden to Sanders (accordion hands) claims poll progress, uses word “manifesto” twice.

Asked about his ridiculous comment about Biden wanting to “hurt God” and being against God, Trump cites the Biden-Sanders task force’s “stance on religion” and on particular aspects of religion. (In other words, no explanation.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Trump then segues to alleging that Biden will do too much regulating and taxing.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: claims of pre existing conditions covered?

Trump claims contradictory issues on individual mandate (still doesn’t get press follow up on contradiction) Trump claims it’s a “double safety net” even if it’s redundant.

Trump says his planned executive order on protecting pre-existing conditions is “a double safety net” just to let people know Repiblicans are going to protect those protections. (Republicans have repeatedly tried to weaken the protections.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: G-7 meeting?

Haven’t sent out invitations yet. blah-blah “let’s do it after the election.”

follow-up on Russia — punts

Q: negotiations with Dems?

Mnuchin answers yet, Trump interjects blah-blah

Q: Gettysburg for RNC acceptance speech?

Trump punts, “It’s the history, it’s incredible” blah-blah on using the White House

Q: audience for speech at Gettysburg?

Trump says yes, then interjects and asks John Roberts about number of shots outside (two)

Q: response to reciprocal China sanctions?

Trump goes blah blah on virus

Trump repeats his usual conspiratorial suggestion that China “released” the virus into US, Europe but didn’t let it spread in China. Every region of China had cases by late January, though China did indeed take strict domestic measures to contain it, and there’ve been flare-ups.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: delisting of Chinese companies by SEC in terms of accounting requirements

Mnuchin answer, then Trump goes blah-bl;ah on WTO “developing nations” status

“Jina” and North Korea will own this country if Biden wins. Trump implies he’s being tough on Russia, veering to energy and NATO. Misinforms on Germany energy needs relative to Russia. Trump is lying yet again. Now veers to criticizing China on farm products. So he didn’t really attack Russia, just used bafflegab.

“They’re just waiting until Biden win” “China will own us, etc.” turning into campaign speech. blah-blah. claims that 180 million people will be unhappy with Democrats.

Trump repeats his usual nonsense that the US hadn’t previously taken in “10 cents” from China. Americans pay the tariffs; avg $12B per year in China-tariff revenue between 2007 and 2016; plus more than $100B in annual Chinese purchases; plus Chinese FDI.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: On Putin, Russian election meddling

Trump tries to steer it to Iran China, typical Trump answer now shifts it to Democrats and mail-in ballots. mentions Maloney again, goes back to mailed out applications. (stupid since anyone can apply for them)

Asked if he’s raised with Putin the intel assessment that Russia is interfering in the election, Trump talks about the intel assessments about China and Iran, then says “the Democrats” are the ones meddling in the election, which is, again, nonsense.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Q: Sporting events cancelled?

Trump punts

Q: hypothetical on 160,000 deaths on PBO’s watch should he have resigned

REPORTER: If 160,000 people had died on Obama's watch, would you have called for his resignation?

TRUMP: No

[Trump called for Obama to resign over ebola, which didn't kill anyone in the US!] pic.twitter.com/mkJ3T4r1vr

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2020

Trump falsely claims he put a “ban on anybody from China coming in.” He exempted citizens, permanent residents, many of the family members of both groups, and some others; tens of thousands flew from China after he imposed his restrictions. (And virus was already here.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Trump punts mentions 1917 (!). (why won’t the press correct him — again)

Trump says the pandemic of 1918 which he says occurred in 1917 ended the Second World War, which ended in 1945.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 10, 2020

“The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic certainly was a terrible thing, where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the second World War — all the soldiers were sick.”

Why does Trump keep saying the 1918 pandemic was in 1917? Is he too dense to learn the actual date? Too lazy? Does he know it’s 1918 but he’s such a compulsive liar he can’t stop lying? Is he so bent on degrading our capacity to know the truth he wants us to forget the real year?

— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) August 11, 2020

Trump blah-blah on closing the country. Trump lies and makes up numbers

Trump says you mention 160,000 deaths but it could’ve been ten times that, and that would’ve been “unsustainable” and “unacceptable.” He adds that one death is too many but says they’ve done an “extraordinary job.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

(Normally Trump would flee at this moment)

Q: Ethanol tariffs and Brazil?

Trump punts,

Q: OANN, Biden running mate NSA Susan Rice speculation?

Set-up for campaign BS about spying — blah, blah…

“The Obama campaign spied on my campaign,” Trump says although Obama didn’t have an Obama campaign in 2016 and there’s no evidence Obama was involved in the lawful surveillance. He then falsely suggests this non-thing was “treason.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

(Trump should flee now)

Yep Trump flees. 650pm