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As if his pandemic press briefings haven’t been bonkers (and dangerous) enough, President Trump made the full extent of his ineptitude known in a stunning new Axios on HBO interview with national political correspondent Jonathan Swan. The interview is an outrageous, confusing, delusional, and enraging half-hour journey as Swan relentlessly presses Trump on the nationwide COVID-19 death toll (which he dismisses), Black Lives Matter (which he also dismisses), delaying the election (he doesn’t quite rule it out), and his well wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell (he stands by his earlier statement).
Swan somehow displays a highly commendable level of resolve as Trump spews misinformation at every turn (Swan’s facial expressions throughout the interview became a trending topic on Twitter ); many viewers won’t stay as calm. There was a wealth to choose from, but here are the seven craziest things President Trump said in the train-wreck Axios interview everyone is talking about.
To the world, it may be a public-health emergency, but for Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic is a bitchy power move from China to punish the U.S. for its economic success. “This was sent to us by China and we’re never going to forget it, believe me, we’re never going to forget it,” Trump said. “We were beating China at every single point. We were beating them on trade. We were making progress like nobody’s ever made progress. Before the pandemic they had the worst year that they’ve had in 67 years.… Then, all of a sudden, the game changed...and I closed the greatest economy ever in history.” To be clear, an estimated 692,000 people worldwide are dead from coronavirus, but Trump is still focusing on his personal feud with China.
Trump repeatedly attempted to downplay the nationwide surge, and the fact that the curve we were supposed to flatten is only spiking. This resulted in a staggeringly insensitive line. “One thousands Americans are dying a day. They are dying, it’s true. It is what it is,” Trump told Swan. “That doesn’t mean that it’s under control as much as we can control it.” Evidently, tweeting medical conspiracies about not wearing masks and holding packed rallies now counts as trying his best.
The president even went so far as to produce his own charts, claiming the U.S. death rate from coronavirus was among the lowest in the world. The only problem, as Swan pointed out: Trump’s charts showed deaths by case number, rather than deaths by population. Trump’s retort? “You can’t do that.” Better, of course, to ignore the rising death and hospitalization rate in favor of figures that suit him.
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Asked by Swan when he can commit to providing Americans with widely accessible same-day testing, Trump scoffed: “There are those that say, ‘You can test too much,’ you know that?” When Swan immediately replied, “Who says that?” Trump shot back: “Read the manuals, read the books.” Unsurprisingly, he was unable to provide any specific book titles that discourage as much testing as possible in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
Swan confronted Trump about the danger and recklessness of holding a crowded event, but got a classic egotistical Trump reply: bragging about his crowd size and TV ratings. “We had a tremendous crowd, it was like an armed camp,” he boasted. “We had the highest rating in the history of Fox television.” At this, Swan delivered one of his best lines of the interview: “I’m not criticizing your ability to draw a crowd. Are you kidding? I’ve covered you for five years,” he said. “You draw massive crowds. You get huge ratings. I’m asking about the public health.”
Here’s a telling glimpse into Trump’s megalomania. In his mind, John Lewis is not a civil rights hero, but a guy who declined to attend his inauguration. “I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration,” the president said. “He didn’t come to my inauguration, he didn’t come to my State of the Union addresses, and that’s okay, that’s his right.” As he has done before, Trump later congratulated himself for doing “more for the Black community than anybody, with the possible exemption of Abraham Lincoln.” Swan then asked how that could be, considering the legislative record of LBJ. “You believe you did more than Lyndon Johnson, who passed the Civil Rights Act?” Swan asked. “I think I did, yeah,” Trump answered. (Cue another of Swan’s incredulous facial expressions .)
In light of his recent, chilling tweet suggesting delaying the election, Trump went off about voting by mail. “We have a new phenomenon. It’s called mail-in voting,” he said. (Praise Swan for replying: “New? It’s been here since the Civil War.”) Trump proceeded to claim mail-in voting is rife with fraud (“Somebody got a ballot for a dog”), arguing that millions of ballots are being sent out (in fact, Swan corrected, those are applications). “You could have a case when this election could not be decided on the evening of November 3. You could have a case when this election is decided two months later,” Trump said. “Because lots of things will happen during that period...especially when you have tight margins.”
Swan's facial expressions during his masterful interview with Trump soon became a trending topic on Twitter.
Trump doubled down on his kind wishes for alleged child sex trafficker Maxwell. “Her friend or boyfriend was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She’s now in jail,” the president said. “Yeah, I wish her well, I’d wish you well, I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck, let them prove somebody was guilty.”
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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:35AM ET / Published Jun. 30, 2015 3:55PM ET
America’s favorite faux-political shock jock came back with a vengeance two weeks ago when, during a press conference to announce his candidacy for the presidency, he characterized all Mexican immigrants as drug-peddling rapists.
“The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems,” he said . “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
The comments ended up getting both him and his television programs (the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants) booted from NBC. After a public pressure campaign that racked up more than 200,000 petition signatures, the network decried his words as “derogatory.” Trump, as to be expected, railed against NBC. Instead of apologizing for his words, he later asserted that his stance on immigration “is correct.”
It’s not the first time Trump has insulted America’s southern neighbor. This past February, when Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu took home an Oscar for his film Birdman , Trump offered dubious congratulations. “Well it was a great night for Mexico, as usual in this country… It was a great night… for Mexico. This guy kept getting up and up and up. I said, you know, what’s he doing? He’s walking away with all the gold.”
Trump has a long history of offending the kind of broad demographics that other candidates might be working to impress for, you know, election-winning purposes. Here’s a roundup of the most cringe-worthy quotes that he uttered aloud or posted on his colorful Twitter account.
Particularly well-known liberal women:
After retweeting another user (“ @mplefty67: If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her thing she can satisfy America?’ @realDonaldTrump #2016presiden t”), Trump made a rare retraction and deleted it. His spokesperson later claimed it was posted by a campaign staffer.
“There is something on that birth certificate—maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim, I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that. Or. he may not have one,” he told Laura Ingraham regarding the ever-mysterious birth circumstances and religious affiliation of Barack Obama.
“I rented him a piece of land,” he told Fox News about his relationship with Muammar Qaddafi. “He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land. That’s what we should be doing. I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’, but I screwed him.”
“To the victor belong the spoils,” he said to Bill O’Reilly , about his stance of staying in Iraq after the war. Therefore he would “stay and we keep the oil.”
On celebrity relationships he has no stake in:
And most offensive of all—an unlikely claim about his intellectual superiority:
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Last weekend, we were graced with a whole new batch of foibles of the Trump administration, this time from the perspective of onetime adviser Fiona Hill and couched in a New York Times Magazine article titled “ This Was Trump Pulling a Putin .”
You might remember Hill’s emergence on the national scene during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. An expert on Russia, she had worked under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and testified on Trump’s plan to use foreign policy to try to get dirt on his political opponents (namely, the Bidens).
A good chunk of Draper’s story is about how Hill believes January 6 was presaged by Trump’s policies toward Putin. It recounts Hill’s belief that not only Trump’s but Bush’s and Obama’s policies toward Putin set the stage for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I have my doubts on these fronts, which seem both Trump and US-centric. Still, it’s worth reading Draper’s piece to get a glimpse at just how ridiculous former President Trump’s dealings with Vladimir Putin actually were—and all the other wacky shit Hill says she witnessed during Trump’s tenure.
A few choice tidbits, all according to Hill:
A lot of the wild things that happened during the Trump administration do not get much attention because many find the discussion of the Russia investigation, and connections with Russia, overplayed and boring. I get it. But sometimes that means you miss out on Trump telling a Turkish president to make a movie.
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Believing that a secretive cabal is conspiring to control the government and delude the public might not hurt you, if you're an ordinary citizen. For politicians seeking election to high office, though, espousing conspiracy theories can be risky if voters don't see things the same way.
That apparently didn't concern Donald Trump, who alluded to one of his favorite conspiracy theories when he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition Thursday. "There's something going on with him that we don't know about," Trump said, referring to President Obama. We don't know exactly what he means by that, but Trump used to focus on his allegation that the president was not born in the United States.
Trump has other theories, too -- for example, that Arab immigrants in New Jersey cheered in the streets when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. If these theories were true, they would imply a widespread deceit. The believer has to imagine a conspiracy among a potentially vast number of people in state, federal and local government, law enforcement and the press, all acting in concert to manipulate the public and conceal the truth.
By espousing these modern-day myths, politicians might expose themselves to criticism, but psychologists suggest there is also a large group of voters to whom these theories appeal, especially on the conservative side of the aisle. A new study suggests that these voters are not ill-informed. On the contrary, conspiracy theories are most persuasive to more knowledgeable and politically engaged voters -- just the group that politicians might want to reach. By endorsing these theories, or at least not rebutting them, politicians can address some of those voters' fundamental psychological needs.
Social scientists and psychologists believe that people subscribe to conspiracy theories for the simple reason that these theories often tend to validate their views of the world. Republicans believe all kinds of things about President Obama, and many liberals believe similar theories about President George W. Bush.
"For both liberals and conservatives, for everybody, there's just this tendency to want to believe things that fit our worldview as we believe it," said Joanne Miller, a political scientist the University of Minnesota and one of the authors of the new study. "Both liberals and conservatives are subject to that. It's a human tendency to want to believe what we believe."
In particular, conspiracy theories offer a simple explanation, with an identifiable villain, for the complicated reality of modern politics. That simplicity is appealing.
Miller and her collaborators -- Christina Farhart and Colorado State University's Kyle Saunders -- used data from surveys of Americans who were asked whether they thought statements about politicians and public figures were true.
A few conspiracy theories were on the list. Four were designed to suss out conservative respondents:
There were four more theories for the other side:
In many cases, large percentages of Americans overall believe the conspiracy theories were true.
The respondents also had to take a short quiz to test their general knowledge about politics. Conservatives who were well-informed about politics in general were more, not less, likely to hold conspiracy theories.
While it might be surprising to most people, that pattern wasn't surprising for the scholars of conspiracy theories who wrote the paper. People who kno
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