Mediaite reports:
“Mr. President, why haven’t you announced a plan to get 36 million unemployed Americans back to work. You’re overseeing historic economic despair. What’s the delay?” questioned the reporter, prompting President Trump to reply, “Oh, I think we’ve announced a plan. We’re opening up our country.”
“Just a rude person, you are,” he snapped, before continuing, “We are opening up our country and we are opening it up very fast. The plan is that each state is opening and it’s opening up very effectively. And when you see the numbers, I think even you will be impressed, which is pretty hard to impress you.”
.@PaulaReidCBS: Why haven’t you announced a plan to get Americans back to work?
President Trump: “Just a rude person you are…The plan is that each state is opening.”
Note: The Q was fair and Trump didn’t answer it directly.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 19, 2020
“Just a rude person you are” — Trump snaps at a female reporter who had the gall to ask him why he hasn’t yet announced a plan to get Americans safely back to work pic.twitter.com/vliYIZzQrB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2020
Trump on Ben Carson: “I had to run against him and he was very tough. He was even tougher when he would run onto a stage holding a Bible up in the air. I said, ‘that’s tough to beat.'”
Did that … did that ever happen? pic.twitter.com/WhRKyhvIET
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2020
Trump can’t name a single thing he’s doing to help minority communities but to cover for that he goes on an epic rant about a bunch of topics completely unrelated to the question he was asked pic.twitter.com/K5MaAoNhJq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2020
“That was a false study done. Where they gave it very sick people. Extremely sick people. People that were ready to die. It was given by obviously not friends of the administration” — Trump defends hydroxychloroquine by suggesting a study of VA patients was fruit of a conspiracy pic.twitter.com/a3neqa2U4y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2020
“What has been determined is it doesn’t harm you” — Trump lies about hydroxychloroquine, which can kill people who have heart conditions (Trump’s own FDA has warned about this) pic.twitter.com/HkKT2rHNuc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2020