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The man who wanted to be on TV

By Paul Campos

On September 15, 2020

At 11:52 pm

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The presidency is like The Apprentice except you don’t get to edit out the bits that don’t work.

I expect this Trump ABC town hall to be bonkers because he’s completely incapable of discussing policy but he rarely talks in forums where people are able to press him— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

Great expectations, everybody’s watching you:

STEPHANOPOULOS: You said we're doing better in mortality than other countries. We're not. Here's a chart

TRUMP: The excess mortality rate is among the best [this isn't true]

S: The US has 4% of the population and more than 20% of the deaths

T: Well, we do much more testing pic.twitter.com/rSHw1FiuKa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

Here's Trump claiming he didn't publicly downplay the coronavirus when he's literally on tape downplaying the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/21hUvAasxR— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

"They said at the Democrat Convention they're gonna do a national [mask] mandate. They never did it." — someone might want to inform Trump who the president is

He then tries to both-sides mask wearing, saying "a lot of people think that masks are not good." pic.twitter.com/FACVjMr0di— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

"It's going to disappear" — Trump is still absurdly insisting that the coronavirus will disappear on its own pic.twitter.com/YZq1JhOVbC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

TRUMP: It is going away

STEPHANOPOULOS: Without a vaccine?

TRUMP: Sure. Over a period of time

S: And many deaths

TRUMP: It's gonna be herd developed pic.twitter.com/dtJRE7XwFX— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

Trump is out here totally making stuff up. He had just been impeached before Covid. Democrats were not calling him and saying "hey, it's starting to work, let's get together." pic.twitter.com/t9nTGQgnUf— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

A lot more in the Rupar thread.

Some good laughs available from Laura Ingraham and The Federalist crowd, who are all complaining that Trump was “ambushed,” apparently because he was asked some basic questions about the COVID pandemic, and then not allowed to simply lie nonstop, although he pretty much did anyway.