'I don't kid': Trump says he wasn't joking about slowing coronavirus testing

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was serious when he revealed that he had directed his administration to slow coronavirus testing in the United States — shattering the defenses of senior White House aides who argued Trump’s remarks were made in jest.

“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” Trump told reporters, when pressed on whether his comments at a campaign event Saturday in Tulsa, Okla., were intended as a joke.

“We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases,” he continued.

Administration officials as high-ranking as Vice President Mike Pence have scrambled in recent days to clean up Trump’s statements last Saturday in Tulsa, Okla., where he reprised his dubious logic regarding testing rates before an arena of supporters.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing-335459

[SoonerPride]

1. Of course he wasn't joking.

He would stop all testing right this second if he could.

He wants to wish the pandemic away.

[Siwsan]

2. The blitherings of a delusional, raving lunatic

I can't even begin to wrap my mind around such convoluted thinking.

[Botany]

3. Trump wasn't joking he was given 14B $s to test and trace and didn't spend a penny

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213639803

[lagomorph777]

4. Sucks to "lawyer" for a defendent who keeps confessing to the crime.

[musclecar6]

5. Yeah

The infamous evil dirtbag lawyer Roy Cohn taught him to never admit you’re wrong and always double down on anything that comes out of your mouth. Obviously with Trump being a very natural apt student for that approach to life, it wasn’t hard for him to be part of that con man liar and cheat style of living. Of course he is so fucking stupid he doesn’t have enough sense when to not employ that approach.

[chriscan64]

6. As horrible as his staff is, he doesn't deserve them.

Imagine putting what is left of your credibility on the line to cover such an obvious gaffe with the lie that it was a joke. Then the idiot doubles down. The leader of the free world is the kid from the Twilight Zone, wishing the virus into the cornfield.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. He has no sense of humor at all...

I have noticed thst about narcissists. They are absolutely literal.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Fauci needs to quit yesterday. He can get as much airtime as he desires,

and can help that states (that want to be helped), completely casting aside anything that Cheetolini spews out.

[spanone]

9. How many died directly from don trump doing this?

HE'S FUCKING INSANE.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Need a Constitutional amendment

The requirements in Article II are not stringent enough.
Let's amend:
No person shall be President who cannot prove to be smarter than a bag of rocks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. So he admits to being a total fucking idiot.

If he and his followers want to die in a Trumptown mass suicide that's their business but leave the rest of us out of it.