Trump: 'With smaller testing we would show fewer cases'

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

President Trump asserted Tuesday that the United States would record fewer cases of the novel coronavirus with less testing after stirring controversy by saying over the weekend he asked aides to slow down testing.

“Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.

Trump has been scrutinized for saying at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday that testing was a “double-edged sword” and that he told his staff to “slow the testing down, please.” The White House has said the comment was meant as a joke.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504026-trump-with-smaller-testing-we-would-show-fewer-cases

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stable genius indeed...

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. How can a person that stupid ties his damn shoes?

A first grader would understand this. It's not that hard.

[tclambert]

20. Hell, I don't think he can bend over and reach his shoes.

He must have a shoe tying lackey. I'm sure Bill Barr would do it for one pellet of toad food.

[efhmc]

2. What an idiot. He was spouting off with no knowledge of anything, per usual. Not joking.

[IronLionZion]

3. Can't test positive if you don't get tested

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Fewer pregnancy tests

means fewer pregnancies.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Fact: nobody tested positive for bubonic plague in the mid fourteenth century.

What an evil bastard he is.

[mucifer]

6. Those 80 people who died in Florida in the last 24 hours wouldn't be dead

[jmowreader]

7. I'll keep that in mind

I’ll also keep in mind they’re testing Trump and everyone who goes around him on a daily basis.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. "If we don't tell the banks about our debts, they'll think we have more money."

Sleight-of-hand is like catnip to Trump's mind. Sweep it under the rug, no one will know about it. Lie about it. We'll be worse off but no one will notice or know about it.

[Marcuse]

9. If you don't declare all your income then your taxes will go down.

[Warpy]

10. He's doubling down for two big reasons

First of all, because like the popes, he's infallible. He can never admit an error of any type because he know that will make him look weak and weak bullies don't get to keep their enablers.

Second, he's all about those marketing numbers. He knows if the truth is told about how quickly this thing is spreading, people are not going to be going out to spend money and the economy will crash. The stupid part is in thinking the economy isn't crashing as people spend their money playing catch-up on mortgage and car payments and utilities and don't have money left over for anything but food.

Also, he really is an idiot.

[Dave Starsky]

11. Further proof that he lacks object permanence.

Which shows, definitively, that he doesn't have the cognitive development of a two-year-old.

Playing peek-a-boo with him must be a blast. He really does think that when he closes his eyes, you cease to exist.

[Grammy23]

12. Hmmmm. Does this qualify for

No sh*t, Sherlock??

[William Seger]

13. It's like 10 or 11 o'clock in the cuckoo clock shop

... and you know it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

[bobnicewander]

14. Running and hiding

instead of taking charge and being responsible has been the mark of his entire residency. An obvious coward.

[chriscan64]

15. This is one of those times when you know he's telling the truth

When he says he meant to say that stupid thing he said.

[NCjack]

16. Please GOP Senators -- are your jobs worth his killing another 100,000 of us?

[scarytomcat]

17. I think after he got caught saying something so stupid as to be

laughable he had to try to make it a joke for real so he keeps repeating it

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Ha ha. It is to laugh.

Like not having a hotel inspector around to count all the bedbugs means no bedbugs. Amiright?



Works the same for inspectors general: no inspections means no violations.

[DFW]

19. Best comment I saw on that was this:

That's like saying that if there were less testing for pregnancy, there would be less pregnancies (for our visiting trolls from the right, in Republicanese, that's: "pregnancy's" ).

[yellowdogintexas]

21. that may be the stupidest thing I have ever heard

"fewer tests = fewer cases" As if they don't exist if the are fewer tests.

[brush]

22. And the thing about it, he apparently believes that foolishness. His brain can't...

grasp that if you don't test the infected people are still out there infecting other people.

This dumb as a rock idiot is the reason why a national testing system wasn't set up in Feb. or early March at the latest, and why 121,000 Americans are dead.

[RobinA]

23. The Thing

I've never seen addressed is whether testing was actually slowed down due to his desire for fewer cases. Testing was lousy, but it was always supposedly because we didn't have enough tests. Was it actually purposely slowed down?