We saw it, for weeks, with our eyes. Trump, Republicans, Fox News, the conservative movement — all lying about Corovirus. Calling it a hoax, downplaying the threat, saying that the left was hyping it as “second impeachment.”
We saw the absolute, morally criminal lack of preparedness. The the hospitals not prepared, the population not distanced, the mocking of anyone who took this seriously.
We saw the clownish press conferences, claiming that “it’s only a flu”, that everything was under control, etc. The sort of obsequiousness to Trump that would be laughable if it wasn’t so scary. We saw Fox News hosts downplay the threat. Even in the last we saw Trump shaking hands during a press conference about the virus.
The propaganda onslaught from the right is coming. They’re going to try to pretend it never happened.
I bought the rights to TrumpLiedAboutCoronavirus.com and RepublicansLiedAboutCoronavirus.com. What should we do with them?
Right now I’m pointing them both to this post by James Fallows: 2020 Time Capsule #4: Trump Is Lying, Blatantly.
Instead we could point them to this video timeline of trump downplaying everything by The Recount. Or maybe this video tracking Fox New’s lies and sudden reversals about coronavirus created by the Washington Post.
Or a microsite! Or something else entirely. If you have a great idea for these domains, or even a bad one, let me know!
3 replies on “TrumpLiedAboutCoronavirus.com”
Can you change this to “Republicans lied about Coronavirus”? There are so many people who lied. The president shouldn’t get all the credit.
Also, you should let other people submit quotes from Republicans lying about Coronavirus so this is preserved!
You’re right! It should be about Republicans, and not just Trump.
I should have lead with that instead.
Check out this compilation of Trump’s comments correlated to the spike in cases in the U.S. Great job by the author…
https://twitter.com/shomikdutta/status/1239918905461600257?s=20