After a brief hiatus due to a shooting at the White House, President Donald Trump gave a very misleading and misleading press conference on Monday afternoon.
Daniel Dale, the president’s CNN lead president, said it was noteworthy for its dishonesty, even when judged by the incredibly low standards set by Trump.
“They’re all pretty bad at least, but that was one of the worst Trump press conferences in a while from a truth standpoint. Fast and furious lies,” Dale said in a tweet.
Here are 5 notable moments:
1. Trump was called out about his lie about for existing circumstances.
Over the weekend, the president claimed he would sign an executive order guaranteeing health insurers would cover pre-existing circumstances. The only problem with this claim is that it is already part of Obamacare, Trump is trying to destroy Obamacare through a lawsuit, and the policy could not be enforced by executive order.
2. Trump defended his scandalous attacks on Joe Biden’s faith.
Despite Biden’s well-known Catholicism – and the apparent emptiness of Trump’s own claims to be religious – the president insisted that the former vice president ‘wants to hurt God’.
The President reiterated the effects of COVID-19 on children, even though it can kill them, in rare cases, can cause serious illness and can spread to others.
4. Trump read and said he would not have mentioned Obama’s dismissal if he had had the same accomplishments in the face of the coronavirus.
We have a very good idea of how Trump would react to Obama if he had to deal with COVID-19, because we saw how he reacted to Ebola. Despite the fact that only two Americans died during the entire Ebola outbreak on Obama’s watch, Trump – and much of the right-wing media ecosystem – has been afraid of the virus for months in the run-up to the midterms of 2014. Trump tweet even the following:
But when pressed on this hypocrisy, Trump said he should be commended for his handling of the pandemic, even though more than 160,000 people have died, and his own failures are just visible.
5. Trump indicated that he does not know when World War II occurred.
To be clear, the pandemic happened in 1918, and World War II ended in 1945.
This would not be so great – anyone can make an actual slip-up when he speaks of the cuff – except for the fact that the Trump campaign has jumped on similar slips by Biden to suggest that he suffers from mental decline.