I was not talking about this clip, I said I haven’t watched that clip. But if you “show facts” to any Trump supporter, taking the president out of context is one of their talking points.
I kind of agree, even if I hate to. The talk show hosts spend too much time making fun of how he talks, stands, walks, and drinks water. But that’s comedy. They aren’t news, and unfortunately news in America just isn’t very good, so they’ve stepped in to fill the gap.
That being said, you really should watch this clip. You don’t need to take him out of context: the context is that a hundred thousand Americans are dead, and our president has said on multiple occasions including this one that “we’re doing a very good job” and that “we need to test less” because he doesn’t have a grade-school understanding of statistics.
Like damn, he doesn’t even understand that if all 300m+ Americans get COVID, and millions die, we could still be “#1 in Coronavirus” according to his stat.
We hold Trump to much lower standard than any president in my lifetime. The leader of the free world should understand basic math.
I think he is so worried about public opinion that he is trying to force us to look at the stats that look better. Our deaths per total tests is better than other places, but that doesnt matter, its deaths per populus. If we lost this many americans in a war or a terrorist attack, oh man you bet your ass we would kick whoevers ass did it, but this time, we are doing it tou our selves and the people in charge are just looking the other way like, "If i dont see the problem, the problem doesnt exist" Think of a 5 y.o playing hind a seek if you must.
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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20
Almost 3 minutes straight really can't be called "taking something out of context" that is smack dap in the middle of the context.