Trump Dissembling, Mixed Messages Hurt U.S. Coronavirus Response | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Ron Klain, head of the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, talks with Rachel Maddow about the problem of Donald Trump's dishonesty combined with the administration's micromanaging of information for government experts hurting the important, necessary messaging about how the U.S. is managing the coronavirus. Aired on 02/27/20.
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Trump Dissembling, Mixed Messages Hurt U.S. Coronavirus Response | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. @Mind Freshener yep. You do know your life is a commodity to Atgolf Twitler? Can’t you see he’s rolling the dice even as you flex your intellectual capabilities online. What you think you and your family’s lives are worth because that’s what you’re trying to peddle with your fake news.

    2. @Mind Freshener Right, this is how Trump spins things. He tries to tie everything back to the market. He’s always been ‘profits over people’.

  1. He should be dragged out of the White House and driven through the streets of Washington in a walk of attonement. He can keep his clothes on though.

    1. Earnest T Bass Try the “Toronto Star” there is a journalist who has been keeping record of all trump’s lies. The list covers four pages of a broadsheet. And counting……

    2. Richard Reynolds you should get medical mental help quickly. If you think Trump is telling the truth when if he speaks something is seriously wrong and you are dumb beyond repair.

  2. Well great first confirmed case in NZ. They traveled from Iran a week ago. Currently in a Isolation unit in Auckland Hospital.

    1. Gerald Arnoult Flue Death rate 0.1% Corona Virus 2%. NZ went into Pandemic Alert on 6th January. Our Government is warning us to be aware as our flu season is about to start. Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric and misdirection created by the flu is deadlier. CDC Flu season 2018-19 647,000 people hospitalised and 61,000 died. The key issue here is Government response.

    2. @Kiwi Newz has nothing to do with being fooled, look at the real data, coronavirus don’t come close to the American flu which in 2018 killed 80.000 in the U.S.

    3. I guess Obama F-ed up the Swine Flu response in 2009, just like Trump F-ed up the response in this one… says the media. BWHAHAHAHA. Yeah ok. What stupid A** people!!

  3. “Uneducated Republicans” is redundant.
    Trump’s Deep Stupidity is a Clear and Present Danger to our Great Nation.

    1. Oh? We’re not the ones sh*tting on the sidewalks in downtown San Fran. That’s your scholars of the democratic party.

  4. Facts are to be ignored or mutilated by this administration and its impeached, incompetent president**.
    With all public comments to be first cleared with VP Pence it is now clear that it is truth that is being quarantined and less the virus.

    1. How did that impeachment sham work out for you? Not so good. Nice job by the Dems
      and the media helping Trump’s approval #’s to skyrocket as well as the raising of million
      of $ for the GOP. Congrats Dems, great work!

    2. @wandering spirit- “How did that legitimate impeachment work out tRump. He gets to carry that humiliation around for the rest of his sordid life and know that the Senate trial was the sham because a trial without witnesses is not a real trial. Nice job by the republiKKKlans.
      And tRump’s corruption is the cause for his approval rating to be the lowest of any president at this point in their first term. And the 1% keeps giving $ to the traitorous GOP. Congrats republiKKKlans, great work! “

  5. Make no mistake, Trump is a sociopath.

    Trump quote from 2004, a response to a Larry King Live caller asking how he handles stress. Trump: “I try and tell myself it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesn’t matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesn’t matter.”

    Spoken like the true sociopath that he is. Trump meets pretty much every diagnostic criterion of a sociopath..

    ● Manipulative and Conning:
    They never recognize the rights of others, and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims. 

    ● Grandiose Sense of Self:
    Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.” 

    ● Pathological Lying:
    Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.

    ● Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt:
    A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way. 

    ● Shallow Emotions:
    When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises. 

    ● Callousness/Lack of Empathy:
    Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. 

    ● Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
    Rage and abuse. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others. 

    ● Irresponsibility/Unreliability:
    Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.

    1. David J I just had time for first one. So,Trump wants to end killing babies in the womb.
      Do you? If not, how do you deal with millions of small dead humans in your mind?

  6. That’s messed up that this guy actually said it out loud, but what a lot of us are probably thinking, “anyone who believes what president Trump says, kinda gets is what they deserve”

    1. @lima leaf frog – That’s the price ‘We the People’ will pay for having an incompetent person in the Oval Office. He has to go!

    2. says the person who believed Maddow had a bombshell with his taxes that 1 time!! She has fake bombshells every other day. But yet YOU all fall for them!! LMAO –you fools!!!!

  7. Being a very stable genius obviously means one suffers from countless of malfunctions.
    The most bigliest malfunctions ever, in any president.
    History’s most majestic malfunctions!

    Who’d have guessed.

  8. Dumpsterfire Donny doesn’t care if you live or die.
    “The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.”
    “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

  9. Trump should be blocked from all media, TV news to protect the American People from Trump’s Ignorant Responses.

    Trump is more dangerous than the Coronavirus.

    1. @Desperado5501- “WATCH AS TRUMP AND THE TRAITOROUS REPUBLIKKKLANS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY OUR CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW.”

    2. @Urmy Sunn Sunnrrff So far your absolutely RIGHT. IF YOU COUNT THE DEAD SOLDIERS FROM AFRICA HE GOT KILLED AND THOSE DEAD FROM UVA RALLY AND THE EMBOLDEN MASS SHOOTERS, THE KURDS HE BETRAYED, AND THE UKRAINE’S THAT WAITED FOR US AID MONEY FOR WEAPONS, AS OF RIGHT NOW TRUMP HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE.

  10. So if someone has coronavirus and no insurance or cant afford to pay for a doc visit…then end up spreading the disease everywhere, on the subway, restaurants, restrooms…etc…how can we even stop that?…Medicare for all is the solution! #bernie, #coronavirus, #med4all

    1. Ali Nadhaif…you have hit the nail on the head…an epidemic could wipe out much of America because of it’s sick incompetent leaders who will support no abortions for anyone but not health care. So you bring a child into the world with severe heart defects but won’t provide medical care because it’s a pre-existing condition. I guess that’s why stupidity is still so common.

    2. 40% get no sick pay. Most can’t do their work from home or on computer. They can’t afford a doctor. It’s a real mess.

  11. Because of travel routes and geographical location, USA has had a MASSIVE head start over most of the planet to prepare for this.. The fact its still this level of screw up is inexcusable!
    Hopefully the main fatality of the Coronavirus will be Trump Presidency!

    1. Really? the U.S. last American flu season 2018 (that they don’t want to call the AMERICAN for political and race reasons) had 80.000 deaths 900.000 hospitalized 12 millions cases, were was the hysteria? NOT A PEEP, much worse then the coronavirus, most of the planet? I have not heard of one case in Mexico nor do I see cases of measles and mumps in Mexico, everyone gets vaccinated at the same time 2018 Mexico had less then 100 death from the flu, as I say its politics and race

  12. The University of Queensland Australia is one of only three places in the World with a CEPI Coalition For Epidemic Prepardness Innovation
    And have now testing the Covid-19 Vaccine Quest
    Using the New Rapid Response Technology Response Technology was used to Develop a Vaccine,
    Now being carried out and tested under laboratory conditions
    To understanding the Coronavirus and the cure to stop it spreading,this will take months of testing for a result,
    This University was the first to discover a Possible Vaccine against the Covdi-19 vire,let’s hope it progresses to a human cure,

    1. Nils Telle Lets hope,the Australian government’s pathetic Trump style response to the bushfires is not going to be repeated in its response to coronavirus.

    2. Scott O’Keeffe think you have the Bush fires up bush creek,yes they were bad,yes a lot of problems with Mother Nature,the response was fast the change of climate played a big part with record heat changing winds and no rain for several years leaving the bush bone dry,and also the eculp

  13. China silenced the Heath professionals and that is what caused the outbreak and now Trump is doing the same thing. Scary!

    1. China silenced heath professionals? what proof? is like Chinese eat raw bats? were did you get that FOX news

    2. U.S. reporters are spreading fear and hysteria around the globe, is it for the last American flu to divert attention away from 80.000 deaths in the U.S. 2018 flu season?

    3. @Gerald Arnoult No reporters are intentionally “spreading fear and hysteria around the globe”. They are reporting on a possible pandemic as best they can. However, lack of epidemiological and general scientific knowledge causes both the information being reported and how it is being interpreted to be skewed in the direction of sounding panicky. The American government’s response, that there really is no problem, is also causing a backlash of sorts and unbalancing the reporting. A prevaricating, ill-prepared and frankly, stupid president does little to clarify the situation or quiet fears.

    4. @Alex Mitchell Sorry, but you don’t know the full story. He wasn’t the first doctor to discover the new virus and inform the government about it. After he died he’s being used as a propaganda tool.

    1. If it is or was syphilis, we would know were that came from, the capital of sexual transmitted disease, the U.S.

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