VP Admits There’s Been ‘Irresponsible Rhetoric’ On Virus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

In a new TODAY interview, the vice president says while the president's highest priority is the safety of American people, there has been some irresponsible rhetoric around the coronavirus. Aired on 03/12/20.
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VP Admits There's Been 'Irresponsible Rhetoric' On Virus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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    1. @Joshua Calvert are you drinking that Faux News milk by the gallon or just getting it from the Orange haired asshat himself. Oh let me guess when he bends over and says “here’s a tootsie roll from the backside you actually eat it. ” He called it a hoax before he realized it was and IS going to sink his clown car of a “presidency” 1 word of advice for you Josh since you seem to be long gone……..KEEP ON EATIN AND SLURPIN” While those of us who don’t believe his swill try to get this thing contained. MORON

    2. And he wears his MAGA HAT TO VISIT THE CDC. THEN HAS THE NERVE JUST SAY WE NEED TO STOP POLITICIZING THIS. HE HAS POLITICAL RALLIES AND GOES GOLFING WELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GO UNTESTED FOR THE VIRUS.
      THIS IS SHAMEFUL WE HAVE TESTED FOUR PER MILLION WELL SOUTH KOREA HAS TESTED FOUR THOUSAND. PATHETIC.
      THE ILLUSION THAT WE HAVE THE BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN SHATTERED, BY ONE VIRUS

  1. Here in the US, it is going to be far worse than China and Italy because Trump and Fox have been saying that COVID-19 is all a “hoax” created by the Democrats.

    Those sneaky Democrats got the entire world to go along with the “hoax”. Fox viewers are truly brainwashed.

    1. @Kevin McNeil You just gave an excellent demonstration of the hatred and belligerent ignorance that Trump engenders in his fans.

      You are being used.

    2. @mrcooldeadly85 by all means of you think u can do better and are aware of all presidential procedures. Wht are u not running for President?

    3. That is very SAD….but most likely very prophetic. I am glad I live in Canada, where everyone has healthcare and the government is working hard to flatline the curve. The infections in the US are about to go ballistic and the government lost the ability to control it weeks ago. The economy is going to tank, many people are going to die, and all because you elected a liar in chief. Nice move!

    4. I’m not sure you understand Martine Mikita. He IS thanking God he doesn’t live there. Also, he has as much right to his judgments as any one else. Isn’t freedom of speech supposed to be a big deal in the U.S.?
      It is in Canada 🇨🇦. Don’t get me wrong, I wish you Americans all the best & I don’t want any of us to get sick. It’s not helpful though that your leader was pretending like there wasn’t a problem when there clearly was. Had Obama done this Trump himself and the entire GOP would have been out for blood. If you’re a Trump fan then you probably know his history well enough to know this is true whether you admit it online or not.

  2. The Incompetence Of Trump is Staggering! After a 13 minute Very Important Address to the Nation, The White House then had to put out not One but Two Major Clarifications a few minutes later. He read a 13 minute Teleprompter Statement and made Two Glaring Mistakes! The Man is a Baffoon!
    I never knew a man could tell so many lies.
    He has a different story for every set of eyes.
    How can he remember who he talking to?
    I know it isn’t me, and I hope it isn’t you.
    This is the Man you want in Charge of Our Health and Safety?
    God Help us!
    He looks like a man that is in so far over his head,,,, The Incompetence just oozes from him.
    Trump looks like he’s been embalmed. He’s got all the morality, emotions and empathy of somone who is Dead. The man is a Vile, Repugnant excuse for a Human being. The world won’t be Safe till Malania finally flushes the mad man’s Ashes down the toilet where the belong. So I hope he keeps eating those Big macs, the heart attack can’t come quick enough for rest of us on planet earth.

    1. @thewanderandhiscomp let them rot and send illegals back to country of origin as Americans will be better off paying more than paying for illegals to live with American hard working tax dollars

    2. @thewanderandhiscomp let immigrants co m.j e through customs to work the fields than round them up and send them back

    3. @thewanderandhiscomp illegal immigrants put a strain on public schools illegal immigrants are the cause of higher taxes illegal immigrants get free schooling free housing and free living in sanctuary cities and districts as Americans are suffering especially Americans of color and American children

  3. Wow they are really trying hard to appear serious when they have been irresponsible hacks the whole time.

    1. Correct. Actions speak louder than words. Donald will continue to hold rallies and undermine the message of the professionals.

    2. 3-12-20

      Seth Abramson’s Tweet:

      NPR source says trump blocked coronavirus testing in january to aid his reelection chances by keeping US infection figures low.

  4. 6 weeks too late and your giving them a pass. Its to late Joe your on the same curve as Wuhan and Italy.

    1. @Frank Winkhorst Always a Spelling Punctuation Troll online now days ,! What other purls of wisdom do you have up your Arss, ?

    2. Frank Winkhorst well done grammar police. I survived an accident which left me disabled. TBI what’s your excuse. At least my comments are based on science and not self appointed arrogance.

  5. He down played it!!! he said it was a hoax HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS AND IS VERY IRRESPONSIBLE AND IT WAS EXTREMELY IGNORANT AND DANGEROUS RHETORIC!!!

    1. @Sheoka he absolutely did. The following sentence after the “Democratic hoax” claim was literally about how there were only 15 cases in the US and how the numbers were on their way to zero. So yes, he did claim it was a hoax and theres context to prove it

    2. @Shelley Knudsen he absolutely did. The following sentence after the “Democratic hoax” claim was literally about how there were only 15 cases in the US and how the numbers were on their way to zero. So yes, he did claim it was a hoax and theres context to prove it

    1. Our world is upside down at the moment. So it is not a head. Rethink about it. We don’t call it a head but something else.

    2. Vivian S please cover your mouth…moronovirus is spilling out and we don’t need anymore bs. STFU and order another drink.

    1. @Crystal Giddens Nahhh, but after listening to the chosen one I would imagine you couldn’t tell the difference anymore.

    2. @Crystal Giddens So why ban flights from Europe ? Why is the whole of Italy on lock down ? Why not quote some other sources ?

    3. @Better English because too many believe the MSM lies. banning flights is not the same as putting entire cities on lock down! one day you people claim he is a would be dictator, the next you want him to put the entire country on lock down! *MORONS!~*

    1. JB R How you’re labeling Trump’s lies for the past 20 years? Those are politics in your book?

    1. He’s freaked out over the stock crash. Weak inept, winded bullfrog with a brown shitface contrasting his pasty baby hands.

    1. @Skabetti Spaghetti wrong only thing I’m freighted off is if the marxist dictators on the left get in power and I’m not for political right BS the best qualified ffg for the position no mater what religion race or gender and if it talks and acts like a marxist it’s a marxist

    2. @Skabetti Spaghetti Nothing is free in this world but you soul and to be a slave to government control and the LOSS of FREEDOM for power to Marxism

    3. @Skabetti Spaghetti look at Catholic Nancy Pelosi for not to work like it was in Obama administration a stimulus bill to promote not to work free extended unemployment benefits than welfare and trillions wasted and when it should of went to job training as Obama doubled the deficit from 10 trillion in 240 years to 20 with a collapsed economy and if Bernie Sanders the Communist it go from 23 trillion to 50 trillion for dont have to work and free this and that to make middle class Americans stuck to poor and poor stay poor

    4. @Skabetti Spaghetti Hahahahaha can’t wait to November as the marxist dictators on the left are finished and the house and Senate will be Conservativism marjory and Trump reelected and keeping America great and democratic socialism to Marxism will end and illegals won’t be living free in our country and millions sent back to there country of origin

    1. @terry walker, Bidens ‘dementia’ has been addressed numerous times in the past and it’s clear that it’s the result of his life long stutter as his speeches are really no different now to how they have always been.

      Dementia sufferers don’t pause and choose alternate words in seconds and then continue on with their long speech as Biden does. They stop and have trouble continuing on at all, because they have dementia and can’t think of alternative words to use in place of the blocked words, because that’s what dementia does to the human brain…

      Think for yourself instead of blindly toeing the party line and repeating the rhetoric.

    2. terry walker another case of whataboutism, the president of the USA is mishandling a world wide health pandemic and lying to your face about the facts but look over there.

    3. @terry walker I’d take Biden with (falsely reported) dementia over Trump’s idiocy any day of the week.

    1. @V “Bone Spurs” — what an amazing name, you are just so cleaver and a hypocrite by the way. You know Biden and Bloomberg also avoided the draft by the same method? Bloomberg Flat Feet, Biden claimed asthma yet played football and was a lifeguard. Sanders was an conscience objector (great Commnader in Chief material).

    2. Steve H …the clowns. Are American gullible naive dupes capable of believing something black …is white, if the TV says so…media is a weapon of control…The TV watchers, that believe anything and everything thru fear indoctrination are the tards holding back the uprising revolution which will change everything by ousting the Zionist infiltrators and israeli foreign govt ruining our country…

  6. Too bad the same people who think trump’s right and it’s a Democratic lie have no earthly idea what “irresponsible rhetoric” means.

  7. The bar couldn’t be any lower for this administration, and they still are incapable of meeting this moment with truth and action.

    1. Do you think Biden could have done differently? That man doesn’t know what planet he is on, or what state he is in!

    2. Someone said that he has good friends named Xi and Abe. Check what China and Japan are doing. Covering up in one country and sluggish testing and lying in another country. That’s what his friends are doing now. The situation could be a combination of two, the worst case.

    1. @John Smith it will go down to zero
      We’re very close to a vaccine.”
      Trump claimed that he had no idea that the coronavirus was coming even though the CDC has been warning about it for months.
      The CDC has been monitoring the coronavirus since December 2019. They have been issuing a steady stream of public warnings since early January 2020. The CDC warned that the coronavirus could be spread by human contact more than a month ago. They began public health screenings at airports on January 17, 2020.

      Want more?
      https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/29/trump-lies-about-coronavirus-warning-after-removing-pandemic-officials.html

      https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/03/politics/coronavirus-trump-cdc-timeline/

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/04/fact-checking-trumps-accelerated-timeline-coronavirus-vaccine/

      https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21153035/coronavirus-response-trump-vaccine-covid19-cdc-who-health-crisis

    2. @John Smith um he has zero reason to be “uninformed”
      If I say drinking bleach is safe, is that a lie

    3. @John Smith he absolutely did. The following sentence after the “Democratic hoax” claim was literally about how there were only 15 cases in the US and how the numbers were on their way to zero. So yes, he did claim it was a hoax and theres context to prove it

    4. John Smith saying something stupid and uninformed doesn’t matter when you say it. But when the president does, things happen like the economy—that‘s a house of cards already—start tumbling, and people die. This should have been handled way better no matter who’s in office. A lot of us are going to die from this. Telling people that it’s ok to go to work was absurdly irresponsible. He didn’t want his precious market to crash. Now more people will die. South Korea has this contained. We absolutely don’t. And it’s not just old people, ask an Italian citizen.

  8. Notice Pence didn’t say who the “irresponsible rhetoric” was coming from? He’s letting people fill in the blanks with whatever they’re comfortable thinking.

    1. I can already see the new spin from the Trump snowflakes: “He’s admitted being irresponsible so that means he has to be responsible.” Then they’re going to demand that Obama admit his mishandling of the corona-virus.

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