Why Trump Can’t Be In A State Of Denial Anymore About Coronavirus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

As cases of the coronavirus continue to spread globally, the president is not backing away from spreading personal beliefs about the virus that contradict health officials and experts. The panel discusses the dangers of Trump's hunches. Aired on 03/06/20.
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Why Trump Can't Be In A State Of Denial Anymore About Coronavirus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

75 comments

    1. Patricia Moran Youra no good loser Hoosier! Because your gonna voted for more Socialist Communist Democrats in the White House again!

    2. Mary Ann that’s why you shouldn’t vote for Joe Biden because he’s crazy senile old man and a pothead and his a old drug addict crackhead son Hunter Biden!

    3. Melissa Hahn well you better think about it stop watching fake news because it’s brainwashing you to hate America to change the Constitution and hate Donald Trump!

    1. ​@Barry Sutton what about using your imagination and think of something new to write? istead of just the samething in every comment

    1. The lack of victims is making me question this news story… you’ve seen none, I’ve seen none, but you “believe” because you was told. What are you scared of?

    1. Mary Maze
      Trump probably knows more about viruses than any other person after all he is a very stable genius.

    2. @Tridhos he actually probably does. Many people know more then your average fear mongerer. People who push fear on the back of a story tend to know very little.

    3. @I C Flatwater, he definitely doesn’t… Trump has shown quite well on his own that he doesn’t understand the situation. He’s downplaying the official information, just like he did with his magic sharpie. He doesn’t understand how vaccines work, if he did, he wouldn’t have asked pharmaceutical company CEOs if the regular flu vaccine would help.

      No one needs to fearmonger when he’s making a complete fool of himself in front of tv cameras, microphones and on Twitter several times per day.

    4. @Loccyster can you confirm this “official information” or you just parroting what you’ve been told by the man on TV…? I’ve been asking people all week if they or anyone they know has known anyone who is infected and so far no one has. This is a world wide platform and no one knows anyone who has had this “deadly pandemic virus”. Its of the same family as the common cold and when that’s about you always know someone with it. What makes you believe the ministry of truth?

    1. It sounds like you want freedoms of speech to be taken away……. Do you see how ridiculous you sound right now? Hmmm. SMH

    2. @Speak the Truth Exactly spot on! And they are way too nice to him! So glad to have heard and seen Jim Acosta bite back at trump last week, when he asked trump a question, trump trashed Acosta and CNN “all lies”…Acosta “I believe we are much more truthful, then you sir”. The reporters NEED to be way more aggressive. They need to stop saying ‘that is not true” instead the news media need to keep saying each and every time “He is lying that is a lie”…use the word LIE! Stop being so polite news media, it’s time to take the reigns by the horns and speak up more loudly!

    3. @Phebagirl Because most trump supporters that are STILL supporting him no matter what, are just like trump! They relate to his hate, they are shallow, get off on the hate and anger, his resentment, his outright lies (I bet many of them lie a lot also) and they, like trump, “blame everyone else” but never look within themselves. It is sad I understand how heartbreaking it is for you…many of us feel the same..to know that around 38% of our population in this country (and most in the Republican party in congress and senate) are so easily sucked into trump’s BS and are so easily brainwashed, they behave and act this way and relate to trump is stunning for many of us. At least now we know these kind of hateful nasty “choosing to be uninformed” people exist and won’t change..so we must rise up and vote blue no matter who! we shall persevere over hate, selfishness and narcissism..

    1. @Jude Jackson what virus? A news story…. have you seen it? No. So what you panicking over?

    1. I C Flatwater Trump is your leader, are you going to emulate him, become obese, orange and have a strange hairdo, whilst ripping ordinary people off and lieing hysterically. Not that I care I live in a country that cares for its people. Keep smiling

    2. @Printagic Online your wasting your breath with those Traitors. I don’t respond to their ignorance anymore.

  1. Donald Trump to his business cronies: “Great time to get into the undertaker business!”

    1. I see more land for graveyards!! Just heard that someone at cpac conference has virus! Pence and trump attended!!! Dam…we can hope!!
      The Moronovirus has been faster in 3 years than coronavirus! A cure in NOVEMBER!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    2. @Tiber Zeek, the flu kills more people than Covid19, but it also infects more people than Covid19. That’s why we use mortality rate as a percentage instead of a flat number of deaths.

      Covid19 is has a much higher mortality rate but it hasn’t spread as far as the flu…. At least not yet.

    3. @Loccyster: I understand that, but the bottom line stat is number of deaths. That’s all that really matters. There are two independent variables in play and it’s the result of those two combined variables that is important, not the value of each one. Also, you don’t know how many people are really infected, although data on that will probably become more clear over time. Also, the COVID-19 kills at risk patients like elderly cancer patients, similar to the flu…and that’s important here. The Swine flu was dangerous to healthy patients more than either regular flu or COVID-19. That’s my understanding anyway. We lost 13,000 people in 2009 from the Swine flu.

  2. Thanks to conservative policies, most people literally cant afford to stay home from work. They have no paid time off and your landlord/mortgage company won’t accept coronavirus as an excuse for late/missed payments.

    1. Kathy Holland Canada has announced a funding policy too for people who can’t work because of quarantine.

    2. @MadLink Dear Mad: This is the YouTube money-grab headline rubric of cynosure. The video probably has many thousand views. People have their niches and create weird videos with eye-catching titles to amass bread and stipends.

    3. @Volha Teagle In an advanced and civilised society, we shouldn’t be allowed “to choose between paying bills or infecting our colleagues,” families, friends, etc. Every American should have been tested by now to identify and remove the sick ones from their communities until they either get better or pass away. The Trump administration has dropped the ball in this regard in every conceivable way. Consequently, many Americans will get the coronavirus and many will suffer and eventually die. It couldn’t be a worse situation for us worldwide.

  3. Hey MSNBC, if the WH refuses to tell the truth, how about you guys put the doctor on every morning?

    1. @I C Flatwater
      You guy were eager to spread fear online with Pizzagate and similar outlandish and fear-engendering conspiracies theorizes involving Democrats. Same with Trump’s spread of the Birtherism lies, which caused Obama and his family to live in fear.
      Now Trump and his followers are reaping what they have sown for the past several years. However, those were lies, but this is real, and you wants to minimize it, like Trump did with the death toll in Puerto Rico from the hurricane.
      What you guys do is spread Trump’s lies, but discount and suppress truth that reflects poorly on him.

    2. What kind of stupid f****** comment is that MSNBC is reporting everything they can we need this information from the White House who is full of lies and spin ..well good for you calling them out over nothing

      It’s really hard to understand why people who don’t watch MSNBC find themselves here making stupid f****** comments

      I absolutely would never spend 1 second on Fox News

    1. Trump is trying to hide “the real numbers.” If the country knew “the real numbers,” the stock market would tank like air going out of a tire.

    1. Vilma Takamine
      What he had hoped was that Trump would have been out after being impeached, and he would be sitting in the Oval Office.

    2. I heard, ‘The VP has never been in charge of anything, or organised anything in his career.’

      He’s potentially the second ‘most powerful man in the world’ (I honestly don’t think that stands anymore, but…). That was a terrifying statement.

  4. “IF it turns into a pandemic”? Really?…every continent except Antarctica. It IS ALREADY a pandemic.

    1. @David Primeau if they were actually real achievement don’t come in here with that s*** there are facts out there once again you have none so talk about lying

    2. @David Primeau I guess you’re rooting for your health insurance or welfare whatever you’re on to be taken away right don’t be a fool man…. we need truth and Leadership not Republican and Democrat

    3. @globalmind43
      I heard earlier today that Trump gives his salary as president to things he believes in including, Health and Human Services to help fight covid-19, to the office of the Surgeon General to help fight the opioid crisis, and to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse to fight alcoholism. Never heard any stories about this on MSM.
      How can Trump under-fund the CDC when he is not responsible for setting the USA’s budget? It is the house’s job.
      According to Politifact, “As for funding, there’s no question that the Trump administration sought to cut key CDC budget categories. But thanks to Congress, that funding was restored and even increased in bills that Trump ultimately signed.” It seems that under Trump CDC funding actually increased. He did not have to sign the budget if he was adamant on reducing CDC funding. Funding increased and you are propagating lies about Trump.
      Who knows what his real purpose was when he tried to cut key CDC budget categories, as I said before I cannot read his mind. Maybe it was only of his negotiation strategy. In any negotiation there is always give and take.

  5. Joe- we are not “1 month in”, we are 2 months in. And we are acting reactively not proactively.

    1. Correct. Trump is happy to lie and endanger you just to boost stock prices.
      Think about that. Think about the kind of person who would be willing to do that to you.

  6. Maybe that is why cutting CDC budget by 20% was a poor idea among many by the president and the GOP .. oh my my sad

  7. *Remember when “The Chosen One” lied saying “The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing on the coronavirus”?*

    1. YellowcFlash,” OH, OH , DADDY ! ” l don’t smoke pot, so l don’t suffer from ” short term memory loss ” . I have been here the entire 3+ years now, and can attest to the fact that he doesn’t lie about wanting to do daughter Ivanka ( that day anyway ) , but the rest of it has been a lie all along.

    1. Chris Hayes said it best. Scathingly.

      A couple of days ago he ended his segment saying he had to stop talking, leave the scientists to talk and that he should do what he usually does – golf.

      It was perfect.

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