Does Trump thinks he knows more than the scientists?

[TheHaitian]

The CDC director said in a interview that they will be a second wave worst than the first because it will be during winter and combined with the flu.

Trump goes to twitter and state he was misquoted and will issue a statement.

No statement, bring the guy to the press conference... say again how he was misquoted only for him to come up...

But while Redfield emphasized -- as he did in the Post interview -- that he as talking about the flu and the coronavirus combined, he actually affirmed his quote, contradicting Trump.
“I’m accurately quoted in The Washington Post,” Redfield said.

Is it a case if I don’t like it, my gut knows better?
How are we doubting professionals that spend their lives studying this? Getting paid to do just that?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/22/trumps-strange-quibble-with-his-cdc-directors-quote-reinforces-danger-his-coronavirus-alternate-reality/%3foutputType=amp

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

In answer to your thread title...YES!

[NastyWoman]

How can you even ask? trump is the guy who amazes the foremost specialists in any field with his deep understanding of any subject, including COVID19. Did you forget already that trump's uncle lectured at MIT? 'Nuff said 

[Tennesseer]

I am sure trump will tell us soon he has an honorary "fid" (PHD) in immunology.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

It's worse.. he knows he's not as smart as them but wears it like a badge of honor.   "Straight shooting" and "telling it like it is" and "off the cuff" are the things Americans value.

Intelligence and expertise are dirty elitist words.   With all the work Trump has done to convince people he is just like them he can hardly start listening to experts now.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Of course he does.....he could have been a scientist, he just ‘gets’ this stuff.  

Funny thing though, I have never used my gut to know whether an experiment worked or not.  Nor did I ever use the TLAR* method.





* TLAR = that looks about right

[djAdvocate]

Apr 22, 2020 17:58:11 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I am sure trump will tell us soon he has an honorary "fid" (PHD) in immunology.

Liberty U should preemptively give him one.

[Opti]

Apr 22, 2020 18:22:13 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

It's worse.. he knows he's not as smart as them but wears it like a badge of honor.   "Straight shooting" and "telling it like it is" and "off the cuff" are the things Americans value.

Intelligence and expertise are dirty elitist words.   With all the work Trump has done to convince people he is just like them he can hardly start listening to experts now.

Yeah he does "off the cuff" constantly, but he tells it as he wishes it to be. And if he shoots straight, its an accident. He'll correct that in the next speech or tweet. 

[weltschmerz]

www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html?te=1&nl=frank-bruni&emc=edit_fb_20200311


Trump clearly knows more than anyone on every subject under the sun, from wind turbines which cause cancer to nuclear energy to medicine.
The man is a stable genius and smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking combined!

How Trump supporters are not embarrassed by his ridiculous claims is beyond me.

[dondub]

Nobody knows more about his 41/2” penis with a mushroom head than he does. Not even Stormy.

[busymom]

Apr 22, 2020 19:14:03 GMT -5 dondub said:

Nobody knows more about his 41/2” penis with a mushroom head than he does. Not even Stormy.

      Aw c'mon.  You know he's got equipment like a roadmap.  One inch = one mile.  

[happyhoix]

Trump's most recent mini rally was painful, with Trump grilling his own medical experts when they tried to warn that CV19 will be back in the fall. Trump was wrong when he claimed only 15 people had CV15 and it would soon just 'disappear' and he's going to be wrong claiming that CV19 won't come back. You think he would learn from his mistakes. 

Nearly fired a woman from the CDC when she contradicted him. Did fire the doctor who disagreed when Trump about the malarial drug. Now he's on TV trying to bully Faucci into claiming CV19 won't be back.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-doctor-says-he-was-fired-over-doubts-on-hydroxychloroquine/ar-BB133TTm

I realize Trump has been successful in bullying people his whole life, but does he really think he can bully a virus? 

[deminmaine]

Yes, and yes to reply #11.

[Deleted]

Apr 23, 2020 7:07:27 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Yes, and yes to reply #11.

Ditto.

And don't forget that trump never heard of Dr. Bright.

[Gardening Grandma]

Apr 22, 2020 18:51:31 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html?te=1&nl=frank-bruni&emc=edit_fb_20200311


Trump clearly knows more than anyone on every subject under the sun, from wind turbines which cause cancer to nuclear energy to medicine.
The man is a stable genius and smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking combined!

How Trump supporters are not embarrassed by his ridiculous claims is beyond me.

That actually says a lot about his supporters.

[justme]

Apr 22, 2020 18:22:13 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

It's worse.. he knows he's not as smart as them but wears it like a badge of honor.   "Straight shooting" and "telling it like it is" and "off the cuff" are the things Americans value.

Intelligence and expertise are dirty elitist words.   With all the work Trump has done to convince people he is just like them he can hardly start listening to experts now.

The irony is straight shooting, telling it like it is, and off the cuff are good things -- IF you know what you're talking about. trump just fails at all of them. Wait, that's a lie he's great at off the cuff - no idea where that cuff is but he's off it. Couldn't shoot straight if someone held the gun for him. As for the other...I guess it depends on what "it" is. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

At this point I am convinced when people say those things it's code for stupid/ignorant.   They can remain in their cloud of uneducated conspiracy theories because now they have a president who does the exact same thing.

An intelligent president, especially one that was African American followed by a potentially female one, threatens their cocoon of deliberate ignorance and self bias.

[countrygirl2]

I shouldn't do this, I know its classist. but we have a guy in town, moving up in the republican party here, wanting to be the county chairman. He is dumb as a box of rocks, teeth out in the front, can't keep a job. To me typifies the repub that supports trump. His wife finally got a good job with the car manufacturer and finally has insurance. He got a job there, don't think he lasted a month. Hubs says he just doesn't understand how to do anything. I think he is now, finally, working at a local shop making fishing lures, I'm sure its a strong Christian shop. That's what I see anymore as a trump supporter.  They are pushing for millionaires and billionaires to have more and they are dirt poor. They are brainwashed into believing trickle down, jeez. 

Hubs went up and worked on drainage at his house for him for nothing and then he riles against socialism. Crazy city. 

[deminmaine]

Apr 23, 2020 13:34:21 GMT -5 countrygirl2 said:

I shouldn't do this, I know its classist. but we have a guy in town, moving up in the republican party here, wanting to be the county chairman. He is dumb as a box of rocks, teeth out in the front, can't keep a job. To me typifies the repub that supports trump. His wife finally got a good job with the car manufacturer and finally has insurance. He got a job there, don't think he lasted a month. Hubs says he just doesn't understand how to do anything. I think he is now, finally, working at a local shop making fishing lures, I'm sure its a strong Christian shop. That's what I see anymore as a trump supporter.  They are pushing for millionaires and billionaires to have more and they are dirt poor. They are brainwashed into believing trickle down, jeez. 

Hubs went up and worked on drainage at his house for him for nothing and then he riles against socialism. Crazy city. 

There is a self storage place near our plant.  We noticed late last fall that a beat up old RV parked out back was being occupied, with a portable generator for power.  No water or sewage of course.  Well, we felt kind of sorry for the guy, and though we figured he'd get kicked out somehow he managed to stay through the winter.  (illegally of course)  Maine winter in an RV with no water and a generator- no fun.  Anyway, yesterday I noticed he had two big Trump flags on the back of his beat up pick up truck.  Yup.

[oped]

He just asked Birx if she could check with doctors about using light as treatment... after seeming to suggest maybe injecting disinfectant would work...

[steff]

Darwinism in action.  I've hit the kill em all stage.  They want to die for stock market & to "own a Lib", then kill em all.  Step right up and get your nails done, have dinner out with a nice side of CV19.  Inject a little Mr Clean to clean up those lungs!  the President said it was worth trying.  How MAGA are you willing to be?  I double dog dare ya. 

[teen persuasion]

Apr 23, 2020 18:11:11 GMT -5 oped said:

He just asked Birx if she could check with doctors about using light as treatment... after seeming to suggest maybe injecting disinfectant would work...

Injecting disinfectant? 


Did he not learn after that man died from taking the fish tank chemical after Trump touted his magic cure drug?


Thank god our local news stations stopped airing his press conferences live whenever they interrupted the evening news. 

They still air Cuomo and the local county Exec daily, though.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Apr 23, 2020 18:11:11 GMT -5 oped said:

He just asked Birx if she could check with doctors about using light as treatment... after seeming to suggest maybe injecting disinfectant would work...

Well technically you wouldn't get COVID after doing it.

The caveat being it's because the stunt killed you.

But hey you showed those ivory tower know it alls!

[Deleted]

Haha. I only just heard about the disinfectant and the UV rays and started a post about it. Disinfectant? Inject with that stuff? Really? He not only knows more about war than the generals, he knows more about curing the virus than science does. 

I guarandamtee that there's at least one nitwit out there right now trying it. 

[weltschmerz]

President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of an “injection” of disinfectant into a person infected with coronavirus as a coronavirus deterrent at the White House daily briefing on Thursday 

www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

I want him to go first. I'll inject him with the Lysol myself.
What an idiot!
 

[ken a.k.a OMK]

trump has gone beyond scary.   He's an idiot and brings nothing to the briefings.

[Deleted]

Apr 23, 2020 19:44:31 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

trump has gone beyond scary.   He's an idiot and brings nothing to the briefings.

I quit watching most of the time because when he reads from the script his monotone bores the daylights outta me. So I didn't watch tonight and missed the disinfectant and UV ray stuff. It would have been my laugh for the day at least until I realized that there's somebody out there who's going to try it.

Reckon he'll bring it up again tomorrow or will his aides talk him out of it?

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Apr 23, 2020 19:38:30 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of an “injection” of disinfectant into a person infected with coronavirus as a coronavirus deterrent at the White House daily briefing on Thursday 

www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

I want him to go first. I'll inject him with the Lysol myself.
What an idiot!
 

You can't get Coronavirus if you're dead.

So win?

[steff]

Someone shove a lightbulb up his ass, give him a Mr Clean IV and a shot glass full of Clorox & let's end this shit show already. 

[weltschmerz]

Apr 23, 2020 19:49:34 GMT -5 @missrigby said:

Apr 23, 2020 19:44:31 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

trump has gone beyond scary.   He's an idiot and brings nothing to the briefings.

I quit watching most of the time because when he reads from the script his monotone bores the daylights outta me. So I didn't watch tonight and missed the disinfectant and UV ray stuff. It would have been my laugh for the day at least until I realized that there's somebody out there who's going to try it.

Reckon he'll bring it up again tomorrow or will his aides talk him out of it?

Tomorrow he'll deny ever saying it.

.....and his supporters will believe him. They have no minds of their own.

"Oh Mighty Trump, who was sent to us by Jesus!! Tell us what to think!"