Trump tells a confused rally audience that he wants to kiss “every one of you” before going off the rails
On Saturday afternoon, President Trump held one of three planned election rallies in North Carolina, and predictably behaved in appalling fashion. The serial sexual predator had the nerve to rip on a Democratic candidate for his extramarital consensual sexting “scandal,” insulted Speaker Pelosi for being “crazy as a bedbug,” and incited his fans to chant “lock him up!” about Joe Biden.
But his most bizarre and heinous remarks were about the coronavirus pandemic, which is violently surging across the country as Americans give up on quarantine protocols. The president claimed that now that he was “immune” to COVID-19 after receiving expensive experimental treatments not available to the rest of the country and bragged that he wanted to “kiss every one of you!”
Kissing everyone, including the men, has been a surprising addition to the President’s final message to the American people which he has repeated at almost every event over the past week. While amusing and fairly harmless, what came next certainly wasn’t.
“All I know is, for a little while, for at least 4 months, I can run in there and kiss every one of you, men and women.” — Trump on his purported ‘immunity’ after having Covid
In the next breath Trump (falsely) suggests that coronavirus testing causes cases pic.twitter.com/CpGKYLHNoI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2020
As a national disaster that he is responsible for exacerbating spirals out of control, President Trump began spilling dangerous, unscientific complaints about the COVID-19 testing process and disgracefully accused the media of deliberately hyping up a public health crisis that is killing over a thousand people every day.
“That’s all I hear about now. Turn on TV, ‘Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.’ A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it. ‘Covid Covid Covid Covid.’ By the way, on November 4th, you won’t hear about it anymore … ‘please don’t go and vote, Covid!'” — Trump pic.twitter.com/1bh7x2RSTy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2020
The fact of the matter is that the Trump administration deliberately refused to be more aggressive with testing when the virus first hit because Trump didn’t want to have to deal with the political consequences of a pandemic.
He then decided to refuse to accept the test kits that the World Health Organization was shipping to countries around the world at the end of February, instead choosing to go ahead with an American-made test that inevitably was delayed by manufacturing issues, lab contamination, and logistical problems.
Throughout the entire process, the Trump administration has refused to take the initiative or and responsibility for a widespread testing program, attempting to pawn the job off on the states and sidestep the issue entirely by pushing for early re-opening of the economy.
It is horrifying to see Donald Trump speak so dismissively of a crisis that he himself exacerbated and of the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Americans that are at risk from this deadly disease. His remarks are yet another grim reminder of how important it is that we vote Trump and his enablers out of office on November 3rd — and make sure they pay for the damage they’ve done.
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