President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday to have “up-played” the threat of coronavirus early in the pandemic, contradicting his own remarks to the journalist Bob Woodward that he wanted to minimize the disease to avoid panic.
Trump has also called for reopening vast swaths of the country, contending that keeping people in lockdown was a greater risk than the virus that has claimed the lives of almost 200,000 people in the U.S. The pandemic has disproportionately affected Black and Latino Americans. “Well, I hope there’s not a race problem,” Trump said. “I can tell you there’s none with me, because I have great respect for all races.”
“Had we not been hit by this horrible disease that came into our land, and all over the world by the way,” Trump said, “we would be in a position where I think income inequality would be different. It was really getting there. We were really driving it down.”also responded to questions on police reform, particularly in light of anti-racism protests that have sprung up in cities across the nation following numerous high-profile episodes of police brutality this year.
Dude is a train wreck. For the love of Pete....
So it is possible to be on both sides of an issue and lie both times?
He meant to say 'upskirted.'
any lie, any time.
So which of realDonaldTrump's lies does he expect us to believe? That he down-played it but didn't, or that he up-played it but didn't? Dumb as a bag of rocks that asshole, so bent the pictures hanging on his wall hang crooked all by themselves.
Is “up-played” even a word?
'...and this is an outright lie.' Fixed what you left out of your headline. 😡😡😡
He lies on national tv. How do you feel about your leader?
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the only thing he up play was the American people with his BULLSHIT LIES
He is hiding the every day death.
Yes, he demonstrated that although he can control his lunatic outbursts, he can't control his delusional lies.
Trump is a liar.
Educate yourself. Listening to lies is unworthy.
Well isn’t THAT a surprise? HELL NO IT’S NOT! All he ever does is LIE! TrumpIsALiar TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
Trump is President Opposite. Up is down, left is right, lies are the truth, protecting pre existing conditions means no protection and downplaying is now apparently 'up playing' etc. Typical snake oil salesman shtick. I only listen to what he says to know he will do the opposite.
Up Played..Down Played. He played us.
If you watched the briefing you were well informed . No one knew how vontagious it was in February. They discussed who was at risk
up-played bar boozer BULL
Up-played “action,” downplayed rhetoric. Get it right, stop misleading your readers.
He’s about to fall forward 😂😂😂😂
This was incredibly bad..do they want him to lose? The man is no match for any average voter seeking an answer. No FOX ding dong to help & enable. To call it a stinking pile would be an upgrade. DumpsterFire
Was he ever the brightest guy in the room ?
Trump is a salesman. He'll tell you he's the greatest president in history on literally every topic with nothing to back up the claim. For instance, saying he up-played COVID-19 when he consistently pushed back on lockdown efforts and hawked unfounded cure-alls during newscasts.
He is a case study in feckless, weak and incompetent leadership. People are now needlessly dead and unemployed due to his incompetence. The office of the President has been turned into a bad joke
He said in many ways I up played it with the actions I took not words actions... he’s right The fact that he didn’t panic a nation of 330 million people with little information on a new virus isn’t wrong
When Trump banned flights from China on January 31st was Trump down playing or up playing the virus ? March 11th when Trump banned flights from europe was Trump down playing or up playing the virus ? Are these grounded US Delta Airplanes down playing or up playing the virus?
Maher48Hours Because he's a big talker who fails. Then comes back later and says he didn't say what every camera and microphone caught him saying 🤦
No one but Trump's remaining supporters believes anything he says. Trump is a big, fat, ball of lies.
“Up-played” “Down-played” Americans are getting PLAYED. No more games. Vote Trump out in November
Trump is the embodiment of contradictions, he's a walking contradiction.
He stood in front of that voter and lied repeatedly. Because he's a liar. Always will be
Did he down-played it before he up-played it or versa?
If you heard what he said then you know this headline is intentionally false.
His need to deny what he knows he said and lie about it is so constrained by his childishly limited vocabulary and two-dimensional ability to conceptualize that the best spin he can put on it is to say 'up-played'. This may be the first time anyone's made such a construction.
His actions DID up-play (travel ban) and was called Xenophobic by Biden and Trump also kept people calm. Fix your headline: its currently FakeNews
Does he even know what sticking to a story is?
What President Trump said and people don't seem to understand. Is that he up played his action on the virus and downplayed the verbiage to not panic people.
The sad thing is Trumper's heard it with their own ears and STILL believe his done a great job. The Cult is highly uneducated 😒
The dude is a walking lie.
Eh, Trump is right. I know you have the Woodward audio from a long time ago. But, as Expert Fauci said, Trump didn't downplay in public. I know this is all you, as Biden's Campaign staff, has to grasp. I mean, nobody even tries to defend Biden at this point.
Bob Woodward knows...he has Trump recorded saying he downplayed the pandemic and now nearly 200,000 Americans are dead with no end in sight.
In a way, realDonaldTrump *almost* tells the truth, because you can take whatever he says and the exact opposite will be what really happened liarliar
Uh, he’s a liar
Why does he stand that way?
Articulate devil.
Is he even capable of telling the truth?
Does he know which way is up or down 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Who stands like this? How is he upright AND leaning? 🤡🤡
Trump lives aim a fairy tail made of lies
And now, he is side-playing it!
TrumpLiedAmericansDied
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