A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night. Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country.

Starved of campaign rallies, Mar-a-Lago weekends and golf, and goaded by a bombshell newspaper report, couldn’t take it any more. Years of accreted grievance and resentment towards the media came gushing out in a torrent. He ranted, he raved, he melted down and he blew up the internet with one of the most jaw-dropping performances of his presidency.

Trump’s Easter had evidently been ruined by a damning 5,500-word New York Times investigation showing that Trump squandered precious time in January and February as numerous government figures were sounding the alarm about the coronavirus.

With more than 23,000 American lives lost in such circumstances, some presidents might now be considering resignation. Not Trump. He arrived in the west wing briefing room determined to tell the world, or at least his base, that he was not to blame. Instead it was a new and bloody phase of his war against the “enemy of the people”: the media. Families grieving loved ones lost to the virus were in for cold comfort here.

The thin-skinned president lashed out at reporters, swiped at Democrat Joe Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong. “So the story in the New York Times is a total fake, it’s a fake newspaper and they write fake stories. And someday, hopefully in five years when I’m not here, those papers are all going out of business because nobody’s going to read them,” Trump said.

With a dramatic flourish, the president ordered the briefing room lights dimmed. In a James Bond film, it would be the moment that poisoned gas is piped into the room. What happened wasn’t far off: a campaign-style montage of video clips, shown on screens set up behind the podium. There was footage of doctors saying in January that the coronavirus did not pose an imminent threat, Trump declaring a national emergency, and Democratic governors praising him for providing federal assistance.

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Jon Karl of ABC News asked in consternation: “Why did you feel the need to do that?”

Trump replied: “Because we’re getting fake news and I like to have it corrected ... Everything we did was right.”

Over and over, Trump highlighted his decision to ban some flights from China in late January before there were any virus-related deaths confirmed in the US – even though nearly 400,000 people travelled to the US from China before the restrictions were in place and 40,000 people have arrived there since.

The CBS News correspondent Paula Reid was having none of it and cut to the chase. “The argument is that you bought yourself some time,” she said “You didn’t use it to prepare hospitals. You didn’t use it to ramp up testing. Right now, nearly 20m people are unemployed. Tens of thousands of Americans are dead.”

Trump talked over her: “You’re so disgraceful. It’s so disgraceful the way you say that.”

Reid demanded: “How is this newsreel or this rant supposed to make people feel confident in an unprecedented crisis?”

Trump reverted to his China travel restrictions but Reid continued to push him on his inaction in February. Trump was unable to muster a reasonable response. It was a case study in how, when he loses an argument, his instinct is to attack the accuser. He trotted out his frayed, timeworn insult: “You know you’re a fake, your whole network the way you cover it is fake ... That’s why you have a lower approval rating than probably you’ve ever had before times three.”

Democrats can only hope Biden was watching Reid for tips on how to debate the president.


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They really want to bring this man down and he knows it. I trust Trump, he's a very intelligent and brave man. Though it was already late before he realised that the virus has invaded America.

Tpave:
They really want to bring this man down and he knows it. I trust Trump, he's a very intelligent and brave man

Trump has issues. Deep narcissistic issues. Just watch the interview and you cant help but get angry at him.

His very inaction caused those deaths. He was told about covid as far back as January but kept dismissing it as the normal flu...now 20,000 of his people slaughtered like chickens.

I want to compare him to our very own Buhari but that one is too lifeless to warrant any comparison

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He is already winning the coronavirus war faster than expected. He will win the presidency.

Tpave:
They really want to bring this man down and he knows it. I trust Trump, he's a very intelligent and brave man

Down to where ? Grave?


He is already down!

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Down to where ? Grave?


He is already down!

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He is already winning the coronavirus war faster than expected. He will win the presidency.

November is almost here.

Dont go and say that your statement on twitter cos people will rush you.

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Trump has issues. Deep narcissistic issues. Just watch the interview and you cant help but get angry at him.

His very inaction caused those deaths. He was told about covid as far back as January but kept dismissing it as the normal flu...now 20,000 of his people slaughtered like chickens.

I want to compare him to our very own Buhari but that one is too lifeless to warrant any comparison

He has no issues. They are angry he is getting things right in the fight against the virus.

Experts said US will record 240,000 deaths at best effort. Already, 100, 000 body bags has been booked. But as it stands now they might not even record up to 60, 000.

US was the last to reach infection peak, yet they already planning to reopen economy, ahead of UK and others.

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November is almost here.

Dont go and say that your statement on twitter cos people will rush you.

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He has no issues. They are angry he is getting things right in the fight against the virus.

Experts said US will record 240,000 deaths at best effort. Already, 100, 000 body bags has been booked. But as it stands now they might not even record up to 60, 000.

US was the last to reach infection peak, yet they already planning to reopen economy, ahead of UK and others.

Why would anyone revel in the deaths caused by Covid? Why

All the journalists in that room cant be wrong. With the window he has got, US fatality rate should've been as LOW as that of Taiwan (Taiwan is so close to china o) or New Zealand or Australia. These cou tries sprang into action when the rest if world wsre dillydallying. Maybe it helped that Taiwan is governed by an epidemiologist who understands the risks of a pandemic or maybe it's just down to astute leadership (New Zealand and Australia)

Let's face it man, Trump phucked up. And he knows that the world look up to America most times for direction and with these antics and Ineptitude, America is losing her Position as world police to hopelessly corrupt China.

If Trump worked and listened to the advice of the epidemiologists, 20K wouldn't have died and sorry America has not reached its peak yet. Check out the total deaths today

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All the journalists in that room cant be wrong. With the window he has got, US fatality rate should've been as LOW as that of Taiwan (Taiwan is so close to china o) or New Zealand or Australia. These cou tries sprang into action when the rest if world wsre dillydallying. Maybe it helped that Taiwan is governed by an epidemiologist who understands the risks of a pandemic or maybe it's just down to astute leadership (New Zealand and Australia)

Let's face it man, Trump phucked up. And he knows that the world look up to America most times for direction and with these antics and Ineptitude, America is losing her Position as world police to hopelessly corrupt China.

If Trump worked and listened to the advice of the epidemiologists, 20K wouldn't have died and sorry America has not reached its peak yet. Check out the total deaths today

America has reached peak. From 2100 to 1500 and to 1380.

You are using new Zealand to compare. Why not Italy, Spain and UK?

Do you know the population of America compared to those countries?

They didn't expect Trump to win, he just surprised them.

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America has reached peak. From 2100 to 1500 and to 1380.

You are using new Zealand to compare. Why not Italy, Spain and UK?

Do you know the population of America compared to those countries?

They didn't expect Trump to win, he just surprised them.

I am using Taiwan, New Zealand to compare because unlike Italy or Britain, their leaders did not dismiss the covid as common flu!

The British leadership was lackadaisical as much as Trump. Boris was dismissing the while covid until people started dropling. Check the British covid timeline and confirm for yourself

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Why would anyone revel in the deaths caused by Covid? Why

All the journalists in that room cant be wrong. With the window he has got, US fatality rate should've been as LOW as that of Taiwan (Taiwan is so close to china o) or New Zealand or Australia. These cou tries sprang into action when the rest if world wsre dillydallying. Maybe it helped that Taiwan is governed by an epidemiologist who understands the risks of a pandemic or maybe it's just down to astute leadership (New Zealand and Australia)

Let's face it man, Trump phucked up. And he knows that the world look up to America most times for direction and with these antics and Ineptitude, America is losing her Position as world police to hopelessly corrupt China.

If Trump worked and listened to the advice of the epidemiologists, 20K wouldn't have died and sorry America has not reached its peak yet. Check out the total deaths today

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I am using Taiwan, New Zealand to compare because unlike Italy or Britain, their leaders did not dismiss the covid as common flu!

The British leadership was lackadaisical as much as Trump. Boris was dismissing the while covid until people started dropling. Check the British covid timeline and confirm for yourself

And how was he supposed to know it's not common flu when WHO underplayed it? When China underreported the outbreak, having less than 3000 deaths from 83,000 infections?

Everybody, even here in Nigeria, thought it was common flu. Less than 3000 deaths at point of first outbreak isn't supposed to cause panic. But unknown to all, it was underreported.