WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump loves numbers, and the ones he believes illustrate his accomplishments - an unemployment rate at a 50-year-low and stock markets at record highs - have become touchstones in his speeches, rallies and Twitter missives.
From suggesting more optimistic time lines for a potential vaccine than scientists say is possible, to contradicting public health officials on the potential for cases to increase, to questioning the fatality rate cited by the World Health Organization, Trump has sought to present figures related to the virus that appear more favorable than reality.
“It’s not so much about numbers as it is about framing those numbers so that people can understand ... the effects these numbers are going to have in real life,” Bossert told Reuters. “There is always a tendency in government to self-censor depending on what the president would or would not go for,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, who helped lead the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak. By saying he wants to keep the numbers down, Trump is “signaling what’s off the table,” to federal workers, he said.When Trump predicted that a vaccine for the coronavirus would be available in a matter of months, a top adviser quickly corrected him.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Thank you Mr President for being a calming force in this time of crisis. For being the best at what you do and certainly the most intelligent President we’ve had since our founding. You are what this country needs right now. There, now how do you like being lied to?
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Maybe he should just repeat what the news media says: “We’re all going to die! Don’t get near people...stay in your house..” Don’t ever try to calm people...ever...
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Tell him is't TV show
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Similar to how China thinks that it's efforts deserve an apology from the world.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Two months in and barely 1600 tested. Promise of 1 million test kits by last week an epic fail. The man fired his pandemic team in 2018 and now we're paying the price for his failures.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Saying it doesn’t make it true. If saying something made it true, trump would be locked in a small cell with no hope of getting out.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Dems still holds some power though, what did Dems do other than anti-Trump tricks? Reuters, stop disgracing yourself.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Yes, 'contained' insofar as the United States is an attractive container for Coronavirus!
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Trump = sick sad little man
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Many countries that actually have large infected people are hidden in statistics. They aren't confirmed only in statistics but actually are hot spots of COVID-19. Because they don't carry out tests or carry out little unlike Korea and Italy, it just hasn't been revealed yet.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 He said it was a Democrat hoax at his rally.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 You think they have been a failure? Why?
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Um... by golfing
jeffmason1 steveholland1 and, the number of false positives increases rapidly, making it difficult to grasp the actual situation of infected patients.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Feel for him given his age he's among the age group that simply has not been making it though COVID19.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 How funny he is! The world will miss his humour in a few months
jeffmason1 steveholland1 The President has fucked up this Country beyond Repair!
jeffmason1 steveholland1 We at mapsofworld have been tracking the spread of coronavirus since 27th January 2020. We have been updating this article with the latest map and figures regularly. coronavirusinindia CoronavirusOutbreak CoronaVirusUpdate Corona map COVIDー19
jeffmason1 steveholland1 He always lies. So how can you be surprised that he lies about this?
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Contained, aka trump received the only vaccine.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 25thAmendmentNow
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Wait, the more you test, the more results you have?!
jeffmason1 steveholland1 That is why he is preventing the testing!
jeffmason1 steveholland1 sounds great but looks bad
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Bad news for Dems - more testing = major drop in mortality rate. Rate more like the flu expected by the end of March.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Because it is.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Trump is really taking every disaster as his achievements.
jeffmason1 steveholland1 Resign already! He should be awarded by Guinness for the amount of lies he tells on a daily basis.
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