{"id":2553,"date":"2020-04-17T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:46:01","slug":"trumps-latest-coronavirus-press-briefing-featured-one-of-his-most-memorable-meltdowns-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s latest coronavirus press briefing featured one of his most memorable meltdowns yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“\u201cWhen somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total,\u201d Trump said at one point. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the way it\u2019s gotta be. It\u2019s total.\u201d 
Trump\u2019s claim is false<\/a> \u2014 governors have broad authority to close schools and businesses in their states.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…
“The irony is that while Trump claims to have dictatorial power, state governors keep calling on him to do more to provide them with the medical supplies they need to make sure each Covid patient can receive adequate medical care. Characteristically, Trump on Monday lied about this state of affairs by claiming \u201cnobody is asking for ventilators.\u201d (Maryland\u2019s Republican governor, Larry Hogan \u2014 chair of the National Governors Association \u2014 said<\/a> on Sunday\u2019s installment of This Week<\/em> that \u201cto say that everybody is completely happy and we have everything we need is not quite accurate.\u201d)” 
…
“conveying truthful information is not the point of these briefings. Instead, Trump\u2019s objective is to reframe problems as the result of unfair media coverage and feed red meat to his base by sparring with reporters. On Monday, Trump attacked two female reporters \u2014 Paula Reid of CBS and Kaitlan Collins of CNN \u2014 when they dared to ask him questions about the government\u2019s slow coronavirus response and his dictatorial statements, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are so disgraceful,\u201d Trump admonished Reid at one point. \u201cYou know you\u2019re a fake.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/13\/21219966\/trump-coronavirus-press-briefing-meltdown-total-control-states-rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u201cWhen somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total,\u201d Trump said at one point. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the way it\u2019s gotta be. It\u2019s total.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claim is false \u2014 governors have broad authority to close schools and businesses in their states.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The irony is that while Trump claims to have dictatorial power, state governors keep calling on him to do more to provide them with the medical supplies they need to make sure each Covid patient can receive adequate medical care. Characteristically, Trump on Monday lied about this state of affairs by claiming \u201cnobody is asking for ventilators.\u201d (Maryland\u2019s Republican governor, Larry Hogan \u2014 chair of the National Governors Association \u2014 said on Sunday\u2019s installment of This Week that \u201cto say that everybody is completely happy and we have everything we need is not quite accurate.\u201d)” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“conveying truthful information is not the point of these briefings. Instead, Trump\u2019s objective is to reframe problems as the result of unfair media coverage and feed red meat to his base by sparring with reporters. On Monday, Trump attacked two female reporters \u2014 Paula Reid of CBS and Kaitlan Collins of CNN \u2014 when they dared to ask him questions about the government\u2019s slow coronavirus response and his dictatorial statements, respectively.
\n\u201cYou are so disgraceful,\u201d Trump admonished Reid at one point. \u201cYou know you\u2019re a fake.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,694,222,373,170],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-power","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}