Questions for Trump
Q: what about your whining about appointments
Trump blah-blah
Q: about the pushback from business people about testing?
Trump blah-blah, filibustering (will anyone ask him about the failures in his plan to locate drive-up testing in Walmarts)
Q: follow-up
Trump: governors, blah-blah “We have the right to close them down”
Q: name on relief checks?
IDK anything about it
Q: interstate travel (re: RI)?
Trump: governors blah-blah
Q: relaxing border with Canada?
Trump: more blah-blah
Q: numbers?
Trump bafflegab “it’s looks like we’re headed in the right direction”
20 states, really 29 doing better
Q: Article 3 section 2?
Trump attempting to filibuster on his knowledge of the Constitution about convening Congress
diverts attention to paychecks, whines about approvals, brags about judges Likely trump has been lobbied about those appointments for the last 7 months of his term. Voice of America again. Shelves and cupboards again more blah-blah more campaign rally rhetoric.
(Democrats) “are trying to put us through the mill”
Q: numbers (jobless claims)? how do you balance opening the economy
“There’s also death involved in keeping the economy closed now. Trump talks of suicides because of unemployment. “There’s death by keeping this strongly closed country”
talk of helping other countries with ventilators
Q: why are US numbers so high?
Trump bafflegab disinformation look at other countries — China “we have more cases because we have more reporting”
Q: John Roberts about Wuhan Lab story? Follow up safety concerns about that lab with Xi?
Trump filibusters
Q: WHO?
Trump tool of China (how could they be a tool if they don’t contribute that much money $38M compared to $500M which Trump whines about— Is it because the US isn’t getting its money worth?)
Pelosi and parties in Chinatown (this is one weird trope he keeps fixating on)
Trump grievance blah-blah
Trump flees