For reasons that are difficult to understand, Garry turned on Trump’s daily “briefing” on the Coronavirus. Now, we both know our so-called president does not have a good grip on English, but this evening was special. After a couple of sentences, I realized he wasn’t making any sense. If he were a doper, I’d have to assume he was stoned. But not being a doper, I guessed he was just a dope — in the original meaning of the word.
Mexican troops at U.S. border
What got my attention was his announcement that Mexico had put 27,000 soldiers along our border and as far as I could make out from this nonsensical ramble was that these soldiers were being led by Tom Brady (“A great guy”) and this was going to solve our problems with people getting sick. Some people (he said) are getting very sick or even sicker and not getting better. Sometimes dying.
It turns out we were not the only people confused by his message. I found this headline and article from the Daily News:
Donald Trump gets extremely confused about Tom Brady and coronavirus during press conference
Donald Trump went on a protracted tangent about a Tampa Bay Buccaneers player at a press conference in the midst of the government’s catastrophic failure to respond to the coronavirus.
“Somebody in the fake news said that one of the governors said, ‘Oh, we need Tom Brady.’ He meant that in a positive way. He said ‘We need Tom Brady, and we’re gonna do great,’ and he took it very positively. They took it differently. They think Tom Brady should be leading the effort.
“That’s only fake news, and I like Tom Brady. Spoke to him the other day. He’s a great guy. I wish the news could be real, I wish it could be honest, I wish it weren’t so corrupt. But so much of it is. It’s just so sad to see. We had a great meeting.”
JM Rieger
✔@RiegerReport
TRUMP on his coronavirus call earlier today with governors:
Trump, in the way only he can be, is insanely wrong about this on two fronts. He’s referring to a Washington Post story about a call between him and all 50 governors. According to the Post, Trump called the federal government a “backup” and Washington governor Jay Inslee responded, “We don’t need a backup. We need a Tom Brady.”
Apparently, Tom will lead this great army and then get back to working out in Tampa Bay because I don’t think he gave up football. Yet. Or maybe it is one of the other national leaders he named that will solve all of our problems. I’m not sure where the army came from. Garry wanted to know if he’d missed a sentence because he wasn’t at all sure what was going on with the army and Tom Brady.
I tried to find a text of the “speech” but it isn’t up anywhere. Translations of his speech are available and they leave out all the interesting parts. I tried. I really did.
Meanwhile, get ready. A huge army of Mexicans led by Tom Brady is coming to your town to save you from the epidemic … or something like that.
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So….the Mexican Army is massing on our southern border?
And I guess the US Army is massing on the Canadian border? I thought that’s what I heard him say.
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I’m not sure anyone — including Himself — knows what he said.
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Okay, CNN is on for today’s (Friday?) Covid 19 update. What’s in store for us?
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No one really needs all those ventilators. The president said we are exaggerating. That’s today’s big message.
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For reasons unknown, we turned it on, also. Listening to that droning voice reading, knowing he had not read it ahead of time to, you know, understand what he was reading……. I had to turn it off. It was more than I could take.
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What got us was it was total gibberish! It made NO sense.
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..which is what we have come to expect from him–no sense, nonsense….whatever fits.
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BEYOND nonsense. I think Pence wrinkled his eyebrows.
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AHA! I’m not the only one who had it on. Who needs an excuse? It’s bloody addictive. I wonder if this is the way it was in the olden days listening Tammany Hall Pols, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee & Molly? Fred Allen?
Donzo topped them all yesterday in a windy and bizarre monologue that exceeded the best of the Marx Brothers and Jack Paar.
I still wonder when Jefe Tomas Brady y Los Soldados Mejicanos will come riding to town, preceded by their “Magnificent Seven” arrival theme, performed live by Skitch Henderson and the old “Tonight” show band with Pete Fountain as special musical guest. It will be simply AMAZING. And, Covid 19 will be riddled with bullets.
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It’s almost like a train wreck, isn’t it? Look away? Not look away? OMG, Garry….
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I hate to say it but I did actually LOL Somehow we missed this part of the “news” or maybe I just wasn’t listening or my husband switched channels before the worst of it.
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It wouldn’t have made sense anyway.
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Grace, this was prime Donzo theater of the absurd stuff.
I don’t think we were supposed to be laughing out loud at the alleged leader of the free world. But there you go. And, from your pic, Grace, the clowns were on standby.
I wonder if Mel Brooks is taking notes.
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I recently responded to someone who asked where I live that I live in NoVA, northern Virginia, about 6 miles from the White House aka clown central.
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Honestly, I think we ALL live in clown central. Maybe Wyoming gets exempted.
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Grace, so close to clown central. Stay safe.
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I laughed, but it isn’t really funny is it . . . . stay safe xx
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You have to laugh. It’s our only hope to stay sane.
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Likewise here!
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Becky, we were laughing but, no, it isn’t funny. The joke, again, is on us.
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So hope things get better for you in the fall. Surely things will change.
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That is what we all say and yet, here we are, with the same clown in office and we aren’t even sure how the election will happen!
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The joker is wild.
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Does he have the power to delay it? Or is that a thought I mustn’t even have?
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In theory, it cannot be delayed. But we are in uncharted waters. There’s nothing in the constitution about plagues. There’s talk about it, but everyone hopes it will have passed by the time elections roll around. If not, I guess we’ll have to figure it out.
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Fingers crossed we are through the worst of it by then xx
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Mr. Swiss looks now and again in on his iPad to see what he has useful to say. Since he told everybody that people are dying that never died before I have given up. Is this man still running around loose. Havn’t they put him way yet? He is not normal. On the other hand he gives us a laugh now and again although it is no longer so funny, just pathetic.
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He is evil. Really evil.
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The bloated face of evil.
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So he is fine with Mexicans coming in now?
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After his talk last night, it seems we are now taking on the Canadians, too….
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I have NO idea. I think they are there to protect them from Americans!
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As long as Tom Brady leads them (I guess). Maybe add a marching band?
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Tas, that was yesterday. Today, who knows?
Maybe it’ll be Professor Harold Hill, 76 Trombones and trouble in River City.
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I can’t remember when I last heard 76 Trombones
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It’s like living in a rather lethal circus.
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I think the Mariachi Band has been hired.
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What next?
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It was classic gibberish. Garry kept asking me what he was saying and I told him to not try to understand. It would just confuse him. It could have been a stand-up routine.
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I missed it.
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It was hilarious in a bleak way.
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Yeah, I can see that.
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Next, Sadje? The Creature From The Black Lagoon. He and Donzo are besties.
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That would be IT!
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Haha — I heard the quote from Jay Inslee also — but what a mess Trump made of it! He’s making less and less sense these days!
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Maybe he has the brain damaged version of the disease?
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Slmret, he topped himself yesterday. I hear hoofbeats and fiesta music….must be Brady and his Mexican Army coming to shoot it out with Covid 19. This is …a major distraction.
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So sorry I missed this gem of a news conference, Marilyn! It would have been a great laugh – well, your post did make me laugh!
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It made US laugh. Tom Brady leading the Mexican Army into America to save us from the virus! Film at 11!
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Marilyn’s post is REAL news about the fake poseur who’s going round and round the bend. I do think he’s chomping cheeseburgers between sentences. His breathing is alarmingly labored. He needs a smoothie.
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Hilarious. And sad. And so scary.
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I think our prez is loony tunes. Really. He has moved into that land of nod from which no one ever returns,
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Surreal.
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Like a really bad movie.
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Life, yes. Scary, scary, scary. Not lost among the laughter. He’s the jester working his last gig.
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Yes!! They should do a jester movie with the jester as Donald Trump! I mean he should be the jester but look like Donald, who is even scarier looking. Except who would pay money to go watch 90 minutes of Trump? I can’t look at him for 30 seconds.
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Whether we watch depends on how much Garry wants to shout at the television. I try to ignore it, but when I don’t, I shout at the screen, too.
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