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trump is now claiming he’s known about the seriousness of the Covid-19 epidemic for a long time. This bit of cheeky, bald-faced mendacity begs the question why reporters even bother to engage in question and answer sessions with this man when it’s clear beyond all doubt that his words mean absolutely nothing. Perhaps if reporters were to present their questions to him as rhetorical in nature, the entire exercise would comport more consistently with reality.

Below, for what it’s worth, which isn’t much, frankly, except for the irony and dark humor it contains, is a portion of today’s exchange on MSNBC between Kristin Welker and das Blödführer:

Welker: “Some people did note that your tone seemed more somber yesterday, you talked about that August timeline . . did you see a projection some people thought perhaps that two million potentially that could die maybe prompted part of that. Was there a shift in tone?”

trump: “I didn’t think, I mean I’ve seen that where people actually liked it but I didn’t feel different.  I’ve always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries. I think now it’s almost 120 countries, all over the world. No, I’ve always viewed it as very serious yesterday. It was no different yesterday from days before. I feel the tone is similar but some people said it wasn’t.”

Clear, as usual, from the president. Clear that he’s an utter fool monumentally ill-equipped for the role he’s bumbled himself into as “leader of the free world.”

Tim Konrad