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Trump begins his August 7 Bedminster news conference with some casual xenophobia
"It's going to disappear" -- Trump is still out here falsely claiming the coronavirus will one day just vanish, and is trying to turn reality on its head by suggesting over 10 percent unemployment is good
Trump announces he's going to "enhance unemployment benefits" and do a bunch of other stuff through executive action that I'm pretty sure he needs congressional help to do
Trump suggests the coronavirus situation in the US is more or less the same as in Japan, but that's absurd. Japan had 1,134 new cases yesterday, while the US had 53,206. The scale of the outbreaks aren't comparable.
Up is down. Florida, Texas, and Arizona have done great when it comes to the coronavirus.
Trump is still hopelessly confused about how coronavirus testing works. (The prevalence of testing can't explain why more than 1,200 Americans died from Covid on Thursday alone.)
Trump says he's looking at doing an executive order to require health care providers to cover preexisting conditions, which is already the law of the land thanks to the Affordable Care Act he hates so much
"Middlemen. I guess you'd have to say to be politically correct, 'middlemen and women.' You've never heard 'the middlewoman' before, you heard 'middlemen.' That's the term." -- Trump
"Portland is a disaster. It's been a disaster for many, many years." #wut
"Left-wing violent extremism poses an increasing threat to our country, and we stop it ... it's an ideology we have to stop" -- Trump
Trump on when he'll sign the executive orders it promised: "It could be by the end of the week." (Look for them in two weeks, maybe, possibly later.)
"I don't care what anybody says" -- Trump dismisses the intelligence community's announcement today that Russia is once again helping him
Trump absurdly claims that mail-in ballots are a bigger threat than foreign election interference
"If you look at what they are doing even with these negotiations, that is an influence and an unfair influence on an election" -- Trump ridiculously claims that Democrats negotiating with Republicans is a form of election interference
Trump's paying Bedminster customers boo when a reporter points out that many of them aren't wearing masks, violating New Jersey law. Trump defends them by describing them as "peaceful protesters" of the media, then ends the news conference to a round of applause.
