re: BREAKING: President Trump to declare a National Emergency this afternoon.

India firing a shot at China

The convenience store lobby with a question.

j/k - he was very respectful unlike "our" "reporters"

AGree...

the indian reporter didn't appear to be interested in Gotcha journalism and asked a fair question.

CNN already melting right off the bat

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CNN already melting right off the bat

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Play by play?

Jake Tapper within 10 seconds...

"The President again showing the same kind of disconnect as he did in 2016 when he said I alone can fix hit as he says today he won't take any responsibility for the lag in response."

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Would've loved to hear her give them a good Virology lesson and blow their minds bc these folks never took a difficult arse class like that in the audience

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I was just thinking the same thing.. I get so annoyed when I hear when will tests be available. These idiots have zero idea what actually goes into developing an effective test for a virus or bacteria or other antigen. You don't just pull it out of your arse.

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I missed the question. 

Anyone paraphrase?

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She claimed that during President Trump's Administration some sort of agency or task force committed to looking at how to handle a response to a health crisis had been disbanded. President Trump said he didn't even know what she was talking about, but regardless it was a "gotcha" question from the get-go.

This woman and the Hispanic reporter who wanted to get President Trump on record as saying they had failed regarding test kit availability were the 2 biggest jerks by far.

President Trump didn't call on our boy Acosta.

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february trump said coronvirus cases peaked at 15 going down to 5 will soon be zero

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No, he didnt, arse. He said one day it will be gone almost like a miracle. You know exactly what he meant too.

Now had we had a democrat president, they'd have allowed Chinese flights into the US all February seeding us by the tens of thousands.

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OK, you lie, then call me names, then lie some more. Most likely about things you're ignorant about, and are too uneducated to understand, even if you were informed of them.

Trump:

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We — we’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. As most of you know, the — the level that we’ve had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re better, or getting. We have a total of 15. We took in some from Japan — you heard about that — because they’re American citizens, and they’re in quarantine. And they’re getting better too.

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Of the 15 people — the “original 15,” as I call them — 8 of them have returned to their homes, to stay in their homes until fully recovered. One is in the hospital and five have fully recovered. And one is, we think, in pretty good shape and it’s in between hospital and going home.

So we have a total of — but we have a total of 15 people, and they’re in a process of recovering, with some already having fully recovered.

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I want you to understand something that shocked me when I saw it that — and I spoke with Dr. Fauci on this, and I was really amazed, and I think most people are amazed to hear it: The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year. That was shocking to me.

And, so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people and their recovery, one is — one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover, but the others are in great shape. But think of that: 25,000 to 69,000.

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But we’re very, very ready for this, for anything — whether it’s going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we’re — you know, we’re at that very low level, and we want to keep it that way.

So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.

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Q Mr. President, the CDC said yesterday that they believe it’s inevitable that the virus will spread in the United States, and it’s not a question of “if” but “when.” Do you agree with that assessment?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don’t think it’s inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared. We have the best people in the world. You see that from the study. We have the best prepared people, the best people in the world.

Congress is willing to give us much more than we’re even asking for. That’s nice for a change. But we are totally ready, willing, and able. It’s a term that we use. It’s “ready, willing, and able.” And we have — we have — it’s going to be very well under control.

Now, it may get bigger, it may get a little bigger. It may not get bigger at all. We’ll see what happens. But regardless of what happens, we are totally prepared.

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Q Mr. President, should Americans be going out getting protective equipment such as masks and so forth? And if so, what is the U.S. doing to boost production of masks?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, we can get a lot of it. In fact, we’ve ordered a lot of it just in case we need it. We may not need it; you understand that. But in case — we’re looking at worst-case scenario. We’re going to be set very quickly.

But we — I don’t think we’re going to ever be anywhere near that. I really don’t believe that we’re going to be anywhere near that. Our borders are very controlled. Our flights in from certain areas that we’re talking about are very controlled. I don’t think we’ll ever be anywhere near that.

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Q Back to the stock market for a second. Travel-related stocks have especially been —

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.

Q — hammered here —

THE PRESIDENT: Sure.

Q — in the last couple days. What would you say to Americans out there who right now are looking forward to the summer or the upcoming months and saying to themselves, “Should I make my summer plans? Should I go travel abroad?”?

Well, hopefully, they’re going to be able to do that. We think — we hope — that it’s going to be in good shape by that time. But, you know, they’re going to have to remain a little bit flexible.

Yeah, I would say travel-related company, certainly right now, that would be — that would be — they would be hurt.

At the same time, this ends. This is going to end. Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later. And I think the business that they lost will be picked up at a later date.

But, you know, right now, I think they’re not going to be — probably not going to be going to China; they’re not going to be going to certain countries where the problem is far greater than it is in the United States.

What it’s going to do is keep people home, and they’re going to travel to places that we have. We have the greatest — it’s the greatest tourism country in the world. So instead of leaving our country, leaving our shores, they’ll stay here.

And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.

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Official White House Transcript

Try to find anywhere in that transcript where Trump makes ANY mention of ANY miracle ANYWHERE. He states time and time again how "we're very prepared for this". Prepared for what? To have a miracle??? That's as stupid as your attempt to sound like you know one-tenth of what you're lying about.

But YOU know what he meant. You just don't give a shite......

It's been almost 3 weeks since that Trump presser. There have been now a total of over 3,000 cases of COVID-19 in the United States, with only 116 of those closed, and 60 deaths.......