Donald Trump toured the Honeywell mask factory in Arizona yesterday. He toured a mask factory… and he didn’t wear a mask. He yelled at mask workers and opened up his gaping pie hole to make a shouty speech. Arizona is one of the states to ‘reopen” business early – their Republican governor wants everything opened up over the next week. You know what surprises me? The fact that Trump was too f–king vain to wear a mask in a mask factory. I get why he didn’t wear one – it goes along with his whole “ignore all of the deaths on my watch and let’s get the economy going” energy. But Trump is also a famous germophobe. You would think that his germophobia would take precedence.
Speaking of the new Trump talking points, it looks like the administration’s sad coronavirus task force is being phased out this month. Mike Pence was in charge of it, although you know Jared Kushner was really the idiotic “brains” behind it. So, yes, even though the pandemic is still raging and even though the death toll is over 70,000 just in America, Trump and his people think they can merely pretend that everything’s fine, the pandemic is winding down and let’s get everybody back to work. No need for a corona task force now! From Time Mag:
Getting things back to normal is President Donald Trump’s new game plan. After being warned off his daily dinnertime briefings, the President’s next move is getting out and about, even as the U.S. daily death toll has stayed stubbornly high and new projections based on states easing social distancing show total American deaths could surpass 130,000 by August.
Trump has told aides he wants to start traveling more as a way to encourage the country to open shuttered businesses and jumpstart the economy. On Tuesday, as he toured an N95 mask factory in Phoenix—without a mask of his own, he said he would wind down the White House coronavirus task force in the coming weeks and focus on “other phases.”
“We have now a different — it’s sort of a combination of safety and reopening,” Trump said, while sitting with leaders of Native American tribes in Arizona that have been hit hard by the epidemic and the economic shutdown. “The people of our country are warriors, and I’m looking at it. I’m not saying anything is perfect. And, yes, will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon,” Trump said.
Asked whether it is a good idea to disband the task force when experts say there may be a resurgence in the fall, Trump said, “There might be, and, you know, most doctors or some doctors say that it will happen, and it’ll be a flame and we’re going to put the flame out.”
This is just pathetic really. I don’t have printable words for most of this but I did want to point out that “Trump has told aides he wants to start traveling more as a way to encourage the country to open shuttered businesses” just means that Trump has been practically inconsolable since he can’t tour the country, throwing Nazi rallies for himself. So just prepare yourselves – Trump is going to be doing Nazi rallies all over the country to make himself feel better after killing tens of thousands of people through willful incompetence and fraud.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
However, someone blasted “Live and Let Die” on the factory’s PA system which is pretty amazing: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tours-factory-maskless-live-and-let-die-song-994546/.
So amazing. Since I’ve heard it, Axl is the only voice in my head whenever I see the nematode’s visage.
I laughed but that is a grave insult to roundworms everywhere.
Thank you for sharing this! 😂
I’m sure he didn’t get the “joke” but I hope that he did, because the more he can be irked and riled up (and maybe stroke out), the better.
one thing sure to rile him up (I apologize if this will be covered in a different thread) is that the Mighty Mo and Bo are going to give a televised “commencement” speech to all graduates since most colleges aren’t holding ceremonies this year. I REALLY REALLY hope that this news sends him over the edge. he can seethe about how NO ONE wanted HIM to do any commencement speech to ALL grads.
Oh it will definitely send him over the edge. The Obama’s are loved and respected. Something he will never be outside of his cult.
Yep, just wait for the renewed cries of “Obama Netflix!” I’m sure the new Michelle Obama documentary will also drive him crazy.
Came back to say that I watched Becoming today and it was really good. Michelle is an amazing woman.
Love love that. He is so mad that even some of his followers are not drinking the bleach laced koolaid anymore. I hope people play covert songs every time he tries to use them for PR
That is amazing! I am proud of those Arizonans today. They are very brave considering the current climate here.
As a resident of Pinal county , I want to point out that our state opening early is not entirely the governor’s fault (do not get me wrong here, I loathe the man and he was one of those who dragged his behind to even address COVID in the first place).
There has been an uprising here to defy the stay at home orders. In our county it is led by our Sheriff, Mark Lamb (he is the new Joe Arpaio) who is refusing to enforce the mandated closures. He is not the only one. Businesses have already started opening early and sheriffs in other counties have started following his lead. Governor Ducey has been under massive pressure to lift the stay at home orders and sheriff lamb is using COVID to rev up his political career. He is talking about suing Ducey for the stay at home order because it is “not constitutional! Ducey is not great, but Lamb is a hard right Trumper and there is a huge underground movement right now to push him into the governor’s seat. The restaurant down the street from my house opened back up a week ago with local law enforcement’s full support. Those of us who called about it were told to “stop being a nuisance and let people get back to work”.
I have friends that that are very concerned that they are being forced to open up and go back to work too soon. It will be a very interesting time here this summer.
I’m sure that song choice made Paul McCartney smile as well!
Not wearing a mask to a mask factory after the idiocy surrounding Pence’s choice not to wear a mask to the Mayo Clinic makes it clear, yet again, that the Trump administration’s motto is “learn nothing.”
Poor Sir Paul is probably not to happy about this and I heard on Howard Stern that Trump doesn’t wear a mask because it is it is hard too attach to his wig.I believe that.He is a truly vile human being.If you can call him one.
And by that I don’t think Sir Paul wants to be associated with anything Trump.
Totally agree that McCartney doesn’t want to be associated with Trump — I was thinking McCartney would appreciate the irony.
Playing “Live and Let Die” was a MASTERFUL troll move. So well done, I applaud the employee that made it happen. Really, really well played. True patriot.
And if ever a face called out for a mask…
I think he avoids wearing one because it will smear his spray tan/foundation or whatever the hell you want to call that orange paint he wears.
and he’s no germaphobe. he just doesn’t like touching POOR people. he banged an adult film actress (and who knows how many others) with no condom. and he wouldn’t just walk up to women and “start kissing them” like he bragged about if he were a germaphobe.
yeah, he’s not a germaphobe. that’s one of those myths put out to make him mysterious (or, in his mind, like the REAL billionaire Howard Hughes). along with myth that he doesn’t drink or do drugs. sure, Jan.
If he is a germaphobe, he probably handles it by requiring a washdown of everything that gets near him. But the rules don’e apply to him because of course, his narcissistic baby-hands self is perfect and has no germs.
“Some people will be affected [=DIE], and some people will be badly affected [=DIE BADLY].
For real! Maybe they didn’t have one big enough to fit around his massive dewlap [yes I had to google what to call his grotesque neck fat pelican bulge].
@10k – Thanks for the new word!
He looks miserable. I think, despite his denials, that he has seen bad polling and is cranky about it.
To be fair, bad polling is worse than lives lost.
Bad polling is the ONLY thing that matters to him.
Are the goggles, which nobody else is wearing, supposed to stop the spread of germs? He and his crew contaminated everything in that building.
Yeah, I‘m confused by the goggles too.
Goggles/clear face shields are used in hospital along with masks to protect droplets from getting in your eyes/nose.
I thought he promised not even a month ago to not leave the White House for months…..
OSHA requirement, I’d think. A lot of manufacturing that kicks up any sort of particulate matter often requires eye glass protection. Why he’s the only one wearing it, I have no idea.
And they blasted “Live and Let Die” on the loudspeaker, apparently. I read that it was the only song they played not on his usual rally playlist, lol.
I don’t know if it’s really true that Trump’s is a germaphobe but I’m surprised he’s not more afraid of catching the virus.
This is not how I pictured the end of the world but I fear we are well on our way.
My hate runneth deep and wide.
. . . and it burns with the intensity of a thousand suns.
…in simultaneous hypernovas.
Never have I loathed someone as much as I do him. I hate every atom of his disgusting orange existence.
Someone said that he’s probably not wearing a mask as his make up would rub off on it. Which is probably true, hilarious and also eff him.
yup, this was my guess, too. that orange stuff will rub right off.
That and the strings (straps?) would flatten his ridiculous combover and make it even more obvious than usual how little hair he has. There is of course nothing wrong with hair thinning/loss but Trump clearly doesn’t share that view.
Is this the same event where he had “Live and Let Die” blaring in the background? And the same event where he said about the 70,000 deaths that “There’s nobody that’s taken it harder than me”? He is a disgusting cretin. He must go!!
And the clown showing off the mask had his paws all over it and then tossed it back in the bin with the sterile masks. Bunch of ignorant, arrogant 💩heads.
@Jerusha, a bunch of idiots. They probably had to throw out all those masks because of that. Pissed me off to see it.
Not to mention that everyone was sran ffg ing around the bin of sterile masks, just breathing and spittling all over them. So freaking in unsanitary.
I’m hoping that was the factory’s choice, not his.
Let’s get something straight—this fool is a liar and SAYS he’s a germaphobe but that is simply NOT true. He’s had unprotected sex with porn stars, unprotected sex while cheating, won’t stop shaking hands, refuses the mask—he’s a germaphobe in name alone, because that’s what HE says. Just another lie.
I agree. No germaphobe would shake hands like he does.
YES YES YES.
exactly this. it’s a bunch of bull. between the unprotected sex with the adult film star, the way he bragged about how he just walks up to women and start kissing them, the way he glad-hands people…he’s no germaphobe. I think he thinks it makes him mysterious or eccentric or something a la Howard Hughes.
Germaphobe, my rear end! He banged hookers without a rubber and he wears suits that always look as if they stink of dried sweat.
As for the no mask-whatever gods there may be, please, please, please! You know what I mean.
I think he just doesn’t want contact with certain people, he might catch poverty.
Meanwhile, Trump himself is a VERY symptomatic bankruptcy and corruption carrier. He sheds THOSE virus particles by the trillions and infects everything he touches.
You know who’s doing surprisingly well in this pandemic? Greece. Also a country with a shoddy healthcare system. Something like 600 ICU beds for over 10 mio people. The difference is they knew their system is unfortunately in shambles thanks in no small part to austerity and people stayed home. The government reacted quickly. Their Dr. Fauci, Sotiris Tsiodras, took it upon himself to make it very clear that nobody would be left to fend for themselves when there was an outbreak in a Roma community.
My point is that I hope Americans, all of them, get rid of this Typoid Don with proverbial pitchforks and torches in November. Yes, the system was unprepared. But it didn’t have to come to this. I feel horrible for everyone who’s suffering, 2020 is clearly a total sh*tshow.
Also, I only picked Greece because it surprised everyone I think. I love my country and am ecstatic that it is doing relatively well. The refugee camps are still a stain on the EU’s soul though and if people don’t die by the thousands in them, it won’t be because we did well.
I am happy to hear any piece of good news, thanks for sharing that!
I…don’t mind him not wearing a mask. If he wants to risk it…let him. And I’ll just leave it at that.
I’m encouraging his rallies. He needs to spread his message to his fans ( was going to say constituents, but Trump) and hopefully other things will be spread at his rallies too.
but masks don’t protect you, they protect those around you. so he’s a selfish bitch.
Please let there be a silver lining to this awful pandemic….take this motherfu**er out!!!
He looks so much better without a mask, haggard and morbidly obese. Drumpf tours, while Dr Rick Bright, whistleblower is scheduled to appear before the house.
Breathe deep, asshole.
We are just one well-aimed sneeze away from ending this orange nightmare.
I stated following him on Twitter just so a can tell him he’s a dickhead every day.
Me too! I called him a traitorous, lying, murdering motherf$cker the other day and boy!! It felt so good. Showed my son (he’s 31) and he was horrified by it even though he hates Dump too. *shrug*
I used to do that, until one of my tweets blew up and his supporters came for me. I had been blissfully ignored by them until then, but I must have tweeted at a busy time, and, phew. I still hate him but I avoid giving that opinion directly on twitter now, at least on his page.
I wonder if his team know how much Axl Rose hates trump?
I live in AZ and we have such a dumb governor. UGH. Let’s open salons and barbers and keep the gyms closed. Bc people full-on touching you is ok, but the gym has to stay closed LOL. He swares that there won’t be a “spike”… My roommate, who is an idiot, can’t wait to go back to the gym. I for one, am not going for some time after re-opening.
I feel like I am surrounded by IDIOTS in AZ. P.S. I know where the Honeywell plant is (right down the street from my old house) and I hope the folks who met with Trump were carriers and gave him the virus! That would be the best news ever, that AZ gave it to him!
I don’t understand gym openings. Gyms are a hot bed of germs normally much less now. And as much as I need to get my hair cut, it may be hard to go. We’ll see. My state opened on Mon. My daughter went to pick up Mexican food yesterday from a restaurant that opened up. She said there was little social distancing. Luckily the city/county I’m in isn’t opening minimally until the 18th. By then we will hopefully have a better idea on what is happening with those that opened earlier.
And… he’s walking back the disbanding of the task force now. Cause someone told him how bad that makes him look.
I still believe he’s gonna blame this mess on Pence and replace him with Ivanka or Nikki H or Jared. He’s saving that for when things get too hot and he is closer to Election day.
Biden better pick Warren and focus on the clear plans she has to deal with a pandemic. Show everyone how much more competently this could be handled.
Ha, I was gobsmacked that they thought it was a good idea to disband in the first place. Truly, there’s no bigger band of buffoons than this administration.
If he dies… He dies
What’s going on with that bit of hair just over his ear?
Whoa. OK, I looked this up and, according to a video of Trump on a windy day, he is totally bald in back. Experts speculate (!) he had a hair transplant decades ago, relocating hair to the top of his head (and his temples?), and that’s what he’s now grown out to hide the rest of his baldness. So essentially, he has the exact opposite of male-pattern baldness. Incredible.
I live in AZ in the Phoenix valley and there is not a whole lot of mask wearing going on here. Many want the state to reopen ASAP, which it will start doing this week.
Come on. Are you really telling me Trump would expose himself to the virus?
That plant was obviously sanitized, cleaned, wiped, UV lighted, even injected with disinfectant before he even set foot in the factory.
Also, I’m betting all of the workers who were there had a record of no family members being sick and I also bet the worker he was in contact with had a rapid test beforehand.
Trump is stupid not that stupid. Same with the people he works with. After all he’s the president and I bet all security measures are taken into consideration.