'That's Not True!': ABC's Jon Karl Snaps at Trump Over Ventilator Coverage

At Wednesday's coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump sparred with ABC's Jonathan Karl over ventilators. For weeks Karl and other White House reporters have been demanding to know how the government was going to be able to supply all the ventilators our hospitals need for the overwhelming influx of coronavirus patients. Now, when they've exceeded those expectations and we have a surplus of ventilators, Trump observed that the media has gone silent.

"We're now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did, and you should say that's a great story," Trump instructed the press corps. "Instead, you say Trump was slow - slow, we were so fast. Plus we put the ban on so much earlier when Nancy Pelosi as an example - you don't say this. When she's having her rally in San Francisco in Chinatown in San Francisco nobody wants to say that."

He's right. On February 24, Speaker Pelosi was still encouraging people to come out to Chinatown.

Trump hammered the point home that no matter what he does, the media refuses to give him or his task force credit.

"So if we gave 350 [million people] a test ten times, the fake news media would say, where's the eleventh time?" Trump said. "He didn't do his job. Trump didn't do his job. Because you have a lot of bad reporting out there."

Trump later suggested that the media is actually "unhappy" that they have extra ventilators because they "never mention it."

While many, like myself, watch the daily Presidential briefing, far too many folks who grew up in the same era as I did, seem to be spending their time watching Netflix or engaged in some other non-informative behavior.
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My husband becomes so furious, he yells at the monitor and he has a hard time limiting his anger to the deserving suspects.

He’s trying, but he has a logical mind and an American sense of justice. He wants heads on pikes and mass impoverishment of the coup plotters & media, along with general disenfranchisement of progs, with a side of treason charges.

My own anger is colder and I am resigned to being patient, but I empathize with his responses.

We just made an offer on a property and hopefully will be occupied with moving over the next 2 months. Meanwhile, I watch the briefings, usually on delay so I can pause and take breaks to calm down.

DH watches something mindless, plays solitaire, takes walks, does yard work or sometimes just goes for a drive.

Born in the 40s, raised in the 50s and came of age in the 60s....I read a lot of sci-fi and dystopian fiction and this is almost verbatim many stories. Some days I just cannot even catch my breath and it isn’t because of COVID.

I used to think the media is corrupt. Now I just think they are stupid.

I can confirm "stupid"

I went to college with journalism students. You know - English majors, but without all the reading. They all began their weekends on Thursday night. The Thursday night college bars consisted of Journalism majors, Political Science majors, Women's Studies majors, etc.

Imagine that...an area of study considered easier than Physical Education, Art, Sociology or English.

Their mothers chose names like Jonathan, Anthony and Sebastian because they are ‘soft’ names and that’s how they were brought up, wrapped in cotton wool and entitlement, with not an ounce of empathy.

Mother was probably a Lisa and Dad was Jim.

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