Day 1,171: Another day, another farcical Trump coronavirus briefing

Saturday, Donald Trump was back at it, lying and gesticulating at a press briefing ostensible to talk about coronavirus facts and updates.

Yet he continued to push dangerous treatments for the virus, even indicating he may try them despite repeatedly saying he has tested negative for the disease.

Trump also continued to tell bald-faced lies about steps his administrations is doing to limit and track the disease.

He continues to put emphasis on how people criticize his response rather than actually improving his response.

And he is still throwing out wild conspiracy theories while inventing fictionalized conversations between media members and governors.

The conspiracy theories didn’t stop there. He, again, accused New York of goosing medical supply requests, metaphorically waving his hands about thousands of deaths in a city that he called home for seven decades.

Asked about authoritarian-like decisions he’s made, Trump defended the firing of a distinguished Navy captain who had the audacity to make a priority the health and safety of nearly 5,000 men and women under his command.

Trump similarly defended his firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. Atkinson drew the ire of Trump for telling Congress about the whistleblower complaint related to Trump’s call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ambivalent about tens of thousands of deaths, narcissistic about anything and everything, and still feeling the heavy pull of authoritarianism: a global crisis has not changed Trump one iota.

1,171 days in, 291 to go

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