It seems like the coronavirus outbreak won’t stop President Trump from holding his beloved re-election campaign rallies.
During a White House pool spray Monday morning, Trump defended his decision to keep holding rallies amid growing concern over the spread of the coronavirus.
When asked if it’s safe or appropriate to hold his rallies, Trump said that “these were set up a long time ago.”
The President then somehow managed to throw Democrats under the bus as well.
“You can ask that to the Democrats because they’re having a lot of rallies,” Trump said. “They’re all having rallies, that’s what they’re doing. They’re campaigning.”
Asked again if holding rallies is safe, Trump said that he thinks “it’s very safe.”
Trump’s latest remarks come a day after a second fatality in the U.S. from the coronavirus was confirmed. Cases of the virus were also confirmed Sunday night in Florida and New York.
On Friday night, Trump accused Democrats of creating a “new hoax” by “politicizing” the outbreak during a campaign rally in South Carolina.
Watch Trump’s remarks below:
Trump defends holding rallies amid the coronavirus outbreak pic.twitter.com/Q8Oh7S75g5
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 2, 2020
Trump knows he’s safe holding rallies since coronavirus is only hitting blue states. Fox News told him so.
“Until this moment, Mr. Trump, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness or stupidity.” When Trump tried to continue his attack, decent citizens angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate the truth any further, Mr. Trump. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
– paraphrased from Joseph Welch’s reply to Sen. Joseph McCarthy for update
I am glad to see his commitment. A woman I met at an Elizabeth Warren rally last week said that if she contracts the corona virus, she is going to attend as many Trump rallies as possible.
Why do press orgs send people to ask him questions? The information is less than useless.
Keep holding Nuremberg rallies, Donnie. Since the Coronavirus is a Democrat [sic] hoax, you and your cultists will be just fine.