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A FURIOUS, AGGRIEVED US President Donald Trump has dismissed rumours that he was going to fire his top medical advisor on the coronavirus pandemic but launched new fights with the Democrats and the media ahead of the high-stakes reopening of the shuttered US economy.
Unusually, the evening briefing at the White House began with a statement by the internationally renowned Dr Anthony Fauci, seeking to defuse speculation that he had fallen out with the Republican president.
Referring to a CNN interview on Sunday in which he said that earlier mitigation measures would have dampened the escalation of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, Fauci explained that he’d been answering a “hypothetical”.
Fauci explained his reference in the interview to “pushback” against shutting down the economy – a remark interpreted widely as signalling that Trump was reluctant to take drastic action – as the “wrong choice of words.”
Trump, who on Sunday fueled speculation by retweeting a critical comment with the hashtag #FireFauci, sought to draw a line under the latest White House turmoil.
“I like him,” he said of Fauci. “I hear I’m going to fire him. I’m not gonna fire him, I think he’s a wonderful guy.”
But Trump then launched into a sustained assault on other targets, demonstrating his frustration with accusations that he has mishandled the crisis.
With his re-election in November a tight contest against Democrat Joe Biden, Trump is under huge pressure both to crush the pandemic’s spread and to rescue the world’s biggest economy, which has been paralysed by social distancing and other virus mitigation measures.
Attack on media
Incensed at what he considers to be unfriendly media coverage, Trump ripped into The New York Times, CNN and other major outlets.
“The problem is the press doesn’t cover it the way it should,” he said of widespread perceptions that the US coronavirus response has been slow and hampered by inefficiencies.
Trump said he had been “brutalised” by the media.
Then, in a first for the daily briefings – which have taken an increasingly political tone after having initially been dedicated to informing the public about the coronavirus – Trump made reporters in the room watch a video compilation of officials and others praising his work.
Several news outlets, which have taken to broadcasting most or all of the lengthy events live, quickly cut away from the self-congratulatory, anti-media video.
Asked why he aired the video, Trump was curt: “because we’re getting fake news.”
CNN anchor John King, who spent years covering the White House, said that “to play a propaganda video at taxpayer expense in the White House briefing room is a new – you can insert your favourite word here.”
Pressured afterward by a CBS News journalist about a long pause before the decision to shut down the economy, Trump lashed out: “You’re disgraceful.”
“You know you’re a fake,” he told the reporter, seated a few feet away.
To reopen or not
The next phase of the crisis is imminent, with Trump saying he will announce today the team preparing the reopening of the economy.
Refusing to give a date for the reopening, Trump hinted that areas with less coronavirus could be allowed to open earlier, in a staggered operation. He said he was “very close” to having a detailed plan.
But for weeks, the White House has given mixed messages over whether the federal government or states should lead the coronavirus response.
Earlier yesterday, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington states announced they were coming up with their own coordinated plan for easing social distancing.
New York, New Jersey and other northeastern states also said they were forming a group to make decisions.
Trump warned the governors, who are Democrats, that they would instead have to go along with his orders.
“They can’t do anything without the approval of the president,” he said in comments threatening to veer into constitutional law controversy.
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” Trump said.
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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