Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Trump has a history of seeking to distort hard numbers. In 2019, during his first term, he showed off a doctored hurricane model that included a Sharpie-like black swipe that made Alabama seem to be in Hurricane Dorian’s path — when it wasn’t. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... So stupid.
The Sharpie is mightier: Trump...
Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
As the Covid-19 pandemic raged, Trump bemoaned how testing made the U.S. look as though it had more cases than other countries.
“Think of this: If we didn’t do testing, instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing, we would have half the cases,” he said at news conference.