 So we talked about Donald Trump's Tulsa rally in a separate video and it was totally normal It definitely didn't go off the rails. You know, it doesn't look like the movie idiocracy come to life Anyways, I'm being sarcastic obviously There's a specific portion of his rally that I didn't talk about in that video because I wanted to isolate it because I think in And of itself it requires a more at length Conversation and the mainstream media to their credit in this instance has talked about this But I think that it requires even more people to talk about this and make noise about this because I think it's so egregious what he flippantly admits here that I Mean, I don't really even know What to say the president of the United States admitted during a pandemic that he tried to slow down testing for COVID-19 Because it makes him look bad. This is literally something he admitted to at his Tulsa rally. Take a look And with testing, you know testing is a double-edged sword We've tested now 25 million people it's Probably 20 million people more than anybody else. Germany's done a lot South Korea's done a lot. They call me. They say the job you're doing here's the bad part When you test of when you do testing to that extent you're gonna find more people you're gonna find more cases So I said to my people slow the testing down, please They test and they test we got tested people don't know what's going on. We got test. We got another one over here This made me absolutely Furious watching him admit that and you know to see the crowd of cultist Followers just cheer him on. I mean, it's so frustrating. It's so frustrating We're trying to fight a pandemic more than a hundred thousand American citizens have died under his watch and His response is to slow down testing because more positive cases makes it seem as if He doesn't have COVID-19 under control. Therefore it makes him look bad Although do you want to know what actually make you look good Donald Trump is if you got COVID-19 under control Which would require more testing because if you don't test people Then you don't know what we're working with you need more data not less, but because he's an imbecile He decided to Instruct people around him. I don't know how he's doing this or if he actually can do this He might just be bluffing But either way his response instinctively is to say no no let's do less tests because the more positive cases of COVID-19 that we find that's gonna make me look bad now Tests very, you know, depending on the state some governors are doing more tests depending on how Competent they are or you know, how many cases of a COVID-19 they have So we don't necessarily know if he's just talking out of his ass But a scripts reporter actually asked him about this and he didn't really give a straight answer He couldn't say whether or not he actually did try to draw back on the amount of tests that they were doing So take a look and we'll analyze his response afterwards on Saturday night You said that you told your staff to slow the testing down to improve the numbers Does that mean someone watching this right now on their local news is not going to get a test because you asked We do more testing than any country in the world by far 25 million tests other countries do 1 million Every time you do a test as you do more tests that shows more and more cases So we're so far advanced both in terms of the quality and the amount and we're doing all these tests And it shows cases if other countries aren't doing or if we did slow it down We wouldn't show nearly as many cases. You're showing people that are asymptomatic You're showing people that have very little problem. You're showing young people that don't have a problem But we're doing so much testing 25 million tests. Nobody thought that did you ask to slow it down? If it did slow down frankly, I think we're way ahead of ourselves if you want to know the truth We've done too good a job because every time we go up with 25 million tests You're gonna find more people. So then they say oh We have more cases in the United States the reason we have more cases Because we do more testing than any other country by far So didn't get a straight answer there and what he said wasn't just idiotic It was factually incorrect because even if we're not the worst country in the world when it comes to testing We're still not the best as you know, he wants you to believe We're doing about 20 tests per confirmed cases in comparison with Canada for example Who does a hundred tests per confirmed cases? But our response has been consistently worse than other countries with regard to testing and sure We've been slowly increasing the number of tests that we're doing since mid-April But I mean we're still not doing enough and testing does vary quite a bit by state as I mentioned earlier It kind of depends on how prevalent COVID-19 is and who the governor is and whether or not he or she wants to do More testing or even cares about this pandemic But I mean here's the thing if you actually want to defeat COVID-19 because it is still a pandemic You have to do that by testing as many people as possible Now currently we're at the stage in the pandemic where we just kind of pretend it doesn't exist You have lots of states opening up in Oregon my state I think that the governor was doing an adequate job at handling it But since there's a lot of pressure by right wingers to reopen now She's reopening one of we're seeing a surge in cases I mean you can't just pretend that it doesn't exist. It does exist, right? You can't just wish away this pandemic This virus doesn't care about what your wishes are or what the political context is or how bad it makes Donald Trump or governors Look, this is a virus that doesn't care about any of that It doesn't discriminate on the basis of political affiliation, right? This is a virus that will be there until we kill it ourselves until we defeat it So pretending it doesn't exist Ramping down on the tests that we do I mean, that's not acceptable Now White House officials said that Donald Trump's statement about, you know, trying to curtail the number of tests that we're doing Was just a joke But that's not a defensible thing to say Like, there's been more than 100,000 Americans that have died because of this And you're joking about the testing You're joking about making it difficult to fight this thing that killed 100,000 plus Americans Really? I mean He wouldn't joke about 9-11, would he? That killed, what, 3,000 Americans? This killed 100,000 Americans Almost 120,000 Americans By the time most of you see this video It probably will be 120,000 So even if that is his defense I mean It wouldn't be a defense if he joked about 9-11 Right? Which he takes very seriously Because that gives him a justification To, you know, invade other countries But I mean, the point is What he said here is unacceptable And I don't necessarily know if He is trying to stop the amount of testing I think a lot of his bungling of this response Has been due to him being just incompetent And an idiot But at the end of the day it doesn't matter His instinct was just revealed to us He wants to make sure that He looks good by all means necessary And if that means making us less capable Of dealing with a deadly pandemic Then so be it, so long as he doesn't look bad I mean, what a despicable human being he is