 As many of you know, Donald Trump has been desperately trying to explain away his own incompetence with regard to COVID-19 And he keeps saying the same thing over and over again You know, it's not necessarily that we're seeing an extension of the first wave that we're seeing, you know A record amount of new cases every single day The reason why this is all happening isn't necessarily because we're not getting the virus under control But because we're doing more testing, so more testing equals more cases Like he keeps saying this, and it's not persuading anyone Nonetheless, he keeps using this as an excuse, but he is adding one more excuse to his bevy of excuses For some reason, in some way, he's tying this to Obama And he's blaming Obama for cutting off COVID-19 testing seemingly I can't really make heads or tails out of this Nonetheless, we'll listen to what he has to say President Trump, you've said many times that the number of coronavirus cases is going up because testing is increasing Do you acknowledge that it's going up for other reasons too? For example, that it's actually spreading And what are you going to do to stop the spread? Well, you know that we have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere If you know, Biden and Obama stopped their testing, they just stopped it You probably know that, I'm sure you don't want to report it But they stopped testing, right in the middle, they just went, no more testing And on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously, with respect to This is the worst thing that's happened since probably 1917, this is very bad All over the world, it's 188 countries right now But no, we test more than anybody by far And when you test, you create cases, so we've created cases I don't know what he's talking about Like, usually when Donald Trump says something, you know, he'll base it off of something that happened Or a tweet that he's made, or something that Fox News said But I mean, I don't even know what to tie that to Like, you can't connect the dots, you can't make any logical leaps for him He just isn't making sense I mean, is he talking about Ebola? Is he talking about literally Obama's handling of COVID-19, which didn't exist when Obama was president? Obama hasn't been president for three years So why are you invoking Obama? And regardless, I mean, even if you found a way to tie this to Obama You are the president of the United States, take responsibility, stop making excuses But I mean, he can't, he is incapable of acting like a grown-up So he says, you know, we're seeing more cases because we're doing more testing, also Obama And he has a new excuse Now he is using a conspiracy theory to justify his own incompetence Because as Jamie Ross of The Daily Beast reports President Trump is pushing a ludicrous theory that doctors are purposefully lying about the novel coronavirus pandemic Because they want to harm his chances of reelection later this year Early Monday, Trump retweeted the conservative conspiracy theorist and former game show host Chuck Woolery As he dismissed medical experts as politically motivated liars The incendiary tweet read, the most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19 Everyone is lying, the CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most That we are told to trust I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election I'm sick of it Neither Woolery nor Trump explained exactly what aspect of the ranging pandemic doctors are supposedly lying about Nor did they provide any evidence to back up the vague, unproven claim Last week, the US repeatedly broke its own daily record for new COVID-19 cases And the nation's death toll now totals more than 135,000 On top of that, Trump also retweeted this from the same individual There is so much evidence, yes, scientific evidence that schools should open this fall It's worldwide and it's overwhelming But no, I mean, imagine how narcissistic you have to be To think that a global pandemic is literally just about you, right? That all, everyone, the CDC, doctors, the media, they're all in this, you know, conspiracy against you All to make you look bad by tanking the economy, by, you know, urging people to shut down the economy I mean, how narcissistic do you have to be? You are the president. If you don't want to look bad, there are things you can do to try to mitigate COVID-19 spread But instead, what we're doing is essentially using the strategy that you floated a couple of months ago Where we just let it wash over Americans And now look what's happening We are seeing 55 to 60,000 new cases every single day We have a positivity rate that's higher than 5% And in states like Florida, they're hitting record highs with 15,000 new cases in a single day Which is more than most countries So the reason why some of these other countries are reopening schools is because they got the pandemic under control But what are you doing? Nothing First and foremost, let's just pretend like, you know, we have the pandemic portion under control We're in lockdown once again and now it's just a matter of waiting this out What have you done for people down all Trump? You signed the CARES Act That's just one piece of legislation that gave people a one-time payment of $1,200 32% of Americans missed their July House payment So what are you going to do for people? Because even if we get this under control, the economic devastation that this caused Is not something that you're dealing with at all You're focusing on statues You're focusing on flag desecration You're not focusing on the pandemic or the economic consequences So even if, let's say, hypothetically, there were some type of big conspiracy to make you look bad With this pandemic, well, why aren't you trying to actually do a better job at getting it under control Or stopping us from going into complete economic ruin? I mean, you chose to not do anything about COVID-19 You're just, you know, going forward pretending as if it's not a thing Pressuring governors to reopen schools as if it's no longer with us And on top of that, you're making matters worse by withdrawing from the World Health Organization Which isn't perfect, but I mean, at a time where we're suffering through a pandemic And we have the most cases, you know, compared to anyone else in the world This is what you're doing I mean, no amount of conspiracy theories that you fabricate or retweet Are going to help you here You are looking terrible right now because of you You're not trying to stop people from suffering economically And in terms of suffering from the virus, you just don't care You're completely ambivalent and there's even reports that some of his staffers Are just hoping that Americans grow numb to the deaths So I mean, you can have it one of two ways You can actually try to make an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 And try to stop the economy from tanking Or you can continue to do nothing, but you don't get to complain When people rightfully call you out for your incompetence And lack of empathy for people suffering I mean, it's just, it's honestly, it's insane That he just is throwing his hands up in the air and saying, I'm done with the pandemic I don't care that it's still here We're just gonna pretend like it's not a thing And if you don't also buy into my delusion And reopen schools and pretend as if, you know Everything is normal and under control Then I'm going to punish you His education secretary Betsy DeVos Is threatening to withhold funding from schools who don't reopen And obey their commands I mean, this is absolutely insane What we are dealing with Everyone else in the world, other countries They're looking at us in shock And I don't think we're truly going to be able to grasp How ridiculous this moment is Until we're like decades past this Where we look back and think What the hell was going on in America During this time What was happening I mean, the fact that there isn't universal outrage The fact that there aren't widespread calls For Donald Trump to resign Because over a hundred thousand Americans Are dead on his watch It's honestly baffling What we put up with as Americans is shocking to me The fact that we allow this to continue I mean, it really speaks not just to who we elect But us individually as well Or collectively as a society I mean to allow this If we allow it to get this bad And not do anything about it Then it's going to continue to get worse So I don't know what else to say about this It's honestly shocking That the president is Not only refusing to act To save American lives But that he is Making excuses for himself With conspiracy theories And by blaming his predecessor Who hasn't had power for three years It's shocking But I mean, I shouldn't be shocked Because what is absurd Is the new normal in America