And good evening. Thanks for joining us with close to 92,000 lives lost in this country

and 36 million people out of work. President signaled once again today that the coronavirus

outbreak isn't really about either of those numbers, nor those human beings they represent.

Instead, once again today, the president made it very clear to him it's about himself.

Number one, he underscored yet again that he seems to be treating this pandemic as just

another battle in the ongoing war of him and him alone against his perceived enemies,

whether it's the press, the experts, or even today a study done under the auspices of

government scientists. It's a worldview in which none of what's really happening truly

matters except as it affects the president and his chances for reelection or even merely

annoys him. So today, when asked whether he has a plan to address the needs of the unemployed,

he took on bridge and instead of respecting those 36 million people and up to give a few

specifics, he focused instead on himself and how the reporter who was asking on their

behalf was allegedly treating him.

Why haven't you announced a plan to get 36 million unemployed Americans back to work?

You're overseeing historic economic despair.

I think we've announced a plan. We're opening up our country, just a rude person you are.

We're opening up our country. We're opening it up very fast. The plan is that each state

is opening and it's opening up very effectively. When you see the numbers, I think even you

will be impressed, which is pretty hard to impress you.

A lot of these dollars are not in the back of the country.

Enough of you, he said, but he had nothing actually specific to say to the 36 million

men and women now wondering how to support their families and themselves. He also would

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