Trump as U.S. nears 150,000 deaths: “Nobody likes me”
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just going to say this up front. |
| 0:02.4 | The president of the United States is promoting disproven and potentially harmful medical treatments |
| 0:06.9 | for COVID-19. |
| 0:07.9 | And I know, look, it's not new. |
| 0:10.1 | But in recent days, there's been talk among some of the president's supporters that he |
| 0:13.2 | was now finally getting it, encouraging mask wearing. |
| 0:16.4 | But of course, once again, he's being incredibly dangerously irresponsible. |
| 0:20.7 | He takes no responsibility for it and clearly doesn't care if it harms anyone. |
| 0:24.6 | Yes, the president can occasionally read remarks written by someone else on a teleprompter |
| 0:28.4 | that makes it sound like he's being responsible, which he did again this evening. |
| 0:32.1 | But 149,000 Americans are dead, which this self-proclaimed wartime president again did not |
| 0:37.8 | mention in his prepared remarks that he was reading off that paper. |
| 0:42.0 | And like a snake oil salesman, he's still promoting disproven medical treatments. |
| 0:45.9 | It is unconscionable. |
| 0:48.2 | And whose medical advice is the president of the United States now promoting? |
| 0:52.3 | It's not Dr. Fauci, not Dr. Burke, not even Dr. Redfield from the CDC or the certain general |
| 0:57.5 | who's been actually begging people to wear masks. |
| 1:00.0 | No, the president is now promoting a doctor whose viral video has been very popular suddenly |
| 1:05.1 | among QAnon conspiracy theorists and COVID deniers. |
| 1:08.7 | She's a doctor from Houston who also believes that women can be physically impregnated by |
| 1:12.6 | witches in their dreams. |
| 1:15.4 | It's what we call astrosex. |
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