Friday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough reacted to President Donald Trump pushing to reopen the United States economy while some areas in the country are still combating the coronavirus pandemic.
Scarborough accused Trump of lying in his press conference the day before for saying America is doing better than other countries in the fight against the spread. He then noted the president’s “hypocrisy” in wanting to “push everybody back into the workforce without having adequate testing” when he is the “biggest germaphobe.”
“People have been saying, medical experts have been saying, we’ve been saying, everybody that really knows what’s going on have been saying, ‘You need to have extensive testing,'” Scarborough outlined. “You know … the hypocrisy of Donald Trump trying to push everybody back into the workforce without having adequate testing — I talk about his home county of Palm Beach County. You still really can’t — maybe 1,000, 2,000 tests now a day in a county of 1.4 million people. Senior citizens who need to know whether they have COVID-19 in Palm Beach County and across the state of Florida and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, they can’t really get those tests the way they need them. But here, you have the president, who is the biggest germaphobe, who gets a stack, and always has, a stack of hand sanitizers and wipes down before he even eats in his own restaurants, trying to push people back into the workforce early, without even knowing whether they’re going to be working with people who were infected or not.”
He continued, “Again, if he gets the testing, then we can know with certainty who has COVID-19 and who doesn’t. And those who don’t have COVID-19 can go into work, but he won’t do that. We’ve been begging him to do that on this show for a long time. Scientists have been begging him to do it. He just won’t get the testing necessary to allow the economy to open back up safely.”
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