Tuesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters for publicly downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus as it continues to spread.
Scarborough said it is “irresponsible” and “deadly” for Trump and his allies to brush the coronavirus off as a hoax because it will result in the death of “a lot of senior citizens.”
“They can say it’s just like the flu, they can say it’s a hoax, but I’m just curious, why doesn’t the president if he really believes that, why doesn’t he have his chief of staff come in and sit down and brief him today?” Scarborough asked.
He continued, “Donald Trump understands it’s not the flu. He understands that this is an epidemic, some people are calling it a pandemic. And unless we take those safe precautions that some Donald Trump supporters are suggesting we don’t take, then our healthcare system is going to look like the stock market looked like yesterday, and a lot of senior citizens, be they Republicans or Democrats, are going to get infected and they’re going to die. The recklessness, the partisanship, the false alternatives, the false realities that these people try to spin out of the White House, and these Trump supporters try to spin, let’s just call it what it is: it is irresponsible, and it is deadly, especially for our senior citizens.”
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