Trump to slow down testing because it makes America look bad

It seems the Whitehouse said he was joking after his rally, but Trump now confirms that he never jokes. 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing-335459

“We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. “We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases,” he continued. 

Administration officials as high ranking as Vice President Mike Pence have scrambled in recent days to clean up Trump’s statements on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla., where he reprised his dubious logic regarding testing rates before an arena of supporters.

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people,” Trump said during the rally. “You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people,” Trump said during the rally. “You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”

Now Trump is saying he was joking -  that he was joking when he said he never jokes. 
He didn't actually want to reduce testing. A compulsive liar that often forgets his original lies. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-news-live-blog-migrant-children-prison-jail-coronavirus-tulsa-rally-journalist-a9588681.html

TRUMP: “You know testing is a double-edged sword. ... Here's the bad part. When you test to that extent, you are going to find more people, find more cases. So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down please.'” — Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally June 20.

THE FACT: First, it's not true that he ordered testing slowed. The government's top public health officials testified one by one to Congress that Trump told them no such thing.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the comment was “made in jest” and other senior aides similarly brushed it off as not serious. Mr Trump didn't play along. “I don't kid,” he said Tuesday when asked about the remark.

Then he reversed himself, telling Fox News on Thursday, “Sometimes I jokingly say, or sarcastically say, if we didn't do tests we would look great.” But holding back on testing is “not the right thing to do".

Mr Trump's broader point — “If you don't test, you don't have any cases,” he also said — flips science on its head. No one disputes the fact that testing for the virus is key to controlling it. Testing is only one measure of the pandemic. It is also measured by hospitalisation and death, which continue even if authorities were to close their eyes to spreading sickness.

Tooooo

Trump also said that doing the tests was the right thing to do even though it made the USA look bad. You forgot about that eh sharktwit. 

Trump lives rent free in the marxist media heads. Hahahaha. 

The USA has now done over 30 million tests so naturally the infection picked up are high. 

Sharktwit you are as dumb as a rock. A perfect companion to your gimp Redrooi!

And no sharktwit defunding the police is not a popular policy as only 16% support it. You moronic demonrat marxist party is plumb crazy. 

Like servile gimp r edrooi, sharktwit is really too dumb to be consider anything but light comic relief. Bwahahahaha.