Donald Trump is once again (if not always) in hot water for wrongly claiming that he hasn't left the White House in months as an effort to flatten the curve of the coronavirus outbreak. The claim quickly sparks Twitter outrage, and the media tries its best to remind him of his recent activities, involving holding five rallies in February and even going golfing. Did he forget all about it in an instant?
During his COVID-19 update at the White House on April 20, the press held the POTUS accountable for not doing anything to stop the spread of the virus and prepare the Americans for the pandemic in February. PBS NewsHour anchor, Yamiche Alcindor, lead the questioning, but Melania Trump's husband quickly fired back, saying that he took the outbreak very seriously.
However, Alcindor pressed Donald Trump to remember his recent activities of holding a series of rallies in February and March. Although she's not yet finished with her words, he suddenly cut her off and said that he didn't know anything about rallies, but he did know one thing.
"I know one thing. I haven't left the White House in months except to give a wonderful ship The Comfort," he said. Alcindor then interrupted him and once again reminded him of the rally he held in March.
"Did I hold a rally? I'm sorry I hold a rally. Did I hold a rally? Let me tell you, in January, when I did this; we had virtually no cases and no deaths," Donald Trump claimed. According to Hollywood Life, he indeed held a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 2, which Alcindor also said.
In the whole month of February, he held five rallies: in Manchester on Feb. 10, in Phoenix on Feb. 19, in Colorado on Feb. 20, in Las Vegas on Feb. 21, and in Charleston on Feb 28. In total, he held six out-of-state rallies away from the White House, which he all denied. Donald Trump also went on another series of golf trips to Florida at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Feb. 1, Feb. 15, March 7, and March 8, opposing his claim that he didn't leave the White House.
With his lies, social media users quickly roasted the country's leader, flooding Twitter with their criticisms and insults, Celebrity Insider noted. Just like Alcindor, they also reminded him of the rallies he held out of the White House.
One Twitter user accused Donald Trump of gaslighting a top national reporter like Alcindor and mocked him for his plan to open the economies that would eventually end up in infecting each other after working so hard to contain the virus. Some of them described the president of using zombie defense and showing another situation of "convenient situational amnesia."
