It's crap like this that makes this idiot unfit for office. Always lying about everything and his lies have killed over 150,000 Americans and counting. This is why Donald Trump is going to lose in a massive landslide.
Trump lied about being asked to toss out the Yankees’ first pitch on opening day – because he was jealous of Fauci
Just before Dr. Anthony Fauci tossed out the first ball of Major League Baseball’s opening day last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the president of the New York Yankees, Randy Levine, had invited him to toss the first pitch for the New York team on August 15.
He was one-hundred-percent lying.
Well, maybe 95 percent.
Trump apparently had been asked years prior, as in, “You should come and do that some day,” what some would call an open invitation. There had not been a formal invitation, no date set, and until he made that announcement, the Yankees had neither been asked nor told.
But he did it, The New York Times reports, because he was jealous of Dr. Fauci.
“Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,” Trump told reporters on Thursday, just one hour before Fauci threw the first ball. “And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I’m doing that on August 15 at Yankee Stadium.”
“There was one problem,” the Times explains. “Mr. Trump had not actually been invited on that day by the Yankees, according to one person with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s schedule. His announcement surprised both Yankees officials and the White House staff.”
Trump “had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci’s turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch.”
On Sunday, for reasons unknown, Trump “canceled,” so to speak, making a big deal out of his “change” of plans.
"Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!"
Regardless, his tweet “canceling” was quickly panned by many on social media, who could tell he had been lying from the start.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-lied-about-being-asked-to-toss-out-the-yankees-first-pitch-on-opening-day-because-he-was-jealous-of-fauci/Trump is 'trapped by reality' and he ‘looks like a fool’: Former senator
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) explained that President Donald Trump’s world is collapsing around him because he’s been lying to himself for so long that now he’s being forced to face the reality of the coronavirus pandemic.
A new report from the Washington Post revealed that Trump only started to care about the pandemic when he was shown maps and data that his voters in Republican states were dying from the virus.
“This is a president who just refused to listen to the science,” McCaskill explained. “He refused to accept the science. And two realities are present now: One, it didn’t disappear; and Two, it moved from blue states to red states. And now he is blocked, boxed, trapped. Instead of leading, he is folding. He is capitulating. And that’s what these voters are seeing in these red states. And particularly the elderly voters in Georgia, in Texas, in Florida, in North Carolina.”
She noted that states are finally realizing that Trump blew it and now everyone is “in big trouble.”
“And he really has no way out of this mess, because it’s a matter of leadership, the chaotic leadership is costing lives and the people in these states know it,” McCaskill continued.
Another Washington Post report cited the Trump University scandal, where he was so desperate to deny a problem instead of fixing it. He’s since used the tactic many, many times, even during the COVID-19 crisis.
“Why did the country have to be Donald Trump’s version of what a normal person might have dealt with in therapy?” asked MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.
“Because he never thought about this, as a moment of leadership, to do the right thing based on science and protecting the health of Americans,” McCaskill answered. “He always looked at it as, ‘how can this help me? How can I avoid having this impact my re-election?’ It is — I mean, look at the conventions. this is a perfect example, Nicolle.”
She explained that early on Democrats listened to the science and began looking for other options. Trump flailed everywhere, moving his convention from North Carolina to Florida before he was finally forced to cancel it.
“There has not been chaos around the Democrats,” said McCaskill. “There hasn’t even been that much coverage of the Democrats canceling their convention. Meanwhile, Trump has wasted millions of dollars, weeks with the Charlotte and then Florida and ‘Oh, we’re going on and we’re going to have a big — we’re going to build stages outside and it’s going to be great!’ And then he’s trapped by reality. And he looks like a fool. And that’s happening in Florida.”
Watch video in the link below:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-trapped-by-reality-and-he-looks-like-a-fool-former-senator/CNN host mocks Trump for 'strange' lies about throwing out first pitch at a Yankees game
Donald Trump claimed last week that he would be throwing out the first pitch at an upcoming Yankees game in New York — but it turns out that he never even bothered to consult the Yankees before making the announcement.
CNN’s John Berman and Alisyn Camerota mocked the president on Tuesday for apparently fabricating an offer to throw out the ceremonial pitch, which was reportedly sparked by jealousy over watching Dr. Anthony Fauci throw out a pitch at a Washington Nationals game.
The hosts noted that the president must be particularly jealous that Fauci even got his own baseball card, which quickly became a big seller after it went on sale last week.
“Well, John, now President Trump’s going to want a baseball card,” Camerota said.
“He’ll probably use the Defense Production Act or something to make billions of cards,” Berman joked. “He’ll be so upset that Dr. Anthony Fauci has the top-selling Topps card. Who knows?”
Berman then reflected on how strange it was that the president felt the need to lie about this in the first place.
“It’s really crazy that the president, in the briefing room, went up there and lied about being specifically invited on August 15th,” he said. “That’s just strange.”
Watch the video below:
