Trump's Wall Street Journal interview

Unfortunately, I can't read the transcript because I don't have a WSJ subscription, but...

“I did something good. I made it famous. I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, it’s an important time,” he told the Journal. “But nobody had heard of it. Very few people have heard of it. Actually, a young African American Secret Service agent knew what it was. I had political people who had no idea.”

  WaPo

I don't have command of the words to express how stunningly ignorant and arrogant that is.  Besides, the people who scheduled it knew.

(And when he says nobody ever heard of something, we know from experience that HE never heard of it.)

When he asked an aide during Wednesday’s Oval Office interview if she had [heard of Juneteenth], he was surprised to learn his administration had released statements commemorating the holiday every year he’s been in office.

“Oh really? We put out a statement? The Trump White House put out a statement?” he asked, according to the paper, before declaring that “good.”

  The Wrap

Here are some of the highlights from the president’s latest interview.

1.) Trump says China may have deliberately allowed the novel coronavirus to spread to the United States in retaliation for his tariffs.

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“They’re saying, man, we’re in a mess,” Trump said of the Chinese government. “The United States is killing us. Don’t forget, my economy during the last year and a half was blowing them away. And the reason is the tariffs.”

The president admitted that he had no evidence to back up his claim and said it was based only on an “internal sense.”

  Raw Story

The man has no sense, internal or otherwise.

2.) Trump says he hired John Bolton to make foreign leaders fearful that he’d go to war with them unless they gave him what he wanted.

The president spent a good deal of time trashing the man whom he’d appointed as his national security adviser, and divulged his true rationale for bringing him into his administration in the first place.

“The only thing I liked about Bolton was that everybody thought he was crazy,” Trump explained.

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3.) Trump says that he actually was threatening to have looters shot in his now-infamous tweet.

Trump earlier this month issued a warning to anti-police brutality protesters against rioting and looting during demonstrations by tweeting, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Even though Trump then denied that he’d meant it as a direct threat to looters, he has now admitted to WSJ that he did mean it at least partially as a threat.

“The president said the tweet could be read as either a threat or a fact,” WSJ reports. “Asked how he intended it, Mr. Trump said ‘a combination of both.'”

4.) Trump calls COVID-19 testing “overrated” then brags about how many tests the United States has done.

“I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” Trump said of his administration’s response to the pandemic.

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5.) Trump brags that he made more people aware of Juneteenth by holding a rally on that date in a city known as the site of the worst anti-black pogrom in American history.

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6.) Trump suggests some people are wearing face masks to damage him politically.

According to WSJ, the president “allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventative measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him.”

Yes, EVERYTHING is about HIM.

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Of course, it's not likely he even knew about that statement.  Some staffer put it out.

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