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Tucker: Mainstream media enraged by Trump's positive COVID message

2020-10-06 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host slams the media over response to the president's handling of his illness
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, Donald Trump got the coronavirus. Last week on Saturday, some of his aides suggested that he could die from it. The media happily seconded that diagnosis trump. They informed us, has a condition known as clinical obesity, whatever it sounds significantly worse than cancer and far more unattractive. So for a time it looks like curtains for big orange and then an amazing reversal, Trump strode out of the hospital thumbs in the air. Back from the grave tweeting like a savage today, he was at his desk in the White House. New Yorker subscribers may never get over the shock of it all to add to their pain and confusion and bewilderment Donald Trump released this video last night. I learned so much about coronavirus and one thing thats for certain dont. Let it dominate you dont, be afraid of it. Youre going to beat it. We have
the best medical equipment. We have the best medicines dont, let it dominate dont, let it take over your lives, dont. Let that happen. We are the greatest country in the world feeling really good. The president, tweeted later dont be afraid of covid dont. Let it dominate your life. We have developed under the Trump administration, some really great drugs and knowledge knowledge. It was self promotional, of course, but honestly its hard to think of a better or more positive message take trump out of it. Yes, the coronavirus is lavishly deadly. It still killed hundreds of thousands of people in this country, most of them old and sick, but the president himself is old, not to mention clinically obese, whatever that is, and yet he survives, he appears to be in a great mood as people who cheat death often are. Of course he received great medical care hes, the president, but there was no magic involved in the treatment he received. Every drug Donald Trump Talk is available to the rest of us. If and when we get sick,
and that ought to give us hope if Trump survived. So can we that doesnt mean we should ignore the coronavirus or behave recklessly? Obviously, but it does suggest we dont have to live in a permanent state of terror. Dont, let it dominate your life. Trump said: thats advice you to give own children, but for the people whose power derives from our fear, it was a threat. They need you to be afraid perpetually. Otherwise you wont obey them. So, of course they were enraged by what Trump said watch. Of course you should be afraid of covid and how disrespectful that is. Now we see this tweet, which is heartless, dont, be afraid of covid dont. Let it control your life. You dont have to let it control your life because you live in the White House. It is insulting to every American who wears a mask. Whos been laid off as a result, the covid everyone should be afraid of Covid, look what it has already done and flabbergasted by that and
honestly, I cannot stop thinking about it. Donald Trump is telling you dont be afraid of the deadly coronavirus. No one on earth has done more to spread the coronavirus and Donald Trump. Are you following this encouraging hope in your country is now heartless. Staying cheerful is an insult of the rest of us. Our leaders have an obligation to confirm our most irrational fears. Thats. What compassion looks like thats, what theyre telling us its deranged but its also recognizable? It reminds you of the many goals in Washington who forced our military to wage pointless, mortise quartz on the Middle EAST, but when you point out how destructive all of that has been, they whip around and accuse you of insulting the memory of our soldiers. That is the thousands of unfortunate young Americans who have died in their pointless wars. How do you respond to an attack like that, its almost too irrational to rebut thats, why they use it and thats why they use the same strategy here?
They wrecked our economy with lockdowns. They keep our children stunted and ignorant by shutting down their schools. They drive our entire country to the brink of madness with politically motivated hysteria. But if you dare to say a word about it, if you dare to complain in any way, you are the monster in fact, youre a killer watch this blow. Dried cable news, wonder lose control of himself, because somebody in the CNN Control Room played Video of Donald Trump taking off his mask and the president in that sunset boulevard. Gesture with his mask off in front of the american people on the nightly news last night, so as a doctor whose job it is, take it off, please dont even put on the screen. Please take it off because thats going to kill people, take it off, dont, even put it on the screen. He whipped his mask off in front of the american people. He dropped his mask its like pornography, actually, its worse.
They are donors to the Democratic Party. They are virtuous. This is a deeper crime than that. Taking a mask off effectively is questioning corona theology, and anyone who does that has committed an act of spiritual obscenity. Watch MSNBC warn its viewers to hide their children before they play video of Donald Trump talking about the virus. It is a video of a very sick man with very sick ideas. Im going to show you another deeply perverse statement that Donald Trump made tonight on that video, and I will let him say it in his own words with his own voice. You will hear that, but with the appropriate warning, viewers should know that what youre about to hear is utterly insane and dangerous, utterly insane and dangerous. That is spine. Tingling. If Kim Jong IL somehow made it a Dracula, theyre daemonic,
demonic, Savon, the Incubus they created would still be less awful, less harmful to this nation than a video of Donald Trump assuring you that everything is going to be okay in the end, according to MSNBC thats how bad it was okay. So this is what peak hysteria must look like: cable news, cant, possibly get more overheated than that you must be thinking. No, yes, it can and CNN tried hard last night to top it. Unfortunately, there is something of a disadvantage. Our anchors arent, quite as articulate as the guys from MSNBC. The CNN went to Harvard doesnt have quite as many words to choose from when he wants to express his total outrage. Instead, he works blue and the knotty language lets. You know just how mad he is there. He is hair blown majestically re shooting the scene for his own ad.
I hold rallies and I tell you to ignore. Masks and I rip mine off as I vanquish the virus, because I am a leader- fear, not covid, what a bunch of bleep while knotty that word wasnt in the prompter or anything it just came out totally unscripted once Crisp Cuomo without a mask, he lost it. He honestly wouldnt believe the president would do something that obscene infected with covid yet breathing very air that circulates in our common atmosphere that in the process killing millions standing on the Whihite House, balcony Trump was a human bio weapon, a WMD it was immoral and Chris Cuomo would know precisely how immoral it was because he had done it himself. This spring Chris Cuomo got Covid. You may have noticed they did
like twenty seven shows in a row about it. He told us he was quarantined in his basement. But lets be honest, there are only so many squats you can do in the mirror. It got boring, so Chris Cuomo secretly left his house took off his mask. Oh yes, ladies and gentlemen, and wandered around the hamptons while wandering he promptly ran into this man who wondered what he was doing and ask himself and Heres what happened next and I just said: dont, you have the coronavirus, shouldnt be quarantined and I think his next words were. What do you know about this? What you know about the rules? I said youre not supposed to be out here. Nobody has gloves on. Nobody had masks on okay, so it turns out Chris Cuomo doesnt think he should have to wear a mask outside. This is the point in the show
where we wax outrage. He works on a rival network. We just cant believe he did that we hate Chris Cuomo, because he didnt wear a mask. We are not going to tell you that we will tell you the truth, its fine, that he didnt wear a mask outside. We are not judging him. Masks are great, they have their place, surgeons, wear masks and operating rooms. People were masks and elevators good for them. It probably helps weve been arguing that for six months before the surgeon general himself recommended masks, we thought why would masks be a bad idea, so we are not against masks, we never will be but wearing a mask. While you ride your bike, while you jog, when youre alone in your car, while youre walking in the woods when youre standing on the beach thats just insane thats an insult to science, its an insult to common sense rules like that make people cynical when you force them to do unreasonable things, they will never believe you again. Rules like that help. No one, and
yet they are ubiquitous in many democratic, controlled juristic jurisdictions. Masks are required outside its the law. You have no choice. It rules like that are not about public health rules like that are a form of obedience, training. They are trying to see what they can make you do. They can make you do a lot. It turns out most of the time we do what they tell us. We dont say anything partly because people like Chris Cuomo harangue us if we disobey the rules. Chris Cuomo calls us immoral for doubting the rules and then in private he whips off his mask. The second he can here are pictures of Chris Cuomo this weekend, standing at a restaurant in long island cigar in his hand, but no mask again. We dont judge Chris Cuomo, Chris Cuomo judges, us and thats. The point. Nancy Pelosi, judges us too watch Pelosi tell you that youve got no choice but to wear a mask at all times.
Members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times. This is a mask from all over the country of getting these masks. Real men. Wear masks in these masks are essentially important. The chair views the failure to wear a mask as a serious breach of decorum, but in any case im a big believer in wearing a mask and not sharing any. Shall we say air unnecessarily. Real men wear masks so youre a wuss. If you dont, wear masks, wait a second defined man for us. If you would, I thought you didnt believe in gender. You didnt believe youre, not a real man. If you dont want what are you even saying? Shes not saying anything shes, just judging you and shes lying as she does it. We already played to the tape of Pelosi mocking her own command slinking around a hair salon
with no masks that was fine with us, but not with her. We also showed you Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco hanging around a private air terminal and Fbl without a mask after she called for a law requiring you and all commercial airline passengers to wear masks. So these people are hypocrites, obviously, but its worse than that they are self righteous hypocrisy and self righteousness are twins. They go together. One feeds the other, but both are poisonous habits of mind as soon as you begin to take yourself seriously. Thomas Merton once rode and imagine that your virtues were important because they are yours. You become the prisoner of her own vanity. That is true, but theyre, not the only prisoners. Suddenly, all of us are prisoners of their vanity. This summer, the vapid governor of California made a propaganda, video informing his citizens of our biggest state that, if they dont wear masks at all times,
whether those mask help anyone or not, they are bad people heres part of it. The sweaty faces in the hidden smiles, the foggy glasses and the sore ears, the determined flux and the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric mix, a big statement lets all do our part to slow the spread, wear a mask. What happened to all the watchdogs that are supposed to be at protecting us from state media and government propaganda? They are all nodding in assent. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement I care, but what? If it doesnt help anyone? Sometimes it does sometimes it doesnt has there ever been shallower virtue, signaling, underneath all of this is cruelty. By the way and judgment of view, the Democrats hold every
statewide office understand that totalitarians operate as a society, any people to cooperate, so the more people turn on each other and snatch and micromanage one anothers lives. The easier their job of control will be people without loyalty to each other are easy to command thats the point, and with that in mind, the official twitter account of the Office of California, Governor Gavin Newsom, has taken to dictating how people chew their food. This is how we are responding to the pandemic, managing how people chew their food. On Saturday, his twitter feed told us this going out to eat with members of your household this weekend, dont forget to keep her mask on in between bites. Do your part keep those around you healthy? What are the odds that Gavin Newsom alone in his gated estate keeps his mask on between bites? We are not bookies, but we will tell you roughly speaking, the odds are zero. He doesnt do that, but he judges you if you dont
and he didnt stop there. The state of California wants you to know that seeing your friends is out of the question. Human contact itself is dangerous. A solo bike ride with a mask is a say for all alternative to playing basketball with your friends thats what his office rode last month, and there are many more messages like this. If you want to wrecker afternoon, read them Orwell in doesnt to describe it theres so much that Maxine Waters has decided to can ignore the commands completely back in July. You may remember she was all for masks. In fact, she told that Herman Cain deserved to die from coronavirus because he didnt wear a mask at a Trump rally. Herman Cain was a bad person. Maxine declared he had it coming im, going to send my condolences to the family of Herman Cain, who was a presidential candidate? Who was a good friend of the President who happened to have
been at the rally in Tulsa June, a group of people around him with no masks on and hes dead. He died. He of course contracted the virus as a result of his attendance without a mask there. Oh, he didnt wear a mask and he died. He deserved it thats what you get when you dont wear a mask. You die and no one mourns her passing because youre a bad person. It goes without saying that Maxine Waters takes masks seriously laughs. Of course she doesnt, and today we proved it. We talked to a man called Jason. He told us he saw Maxine waters recently and guess what she wasnt wearing. I think you know the answer she wasnt wearing a mask, so he confronted her its all on video Heres part of that video. Your thinking about Covid im coming out of here, my masking youve, got to have your mask
on right, thats, right, thats right. We got our masks thats right and I have my mask on not a big deal, its not looking Herman Cain or something we are not thinking through. The message behind all of this or its consequences. Democrats are framing total and unthinking obedience to their policies, which are haphazard, irrational and not rooted in science. They are framing obedience to these things as a matter of morality and the media is totally fine with that they dont even care when the people who make the rules ignore them only the rest of us are evil. When we disobey how about the governor of Virginia Ralph, Northam, Ralph Northam, loves, masks, Ralph Northam has been wearing masks long before they were fashionable thirty years ago, when almost nobody thought to wear a face covering Ralph Northam was concerned enough about public health that he put on a hood thats all concerned. It was, of course, hes a doctor, a man of science im your mask isnt enough.
He wore a hood with little eyes cut out of it as Governor Northam made it a crime in the Commonwealth of Virginia, not to wear a mask in May. He demanded that everyone wear a face covering in public and wear a face covering in public. We know that when most people wear masks, that goes a long way towards reducing the spread of the disease. As I have said before, wearing a mask could literally save someone elses life caught wearing a clan hood. He got to say he leaned into it, though now everyone has to amazingly, and maybe its not so amazing, a day after saying that he appeared in public in Virginia Beach Virginia with guess what no mask guess what the media said virtually nothing. No one said Ralph Northam had it coming when in the end he got the coronavirus. Apparently he wasnt a good enough person to avoid the disease.
Thats, really the message he is sick now, just like Donald Trump thats, how it works right. This is a medieval stander that we are suddenly applying this isnt science. This is medieval superstition very common. Six hundred years ago, in the middle ages, ordinary criminals went through whats called a trial by ordeal. They didnt sit through a jury. They were forced to plunge their hands into boiling water or walk barefoot across glowing metal, hot plowshares or molten lead port on their chest. Why to find out whether they did it or not. If they died after being tortured, they were guilty. If they survived the torture, they were innocent for hundreds of years. This was the standard in Europe: Health, equal virtue, illness, equaled sin all of a sudden. We are returning to that standard. He is sick, therefore hes bad. Where is this going? How long before we start lecturing cancer patients for their tumors? How long before we start blaming people without farmers for their dementia?
That could be coming sooner than we think at MSNBC. One anchor was enraged when someone suggested the left hasnt been consistent on masks. He wrote this the most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people. If we survived. This is some kind of truth and reconciliation. Commission sounds like a joke, but it wasnt thousands of people liked that post a truth and reconciliation commission. If we survived covid for the deniers theyll get what they deserve, its an inquisition, thats what theyre calling for thats, what any inquisition the goal: isnt truth or justice its power, but on your mask in between bites as you sit around the.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-09.