I typically avoid listening to this man speak on principle but you’ve got to dig in and play these three minutes, you really do. Go on, I’ll wait.

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1290512424429289473

Okay, ready? It took me a minute to process this train wreck. Oh, who am I kidding, I’m still trying to make sense of it but we don’t have all day so let’s go.

  • You gotta love a commander in chief who shows up to an interview toting his own charts.
  • Jonathan Swan’s enthusiastic “I’d love to!” is every parent’s response to their kid’s 50th “come see my Lego project!” plea.
  • Trump shuffling through those papers was me stalling for time during a class presentation because the teacher asked follow-up questions.
  • “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases, I’m talking about death as a proportion of population.” “You can’t do that.” Umm…yeah. Yeah, he can. It’s called reporting.
  • Watching Swan try to explain the relevancy of percentage of population data is like…wow. Just wow.
  • “We’re last. Meaning we’re first!” – Swan taking that second chart with a weary “okay” is all of us.
  • “And because we do more tests we have more cases.” OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.