CSI: American Carnage (Monday, August 31, 2020)
Press “briefing,” White House, Aug. 30, 2020.
TRUMP: Thank you everybody. Thank you.
REPORTER: The Washington Post reports that your administration is turning more and more to Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuro-radiologist from the Hoover Institute who supports the idea of herd immunity, which Sweden …
TRUMP: Okay. So Plato. Okay. Very interesting, one of the most interesting people, he’s doing very well at what he’s doing, by the way. Very well. Nobody goes after Plato, who supports the idea of herd immunity, as you know. He’s been a strong advocate since the beginning when he said, The good must be paired with the good, and the bad with the bad, and the offspring of the one must be reared and of the other destroyed; in this way the flock will be preserved in prime condition. Plato was very smart, one of the smartest, which all of you in the Fake News™ business should love. Plato, he’s been around. So we have Plato on board. Churchill, don’t forget, the great Winston Churchill. Everybody loves him. I love him. We all love him. No man is an island. No man. An island. People don’t know it, but Churchill is a supporter of herd immunity too. He points out that the unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. That’s Churchill. Very smart. Very smart. So with the China Virus we are following in the footsteps of the greatest minds that ever walked the planet. We are blazing a trail for them. Helen Keller, the blind woman, very innovative, she is behind us, which is better than in front, let me tell you, and she put it out there when she said that our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world. So there is no difference with the China Virus, no difference. You open up and you go about your business. The China Virus spreads. Those that make it, make it, and those that don’t don’t. Plato, the great Churchill, the blind woman Helen Keller, and many others understand this, they are behind it, and our country is behind it, which you can see that in Portland and Kenosha and New York and other places.
REPORTER: Doctor Fauci and other public health officials have argued that the Atlas approach will lead to needless suffering and death of Americans and….
TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you.