'We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps,' Trump says of deaths, 'Nobody blames me for that' on job losses

Today, in an exchange with a noted asshole on Fox Business, impeached and manifestly unfit President Trump said a bunch of really dumb untrue things on live television.

Join us now @POTUS @realDonaldTrump now. @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/ejjfL2RQJs

— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 14, 2020

Look, there's nothing good about what happened with the plague, okay? Especially the death. But the one thing is, it said, Trump was right, the president, referring to himself in the third person, told host Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business.

Look, there's nothing good about what happened with the plague, okay? Especially the death. But the one thing is, it said, Trump was right, the president, referring to himself in the third person, told host Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business. https://t.co/F1o0vYZsl5

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 14, 2020

'We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps,' he said, moving the projected death toll from COVID-19 yet again.

"We're gonna lose over 100,000 perhaps" -- Trump just moved the goalposts *again* about the projected US coronavirus death toll pic.twitter.com/salNr4Ho1g

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020

Nearly 3 million more Americans filed unemployment claims this week, the Department of Labor announced today, and 8 straight weeks of job losses from the coronavirus crisis now total 36 million. It's a bloodbath out there and many Americans are suffering with unemployment and no job prospects or government subsidies in sight.

Here's how Trump responded.

MARIA BARTIROMO: But now, weve got 33 million people filing for unemployment.