He knows it's not slander when it's true, right?

Pictured: the Administration's handling
of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In a totally not at all fascist move, the Trump 2020 campaign has demanded that TV stations stop airing ads that dare to suggest that Donald Trump made a goat-rodeo out of the pandemic. You might recall throughout this crisis the President's stated position on the virus has moved from "it's a Democrat hoax" to "no need to worry about the Chinese virus" before settling on "this will be over by Easter, America's open for business and besides, hasn't Grandma been alive long enough?"

The ad is called "Exponential Threat" and is a series of audio clips of the President's preposterous claims about how not a big deal this all is and how it's like fifteen cases max and congratulating himself on doing such a great job, played over a graph of rapidly escalating number of cases. Pretty damning stuff, right?

Such a great job. A tremendous job. We just surpassed China in total
number of cases, so yeah, we're number one. U-S-A! U-S-A!

Remember that time he was caught on
tape bragging about sexual assault?

The ad, paid for by a pro-Biden PAC, makes the case that by downplaying the global pandemic and insisting that everything it under control and that we're like a week or two out from business as usual that the President is perhaps ill-suited for the office. I mean, the nerve right? To use audio recording of things the President has said to trick voters into thinking that he said them? Wait, this sounds familiar...anyway, in response, the Trump campaign is threatening TV stations with the loss of their FCC license if they refuse to stop airing the ads.

Now if that sounds like the President of the United States is using his position to silence critics in the run up to an election, that's just because the President of the United States is using his position to silence critics in the run up to an election. Who knows if it'll work, I mean, it can't possibly be legal, but then that's never stopped him before. Luckily for him we're in the middle of a pandemic, so he'll probably never face the consequences.

"This is no time to be talking about high crimes and misdemeanors, we're
in the middle of a crisis. A crisis that's no big deal, and probably a hoax."

-The guy millions of people are still going to vote for