Marc Sherman

@JPhillips36 @OccupyDemocrats There is no document that lists hantavirus as a side effect of a vaccine. The doc that included it was a long list given to the government prior to rollout of things they would monitor for. Which they did and no record of hantavirus occurring was reported by anyone.

@marcsherm @OccupyDemocrats Go read the documents before opening your mouth

BREAKING: A reporter asks Trump if Americans should be worried about the hantavirus outbreak and his response sent a chill down our spines. This is starting to feel like deja vu... "Mr. President I'm also from ABC News—" began a reporter. "Fake news!" snapped Trump, who had just finished berating another journalist for asking about his focus on vanity projects while gas prices skyrocket. "Can I ask you about the hantavirus? Have you been briefed on the virus?" pressed the second reporter, ignoring the insult. "Yes, I have," said Trump. "Can you tell us what you learned in these briefings?" asked the reporter. "Well, I think you're going to be told everything, and you already have. Uh..." said Trump. "It's very much, we hope, under control. There was the ship, and I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people, a lot of great people studying it. It should be fine. We hope." "Should Americans be concerned that it's going to spread?" she asked. "I hope not. I mean, I hope not. We'll do the best we can, yeah," Trump said, making it clear through his bored, apathetic tone of voice that he couldn't care less about the issue. Currently, officials in Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia are monitoring residents for possible infections after the individuals in question spent time on the MV Hondius, the cruise ship where this outbreak began. At least three passengers have already died in other countries. Approximately 150 passengers were potentially exposed. The mortality rate is estimated to be between 30% and 40% once severe symptoms manifest. The similarities to the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic are alarming, even if some health officials are stressing that the hantavirus spread will be contained. Just like last time, Trump is President and downplaying the risks. Unlike last time, we have RFK Jr. running Health and Human Services into the ground and we've withdrawn from the World Health Organization. We have never been less prepared for a possible pandemic. We need the President to do a hell of a lot more than "hope" for the best. More than 1.2 million Americans died from coronavirus after Trump totally botched the government's response efforts. Regardless of the true threat posed by this hantavirus, the President should be laser-focused on it until the danger passes. Instead, he's distracted by ballrooms and reflecting pool renovations. Please ❤️ and share if you'd feel much safer with a Democrat in the White House!

@JPhillips36 @OccupyDemocrats A side effect of a vaccine is exposure to rodent turds? Is there anything vaccines can't do?

@OccupyDemocrats It is a noted side effect of mrna experiential vaccine after all. In pfizer of docs they tried to suppress for 75 years

@Meadein95 @foster_type That would have been quite impressive since it wasn't until almost a year after First Bull Run that Lee took over the Army of Northern Virginia.

@foster_type Lol he should have burnt DC after First Manassas.

Despite his structural disadvantages Lee opted to attempt to invade the Union twice and both attempts failed spectacularly and deprived him of resources and manpower. His strategy should have been more defensive, force the Union to attack fortified positions. Built a fortress. THAT might have worn down the Union's political will, where his brash offensive operations only strengthened it.

@FanDuel_Racing Your shit is broken again.

All issues affecting deposits, account balances, and wagers on TVG & FanDuel Racing have now been resolved. Thank you for your patience while we worked to fix the problem.

@FanDuel_Racing @ChurchillDowns @flothejock Would have been nice if people that have accounts with you could have bet on it.

It was a stakes record for CRUDE VELOCITY who improves to 3 for 3 in his career after winning the $750,000 Pat Day Mile (G2) at @ChurchillDowns. @flothejock was up for Bob Baffert and CSLR Racing Partners.

@FanDuel_Racing Oh, and I got your online support and was asked what he could assist me with. Did you guys not bother to tell your support people that your entire site was down? And do you really think their best response should be "you'll get an email when it's back up"?

@FanDuel_Racing Intermittent means it goes up and down. I haven't been able to see my balance for about 15 minutes so it's just down because of your incompetent asses.

@FanDuel_Racing Usually it's closer to the Derby before TVG's app/site turn to shit. You're doing a stellar job to have it break before we even get to race 8.

@RandyWa1son @MaalEduardo @RnaudBertrand Congress doesn't sign laws or treaties either, but just like trade deals, they must approve or ratify them. Just because the present Congress is cowardly and useless doesn't change what non-morons know is in the Constitution.

@marcsherm @MaalEduardo @RnaudBertrand Lol stop guessing on what American requirements are. Jesus Congress doesn't sign trade agreements ffs

Yet another proof that the US is completely agreement-incapable. It's pretty crazy when you think about it: they made the EU sign a deal that was egregiously one-sided in their favor - basically a colonial treaty - which the EU justified signing by saying it prevented higher tariffs on EU cars. And the US just violated the latter 🤦‍♂️ I'm not holding my breath but hopefully this time - unlike the previous times - Europeans learn this lesson: accommodating the US is literally worse than useless.

@MaalEduardo @RnaudBertrand It hasn't even submitted the trade deal to Congress for approval yet. Not that ratified deals mean anything to Trump since he broke his own USMC deal the moment he got back. It's time to admit he's just an insecure man who likes tariffs because he feels powerful announcing them.

Morons. How long has the deal been signed for and the EU refuses to implement it? Instead, they've been dangling the deal - already signed and agreed to - in front of the US holding back implementation to try to pressure the US on other issues. Don't be blunt. The EU could have implemented the deal months ago. And they've been playing games. US is putting some pressure as is their right.

@mleanza @foster_type @EWErickson That's my problem with it. All the special tournaments just so they can bring back past winners as if it's a pro league. I just watch to see if i can answer the questions. I don't care about seeing the same people who have made doing trivia a full time job.

@foster_type @EWErickson Plus they are doing these invitational and second chance 🙄 but have eliminated the college and teen tournaments

Everything about Jeopardy sucks now, the questions are half logic gimmicks and word games, the contestants--which used to include housewives and shop foremen and a wide range of normie American--are now increasingly from the same narrow band of midwit masters degree dorks who all seem like they have substacks.

@TheWatchdogDBQ @jimgeraghty And you don't address the issue of the WHCA dinner. It's not a state function. It's private. Will they have to pay rent? Will others be able to rent it? Can the President hosts campaign events there if he pays rent? And if so, can he refuse to let his opponent hold events there?

@TheWatchdogDBQ @jimgeraghty I deny it. We made it 250 years without it. And I'm not in the minority. Polls show the majority of people asked oppose the ballroom regardless of who is paying for it. I bet that goes down if they start asking about it being built with $400 million taxpayer funds.

First, in a typical year for the WHCA dinner, attendance runs up to 2,600, a number the ballroom at the Washington Hilton can accommodate. The White House ballroom under construction was initially said to seat 650 people, but in October, Trump said the room would be able to seat 999 attendees. Attendance at the WHCA dinner would have to be cut by more 60 percent if the capacity is on the high end of the estimate, by three-quarters if it is at the low end.

@TheWatchdogDBQ @jimgeraghty Correction to your correction. It was supposed to be privately funded. Republicans are now pushing for it to be publicly funded. And it's all based on securing this one event. foxnews.com/politics/repub…

@marcsherm @jimgeraghty Need to correct you on a couple of points: Ballroom is being privately funded, not by taxpayers, and will be used many, many times every year. Few in DC dispute the need for that type of secure facility for WH dinners and entertaining What do they use now? Temporary tents

@TheWatchdogDBQ @jimgeraghty And the flip side is if the President and cabinet want to attend, they should go where it's being held. There's certainly no reason that the taxpayers should be shelling out $400 million to build a ballroom because a dinner held once a year needs to be more secure.

@marcsherm @jimgeraghty He won’t be President forever, and if they want future POTUS’s and Cabinet officials to attend, that may be the price they pay It’s a stupid occasion anyway, whose time maybe has come and gone. I’d prefer to just deep-six the whole self-congratulatory endeavor at this point

@TheWatchdogDBQ @jimgeraghty It's their event, not his. They have the right to invite whoever they want. Why should they change for someone who skips it all the time?

@jimgeraghty Or invite fewer people. The argument it "must seat 2,500!" comes off as entitled to me Times change. Security needs change. Or maybe the WHCD was already a dinosaur ripe for extinction

@Outtolunch237 @RobGeorge Are you saying a private organization should be able to rent the ballroom for a fundraiser if they invite the President? Should the President be allowed to hold campaign fundraisers there?

@RobGeorge Just as there is no official format for the SOTU, there is not reason why the WHCA could not ask the president to host the WHCA dinner

Even if The White House had a ballroom, the event would not have taken place there. It’s the same situation as the State of the Union: Even if there were a security breach in the Capitol, the SOTU would not be moved to the WH ballroom. In both cases, the President is an invited GUEST of the convening body (the @whca and Congress, respectively).

@jamiejamesco @michaelkruse @kathrynw5 Meh. Probably figured that if a shooter actually got to the ballroom door, he had time to fall off his chair at that point.

@michaelkruse @kathrynw5 essentially saying I’d take my chances of being injured by a random guy who was carrying firearms than to hurt by back and have my new tux get dirty ducking under the table… the priorities of this person is kind of nuts.

“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.” nytimes.com/2026/04/26/us/…

@nagaeboko1 @dougblandry The dinner is a fundraiser for a private association, not a state function. Why would the WHCA even consider moving it to the White House and lessening the number of donors? Especially since it would also give the Administration power over their guest list.

They could also significantly trim the guest list to get it into the White House. Just limit it to journalists. That’ll cut out celebrity guests and hangers-on. But the much more likely scenario is that it’ll be at the Hilton with many more layers of security: background checks of guests, LE at all of the hotel elevators, magnetometers on the sidewalk, etc. Or close it to regular guests in order to completely control who’s in the building.

the WHCD is never gonna be at the White House because even the new ballroom, if it's even built at the proposed size, will only seat about 1000 people in 20k square feet the hilton's ballroom is 30k square feet and they squeeze 2,500 people in for seated dinners the only other viable option in town is at the convention center which is a massive 50,000 square feet (and would be way easier to secure)

@ch_elle_ @BasedMikeLee That's a moronic take. They used to rush out special editions for news that broke after the paper went to print. They have websites now for breaking news. Do you seriously think the publisher believed if they didn't print it in their physical paper, no one would know about it?

@BasedMikeLee Not buying the community note, nor the replies about timing. There was an age not long ago where papers would have killed a run over news like this, to ensure the story was on their readers' doorsteps in the morning. 40 minutes is nothing.

The attempted assassination of President Trump isn’t front-page news? Not for The New York Times.