TRUMP TELLS AMERICA THAT THE COVID-19 ISN'T A "DEMOCRAT HOAX" AFTERALL.

A few weeks ago the "stable genius" was calling the covid-19 virus a "Democrat Hoax" and that we'll all be fine in a few weeks. Nothing to see here.

Last Friday, the "stable genius" showed up at the CDC wearing a campaign hat and, with his usual narcissistic take on everything, what should have been a chance to educate the American people on the virus, was made into an event about himself. He spoke about his "genius" uncle who taught at MIT and segued into how much he understood about the virus and considered himself an expert on covid-19 because he said the experts were blown away by his understanding of it. He said that with a straigh orange face while the experts surrounding him all threw up a little in their mouths.

Last night the "stable genius" in a 10 minute talk to the nation admitted that perhaps the covid-19 isn't a "Democrat Hoax" afterall, and tried to reassure the American people that he, whose leadership has been disgraceful, scatterbrained, and deceiful, is doing a great job.

He isn't. 

Remember this: Donald J. Trump is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud. He's been so for his entire life. I believe NOTHING he says.

In the time of the covid-19, I believe Dr. Fauci and the CDC. And Dr. Fauci said the covid-19 is TEN TIMES WORSE THAN THE FLU.

We learned that the CDC strongly advised that people over 60 years old NOT FLY. The trump administration chose not to pass that bit of safety information to the American people, at the same time the "stable genius" and the rightwing media told the American people that the virus is a plot to "make him look bad."

It's always about him, isn't it.

Now the "stable genius" wants us to believe that he has things under control and that he has the American people's welfare as a priority. That's a lie. The "stable genius" is worried about the stock market and how this virus will impact his re-election. That's first and foremost in his demented mind.

"In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure." And it has tried to defund the CDC. Those are facts that the "stable genius" did not mention in his inadequate address to the nation last night. 

TRUMP FIRED THE ENTIRE PANDEMIC RESPONSE CHAIN OF COMMAND.

As we watch the markets tank and organizations and schools cancel their scheduled meetings, sporting events, and classes, we wish that a competent, informed person, like President Obama, were in charge of this crisis, instead of a malignant narcissist who cares only for himself and his re-election, and whose first response to this crisis was to call it a HOAX!

Trump’s Coronavirus Speech Fails to Unify or Reassure a Nation on Edge

The president woke up on Thursday and assailed Democrats hours after he implored lawmakers to “stop the partisanship.” Then the markets cratered, unassuaged by his economic proposals.

"WASHINGTON — If President Trump’s goals in his prime-time address to the nation were to reassure Americans and unify the country in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems safe to say that he achieved neither as of Thursday morning.

 The stock markets collapsed another 7 percent in early trading, indicating that investors were hardly assuaged by the president’s 30-day suspension of most foreign travelers coming from Europe or his policy proposals to boost the economy. And his call to “stop the partisanship” ended as soon as he woke up and began issuing partisan attacks on Democrats."



Charlie Pierce:


"Trump and the officials quickly walked back his nationally-televised statements that 

1) the administration would ban all travel from Europe to the United States, 

2) the ban would also apply to trade and cargo between the US and Europe, and 

3) major health insurers would waive co-pays on coronavirus treatment."


"You knew it was all going to go terribly wrong in the first few sentences when the president* referred to the source of the pandemic as “a foreign virus”—This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history.—as though it were something Stephen Miller could lock in a cage and then deport. And, of course, the claim was as false as it was stupid. 

As the Washington Post helpfully points out, the administration*’s response to this outbreak has been to deny it, ignore it, downplay it, and now to use it as an excuse to ram through some tax cuts, a form of antibiotics that Joseph Lister never thought of. 

 That was not the speech of a president*. That was not even the speech of a bad president*. That was not even the speech of the worst president* we ever elected. It was the desperate wailing of a man who has fallen down a well, and there’s nobody up there to hear him."