The inspiring words of President Trump

 

Batman:  test Negative. expect some bragging for months to come.

 

It is a sad reflection of where we have come that commentators on 'liberal' media like CNN and MSNBC are praising Trump for acting normal instead of the way he usually behaves. 

freitasm:

 

You missed the point. The expression "But her emails" is about whataboutism. It is about people trying to deflect instead of tackling the real problems.

It also misses the point that she wasn't the first or the last to use a non-government email for government business. In fact Colin Powell had used an AOL address during his time as Secretary of State. This lead to a bit of a problem after he left and they needed to archive his communications and had to make a special request to AOL. Not to mention that Jared Kushner and Ivanka have been conducting their Whitehouse business using a privately hosted mail server. But her emails indeed.

New Statesman America - Trump is not a president doing his best with a bad system. He is making a bad system worse

16 March 2020

The US is trying to catch up with the rest of the world as the president continues to undercut experts. 
 
Gripped by a pandemic, Americans believe they can rely on their own gumption and strength of character to get through it all.

 

But this overlooks a more immediate problem: the deleterious role of Donald Trump and his administration. The list of mistakes is breathtaking. 

 

The US did not use the test template approved by the World Health Organization; instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created its own. 

 

The Food and Drug Administration also prevented academic hospitals from developing their own tests to detect Covid-19 until 29 February, nearly six weeks after the first US case was detected on 19 January.

 

According to Politico, the administration also refused to test people early and often: Trump believed that the lower the number of known cases, the better his chances of re-election. ...

 

Even now, Trump - who disbanded the White House’s pandemic preparedness team in 2018 - is finding it difficult to tell the nation that we are in the midst of a crisis. ...

 

In addition to giving European governments no prior warning of the travel ban, Trump also tried to buy for the US exclusive rights to a possible coronavirus vaccine being trialled by a German firm.

 

At present, the US is trying to catch up with the rest of the world on testing, travel screenings, social distancing and isolation, as the president continues to misinform the public, undercut experts, and tout how he has improved the economy (although this is now in such a crisis that on 15 March the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero). 

 

Trump is not a president doing his best with a bad system and a worsening situation; he is actively making a bad system in a bad situation worse.

 

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Will the COVID-19 Pandemic be the disaster that ensures Trump wins the 2020 election? I think so.

- his response so far has been 'perfect' and all of his supporters will see it this way

- everything is Obama's fault and if you say it enough the easily swayed will believe it

- with the powers he now has, he can nearly do whatever. The response will be 'perfect' and the 'greatest response ever.......greater than WW2'

- giving all US Citizens a cheque (check?) will show masterful leadership as part of his 'perfect' response

- he's playing the racist tag by calling COVID-19 the Chinese disease. Once again,those easily swayed will believe him.

In times of a crises people look to strong leadership. Nobody will care that he stuffed up so hugely to begin with and is an idiot. All they will remember is he sent them some money, instead of bailing out the big guys......even though he'll do that as well.

We're doomed for another 4 years.....that's if we survive the coming apocalypse.

The Washington Post - Trump claims China travel restrictions prove he took coronavirus ‘very seriously.’ There are two major problems with that.

March 19, 2020

After adjusting his tone on the novel coronavirus in recent days, President Trump has set about arguing - against oodles of evidence to the contrary - that he took the virus “very seriously” from the start. 

 

And to make his case, he’s again pointing to his decision to halt travel from China six weeks ago. 

 

He has repeatedly claimed that there was widespread opposition to the restrictions and has thus hailed it as a bold step.

 

But there are two major problems with that.

 

The first is that there actually wasn’t anything amounting to the resistance he described, and the second is that his move actually came after the airlines had already said they would stop service to China. ...

 

When will Mr Trump cancel the US election and declare himself president until 2030?

MikeB4:

 

When will Mr Trump cancel the US election and declare himself president until 2030?

 

As soon as the numbers look real bad for him.

He will claim its because of the Chinese Virus and of course the Impeachment hoax and claim a do over.

He has filled all sorts of public offices with "temps" so he does not need approval from Congress for them.

They will be  important when he starts his coup.

MikeB4:

 

When will Mr Trump cancel the US election and declare himself president until 2030?

 

as soon as possible. don't you worry when he declares martial law he will put Jared Kushner/Ivanka as number 2. If he gets infected they will rule.

sir1963:

 

MikeB4:

 

When will Mr Trump cancel the US election and declare himself president until 2030?

 

 

As soon as the numbers look real bad for him.

 

The problem is that the numbers (popularity poll) may not look bad for him.

The diversion to deliberately antagonise China is something he'll keep using and if China retaliates, it'll probably add even more support for Trump.  He'll keep milking this trend (that he deliberately helped spike):