The Washington Post - Trump has now approved disaster declarations in all 50 states

today

 

With the addition of Wyoming on Saturday, President Trump has now issued coronavirus-related disaster declarations for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, along with the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.

 

American Samoa is the only U.S. territory that has not been placed under a federal disaster declaration by the president.

 

... several weeks too late   😕

• There isn't any iceberg.
  
  
• There was an iceberg but it's in a totally different ocean.
  
  
• The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon.
  
  
• There is an iceberg but we didn't hit the iceberg.
  
  
• We hit the iceberg, but the damage will be repaired very shortly.
  
  
• The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg.
  
  
• We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats. Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them.
  
  
• We don't have any lifeboats, we're not lifeboat distributors.
  
  
• Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats.
  
  
• I really don't think we need that many lifeboats.
  
  
• We have lifeboats and they're supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers' lifeboats.
  
  
• The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship.
  
  
• Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.

kingdragonfly:

President Donald Trump has consistently underplayed the severity of the coronavirus

It's well documented:

I know he isn't banging on about walls presently, but I thought this was funny:

The three Western states have declared no confidence in Trump's federal response to C-19.

The Washington Post - Coronavirus Updates

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President Trump retweeted a call to fire his top infectious-disease specialist, Anthony S. Fauci, on Sunday night, after Fauci said in a CNN interview that a stronger early response by the administration “could have saved lives." 

 

In the interview, Fauci also confirmed a New York Times story saying that he and other experts had wanted to begin social and physical distancing measures as early as February. ...

 

Trump asserted in Monday morning tweets that it would be up to him, and not the governors, to reopen the country. 

 

At the same time, Trump has left the states to shoulder most of the burden during the outbreak, including procurement of medical supplies for their states and decisions on stay-at-home orders and other distancing measures. 

 

In his tweets, the president blamed the media for purposefully “creating conflict and confusion" about who has the authority to ease restrictions. ...

 

The lunatic is running the asylum.

Trump on TV live justifying his actions... Date by date. Talking up his incompetence. 

 

freitasm:  Trump on TV live justifying his actions... Date by date. Talking up his incompetence. 

 

I cannot believe that Trump has gone full Dear Leader... North Korea would be proud:

NATION’S GOVERNORS PLAN TO FORM NEW COUNTRY

AMERICA (The Borowitz Report)—In order to better coördinate their efforts to combat the coronavirus, the nation’s governors are debating the extraordinary step of forming a country.

The radical proposal is an unusual bipartisan effort, spearheaded by the Democratic governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, and the Republican Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine.

“Mike and I were bidding against each other for masks and ventilators, and I was, like, ‘Mike this is crazy,’ ” Whitmer said. “ ‘It would be so much better if we just worked together and formed a country.’ ”

DeWine said that Whitmer’s proposal of creating a country out of the fifty states “made a lot of sense.”

“It was one of those moments where someone throws out a nutty idea and you think, ‘Hold on, let’s think on that for a second,’ ” he said.

While the idea of the fifty states coming together to form a country is still in the embryonic stage, DeWine said that the states would ideally create a “federal government” led by a “President.”

“We’re all in agreement that it would be amazing to have a President right now,” DeWine said.

A straw poll of the governors indicates that the front-runner for President of this yet-to-be-named country is one of their own: Governor Andrew Cuomo, of New York.

“Andrew keeps saying that he doesn’t want to be President,” Whitmer said. “And I’m, like, ‘Dude, you already are.’ ”

Fred99: Washington, Oregon and California announce Western States Pact

 

The three Western states have declared no confidence in Trump's federal response to C-19.

 

First step to seceding. The west coast would do much better on its own. Later it can form an alliance with the east. The rust belt and deep south can join up with Brazil.

"It's good to be the King"