The Donald Trump Score Card

Alec Baldwin suggests Trump is the 'virus' to worry about: 'The vaccine arrives in November'
by Andrew Mark Miller
March 31, 2020 04:04 PM

Alec Baldwin suggests Trump is the 'virus' to worry about: 'The vaccine arrives in November'

 

well as long as those preachers keep inviting those "god fearin' types to them mega churches. . . . . Well let me just say that at the end of the day, there will be fewer traffic jams.

hahaha. I've heard something like that before.

 

Who could have ever thought that parachutes could be so complicated.

 

Trump is trying to use the virus pandemic to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure so that he can say he fulfilled a campaign promise.


Trump calls for $2 trillion infrastructure package as part of coronavirus response
Jacob Pramuk
Published Tue, Mar 31 20201:18 PM EDT

Trump calls for $2 trillion infrastructure package as part of coronavirus response

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"Four days after signing an unprecedented $2 trillion relief bill to blunt the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, the president on Tuesday called for the U.S. to spend another couple trillion bucks on a massive infrastructure package. In a tweet, he wrote that "this is the time" to craft an infrastructure overhaul with U.S. interest rates at zero during the crisis.

"It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country! Phase 4," the president said, referencing the three pieces of emergency legislation lawmakers have already passed to combat the outbreak rampaging across the U.S."

 

White House predicts 100,000 to 240,000 will die in US from coronavirus
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Dan Mangan
Published Tue, Mar 31 20205:49 PM EDT

White House predicts 100,000 to 240,000 will die in US from coronavirus

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"President Donald Trump prepared Americans for a coming surge in coronavirus cases, calling COVID-19 a plague and saying the U.S. is facing a "very, very painful two weeks."

"This could be a hell of a bad two weeks. This is going to be a very bad two, and maybe three weeks. This is going to be three weeks like we've never seen before," Trump said at a White House press conference Tuesday. White House officials are projecting between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the U.S. with coronavirus fatalities peaking over the next two weeks. "When you look at night, the kind of death that has been caused by this invisible enemy, it's incredible.""

 

White House predicts 100,000 to 240,000 will die in US from coronavirus

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"Earlier in the day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the outbreak in the state may not peak for three weeks.

"I'm tired of being behind this virus. We've been behind this virus from day one," the governor said in Albany. "We underestimated this virus. It's more powerful, it's more dangerous than we expected."

Trump, who grew up near New York City's Elmhurst hospital in Queens, said no one can believe officials are setting up refrigerator trucks as temporary mortuaries outside the hospital.

"This is going to be the roughest three weeks we've ever had in this country," Trump said. "I wanted as few as a number of people to die as possible. And that's all we're working on.""

 

Trump: Prepare for a ‘Very Painful Two Weeks’ Ahead
The White House coronavirus task force predicted between 100,000-240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the virus.
By Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder, Staff Writer 
March 31, 2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...ful-two-weeks-ahead-amid-coronavirus-pandemic

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""This is the thing to anticipate but that doesn't mean that we are going to accept it," Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.

Fauci said the number could be lowered if everyone follows the guidelines. Trump said that without any mitigation efforts, such as the social distancing guidelines, the U.S. could have expected up to 2.2 million deaths.

Despite the sobering message, Trump said there will be a light at the end of the tunnel.

"And then hopefully, as the experts are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting, after having studied it so hard, we're going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel, but this is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks," Trump said, later adding that it could extend to three weeks."

 

"It's one person coming in from China" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic
President Donald Trump and administration officials recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov.
By SUSANNAH LUTHI
03/31/2020 05:19 PM EDT
Updated: 03/31/2020 06:11 PM EDT

Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic

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"The Trump administration has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis.

President Donald Trump and administration officials recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment site, and insurers said they privately received assurances from health officials overseeing the law's marketplace. However, a White House official on Tuesday evening told POLITICO the administration will not reopen the site for a special enrollment period, and that the administration is "exploring other options."

 

Coronavirus government response updates: Grim Trump says guidelines a 'matter of life and death,' Fauci says prepare for 100K victims
Trump said his task force revealed the data that drove extended guidelines.
By Libby Cathey and Cheyenne Haslett
March 31, 2020, 6:43 PM

Coronavirus government response updates: Grim Trump says guidelines a 'matter of life and death,' Fauci says prepare for 100K victims

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""There's no magic bullet, there’s no magic vaccine or therapy, it's just behaviors," Birx said. "Each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days."

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a key member of the coronavirus task force, urged Americans not to take their foot off the accelerator with regards to mitigation efforts like social distancing and staying home.

"This is tough. People are suffering, people are dying. It's inconvenient from a societal standpoint, from an economic standpoint, to go through this, but this is going to be the answer to our problems," Fauci said."

 

In February, Trump reportedly didn't like the remarks of Dr. Nancy Messonnier who is the director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, saying that she was scaring the stock market.

Trump didn't seem to like Azar either, replacing him with Mike Pence. It sounds like Azar didn't do enough to appease Trump after Trump complained to him about Messonnier's remarks that he didn't like.



Intelligence reports warned about a pandemic in January. Trump reportedly ignored them.
As Trump reportedly received intelligence reports about the seriousness of the coronavirus threat, he continued to downplay its severity in public.
By Riley Beggin
Mar 21, 2020, 11:20am EDT

Intelligence reports warned about a pandemic in January. Trump reportedly ignored them.

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"Top health officials first learned of the virus’s spread in China on January 3, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday. Throughout January and February, intelligence officials’ warnings became more and more urgent, according to the Post — and by early February, much of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA’s intelligence reports were dedicated to warnings about Covid-19.

All the while, Trump downplayed the virus publicly, telling the public the coronavirus “is very well under control in our country,” and suggesting warm weather would neutralize the threat the virus poses.

Privately, Trump reportedly rebutted health and intelligence officials’ attempts to get him to take action to prepare communities in the US while rebuking officials who were delivering sober risk assessments.

For instance, in late February, when Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said, “It’s not a question of if [community spread] will happen, but when this will happen, and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses,” Trump reportedly responded by calling Azar to complain “that Messonnier was scaring the stock markets, according to two senior administration officials,” the Post reports.

In a statement, the administration rebutted the Post’s reporting, calling it part of a attempt by the media and Democrats “to rewrite history” and claiming “President Trump has taken historic, aggressive measures to protect the health, wealth and safety of the American people.”"

 

Trump should have stuck to North Korea. He knows that country better.

 

I will bet a good percentage will be trumpsters.

 

Ah, there is that famous liberal tolerance again

 

Maybe just skip the election:

'There is, however, a big constitutional loophole that Trump could exploit: The electoral college.

See, technically, Americans don't elect the president when they go to the polls in November. The votes they cast then go towards electing 538 members of the electoral college, which are distributed to states based on population. Then those electoral college members go on to choose the president.

But there's nothing in the constitution that says the electoral college members must be chosen by a popular vote.


All the law says is each state "shall appoint" its electors "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct". The Supreme Court has already affirmed this point thanks to the 2000 Bush v Gore case.

So, if the 28 Republican-controlled state legislatures decided not to hold an election in November and instead just pick electors that back Trump, there could be 294 electoral votes cast for Trump without a single American going to the polls.

Coronavirus won't allow Donald Trump to cancel the US 2020 election. But it's already changed the presidential campaign - ABC News

 

There's a reason trump wants that border wall work to speed up because he may be out on his ass in another seven months.

Biden quietly widens lead over Trump: Reuters/Ipsos poll by 6 points.

 

BS

 

......or because you might have biblical size migrations from South and Central America trying to get into the US in a few months

 

I agree , with their low grade medical system they will be looking for an escape

 

Durrrrrr Nuh-uh!

America has the worst medical system in the world because it isn't universal!

A Bernie Bro told me so.