The Donald Trump Score Card

As of April 28, 2020, the number of coronavirus casualties in the U.S. is 59,252 which is higher than the U.S. military casualties for the Vietnam war.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 3,136,543 Cases and 217,813 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

Typical Trump. He's nothing more than a child in an old body. No real ADULT man acts as he does. Time to go back to the (literally) gold-plated penthouse playpen.

 

For Repubs - it's OK to lay Big Government heavy hands on the private sector when it benefits their GIGANTIC MONEY benefactors - like Tyson foods and the other meat producing corporations. This is just one more way to break up unions - who BTW have ALWAYS fought for better workers' safety, pay, and benefits - by forcing division between the workers and the company. Workers don't want to risk their lives by working in crowded meat plants with Covid-positive workers and insufficient PPE, so the companies will fire them. And then the big companies will hire cheaper, much less paid replacement workers - very likely immigrants. This is NOT a new tactic. It's just like the military tactic, "divide and conquer." The ones being "conquered" - as usual - will be the workers. HUGE BONUSES to all the executives when that happens. Workers get less and less - top dogs get more and more.

VERY, VERY TYPICAL Republican sh*t. I'm old enough to have been a witness to these underhanded tactics for a few decades. The Republican party has ALWAYS, ALWAYS been the party of the rich. They just do a fantastic job of convincing the avg. American that they are fighting for them. The PROOF of their lying deception is in their actions and laws they enact - which always favor the corporate world and the rich. The Republican party has even stuck it to small businesses repeatedly, but those small businesses keep coming back to get screwed over by the big companies - the ones who REALLY COUNT. Witness how quickly the recent bailout money went to the big companies and NOT the smaller businesses. No oversight - per Trumps "orders" - so God knows where the money is ACTUALLY going. Only after public shaming did some of the big companies give the money back. That's why a second round of bailout money was needed "for small businesses" in a second bill in Congress - the big companies sucked it dry!!! GONE.

NO OVERSIGHT!!! Those are Dictator Trump's orders. He FIRED the watchdog.

And now …………. now ……………..Moscow Mitch is whining that "We're spending too much on these recues. The deficit is going up!! The deficit is going up!! " Here's a thought ………. put a bi-partisan watchdog team of 4 people - 2 Dems and 2 Repubs - to watch where the money is ACTUALLY GOING. See that it gets to where it's supposed to go and not disappear into a corporate slush fund.

 

Trump blames unspecified experts for his lack of response to the coronavirus.

Even if the experts he vaguely refers to were wrong (and they weren't), Trump has said that he knows everything better than everyone else and should have been able to use his self-proclaimed, mystical, divine, gut instincts to properly respond to it.



Trump still seems to not understand how bad the coronavirus crisis is
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 7:10 AM ET, Wed April 29, 2020

Trump still seems to not understand how bad the coronavirus crisis is - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

"Three months in -- after a million infections, nearly 60,000 US deaths and a potential economic depression -- it's still unclear whether President Donald Trump grasps the gravity of the coronavirus crisis.

The man who said he knew more about ISIS than the generals and claimed to have stunned dumfounded aides with his scientific acuity prides himself on a mystical instinct to make right calls.

Yet Trump's leadership in the worst domestic crisis since World War II has consistently featured wrong, ill-informed and dangerous decisions, omissions and politically fueled pivots.

"Many very good experts, very good people too, said this would never affect the United States," Trump told CNN's Jim Acosta on Tuesday. "The experts got it wrong. A lot of people got it wrong and a lot of people didn't know it would be this serious.""

 

Trump could always invoke his stock excuse that his lack of response to the coronavirus was just sarcasm and that people should have known it.

 

Trump has been reluctant to use the Defense Production Act to require companies to make personal protection gear desperately needed for the coronavirus.

He didn't have any reservations about using it on the meat production corporations.

Trump is worried about loss of support from the farmers who have taken multiple hits from his trade wars and the coronavirus which is now damaging their ability to sell livestock.

 

Trump still seems to not understand how bad the coronavirus crisis is - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

"But there is no sign that Trump is about to engage on that issue with the public whose confidence will be needed to make any economic rebound sustainable. Every world and local leader is facing these agonizing choices. But given US power, influence and historic leadership of the Western world, a special burden of responsibility is often seen to rest on the shoulders of the man in the Oval Office.

Any normal President who made a prediction that a miracle would sweep a pandemic away, only to see it infect a million Americans over a couple of months, would be politically shattered. President George W. Bush's failures over Hurricane Katrina look trivial by comparison. Yet Trump is protected in his bubble of unknowingness by a conservative media machine that attacks anyone who contradicts his comments."

 

You know what's sarcastic: Bolsonaro's middle name is Messias

 

are you sure he wasn't talking about vg?

 

Meat plant workers to Trump: Employees aren't going to show up
By Ann Colwell and Rob McLean, CNN Business
Updated 8:56 AM ET, Wed April 29, 2020

Meat plant workers to Trump: Employees aren't going to show up - CNN

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"One worker who is employed at Tyson's Waterloo, Iowa, facility held out hope regarding Trump's order.

"All in all, it can be a good thing if done right," the person said. "But my faith in this administration has never been strong and is nonexistent currently. I wanna know what these added 'liability protections' are going to be."

Other workers are skeptical.

"I just don't know how they're going to do it when there are people dying and getting really sick," said an employee of Tyson's Independence, Iowa, plant. "Who's to say people are even gonna show up to work?""

 

Trump should be in a gold-plated baby playpen off to the side of the press briefings entertaining himself and crying when he hears remarks from the professionals that he doesn't like.

 

Maybe Trump will do what Republican President ( and Dick Cheyney idol / hero who had to resign in disgrace ) Richard Nixon did - send in the National Guard to shoot those defiant meat company workers.

Maybe Trump ought to lead by example - like military leaders do - and go right into those meat processing plants and mix right in there. A "very stable genius", who knows more than anyone about everything, ought to know how to butcher cattle and hogs, so get those lily-white hands dirty and bloody right next to a Covid-positive fellow meat-processor. Show the whole world what a big tough guy your are.

And if there isn't sufficient PPE for the regular workers - Trump doesn't get any either.

 

US economy shrinks 4.8% as coronavirus ends longest expansion in history
Economic slump in first quarter is worst since 2008 recession, with GDP predicted to fall at annualized 30% in next quarter
Dominic Rushe in New York
Wed 29 Apr 2020 08.34 EDT
Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 10.15 EDT

US economy shrinks 4.8% as coronavirus ends longest expansion in history

excerpt:

"The longest economic expansion in US history officially came to an end on Wednesday when the commerce department announced the economy shrank 4.8% in the first three months of the year.

The economic slump, the steepest since the last recession in 2008, is just an early indicator of how severely the coronavirus pandemic has affected the US economy.

Much of the US economy shut down in March in an effort to contain the virus, triggering 26 million people to file for unemployment benefits and wiping out a decade of jobs gains, at the end of the first quarter. The next set of figures from the commerce department will more accurately reflect the true scale of its impact."

 

Trump turns to the recycled Hope for hope.



The Press, for Like the 500th Time, Says Trump Is “Increasingly Isolated”
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
April 29, 20201:49 PM

The Press, for Like the 500th Time, Says Trump Is “Increasingly Isolated”

excerpt:

"Politico says that Donald Trump adviser Hope Hicks, who had left the White House to take a job at Fox, has returned to “a presidency in crisis.” Earlier this month, CNN reported that “the chaos and confusion rocking President Donald Trump’s administration” was “exceptional even by his own standards.” The New York Times wrote a few days ago that Trump is “in a sour mood” because he is taking criticism for his handling of the coronavirus while “isolated from the supporters, visitors, travel and golf that once entertained him.”"

 

^^^^^^ Boy ………………… I feel really bad now ………………………. Trump is in a sour mood because he can't travel and play golf.

I wonder how much worse the surviving family members of the dead from Covid-19 feel?? How many THOUSANDS have died because of lack of early protective mitigating action that the experts warned we needed to take - but Trump denied, downplayed and mocked??? "We have it totally under control."

VIDEO & AUDIO TAPE.

 

The shop is privately owned and independent of the White House and the Trump administration, although the name 'White House' gives a false impression.


‘White House’ Shop Sells the Gift No One Asked for: $100 COVID-19 Commemorative Coins
Rachel Olding
Breaking News Editor
Updated Apr. 29, 2020 4:48PM ET /
Published Apr. 29, 2020 3:39PM ET

‘White House’ Shop Sells the Gift No One Asked for: $100 COVID-19 Commemorative Coins

excerpt:

"One coin has an image of a COVID-19 spore superimposed on a world map, while a second coin features an empty White House podium with the names of the coronavirus task force members surrounding it including President Trump, Vice President Pence, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and medical experts Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci. The shop—which is privately-run but was established by then President Truman in 1946 and says it is given exclusive trademark rights—said sale proceeds will be donated to hospitals.

The coins are the eleventh in a “historic moment art series” that includes coins celebrating Trump’s meetings with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin and another titled, “President Donald J. Trump: A Study in Genius.”"

 

Proceeds of the coin sales will go to hospitals to try to help them deal with the disaster that Trump helped create.

It's like Trump donating air pumps to the farmers whose tractor tires he punctured with their own pitchforks.

 

Jared Kushner Calls Coronavirus Response ‘a Great Success Story’ as Death Toll Nears 60,000
Emma Tucker
Published Apr. 29, 2020 10:52AM ET

Jared Kushner Calls Coronavirus Response ‘a Great Success Story’ as Death Toll Nears 60,000

 

The image below should be on a coronavirus commemorative coin.


Trump border wall cartoon

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