The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump is hoping voters will become numb to Trump and his numbskull responses to real crises that his attitude helped create.

 

Trump. Building a bridge to the 18th century, the same as his commerce people like Navarro, Lighthizer, and Ross who want to return to the era when tariffs were a major source of income for the U.S.



Trump turns clock back 155 years with Confederacy-inspired election strategy
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 12:13 AM ET, Tue July 7, 2020

Trump turns clock back 155 years with Confederacy-inspired election strategy - CNNPolitics

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"Trump was stripped of the motoring economy on which he had planned to anchor his claims of a return to American greatness by a pandemic that could have showcased the "I Alone Can Fix It" leadership skills of which he boasted four years ago. Instead the crisis exposed his governing method based on chaos, building alternative political realities, ignoring science and lying repeatedly about easily provable facts."

 

The NFL and NASCAR, what he thought were his conservative strongholds, are no longer submitting to Trump and his culture wars.

Trump is now desperately seeking a counter-narrative based on embracing what he considers cultural ideals related to the Confederacy and slavery in his new-found embrace of history, the history he has tried to teach to Americans by misidentifying a sculpture in the White House that he thought was Theodore Roosevelt and by shooting fireworks over Mt. Rushmore in his demented, exclusionary form of patriotism.



Trump turns clock back 155 years with Confederacy-inspired election strategy - CNNPolitics

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"NASCAR, the racing circuit popular in the conservative South, has banned the Confederate flag and stood behind one of its few Black drivers -- provoking a searing Trump Twitter attack on Monday. The Mississippi Legislature has passed a bill to cut the stars and bars from its state flag. And the Washington Redskins, which have for years disputed that their famous emblem is racist, are brainstorming for a new name -- a sign of the tsunami of change sent through the NFL after Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police brutality.

But against this sudden and sharp cultural sea-change, Trump, as he has so often in a gambler's career in real estate and entertainment, is making the counter-intuitive wager."

 

political cartoon: Graham, Barr, and McConnell shining Trump's shoes

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Pompeo wants to ban TikTok.

US may ban TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Mike Pompeo says

 

The smug look of Melania and the other woman with their noses up in the air.

 

As expected, Trump is displaying his childish anger over the prospect of the Redskins and Indians changing their names.


Trump tweet July 6, 2020:

"They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now!"

 

How it could get so much worse for Donald Trump
By David Drezner
July 07, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/07/how-it-could-get-so-much-worse-donald-trump/

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"Third, someone in the inner circle gets sick. People within the president’s orbit — his valet, his staff, his son’s girlfriend — keep catching the coronavirus. Trump continues to display reckless behavior in his efforts to narrow the gap with Biden. It seems quite possible that a high-ranking policy principal gets sick from attending one of his rallies. It is also possible that the president gets sick, incapacitating him for some time. While this might generate a sympathy bump, it will also feed the narrative that the Trump White House cannot do anything right.

Fourth, a foreign policy crisis gets worse. China is going on a bellicosity binge, and there seems to be little the Trump administration can do to stop it. As its behavior worsens, Trump will be hard-pressed to look strong in response. It is also possible that either North Korea or Iran tries to stir the pot while the United States is distracted with a pandemic.

Fifth, Trump’s gaffes get even worse. It has been amusing to read multiple cycles of conservative press discuss the need for Trump to demonstrate discipline, spin anything the president says as presidential and then have to cope with stuff like this:"

 

Attending one of Trump's rallies is enough to make anyone sick, regardless of the coronavirus.

 

Trump has already been sick and incapacitated for some time.

 

I think Ghislaine got him covfefe once, or was it a few times?

 

Trump can't stop China.

 

Trump once again not waiting for the facts while accusing others of not waiting for the facts.

Trump ignored the facts so he could blame the Black guy

 

Trump's populist counterpart in Brazil, Bolsonaro, tests positive for coronavirus.

Brazil's Bolsonaro tested for coronavirus after feeling unwell, reporting a high temperature

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

 

Two smart alec populists, Bolsonaro of Brazil and Johnson of U.K , have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Adding Trump would make it a perverted triumvirate.

 

So the Brazilian President tested positive. WOW!

I’ve been waiting for Trump to test positive with his equally cavalier attitude towards COVID-19

 

Aren't pictures, VIDEO and AUDIO TAPE a bitch when trying to lie out of knowing or associating with criminals???

Just imagine all the fist-pounding, name-calling, and puking blood there would be by Republicans if it were Obama or any other Dem in those pictures!!! REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.

 

Boris Johnson was in the hospital for about a week and spent three days in the ICU battling COVID-19.

 

The death rate for COVID-19 in the U.S. has been relatively constant from June 19 to July 3, 2020.

The situation is far from Trump's assessment as embers and ashes.


COVID-19 cases in the United Staets

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