The Donald Trump Score Card

Golf Club Guests Cheer Trump as He Says They Don’t Have to Wear Masks: “Peaceful Protest”
By Daniel Politi
Aug 08, 20209:59 AM

Golf Club Guests Cheer Trump as He Says They Don’t Have to Wear Masks: “Peaceful Protest”

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"In the question-and-answer portion of the briefing, a reporter specifically brought up the crowd who got an up-close view of the president while questioning Trump’s claim that the coronavirus is “disappearing” in the country. “You said that the pandemic is disappearing, but we lost 6,000 Americans this week and just in this room you have dozens of people who are not following the guidelines in New Jersey,” the reporter said. The crowd started booing and Trump quickly pushed back against the reporter’s claim as he came to the defense of his paying members. “You are wrong on that, because it is a political activity. They have exceptions … and it is also a peaceful protest,” Trump said.

The crowd clapped and cheered the president as the news conference suddenly took on the feel of a small Trump rally. “To me they all look like they pretty much all have masks on,” Trump said before going on to double down on his claim that the club members were actually there to protest the media and that’s why they were exempt from the state’s rules that were put in place to stem the spread of Covid-19. “They heard you were coming up, and they know the news is fake. They understand it better than anybody,” he said. “If the press in this country were honest, if it wasn’t corrupt, if it wasn’t fake, our country would be much further ahead.” Trump then ended the news conference as club members clapped."

 

This illustrates the fundamental confusion that Trump is showing toward the virus. In early July he said masks were good and Americans should wear them, even though he is off and on in his own wearing. But then he says the dozen unmasked people there at his press conference were a "peaceful protest" (what were they protesting? Masks?) and were therefore an exception. That makes no sense at all. He made non-mask wearing a political statement instead of a health measure. This was probably intended to be some cute dig at BLM protesters, but it undermines his official policy toward the virus. At a time of the greatest health crisis facing the nation in over a century, his policies are totally incoherent. The virus makes no exceptions for political demonstrations!

 

Hopes of a college football season are dimming to the chagrin of Trump who wants the country to look normal in time for the election.

The season likely will be closed due to what Trump refers to as the ashes and embers virus that might have a few leftover hotspots that he will extinguish in an unspecified manner.

Trump may have to consider executive action to try to force the colleges to play, a power he probably thinks he has because of a Supreme Court decision about DACA.



Power Five ADs: 'Inevitable' 2020 college football season will not be played this fall
These prominent athletic directors spoke to CBS Sports after the MAC canceled its season Saturday
By Dennis Dodd
August 9, 2020

Power Five ADs: 'Inevitable' 2020 college football season will not be played this fall

 

What the hell.
White House Asked If Trump Could Be Added to Mount Rushmore

 

Yup...

 

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"So, when the president arrived last month for his July fourth festivities, the governor of the state, Kristi Noem, presented Trump with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face."

 

Trump's enablers continue to pander to his pathology, which is part of why he is a malignant narcissist.

 

Trump and his following have been trying to use the delay between intial diagnosis and subsequent active cases and deaths to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus and to belittle the effectiveness of social distancing..

Trump mistakenly thinks that a rise in the rate of new cases is due solely to better testing (that he boasts he built himself). He is seemingly unaware that active cases can remain for weeks and that morbidity and mortality can occur a month after the diagnosis. Trump's confidant, Herman Cain, is a prime example. He died about a month after his positive test result. The increasing death rate in the U.S. following increased new cases falsifies Trump's perception that an increasing rate of new cases is innocuous..

 

In a similar vein, Trump and his following erroneously dismiss the value of social distancing (for a disease that they also dismiss) by stating that active cases and death rate are still high after the start of better social distancing practices. The active cases and death rate precipitated by previous inadequate social distancing practices may require a month to subside after the public has already embarked on better distancing efforts.

Both erroneous perceptions of Trump and his supporters are circular psychological masturbation.

 

Polls in July show that about 64% of the public disapproves of the way Trump has addressed the coronavirus. It indicate that most of the public is aware of Trump's faulty notions The usual response by Trump is that the polls are fake (like he thinks the seriousness of the virus is fake).

Herman Cain's coronavirus death isn't a fake, although some in Trump world might create a truther narrative denying his death.

 

Trump's favorites, Breibart and One America News, can run headlines such as:

"Herman Cain Sighted Alongside Elvis!"

 

Trump's erroneous remark about children being almost immune shows that he confuses immunity with lower morbidity and mortality. People may carry the virus and be capable of spreading it for a period of time even though they show little or no symptoms and are at low risk for morbidity and mortality. They aren't immune from a novel virus when they are first exposed to it. They are a risk for spreading it during the time their bodies are building antibodies to destroy the virus.

Those issues need to be addressed before fully reopening schools physically. Trump doesn't have the discipline to grapple with such issues. He simply wants the country to be perceived as normal by the general public in time for the November election.

 

And when the rest of his stupid supporters come home from Sturgis and die, we'll be able to buy motorcycles for real cheap on the internet, huh?

 

100,000 kids got COVID during the last 2 weeks of July.

 

He has lots in common with Saddam Hussein, huh?

 

Trump is at the bottom rung, and he is an exaggerated version of it. He thinks he knows everything about everything.


Four stages of competence - Wikipedia

 

There are 66 million on Social Security and they will not miss a word from Trump before November 3rd of this year.

 

I think trump should have gone to Sturgis. One of his followers could have let him borrow one, as long as it wasn't an HD.

 

Are we back to Divine Right of Kings now? Trump's commerce secretary Peter Navarro justified the Donald's latest round of unconstitutional executive orders by saying they were "created by the Lord and the Founding Fathers".
Navarro Defends Trump, Claims ‘the Lord’ Created Executive Orders
White House adviser claims executive orders are the work of 'the lord' – but video reveals Trump was not a fan when Obama used them
This statement is blasphemous any way you look at it, and hypocritical, too. When Obama was President, Republicans in general and Trump in particular, were in high dudgeon about Obama's much more limited use of such orders for things they didn't like.
Republicans Praise Trump After Denouncing Obama's Executive Actions
https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...utstripping-obama-on-pace-of-executive-orders
"King" and "Tyrant", they called him, although I don't recall Obama or his advisors claiming divine authority for the orders. Trump's orders are usurping Congress' control of the purse--fundamental to the separation of powers and checks-and-balances in our republican constitutional system.

 

If the election pans out the way we hope it does, those ex republican senators will lament that they isn't remove trump from office.