The Donald Trump Score Card

I tell you what, if Joe Biden wins, we will start a thread counting how many times he falls asleep in places. In congress, half way through the state of the union address, his inauguration maybe, Nancy's lap.....

 

Trump has spent $28 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars to try to mitigate the damage that his avoidable, manmade-crisis trade war has inflicted on farmers. That's about the amount spent on the entire country's unemployment insurance for one year.

The amount is $63 billion when adding an eventual $25 billion for his border wall and a $10 billion bailout in late 2019 for the insolvent pensions of coal miners whose livelihood he thought he could save but didn't to the tune of 8 major coal mine company bankruptcies in 2019.

The trade war and wall money could have been saved and used for a natural crisis that has now arrived.



Unprecedented Wave Of Unemployment Hits Colorado
By Andrew Kenney
March 17, 2020

Unprecedented Wave Of Unemployment Hits Colorado

excerpt:

"Colorado’s government is struggling to keep pace with unemployment claims as the shock of the coronavirus shutdown hits workers in several sectors.

"Never before in Colorado have we had such a high volume of impacted workers," said Joe Barela, executive director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Environment.

Daily data shows a sharp rise in unemployment claims amid the pandemic. For comparison, the state received only about 400 unemployment claims on Monday, March 9.

A week later, the state reported 3,900 claims in one day.

And on Tuesday, there were a staggering 6,800 claims by 10 a.m."

 

Trump downplayed the coronavirus threat in its early days. A new report says Jared Kushner had been telling him the media was exaggerating the crisis.
Tom Porter
Business Insider
March 17, 2020, 11:04 AM EDT

Trump downplayed the coronavirus threat in its early days. A new report says Jared Kushner had been telling him the media was exaggerating the crisis.

excerpt:

"He was reportedly furious about stark warnings made by health officials about the likely negative impact of the disease, and blamed them for spooking financial markets as he geared up his reelection campaign.

According to The Times, Kushner — who has reportedly been playing a key role in the US response to the outbreak — had been telling the president around this time that the media was exaggerating the threat posed by the virus.

Trump has repeatedly sought to blame the media for exaggerating the crisis, echoing what Kushner was reportedly telling him, and as recently as last week blamed the "fake news media" for seeking to "inflame the CoronaVirus [sic] situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Times report."

 

As usual.

 

Assuming the news reports are factual, Trump is now faced with having to decide on whether to fire his beloved 'Minister of Everything' Kushner who, in Trump' mind, may have put his reelection bid in peril.

For someone who is young, inexperienced, and a minister of everything, a situation is likely to occur eventually that will put such a person on the whipping block of Trump's wrath.

 

Considering that Kushner is family, that would be awkward.

 

Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat their mistakes; those who don’t learn science are doomed.

 

We don't elect Presidents to amuse bored Aussies. "Scomo from Marketing" is admittedly not the most flamboyant head of government, but you may just have to settle for him.

 

Let’s say that true about Biden would it be any better with Trump.

Trump can barely put two words together or read a teleprompter. Just imagine how he’ll be two years from now. He’ll be virtually catatonic

 

Both of them will, in 4 years Trump will be 77, Biden 81 covidbait

Just time to vote in younger reps and senators all round

 

Well, looks like he's not going to do the national lockdown thing, thank god. And for that I will cup his nads, keep them warm in winter if he wants me to

 

What do I need to know about plaigarising Santayana?

 

During Yesterday’s Coronavirus Update, President Trump claims he knew Covid-19 was a Pandemic as far back as January.

And yet there’s ample footage of him in January, February, and in March, not only downplaying the illness but stating it will go away.

God what a lying sack of shit.

 

Just another dysfunctional American family.

 

From the New York Times:

"Melina Delkic, of the Briefings team, spoke with Donald McNeil, a health reporter who has been covering experts’ recommendations on what to do.

You’ve said this is a crisis but it’s not unstoppable. How do we stop it?

We need to shut down all travel, as experts have said. And then we really aggressively tackle the clusters. People have got to stop shaking hands; people have got to stop going to bars and restaurants. New clusters are appearing every day.

It’s basically urgent that America imitates what China did. China had a massive outbreak spreading all over the country, and they’ve almost stopped it. We can shut off the roads, flights, buses and trains. I don’t think we’ll ever succeed at doing exactly what China did. It’s going to cause massive social disruption because Americans don’t like being told what to do.

Is that what some countries are missing? This sense of collective action and selflessness?

That is absolutely what many Americans are missing — that it’s not about you right now. My parents were in the World War II generation and there was more of a sense of we’re all in this together.

We’ve got to realize that we’re all in this together and save each other’s lives. That has not penetrated yet, and it needs to penetrate because we all have to cooperate."

 

If only Trump could impose tariffs and sanctions on what he has referred to as a foreign virus.

Instead, the virus is essentially imposing tariffs and sanctions on the U.S. with few options for Trump to retaliate on the entity itself.

An option for him is displaced aggression by associating the virus with countries, people, and groups he doesn't like and venting his frustrations on them.

 

Just about any president or anyone of presidential caliber running for the office could have given a better response than Trump about the coronavirus test.

Trump:

"Not, not uh - something I want to do everyday...you know, it's a little bit of a -- it's a little bit of -- good doctors in the White House, but it's a test. It's a test. It's a medical test. Nothing pleasant about it."

 

Trump knows more about viruses than anyone.

 

Trump quote:

"Not, not uh - something I want to do everyday...you know, it's a little bit of a -- it's a little bit of -- good doctors in the White House, but it's a test. It's a test. It's a medical test. Nothing pleasant about it."