The Donald Trump Score Card

Blaming the source country - no matter if it was China, India, Iran, Italy, Spain - doesn't matter. What matters is the U.S. response to the virus.Trump was late to the "fact parade" and everyone can see that in how he downplayed the seriousness, and made light of it. "It's just another flu." ------- "There are only 15 cases here, and they'll 'magically disappear' and we'll all be fine." ---- as well as all his other VIDEO-RECORDED lies, misinformation, sarcasms, and the reprehensible, mocking, fake sneeze he did while on a TV news conference when Dr. Birx was speaking. He extended his arms toward her and backed away as if to push her away.

He's sure changed his tune since the case-count and death-count have kicked him in the balls hasn't he?? He wouldn't listen and take Dr. Fauci's advice in the early stages of the outbreak.

What a STAIN he is.

 

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump
By GARY FINEOUT and MARC CAPUTO
04/03/2020 05:02 AM EDT

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

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"TALLAHASSEE — The staggering unemployment exploding on President Donald Trump’s watch would worry any incumbent running for reelection, but troubles in Florida are injecting an added dose of fear into a jittery GOP.

Already anxious about Trump’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state, Republicans now are dealing with thousands of unemployed workers unable to navigate the Florida system to apply for help. And the blowback is directed straight at Trump’s top allies in the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott.

Privately, Republicans admit that the $77.9 million system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what Scott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims after the great recession.

“It’s a sh-- sandwich, and it was designed that way by Scott,” said one DeSantis advisor. “It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that the unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”

Republican Party of Florida chairman Joe Gruters was more succinct: “$77 million? Someone should go to jail over that.”"

 

Unfortunately, he benefits from human psychopathology--the so called "rally round the flag" phenomenon that causes normal people to support their leaders reflexively in times of crisis--something akin to the Stockholm Syndrome.. Stockholm Syndrome: Causes, Symptoms, Examples This happens regularly in wars, and is happening with the virus, not just with Trump but with leaders all over the world. Analysis: Trump's approval rating is rising amid the coronavirus crisis. What could it mean for November? Gallup puts Trump's approval rating at 49%, and the latest national poll for ABC-Wash, Post puts him at 47-49%--within two points of Joe Biden. For Trump, however, the bump hasn't been nearly as large as that for past presidents like G.W. Bush or FDR, nor for leaders of other countries coping with COVID-19, like Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, and Morrison. Trump’s approval bump is puny and probably fleeting
Support for his handling of the pandemic has already slipped from 60% approval to less than 50%. AP-NORC poll: Less than half back Trump's pandemic response
What it will do as people grapple with the economic aftermath remains to be seen.

 

As the numbers of dead and unemployed grow, Trump looks and sounds smaller
Richard Wolffe
Fri 3 Apr 2020 08.18 EDT
Last modified on Fri 3 Apr 2020 13.07 EDT

As the numbers of dead and unemployed grow, Trump looks and sounds smaller | Richard Wolffe

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"But we also need to talk about the carnival barker who played a businessman on reality TV for a few years. Because we have never seen someone more ill-suited for leadership at a time of crisis. The history books tell us about Herbert Hoover’s failures to intervene to stop the Great Depression. They tell us about James Buchanan’s support for slavery and his failure to head off the secession of the slave states.

Still, Trump stands alone: an incredibly shrinking man who looks and sounds smaller as the numbers of dead and unemployed grow ever larger. Even George W Bush’s epically disastrous war in Iraq pales into insignificance. More Americans have died from this pandemic than in Bush’s war of choice: more than 6,000 dead at the most recent count.

Before the revisionists try too hard to make us forget, Trump’s leadership as the virus spread was as loud as a red cap perched on an orange combover. He abolished the pandemic group inside his own national security council, set aside the pandemic playbook left by his predecessor, and proposed cutting the CDC’s funding at the very moment the pandemic was taking hold. He spent February pretending like the pandemic was a hoax or would disappear, and spent March telling governors to fend for themselves."

 

Maybe some of the complete idiots that think Trump has done a wonderful job with the corona virus and bought into his self-tagged "genius" on all things health and virus-wise - should seek out his expertise and treatments with their bad hearts, cancer, diabetes, flu, kidney disease, or any surgery they might need. Skip their regular doctors and go right to Trump. He'll get around to your heart attacks and cancer after he's ridiculed the REAL doctors and experts and it's too late for you - then spread the news far & wide how he did a "great job" for you as they're calling the morgue.

 

Trump administration's lack of a unified coronavirus strategy will cost lives, say a dozen experts
Each day that passes without a national strategy, the experts say, will raise the ultimate U.S. death toll from the coronavirus.
By Ken Dilanian and Dan De Luce
April 3, 2020, 9:01 AM UTC

Experts: Trump administration's lack of unified COVID-19 strategy will cost lives

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"In a conference call with the nation's governors, the president said, "Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves."

There has been a mad scramble by states and localities to do so, even as a federal emergency stockpile is all but depleted. The federal government also has swooped in to buy supplies, with governors complaining that they have been outbid on occasions by federal agencies.

Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, has complained about competing with the federal government for equipment. He became emotional about the issue during a news conference March 26, saying, "I stand here as someone who has had confirmed orders for millions of pieces of gear evaporate in front of us, and I can't tell you how frustrating it is."

What's lacking, experts say, is any central coordination."


"What we really need are engineer-type people who know how to get things done and who know how to organize a large-scale response," said Dr. Elias Zerhouni, who served as director of the National Institutes of Health in the administration of President George W. Bush. "What you hear right now are a lot of policies but not a lot of command and control."

 

Egger post 21745 - Bitter pill to swallow for the Trump lemmings. Facts and video tape evidence are a S.O.B. when trying to continue the brainwashing of the public. I wonder how many Americans would like to have Trump in charge of their PERSONAL corona virus playbook?? For themselves and their families??

 

Cuomo Says New York Has Seen 'Highest Single Increase' In Deaths From Coronavirus
Brakkton Booker
April 3, 202012:25 PM ET

Cuomo Says New York Has Seen 'Highest Single Increase' In Deaths From Coronavirus

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"New York state had it deadliest day yet stemming from the coronavirus, with more than 500 fatalities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.

The death toll has gone up from 2,373 to 2,935 in the last 24 hours, Cuomo told reporters during a late morning press conference. He described it as the "highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started."

The governor also warned that more people were going to die if additional ventilators don't become more available. He said he is signing an executive order allowing the state to commandeer ventilators and distribute to hospitals as needed."

 

Fox & Friends should have included people with symptoms like those of Chris Cuomo instead of cherrypicking and only interviewing a woman in her 60's who had only mild symptoms to try to prop up Trump's denialism of the seriousness of the virus.


Chris Cuomo reveals coronavirus symptoms: Fever, shivering, hallucinations
By Rebecca Klar
04/02/20 09:47 AM EDT

Chris Cuomo reveals coronavirus symptoms: Fever, shivering, hallucinations

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"Describing the symptoms, Cuomo said it felt like “someone was beating me like a piñata.” The CNN host said he was shivering so much that he chipped a tooth and had vivid hallucinations.

“My dad was talking to me,” he said, referring to the late New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who died in 2015. “I was seeing people from college, people I haven't seen in forever. It was freaky what I lived through last night.”

Cuomo said his doctor said he may experience nights like that up to eight more times.

“I get it now, and if you match that with chest constriction and people can't breathe, I totally get it, why we’re losing so many people and why our hospitals are so crowded,” he said.

Despite his symptoms, Cuomo said he feels lucky in his situation to have family and loved ones who can care for him."

 

In the wake of hurricane Katrina, G.W. Bush faced a similar situation of his own making by not hiring qualified people.

Bush had made Mike Brown; who lacked emergency management experience; the administrator of FEMA.

Before his post at FEMA, Brown was the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association.

Brown was a college buddy of G.W. Bush.

Brown resigned during the aftermath of Katrina and the lackluster response of the federal government.



Michael D. Brown
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Michael D. Brown - Wikipedia

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"Resignation from FEMA

On September 12, 2005, in the wake of what was widely believed to be incompetent handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by state, local and federal officials, Brown resigned, saying that it was "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president."[19] Overall, at least 1,245 people had died in the hurricane and subsequent floods.[20]

Brown's standing had also been damaged when the Boston Herald revealed his meager experience in disaster management before joining FEMA. Shortly after his resignation the Associated Press obtained a videotape of Brown briefing Bush, Governor Blanco, Mayor Nagin and others in which he questioned the wisdom of the Mayor's use of the Louisiana Superdome as a "shelter of last resort" and questioning the structural integrity of the Superdome.[21]

By the time he resigned from FEMA, Brown had already been discharged from his functions as local coordinator by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and was sent back to Washington to continue FEMA's central operations."

 

I saw in the news today that the damage to the national budget which had been inflicted by the Tea Party caused a serious shortfall in the national stockpile of medical supplies and equipment. Trump it seems never considered that fact.

 

Coronavirus impact: Asian community fighting racism, xenophobia, bigotry as world fights COVID-19
Dion Lim
Friday, March 13, 2020

Coronavirus impact: Asian community fighting racism, xenophobia, bigotry as world fights COVID-19

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"Pan also believes there is a key to stopping the fear from turning into hate: starting at the top, referring to a briefing made by President Trump on Wednesday and certain media outlets.

"When the president calls this a foreign virus, when you see members of congress calling it the Chinese coronavirus, this is a public health situation and we know it affects all people."

San Francisco State's Asian Studies Department is launching a reporting center on Monday so they can better track incidents when they happen."

 

After Kushner says 'it's our stockpile,' HHS website changed to echo his comments on federal crisis role
BEN GITTLESON
ABC News
April 3, 2020

After Kushner says 'it's our stockpile,' HHS website changed to echo his comments on federal crisis role

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"But the national stockpile actually is intended for states' use, which was clearly explained on the government's own website -- until the language was changed, without explanation, hours after Kushner provided his inaccurate description.

Until Friday morning, the website of the Department of Health and Human Services, which maintains the stockpile, read, "When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency."

But midday Friday, hours after Kushner directly contradicted the language on the HHS website, the text was changed without explanation. Retroactively matching what Kushner said, the website no longer says states can rely on the stockpile, but now says it exists to “supplement” them."

 

After Kushner says 'it's our stockpile,' HHS website changed to echo his comments on federal crisis role

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"With a diminished stockpile of medical supplies and governors warning of a Wild West-like bidding process for ventilators, President Trump has refused to take a larger role in helping states hit hard by the novel coronavirus outbreak, instead making states compete for much of the supplies on the open market -- and insisting they are to blame for any shortfalls.

Leaving no one official in charge of the all-encompassing process of assessing need, production, allocation and distribution, Trump has resisted calls from across the country to have the federal government harness its unique ability to take the lead, pushing responsibility onto state governors and arguing they are to blame -- not him -- for equipment shortfalls.

"We're a backup," Trump said Thursday. "We're not an ordering clerk.""

 

Of course it was changed... would anybody expect otherwise?

 

“You Just Asked Your Question In A Very Nasty Tone”: Donald Trump Lashes Out At CBS News Reporter’s Query About Jared Kushner
By Ted Johnson
April 3, 2020 4:59pm

Donald Trump Lashes Out At CBS News Reporter Who Asked About Kushner Comment – Deadline

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"He added, “The federal government needs it too, not just the states. …As example, we have 10,000 ventilators and we are going to rock with those ventilators, and we are going to bring them to various areas of the country that need them. But when he says ‘our’ he’s talking about our country. He’s talking about the federal government. It’s such a basic simple question and you try and make it sound so bad. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. … Don’t make it sound bad. You just asked your question in a very nasty tone.”

She also tried to ask him why, in the wake of Kushner’s comment, the Strategic National Stockpile website was changed to more clearly mirror his comments. But Trump went on to another question."

 

.....or....

.....and I'm just throwing it out there....


....Fuck China

 

Trump fires Atkinson, late Friday and during a national emergency.



Trump firing inspector general who flagged Ukraine whistleblower complaint
The whistleblower complaint touched off a probe and testimony that resulted in President Trump's impeachment.
By Ken Dilanian and Phil Helsel
April 4, 2020, 2:41 AM UTC / Updated April 4, 2020, 3:09 AM UTC

Trump firing inspector general who flagged Ukraine whistleblower complaint

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"Atkinson is a Trump appointee who was confirmed by the Senate in 2018. He is a career Department of Justice prosecutor.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and who played a key role in the impeachment of Trump, called the president's move an attempt to "retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing."

"At a time when our country is dealing with a national emergency and needs people in the Intelligence Community to speak truth to power, the President’s dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk," Schiff said, referring to the coronavirus epidemic.

“Moreover, this retribution against a distinguished public servant for doing his job and informing Congress of an urgent and credible whistleblower complaint is a direct affront to the entire inspector general system," Schiff said in the statement. "It undermines the transparency and oversight the American people expect of their government, and in its absence will undoubtedly lead to even greater corruption in the Administration.”"

 

This country certainly deserves better than Trump and his gang of greedy oligarchs and off the wall conspiracy theorists. And the gang of people in this nation that hate everyone else and believe the lies even as they are being thrown under the bus

 

he is using this to mask his dirty deeds, i.e continuing to build the wall on the southern border, threatening Iran, etc.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say he planned the whole thing.