The Donald Trump Score Card

There's also a difference between making a sacrifice and being one.

 

The Onion is in need of doing another video for Trump like it did for G.W. Bush after Bush's bungled response to hurricane Katrina.



Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency

Youtube video:

 

Trump has declared national emergencies in all 50 states, similar to the spoof video about G.W. Bush that was made during the 2000's.

 

Trump is giving the impression of making veiled threats against Fauci by retweeting.



Virus may dash Trump's plan for a 'big bang' economic opening
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 9:07 AM ET, Mon April 13, 2020

Virus may dash Trump's plan for a 'big bang' economic opening - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

"Fauci appeared to incur Trump's ire on "State of the Union" Sunday morning when he admitted that there had been "a lot of pushback" to calls inside the administration for earlier social distancing.

"I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives," Fauci said.

Hours later, Trump retweeted a user who said it was "Time to #FireFauci." The tweet suggested that Fauci mistakenly downplayed the initial threat of coronavirus to the US in late February when he said the "country as a whole ... still remains at low risk," though the infectious disease expert was referring specifically to an outbreak in Washington state and qualified that "this is an evolving situation.""

 

Trump adviser Navarro defends US response in angry CBS interview
Navarro challenges 60 Minutes over pandemic preparedness
Fauci confirms report Trump rebuffed social-distancing advice
Martin Pengelly
Mon 13 Apr 2020 09.02 EDT
Last modified on Mon 13 Apr 2020 10.21 EDT

Trump adviser Navarro defends US response in angry CBS interview

excerpt:

"Trump’s coronavirus tsar Peter Navarro defended the administration’s pandemic response on CBS on Sunday night, angrily challenging his hosts to show him how they had covered pandemic preparations under previous administrations.

So 60 Minutes did.

“I challenge you,” said Navarro, “show me the 60 Minutes episode a year ago, two years ago, or during the Obama administration, during the Bush administration that said, ‘Hey, global pandemic’s coming, you gotta do X, Y and Z, and, by the way, we gotta shut down the economy to fight it.

“Show me that episode. Then you’ll have some credence in terms of attacking the Trump administration for not being prepared.”

60 Minutes duly ran clips from a 2009 feature on the fight against H1N1, or swine flu – “a pandemic, meaning it’s a global epidemic, the first flu pandemic in 41 years” – and a 2005 section on H5N1, or avian flu, which the show said had “the potential to cause an influenza pandemic similar to the one that killed 50 million people in 1918”.

The 2005 piece included an interview with Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is now a leading public health expert in the Trump White House, under increasing fire from the president.

“I don’t see it as an exercise because it could be the big one,” Fauci said then, of preparations being pursued by the federal government. “It could be, and if it is our rushing around doing what we need to do, pushing the envelope is not for nought or in vain.”"

 

Fuck trump

 

Don't we have states rights? And isn't it usually the Republican side of the Hill that wants to embrace them?

Trump claims he can overrule states on ending COVID-19 shutdowns

 

"But if it's in the national interest" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

only if they are red states.

 

Yes. Seriously. When the waste says something, how can you deny he said it? He's covered by multiple news media and cameras with audio tape.

 

Trump claims he, not governors, has power over states on deciding reopening country
President Trump says both "facts" and "instinct" will influence his decision.
By Elizabeth Thomas and Jordyn Phelps
April 13, 2020, 1:21 PM

Trump claims he, not governors, has power over states on deciding reopening country

excerpt:

"“For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect. It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!” Trump tweeted Monday morning."

 

Trump moves by polls and ratings numbers. The so-called "push-backs" are from his inner-circle lemmings and Fox "news" hosts.

He's like a brain surgeon who listens to social media for instructions on how to proceed with a major brain surgery. "How do my ratings look today?"

 

Trump could try his hostage-ransom tactic again to try to coerce governors into reopening their states, such as by theatening to withhold federal funding if they don't.

 

The citizens, the land , the constitution, all of government, any other country, the sea, the air, the water--nothing--NOTHING IS AS IMPORTANT IN THIS WORLD AS DONALD J. TRUMP. And don't you dare forget it!!

 

...and space. Donald Trump's Space Force and its Supreme Outer Space Commander, Trump.

 

Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country
But the law suggests the president has less power than he thinks.
By QUINT FORGEY and JOSH GERSTEIN
04/13/2020 12:46 PM EDT
Updated: 04/13/2020 02:36 PM EDT

Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country

excerpt:

"What federal powers do exist in this area stem from the central government’s authority to regulate interstate and international commerce. Laws passed on that premise give officials at the CDC the ability to quarantine travelers, as well as planes, trains and automobiles moving between states.

Those powers may even extend to cordoning off an infected area or state against the wishes of local officials, particularly if local infection controls are deemed to be failing. Still, there exists no federal law empowering Trump to force a governor to rescind or loosen a stay-at-home order.

At the margins, the president might be able to undermine such decrees by trying to withhold federal aid or by ordering large numbers of federal workers and contractors to ignore the lockdown policies. Attorney General William Barr sent federal law enforcement officials a memo last month reminding them of their exemption from the state and local controls when performing work duties.

“The President can *informally* put pressure on local/state governments. He can mess with emergency funding. And he can even order the federal workforce back to their offices,” tweeted University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck. “But largely because he’s left so much to local authorities so far, this, too, is ultimately up to them.”"

 

In HIS eyes anyway.

Egger - that's beautiful !!!
"Space ................... it's his final frontier."

 

Trump's deadly COVID-19 policy is now killing more Americans per day than were killed per day by the Nazis during WW2. Hard to top a kill record held by Adolf Hitler, but Trump's gone and done it. Put that on his score card.

 

Trump is now airing campaign-style videos at his virus briefings (campaign events).



Trump uses coronavirus briefing to fire back at critics
By Brett Samuels
04/13/20 06:31 PM EDT

Trump uses coronavirus briefing to fire back at critics

excerpt:

"Trump then aired roughly three minutes of footage that resembled a campaign ad on screens set up behind the podium. The video featured clips of cable news doctors saying in January that the coronavirus did not represent an imminent threat to the U.S., Trump announcing measures like expanded telehealth options and a national emergency, and Democratic governors thanking the president for offering federal assistance to states responding to the virus.

Asked where the video came from, Trump said it was produced in the White House in the hours before the briefing.

The admission of the apparent blurring of White House business with campaign promotion promptly drew the attention of ethics watchdogs.

"So our tax dollars and the presidential mansion we own are now being used to broadcast campaign ads?" tweeted Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics."