The Donald Trump Score Card

One day a Michigan Billionaire, next day governor of Massachusetts, then a meteoric rise to Utah Senator ... just another rich Republican.

 

Maybe Bill Barr told em so?

 

I liked visiting the Utah, but because of the republican domination of the state, I will not spend a dime there until they make some changes to their government

 

I went to look at a cheap house to buy in Carbon County back about 10 years ago. I was run out of town by self appointed armed quasi-cops.

 

Trump descends deeper into his denialism as U.S. coronavirus deaths exceed 200,000.



‘It affects virtually nobody’: Trump downplays virus threat to young people
The president previously told The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward in March that Covid-19 affects “plenty of young people.”
By QUINT FORGEY
09/22/2020 07:44 AM EDT
Updated: 09/22/2020 09:27 AM EDT

‘It affects virtually nobody’: Trump downplays virus threat to young people

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump claimed Monday at an Ohio campaign rally that the coronavirus poses little threat to young people and “affects virtually nobody,” as the number of Americans to have died from Covid-19 climbed toward 200,000 in the United States.

“It affects elderly people. Elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems, that’s what it really affects,” Trump told supporters at an airport outside Toledo.

“That’s it. You know, in some states, thousands of people, nobody young. Below the age of 18, like, nobody,” he continued. “They have a strong immune system, who knows. You look — take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system. But it affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.”

“By the way, open your schools, everybody,” Trump added. “Open your schools.”"

 

‘It affects virtually nobody’: Trump downplays virus threat to young people

excerpt:

"The president’s latest remarks contradict the more dire assessments he told The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward in a series of taped interviews conducted earlier this year for the veteran journalist’s latest book on the Trump White House.

“Now, it’s turning out, it’s not just old people, Bob. Just today and yesterday, some startling facts came out. It’s not just older,” Trump told Woodward in a March 19 interview. “It’s plenty of young people.”"

 

200,000 people dead in the U.S. because of the coronavirus is nobody in Trump's mind.

 

Herman Cain of Black Voices For Trump was in reasonably good health when he attended Trump's rally in Tulsa Now he's dead. In Trump's mind, he doesn't really count as a coronavirus victim.

The RNC convention said nothing of Cain a few weeks after his death, which is consistent with considering him to be a nobody.

 

President-elect Donald Trump vows to unite country in victory speech
By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump vows to unite country in victory speech

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"President-elect Donald Trump addressed the country early Wednesday, pledging to put the hard-fought campaign behind him and begin working to unite the country.

“It is time for us to come together as one united people,” Mr. Trump said at victory rally in New York. “I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all the citizens and this is important to me.”"

 

Trump: "We are going to bring our country together, all of our country. We're gonna find common ground, and we will get the job done."

Youtube video - Trump Promises to Unite the Country at Ohio Rally
Dec 2, 2016

 

The problem with being in a cult is you can't question the leader. 200,000 is OK because they believe the risk is greater when he's not in charge. He "saved" them from a million democratic deaths and the end of the 2nd amendment.

War depends on the solider believing their death saves their tribe. No one would have stormed the beaches on D-Day if they didn't think it meant something. America is full of old and fat Trump soldiers who are fine walking around without a mask because America.

This song is supposed to be a mockery of patriotism but this this is their life.

 

When Trump starts up one of his 'Art Of The Deal' interventions, it often ends up as one of those scenes in The Three Stooges where they engage in a face-slapping contest or pie fight and otherwise respectable people around them get drawn into the slapstick fight that produces nothing.



TikTok talks show how Trump’s deal-making style can cause collateral damage
Alex Sherman
Published Tue, Sep 22 20201:37 PM EDT

TikTok talks show how Trump's deal-making style can cause collateral damage

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"Even if the U.S. government has reason to suspect TikTok is lying and has shared data -- or could share data in the future -- the current brokered deal of selling minority stakes in TikTok to Walmart and Oracle while setting up a new cloud computing deal with Oracle falls far short of the original threat.

The result resembles something from Trump’s famous book “Art of the Deal”: Talk big, then end on a compromise.

“It started obviously simply — to say we want to protect the security of Americans from anything that could happen to them by using TikTok,” IAC Chairman Barry Diller said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“It has now morphed into a ludicrous game-match between tossing ownership here, control there….Its original aims are out the window. In has just come a whole political mishmash.”"

 

Pandering to Toledo is a questionable strategy for Trump in Ohio.

He needs to start addressing lost support from the suburbs of cities such as Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and Youngstown.

Instead of turning to the pragmatic needs of the middle class, Trump's 2020 campaign strategy has been to use ideological appeal to dig in deeper and try to counter suburban white vote losses by squeezing every last drop out of areas that have already supported him the most in the more rural areas.



Trump’s Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JULIE CARR SMYTH
September 22, 2020

Trump's Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north

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"Wisconsin Republicans promoting legislative candidates in typically GOP-leaning suburbs of Ozaukee County north of Milwaukee and Waukesha County to the city’s west warned this month that “Republicans should be worried because President Donald Trump is currently under-performing in the districts,” according to GOP website rightwisconsin.com.

“It’s a combination of blunting the departures in the suburbs and juicing the rural areas,” said John Selleck, who ran Romney’s 2012 Michigan campaign. “But can he make up the lost suburban votes elsewhere?”

That was his formula for winning Ohio four years ago. He received the highest or second-highest percent of Republican votes of any candidate since 1980 in 60 of Ohio’s 88 counties, according to state voting data compiled by Mike Dawson, a public policy consultant and creator of ohioelectionresults.com.

While GOP strategists say Trump can make up the suburban losses with new voters, Marquette University’s polling director Charles Franklin sees no evidence in research tracking Trump’s support this year to suggest new voters are choosing him."

 

Trump recently stated at a rally that essentially no one really dies of the coronavirus and that it's a result of heart conditions.

Trump would blame the 675,000 Spanish flu deaths in the U.S. on secondary bacterial pneumonia which was stated on death certificates as the immediate cause of death in many cases. He'd say that if it wasn't for that, no one really died of the Spanish flu which was initiated by the H1N1 virus.

Using his dog-chasing-tail type of statements, he'd give himself an A+ for his pandemic response that (in his mind) prevented perhaps millions of U.S. Spanish flu deaths from a virus that (in his mind) was innocuous from the start because it couldn't really kill anyone anyway.

As for the actual 675,000 deaths, in Trump's mind that was the fault of the victims for being susceptible to bacterial pneumonia, like they are every year for seasonal flu and for the major pandemics that have occurred since 1918.

 

Ya know, I didn't see any of Rep. Adam Schiff at the Democrats con fab. Were they embarased? Do Democrats get embarased?

 

200,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths is perceived by Trump as nothing more than a PR issue.

100 police officers dead and 900 frontline healthcare workers dead from the coronavirus.



Trump views 200,000 Covid-19 deaths as a PR problem. We should view them as someone's loved one
Opinion by Dean Obeidallah
Updated 6:53 PM ET, Tue September 22, 2020

Opinion: Trump views 200,000 Covid-19 deaths as a PR problem. We should view them as someone's loved one - CNN

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"Then there are those who risked their lives to protect us such as the more than 100 police officers taken by the virus, according to data from the Officer Down Memorial Page, a non-profit organization that tracks law enforcement fatalities in the line of duty. In fact, more police officers have died from the virus than from any other cause while being on the job. Tragically, a database created by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian found that at least 900 frontline health care workers died from this virus. As the study found, many of these deaths were preventable if there had been better preparation by the federal government in terms of protective equipment and testing resources.

Despite the deaths that spanned this nation, the effect has not been equal as the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on people of color. Black Americans have died at a rate 2.4 times higher than Whites, while Hispanics and Native Americans are dying at about 1.5 times the rate of Whites, according to the COVID Tracking Project."

 

Trump has denied just about everything that he thinks makes him look bad. He and his supporters might as well deny the fact in the following article also.



Covid-19 has killed more police officers this year than all other causes combined, data shows
By one estimate, coronavirus deaths among law enforcement are likely to surpass those of 9/11
Christopher Ingraham
September 2, 2020 at 1:29 PM EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/02/coronavirus-deaths-police-officers-2020/

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"In a speech this week in Pittsburgh, Joe Biden linked the Trump administration’s mismanagement of the coronavirus to its handling of protests and riots with a surprising statistic: “More cops have died from covid this year than have been killed on patrol,” he said.

The Democratic presidential nominee’s claim is true, according to data compiled by the Officer Down Memorial Page and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, two nonprofits that have tracked law enforcement fatalities for decades.

As of Sept. 2, on-the-job coronavirus infections were responsible for a least 100 officer deaths, more than gun violence, car accidents and all other causes combined, according to the Officer Down group. NLEOMF reported a nearly identical number of covid-related law enforcement deaths.

NLEOMF reported a nearly identical number of covid-related law enforcement deaths. It also noted that fatalities due to non-covid causes are actually down year-over-year, undermining President Trump’s claims that “law enforcement has become the target of a dangerous assault by the radical left.”

Both organizations only count covid deaths “if it is determined that the officer died as a result of exposure to the virus while performing official duties,” as the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund put it. “Substantive evidence will be required to show the death was more than likely due to the direct and proximate result of a duty-related incident.”

In addition to the 100 confirmed coronavirus fatalities listed on the Officer Down website, the nonprofit said it is in the process of verifying an additional 150 officer deaths due to covid-19 and presumed to have been contracted in the line of duty, said Chris Cosgriff, executive director of ODMP, in an email."

 

I think you’re giving people back in 1918 a little too much credit, they often put the war effort ahead of the virus which led to a number of super-spreader events, most notably a parade in Philadelphia which drew a crowd of 200,000 people.
Within 10 days every hospital in the city was filled to capacity, 4,500 people were dead, with thousands more sick and near dying.