The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump just posted that watching Fox News is a waste of time. Good on him

 

Actually, his ratings went up but have come back down.
Trump's approval rating sliding as criticism mounts over White House response to coronavirus pandemic
https://nypost.com/2020/04/11/trump-approval-rating-drops-as-coronavirus-drags-on-poll-says/
Realclear politic:
Rasmussen Reports 4/7 - 4/9 1500 LV 43 56 -13
Reuters/Ipsos 4/6 - 4/7 959 RV 42 55 -13
Economist/YouGov 4/5 - 4/7 1147 RV 45 53 -8
The really interesting one is Rasmussen, which normally gives Republicans in general and Trump in particular the highest numbers.

 

Took him awhile though

 

New York real estate mogul and Trump friend Stanley Chera died of coronavirus complications
By Clare Duffy and Sarah Jorgensen, CNN
Updated 5:37 PM ET, Sun April 12, 2020

New York real estate mogul and Trump friend Stanley Chera has died of coronavirus complications - CNN

excerpt:

"New York (CNN Business) Stanley Chera, the prominent New York City real estate developer and Republican donor who co-founded Crown Acquisitions, has died of complications related to Covid-19, a source close to Chera confirmed to CNN Sunday. He was in his late 70s.

Chera's real estate career began when he started buying the retail buildings that held his family's chain of children's specialty stores, holdings that became Crown Acquisitions, according to the company's website. The company eventually divested from the retail stores to focus on real estate. Crown's holdings include several iconic New York City properties, such as The St. Regis New York and the Cartier Mansion.

Chera was also friends with President Donald Trump.

From 2016 to 2019, Chera donated a total of $402,800 to Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and Trump Victory, organizations dedicated to supporting Trump's presidency, according to Federal Election Commission records."

 

Trump declares major disaster in all 50 states while saying that the U.S. is winning.



Trump declares major disaster in all 50 states for the first time in history
By Michael Ruiz, Fox News
April 12, 2020 | 3:48am |

https://nypost.com/2020/04/12/trump...-all-50-states-at-once-first-time-in-history/

 

Trump had a small blip gain in approval of about a couple percent which now appears to be evaporating.

Governors in the U.S. have seen approval gains on the order of 20% during the coronavirus outbreak.


RCP poll: Trump favorable/unfavorable

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Trump continues to drift to the far-right One America News.



Trump Bashes Fox News Weekend Coverage as ‘Total Waste of Time’ Minutes After Hard-Hitting Report on Equipment Shortages, Rising Deaths at VA Hospitals
By Reed Richardson
Apr 11th, 2020, 7:15 pm

Trump Bashes Fox Minutes After Critical Report on VA Hospitals

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump fired another very public shot at Fox News on Saturday evening, slamming its weekend coverage as a “total waste of time” while offering praise to rival network OANN as a “great alternative.” But Trump’s dismissive insult of his otherwise favorite cable network coincidentally came just minutes after its hard-hitting report on how VA hospitals are suffering from testing and equipment shortages and how hundreds of veterans have died from the coronavirus outbreak.

At 5:53pm EDT, not long after posting self-congratulatory tweets from several random C-Span callers, Trump threw a decidedly sharp elbow at Fox while recommending the fledgling right-wing cable channel, One American News Network."

 

Trump Just Told Governors to Get Their Acts Together on COVID-19. Pot, Meet Kettle.
Mother Jones
April 12, 2020

No, the United States Isn't Leading the World in Coronavirus Testing

excerpt:

"On Sunday, President Trump took to Twitter to urge governors to buck up and start testing residents for coronavirus. “No excuses!” he wrote.

There’s a lot to unpack in this latest presidential deflection of responsibility. The failure to make coronavirus tests widely available months ago is perhaps the most colossal mistake among the Trump administration’s many bungled coronavirus responses. To date, there have been 2.8 million coronavirus tests administered in the United States, according to the COVID Tracking Project. That’s less than one percent of the population—a lower per capita rate than other countries. So while it’s technically true that the US has tested more people than other countries, the suggestion that we’re leading the world in testing rates—something Trump has repeated—is not."

 

More reasons Trump and others shouldn't have been belittling the coronavirus as a cold or flu.



ASSAULT ON BODY Coronavirus survivors can suffer lasting damage to their liver and heart and may get PTSD, scientists warn
Debbie White
Apr 11 2020, 11:15 ETUpdated: Apr 11 2020, 11:17 ET

Virus survivors can suffer lasting damage to liver & heart & may get PTSD

excerpt:

"Sachin Yende, an epidemiologist and critical care physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said there was a greater risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease.

She explained this was particularly the case for pneumonia patients with underlying chronic diseases, when combined with an extended period of inflammation - for example when vulnerable patients have also contracted Covid-19.

Her warning was repeated by Dr Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist.

He told the Los Angeles Times: "Covid-19 is not just a respiratory disorder.

"It can affect the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the brain, the endocrine (glands) system and the blood system."

Dr Rahul Kurup, a researcher at the Heart Research Institute in the UK, said: "As Covid-19 affects the lungs, this can have knock-on effects on the heart.

"The lungs and heart are interconnected, with the lungs oxygenating the blood the heart pumps.

"This puts someone with heart disease at more risk, simply because they don’t have as good a reserve to deal with this added complication to their health.

"Patients with heart disease also tend to have other medical conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which puts them at a higher risk of developing a severe illness from the virus.

"A viral infection can also sometimes precipitate a heart attack, and it can be difficult to delineate the symptoms between the two.""

 

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh is trying to play the Hillary card.



Limbaugh baselessly accuses Fauci of being a "Clinton sympathizer" who wants to "get rid" of Trump
"We've got all of these Hillary Clinton sympathizers still in the medical expert team here"
Matthew Rozsa
April 9, 2020 12:59AM (UTC)

Limbaugh: Fauci is a Hillary sympathizer who wants to get rid of Trump

excerpt:

"Right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh baselessly accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of being a "Hillary Clinton sympathizer" who wants "to get rid of Donald Trump" during a Tuesday broadcast.

After claiming that the media tries to use its press briefings to undermine President Donald Trump, Limbaugh accused ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl of bringing in a reporter from Phoenix TV, a privately owned company stationed in Hong Kong with connections to the Chinese government. Limbaugh claimed that Fauci "gave Karl a-thumbs up, like a 'job well done' kind of thing" after the press briefing.

"We've got all of these Hillary Clinton sympathizers still in the medical expert team here, and we know that one thing has not changed," Limbaugh added. "And that is these people's desire — above everything else — to get rid of Donald Trump."":

 

Is a fucking moron....

 

He'll turn on anyone that deviates from the heavy duty ass kissing. Narcissists need constant reassurance that they are very special. Deep down (but not too far down because there isn't very far to go ) I think (feel) that he knows he's a useless prick.

 

will hopefully not be around much longer

 

Trump can boast about another America First.


US becomes first country with over 2,000 virus deaths in 24 hours
With nearly 18,600 fatalities, US set to overtake Italy; Trump says reopening economy ‘biggest decision’ of presidency, sets up new task force
By Agencies
11 April 2020, 7:14 am

US becomes first country with over 2,000 virus deaths in 24 hours

excerpt:

"More than 1.6 million people have been infected globally and the death toll hit 102,753 on Friday — with nearly 70 percent of fatal cases in hard-hit Europe.

The true number of lives lost is believed be much higher because of limited testing, different rules for counting the dead and cover-ups by some governments. For example, in places like New York, Italy and Spain, many victims who died outside a hospital — say, in a home or a nursing home — have not been part of the count."

 

During a deadly pandemic, Trump is still holding a grudge against the USPS. He mistakenly thinks USPS is favoring Amazon which is owned by Jeff Bezos.

Trump is holding a grudge against Bezos because he owns the Washington Post.

Trump holds a grudge against the Washington Post.



Trump threatened to veto stimulus package if it contained bailout money for USPS: report
By Marty Johnson
04/11/20 08:40 PM EDT

Trump threatened to veto stimulus package if it contained bailout money for USPS: report

 

Bigly....

 

Fox's Brit Hume says it’s an “entirely reasonable viewpoint” to expect that grandparents would be willing to die to protect the economy
Hume: “We don’t shut down the economy to save every single life that’s threatened by a wide-spread disease. We just don’t”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 03/24/20 9:02 PM EDT

Fox's Brit Hume says it’s an “entirely reasonable viewpoint” to expect that grandparents would be willing to die to protect the economy

 

Coronavirus may give President Trump a long-sought chance to privatize the Postal Service
Hunter Walker
White House Correspondent
April 12, 2020, 1:32 PM EDT

Coronavirus may give President Trump a long-sought chance to privatize the Postal Service

excerpt:

"The $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed on March 25 did not provide assistance for the Postal Service, despite bipartisan support for the funding, according to an aide to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Postal Service.

Instead, the legislation only allowed the Postal Service to borrow $10 billion from the Treasury Department.

“There was bipartisan support for direct appropriations to go to the Postal Service,” said a committee aide, who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin “said you can have the loan or you can have nothing.”

Yet in the weeks since the stimulus passed, the Treasury Department has not approved the loan.

A spokesperson for Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, did not respond to a request for comment."

 

Just in case "vote by mail" becomes a thing... Crash the mail service.


He did say he would have a "transparent" administration...

Some things are just blatantly obvious, even when he tries to hide them.

 

first, they came for the old people, and nobody did anything, then they came for the poor people, and nobody did anything, next they came for the minorities, and nobody did anything, and then they came for you. . . . . . .