Look out, America. The Donald Trump coronavirus response has been a colossal failure!
Current Events
World nations agree that the coronavirus is a very serious and deadly pandemic that has rapidly spread across the globe. What makes it so severe is that there is currently no known way to prevent it and no known way to cure it. In fact, modern antibiotics are helpless in ridding the body of this most dangerous health threat since the Spanish Flu of 1918.
So, what has the Trump coronavirus response been to this stealthy threat? A pathetically poor one.
Trump has a penchant for creating his own reality that is different from actual reality. So, it should come as no surprise that while America’s own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists and medical professionals along with Trump’s own vice-president were warning the world of this very real health threat, Trump was busy tearing down their authority, discounting the threat, and calling it all ‘no big deal.’
For example, when the World Health Organization announced just a few short days ago that the coronavirus death threat had risen to 3.4% and was now more lethal than the flu, Trump immediately seized the spotlight to announce that he had a “hunch” those numbers were all wrong.
“Now, this is just my hunch … based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it’s very mild,” Trump told anyone who would dare listen to and believe his words at their own peril.
He then appeared at the CDC and misstated the availability of coronavirus testing, deemed himself a natural expert in epidemiology, then used the remainder of his time to attack political adversaries and not relay words of caution and advice that his own officials had advocated.
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For a president who lives in the moment, rarely planning too far ahead, the coronavirus has proved to be a leadership challenge he was not prepared for either. The outbreak that has rattled the nation does not respond to Mr. Trump’s favorite instruments of power: It cannot be cowed by Twitter posts, it cannot be shot down by drones, it cannot be overcome by party solidarity, it cannot be overpowered by campaign rally chants… …He has expressed an astonishing lack of knowledge while at the same time claiming to be a medical savant. He has treated the crisis as a partisan battle, wearing his red Keep America Great campaign cap to the CDC and calling the governor presiding over the state with the highest death toll a “snake.” He even admitted that he wanted to leave passengers stranded on a cruise ship rather than see statistics for the number of cases on American soil go up because it would look bad. – The New York Times
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According to WHO chairman Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”
Still, that warning didn’t stop Trump from tweeting (and Fox News from broadcasting) that the coronavirus is nothing to worry about, that all the doctors and scientists and health officials are dead wrong, and that this whole alleged ‘pandemic’ is nothing more than a Democratic smear campaign to ruin Donald Trump and hurt him in the 2020 election.
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Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for the market drop!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
Yes, as far as Trump is concerned, the virus will “miraculously” disappear on its own with warmer weather. He underlined that belief by traveling to his Mar-A-Lago estate over the weekend for (yet another) golfing trip instead of acknowledging the viral threat and enacting realistic ways on how Americans can cope with it over the coming months.
Donald Trump’s indifference to the coronavirus came with a huge pricetag on Monday, when the Dow dropped 2,000 points, oil prices plummeted amid a coming price war, a global recession loomed, the entire nation of Italy went on total lockdown, and officials announced nearly 115,000 cases of the virus worldwide and more than 4,000 deaths.
However, Trump doesn’t have a human boogeyman to attack this time around. He can’t make up a cute little nickname to make fun of someone and target them as the ‘enemy’ amongst his fanatic followers. Nor can he continue much longer to ignore the numbers of Americans who are testing positive for the virus — which may now include Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and 3 additional Republican lawmakers, who self-quarantined as of Monday out of fear of having possibly contracted the virus.
In times like these, it is the President of the United States who is expected to lead, is expected to honestly inform, to calm fears, and to offer solutions. Has Donald Trump done any of this??
If your answer is a resounding NO, then make no mistake — the Donald Trump coronavirus response is an epic failure!
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Trump coronavirus response is a F.A.I.L.
TAC Reader:
So this is what it looks like to have a utter and complete idiot running the most powerful country in the world. It’s, uh, not a good look. Quite a spectacle in fact.
Good times, right? [….]
Okay…a show of hands of who is surprised that the the idiot-and-chief has yet again Failed so colossally?
(waiting…….)
Nobody?? Welp…that about says it all.