{"id":44612,"date":"2020-03-30T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44612"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:03:08","slug":"messiah-trump-takes-credit-for-saving-the-world-nobody-thought-we-should-do-it-except-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44612","title":{"rendered":"Messiah Trump Takes Credit For Saving the World: ‘Nobody Thought We Should Do It Except Me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump is fond of portraying himself as a pillar of strength who is unafraid to confront any obstacle or foe. However, his routine behavior exposes that facade as an obvious fraud. His knee-jerk defensiveness when challenged, along with his infantile insults aimed at critics, are ready evidence of his smoldering fear of being revealed as an impotent bully.<\/p>\n

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One of the best indicators of Trump’s withering weakness is how tightly he clings to the bootlicking sycophants at his State TV network, Fox News. On Monday morning he made his 77th appearance on Fox News as president. But he has not permitted a single interview on CNN or MSNBC. What, you might ask, is he afraid of? This latest visit was a phone in to Fox and Friends, a program that he used to have a regular Monday gig on: Mondays with Trump<\/em>. And, not surprisingly, the discussion was a full-on Trump-fluffing festival of fawning and flattery (Twitter video thread below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Trump led off by falsely accusing the Obama administration of leaving him with an “empty shelf”<\/em> of medical supplies. He compared it to the equally false and absurd assertion that the Pentagon had no ammunition when he took office. This is just Trump’s way of vilifying Obama, a president he knows he can never measure up to. He did the same thing this morning to another of his perceived enemies, Nancy Pelosi, about whom he said “She’s a sick puppy in my opinion. She really is. She’s got a lot of problems.”<\/em> He called her San Francisco district a slum and bizarrely said that she “lost”<\/em> the impeachment game. Does he not know that he was – and is – impeached?<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump took personal credit for saving the world. In a self-exalting rant based on nothing but his fertile imagination, Trump claimed that he stopped “thousands”<\/em> of very, very sick people coming in from China, and that…<\/p>\n

“…nobody thought we should do it except me. And I stopped everybody. We stopped it cold. It had never been done before. […] and if I hadn’t done that you have seen deaths like you had never seen before.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Trump wants people to believe that he defied the foolhardy dopes who consider themselves experts, and who all disagreed with him, and he single-handedly implemented a policy that saved untold souls. This is the sort of deranged thinking that can only come from someone who previously called himself “the Chosen One<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The truth is that Trump not only failed to save lives, he is unarguably responsible for the loss of thousands of Americans due to his negligence, incompetence, and ego. He was determined to underplay the threat presented by COVID-19 (the coronavirus) because he was afraid it would negatively impact his reelection prospects. He wasted at least a month lying to the public that there were few people infected and that the number would soon be zero.<\/p>\n

In the interim Trump, who is no longer able to satisfy his voracious ego at his cult rallies, has hijacked the Coronavirus Task Force briefings<\/a><\/strong> and turned them into de facto campaign events. Never mind that his presence there is nothing but a distraction. He has no relevant knowledge or expertise to contribute, so he spends an hour or two lying with abandon and shamelessly boasting about things he hasn’t done.<\/p>\n

Trump’s narcissism is evident in everything he does. And that is particularly true with regard to the briefings for which he has cast himself as the star. Which explains why he has been hyping the Nielsen ratings<\/a><\/strong> as if they were an indicator of his popularity. They are not. Both Trump supporters and opponents tune in to the briefings to get information. But in Trump’s diseased mind, any attention paid to him is proof of his glorious awesomeness. It’s what feeds his belief that he alone can fix everything. After all, he’s the Chosen One.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Trump begins his phone interview with Fox & Friends by trying to blame Obama for the country's lack of "medical product" (Trump had 3 years to replenish supplies!) pic.twitter.com\/ogeOnMX7Ur<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n