{"id":44932,"date":"2020-04-20T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44932"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:43:38","slug":"trump-says-this-is-easy-as-he-leads-america-into-a-coronavirus-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44932","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says ‘This is Easy’ as He Leads America Into a Coronavirus Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s criminally negligent response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic will go down as one of the most deadly abdications of leadership in history. From the beginning he refused to take the threat seriously. He insisted that the few cases reported in the U.S. would shortly drop to zero. His claim that he had everything under control was either a flagrant lie or fatally ignorant.<\/p>\n

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Trump also failed to pressure his pal, Xi Jinping, into providing honest and accurate data on the rapidly spreading infections. At the time, Trump was bragging about a pretty rotten trade deal that he was negotiating with China. He was afraid to jeopardize it by holding Xi’s feet to the fire on a public health catastrophe that has now taken the lives of more than 40,000 Americans.<\/p>\n

Trump continues to tread the hypocritical territory between “total authority<\/a><\/strong>“<\/em> and “taking no responsibility at all.”<\/em> He spends the vast majority of his Coronavirus Task Force briefings (aka Trump 2020 reelection campaign TV infomercials<\/a><\/strong>) bragging about what he imagines are unprecedented achievements, but that don’t actually exist in the real world. Yet somehow these claims of outright victory are adjacent to his accusations of abject failure for which he blames mostly Democratic governors and the media.<\/p>\n

Monday morning Trump shoveled another heap of garbage into his Twitter feed. It was typically self-aggrandizing, while maligning anyone he regards as less than utterly adoring. He began by unleashing a tired and impotent attack on Democrats, and concluded by praising himself:<\/p>\n

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… \u201cTesting, Testing, Testing,\u201d again playing a very dangerous political game. States, not the Federal Government, should be doing the Testing – But we will work with the Governors and get it done. This is easy compared to the fast production of thousands of complex Ventilators!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n