WAPO: Dana M.: Trump's late conversion to reality leaves out his supporters

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/trump-learns-pitfalls-his-pinocchio-presidency/

By Dana Milbank Columnist March 17, 2020 at 5:20 p.m. EDT

Behold, the perils of the Pinocchio presidency.

For three years, President Trump told his supporters that the federal government perpetrates hoaxes and frauds, that the media produces fake news and that nothing is on the level except for his tweets. He did the same with the novel coronavirus, portraying it as an ordinary flu that would “disappear” and accusing Democrats of a hoax and the media of exaggerating.

Belatedly, Trump has begun to speak the truth about the virus, which by some estimates could kill more than 2 million Americans without attempts to control it. After an abrupt change of tone Monday afternoon, Trump continued to say the right things, using the same word on Tuesday that former vice president Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron have used: war.

“We have to get rid of this, we have to win this war, and ideally quickly,” he said in the White House briefing room. “Because the longer it takes — it’s not a good situation. And I’m not even talking about the economy, I’m talking about the lives of a lot of people.”

But Trump’s late conversion to reality has left behind one group of Americans that will be difficult to convince: his own supporters. Their alternative-facts diet has left them intolerant of anything the government and the media feed them.

[JHB]

1. The factose-intolerant will have trouble digesting the switch, but they're in luck!

Fresh new BS is being prepped and served right up, even as we speak.

[malaise]

2. Ah well

many of them wanted the rapture anyway

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Sorry, but I have zero compassion or empathy for the

Deplorables, especially my extended family .

[Javaman]

4. the master grift magician will ensure his acolytes breath deep the mesmers of his arts. nt