Trump's Most Faithful Don't Really Care If He Botched The Coronavirus Response

[UCmeNdc]

Is this really how Americans feel or just another cover story to protect Donald Trump?

His loyal supporters wanted someone to break things and knock over tables – and if thousands more wind up dying because of Trump, well, that’s how it goes.

WASHINGTON — They wanted Donald Trump to come to Washington to break things. Turn over tables. Shake up the system.

To his most avid supporters, the president has done all these things, and they’re not about to let his handling of the coronavirus — and potentially the thousands of extra deaths it could cause — change their minds.

“It sounds callous, but maybe that’s population control,” said Linda Moreno, 66, pointing out that the disease is most deadly to the elderly, such as herself.

She and her husband, a Vietnam War veteran, are retired and travel the country in their RV, hitting as many Trump rallies as they can. They attended the July 4 event Trump staged on the National Mall last year, a rally in Minneapolis in October and one in Phoenix last month.

Like many of his supporters, they believe that concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, are overblown, despite Trump’s recent 180-degree shift on the subject.

“I really don’t know how contagious this thing is. It does seem like we’ve overreacted to a point,” said Stephen Moreno, 69, adding that they nevertheless returned to their Chino, California, home and are abiding by the guidelines to stay away from others. “I’m in that high-risk category. And it’s driving me nuts. I’d rather be out.”

Trump downplayed the seriousness of the virus for six weeks after its rapid spread started raising concerns globally. He falsely claimed it was no worse than the seasonal flu, predicted without any scientific basis that it would disappear on its own come April and accused Democrats and the news media of trying to tank the stock market to hurt his reelection chances.

That unwillingness to prepare for its inevitable spread in the United States cost the country precious weeks that it could have spent aggressively ramping up the production of coronavirus tests and increasing intensive care capacity at the nation’s hospitals, pandemic experts said.

All this came two years after Trump dismantled the pandemic response team that his predecessor Barack Obama had created within the White House. Trump justified that move three weeks ago as a desire to save money — “Some of the people we cut, they haven’t been used for many, many years” — and falsely claimed he could hire them all back quickly if needed.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-supporters-coronavirus_n_5e751183c5b6eab77947f640

[The Wizard]

1. Trumpinistas are not normal

They're a toxic suicidal cult that wants to drag the rest of us into their hell.

[Midnight Writer]

3. No, they are not. My neighbor flies the POW/MIA flag, yet worships Trump.

So I ask the guy what he thinks when he hears Trump say "I like the soldiers that weren't captured".

The guy says Trump just says stuff like that "to pull your chain".

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yes, these people are acting like there is nothing to worry about. I saw a basketball game on and

Tiger woods playing golf, both events crowded w/ thousands of spectators. Idiots all.

[rufus dog]

4. Everything has been cancelled

What you are seeing is replays of previous years events.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I hope so. Thanks and be safe. nt

[uponit7771]

6. Trump ignoring the threat hasn't been socialized by the M$M like it should be. They're waiting on ..

... political parties to do such and Biden and the DNC should.

There's no way we should allow this to stay a political, Red Don lied and people died

[UCmeNdc]

7. Is there anyone there to take on these Trump die hards?

who should expose these lanatics for what the are?

[Brother Mythos]

8. Individual-1's worshipers do not care about his botched response to "The Trump Virus"

Individual-1 has successfully turned the GOP into "The Republicult."

The Republicult's most rabid members worship him as their new messiah, and I have no doubt that many of them would willingly "Drink the Kool-Aide," if he told them to do it for him.

[StarryNite]

9. You're right and it's creepy.

[The Wizard]

10. Yes they would.

Lazy and ignorant lacking critical thinking skills.
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