Criticized For His Coronavirus Response, Trump Returns To The 'Blame Obama' Standby

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — After seven weeks of downplaying the threat of a looming pandemic, President Donald Trump has gone back to a favorite well: blaming his predecessor, Barack Obama.

“We inherited a broken, obsolete system,” Trump said Sunday, the third straight White House briefing in which he has blamed his administration’s slow response to the coronavirus pandemic on Obama, even though Trump has been in office now a full three years and two months.

“We took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn’t have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history,” Trump said Saturday, a day after claiming: “We inherited a broken, old — frankly, a terrible system.”

It is unclear what “system” Trump was referring to. His administration’s failure to aggressively ramp up coronavirus testing in early February and prepare hospitals for a surge of critical respiratory cases, experts said, was largely due to his own attempts to downplay the virus to avoid hurting the stock market and, in turn, his own reelection.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-blame-obama-225005884.html

El Lardo never takes responsibility for anything.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Perhaps tRump inherited a broken obsolete system from his genes. . . . nt

[DonaldsRump]

2. This is the TRUMP VIRUS

Trump, you FUBARed this.

Don't blame anyone until you own up to your own failures that caused this disease to spread so rapidly in the US. It is solely because of YOU that it spread so rapidly here.

Thanks to you, it looks like the US will easily surpass China. Please explain how you let this happen on your watch.

Your are President FUBAR and your disease is called the Trump Virus, both of which remember the "man" that let this spread so crazily here.

[Xipe Totec]

3. So? Fix it! Mr. I alone can fix this. nt

[Grokenstein]

6. If he HAD "inherited" any problems

...he had three years to fix 'em.

Instead, he went golfing and declared everything awesome in his presence. Nothing can change that.

[uponit7771]

4. Hillary's emails also created the virus in the basement of the pizza parlor

[gratuitous]

5. Okay . . .

So you had three years to fix this "obsolete, broken system." Did you spend more time on that or on golfing?

[scarletwoman]

7. It wasn't broken until your administration got its hands on it:

Disbanded the White House Pandemic Team: Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly

Decreased the CDC's funding each year in office: See the bottom of page 2 of this budget overview pdf

Removed the CDC health expert from China: Reuters - U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak