A week of distractions from Trump shows a leader in crisis
(CNN)
On Monday, as the nation marked Memorial Day, President Donald Trump mocked his campaign rival for wearing a face mask. On Wednesday, as the national death toll from coronavirus reached a wretched milestone, Trump and his family flew to Florida in an attempted focus on space travel.
By Friday, as smoke was lifting in Minneapolis after a night of racial unrest, he announced the United States would withdraw from the World Health Organization. A day later, after another night of protests, he declared himself safe inside his heavily fortified mansion and insinuated his own supporters would rally outside that evening.
In between, there was a dark suggestion of murder, false conspiracies about voting through the mail, a fight over where to hold his nominating convention and a dramatic escalation of ill will with the very social media platform that facilitated almost all the other diversions in the first place.
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We still have to get through five months before the election. This is going to be a rough road. The only good thing about the November election is that it's not up to the White House to decide whether we hold it or not. It's all up to the states.
But if we descend into even more chaos (Trump's favorite thing), who knows.
Every day when I think it can't get any worse, it does.
