"Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster"

[Demovictory9]

Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster. But Donald Trump has nothing to say and no answers to mitigate a calamity unfolding on his watch that he seems resolved to ignore.

On the day when the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci said he would not be surprised to see the US record 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day, Trump refused to break his deafening silence.

And the day after his White House described record-breaking new infections that are sweeping the nation as "embers that need to be put out," Trump's campaign claimed credit for the "phenomenal" success of his botched pandemic leadership.

Trump is now pretty much the sole figure in authority in either party -- including his major Republican allies -- who refuse to wear or endorse face masks that are proven to slow the spread of coronavirus but that he has stigmatized as a liberal plot to harm him politically.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html

[cayugafalls]

1. Let him keep denying the virus at his own peril.

Every day he puts between himself and sane policies is another nail in his coffin.

At this point, I don't think he will back down, he never has and does not like to admit he is wrong as that shows weakness in his mind. I think it will be up to the Red state governors to break from his leadership and start trying to save their own asses. If they want to go down with him, then they will continue to ignore the facts.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He isn't a president, he is an actor...

and a bad one at that. He looks like he lost the audition for a Mussolini part. I can't even stand to look at his ugly face let alone hear his voice (like nails on a chalkboard).

I must admit, he is successful at one thing...being a failure in every way imaginable. HE is the disaster striking this country, not Covid.

[JI7]

3. He was put there by Putin with assist from Comey

[sandensea]

4. This one instead sees disaster as an opportunity - for himself and his hangers-on

[orleans]

5. two words: jim jordon. asshole! (ok, three words) n/t

[mucifer]

6. I believe he is being paid well to destroy our country

[colorado_ufo]

7. Agree.

Reinforced by blackmail.