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cilla4progress

(24,724 posts)
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 04:40 PM Dec 2020

NY Times article (no paywall)

On drumpf MASSIVE FAILURE and PURE POLITICAL PLAY - misplayed, by the way...

on Covid.

SMDH.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html

SNIP:

“You’re killing me! This whole thing is! We’ve got all the damn cases,” Mr. Trump yelled at Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, during a gathering of top aides in the Oval Office on Aug. 19. “I want to do what Mexico does. They don’t give you a test till you get to the emergency room and you’re vomiting.”

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NY Times article (no paywall) (Original Post) cilla4progress Dec 2020 OP
When Trump yelled "You're killing me" it would be great... lame54 Dec 2020 #1
... cilla4progress Dec 2020 #2
Figuratively take Jared out??? Arne Dec 2020 #3
+1 2naSalit Dec 2020 #4
Article seem to thoroughly and very accurately nail the trump 'all about me' empedocles Dec 2020 #5
Excellent article. No big surprises but coming from Haberman you know it's real underpants Dec 2020 #6
"How does this effect me?" stopdiggin Dec 2020 #7
Excellent read malaise Dec 2020 #8

lame54

(35,281 posts)
1. When Trump yelled "You're killing me" it would be great...
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 04:45 PM
Dec 2020

For the secret service to bust down the door and take Jared out

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. Article seem to thoroughly and very accurately nail the trump 'all about me'
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 04:54 PM
Dec 2020

mentality, and his fateful, poor decisions.

[Amazing how the most ignorant, the 20%? base, ruled and effectively made the trump, WH, CDC, all agencies, and the Senate, - the worst possible Covid decisions].

underpants

(182,736 posts)
6. Excellent article. No big surprises but coming from Haberman you know it's real
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 05:08 PM
Dec 2020

A horrific failure at every turn.

stopdiggin

(11,292 posts)
7. "How does this effect me?"
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 05:15 PM
Dec 2020

is the sum total of the man's interest in the rest of the world.
(and, as staggering as it seems to a rational mind -- that includes a pandemic that kills millions)

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