Trump still isn't concerned about coronavirus. He's concerned about his ratings on coronavirus
On Friday morning, Donald Trump tweeted praise for his handling of the coronavirus, attacks on how the H1N1 virus was handled in 2009, and a claim that his handling of the crisis has a “78% Approval Rating, the highest on record,” while the way Barack Obama and Joe Biden handled a previous pandemic was “lowest.”
The problem isn’t that Trump is using an approval rating that isn’t from a poll but from an RNC mailing to donors. The problem is that Trump continues to demonstrate not the least bit of concern over the actual damage being done to anything but his ratings. He’s not focused on results. He’s focused on the perception of results. Which is what happens when someone spends his entire life as a huckster and a fraud.
Donald Trump’s entire career has been based on perception over fact. That’s what has allowed him to have failure after failure, bankruptcy after bankruptcy, and still find some poor suckers willing to bankroll his next Trump steaks, Trump magazine, Trump airlines, Trump casinos, Trump university. And—thanks to a network that decided it would be a great idea to package up this all-sizzle, no-steak career to sell Trump as America’s greatest businessman—there’s also Trump America. We all have to live in it. Or … not.
Because it’s clear at this point that Trump will continue to deal with this crisis not by dealing with it, but by claiming that it’s being dealt with. Trump will continue to claim that tests are available, even when experts on his own coronavirus team are calling the availability of testing a failure.
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