Trump's late conversion to reality leaves out his supporters

[Zorro]

Behold, the perils of the Pinocchio presidency.

For three years, President Trump told his supporters that the federal government perpetrates hoaxes and frauds, that the media produces fake news and that nothing is on the level except for his tweets. He did the same with the novel coronavirus, portraying it as an ordinary flu that would “disappear” and accusing Democrats of a hoax and the media of exaggerating.

Belatedly, Trump has begun to speak the truth about the virus, which by some estimates could kill more than 2 million Americans without attempts to control it. After an abrupt change of tone Monday afternoon, Trump continued to say the right things, using the same word on Tuesday that former vice president Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron have used: war.

“We have to get rid of this, we have to win this war, and ideally quickly,” he said in the White House briefing room. “Because the longer it takes — it’s not a good situation. And I’m not even talking about the economy, I’m talking about the lives of a lot of people.”

But Trump’s late conversion to reality has left behind one group of Americans that will be difficult to convince: his own supporters. Their alternative-facts diet has left them intolerant of anything the government and the media feed them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/trump-learns-pitfalls-his-pinocchio-presidency/

[msongs]

1. right wingers love socialist welfare for them but not for anybody else nt

[PJMcK]

2. Let 'em die! (n/t)

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I don't believe for a second he is any different. All bullshit.

[dawg day]

4. They'll just be lemming after him.

"Whatever you say, boss!"

Their adoration of him has never made any sense, and nothing they say they believe makes any sense, because they believe in a chaotic, uncaring sociopath who is beyond inconsistent. They don't care that they now have to believe something opposite of what they had to believe last week. He's the only constant.

Sick. It's truly a cult.

"2+2=5"

[RussBLib]

5. Trump wants us to say "Thank you, president Trump"

Yeah? Fuck you, con man!

Donald Trump would like everyone to say 'thank you' for his coronavirus actions

(CNN)President Donald Trump wants to be appreciated.

"We've done a fantastic job," he said Tuesday of his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic. "The only thing we haven't done well is to get good press. We've done a fantastic job but it hasn't been appreciated. Even the closing down of the borders, which had never been done, and not only did we close them but we closed it early. The press doesn't like writing about it."

More at
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-response/index.html