Trump's "wartime president" shtick is ghastly -- and it could totally work....................

[riversedge]

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Trump's "wartime president" shtick is ghastly — and it could totally work https://salon.com/2020/03/24/trumps-wartime-president-shtick-is-ghastly--and-it-could-totally-work/ by @bobcesca_go

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Trump's "wartime president" shtick is ghastly — and it could totally work


Trump has found his 2020 strategy — posing as a real president on TV. Once again, cable news is his biggest ally


Bob Cesca
March 24, 2020 11:00AM (UTC)

Like every other petty con man, from back-alley hustlers to Wall Street fraudsters, Donald Trump is a thief and he'll always be a thief. Now the president is clearly stealing from the George W. Bush playbook in one particularly awful way. Specifically, Trump appears to be desperately envious of Bush's approval polls after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to the point of recently declaring himself to be a war president in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. And it could absolutely get him re-elected.

As of the past several days, Trump's been marketing COVID-19 as an "invisible enemy." He can't stop repeating the bellicose platitude that America is at war against the virus, even though he spent the first two months of this catastrophe telling us it was no big deal.

Yet during the Sunday edition of the Trump Show, the president said, "In a true sense we're at war." On top of not understanding the definition of "war" or "true," Trump is also struggling to present himself with a patina of unity and cooperation (which he and his people routinely contradict with obnoxious cracks and tweets about his political opponents), while conspicuously thanking "first responders," as in the days and weeks following 9/11...........................................


...........In truth, this is a "war" in the same way Trump University was a "college."

Based on recent history alone, Trump knows that too many of us, the sucker demographic, will eat up his chocolate-fountain of nonsense with a giant Trump-branded ladle. It doesn't matter whether this is an actual war. Trump has to package himself as the bone-spurred generalissimo, wrapping himself in commander-in-chief powers, because while he understands very little about the so-called enemy, he at least understands that Americans tend to re-elect presidents who fight and win wars. ............................................

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[Beartracks]

1. And like W he wants to way prematurely declare Mission Accomplished...

... when we haven't even turned the tide, or won a battle, or even really started to fight in any nationally coherent way.

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[Sugarcoated]

2. Well, then we have no other choice but to conclude

Trump wants the Cornoavirus to win.

[GeorgeGist]

3. But then again ...

Covid-19 might take him out next week.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. NOBODY in their right freaking mind is going to buy what he's selling,

especially as the death toll soars.

He sat on this for over two months and DID NOTHING.

NOTHING. Everyone who dies is blood on his hands and voters are NOT going to forgive or forget.

[lagomorph777]

7. He is STILL doing nothing, despite being told, daily, exactly what needs doing

[appalachiablue]

5. Piers Morgan gave Trump a 'Churchhill Hat' last June, remember?

[Aristus]

6. No. It will only work among the people for whom it's already working.

The Trump45 cultists.

No one new is going to brought into the fold with that shit...