Trump's COVID army turns against him

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Trump's COVID army turns against him
Donald Trump's lazy response to COVID just blew up in his face

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 22, 2021 10:00AM


(Salon) One of the most notorious moments of the presidency of Donald J. Trump has to be that visit he made to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on March 6th of 2020. COVID-19 hadn't even been named yet and the World Health Organization (WHO) hadn't yet designated it a pandemic but we all knew that something very bad was happening. Cases had shown up in Washington state and California. The whole country was riveted by the plight of a cruise ship sailing off the West Coast with sick people aboard and nowhere to moor. The president was reportedly angry about the whole thing and was resisting dealing with it but finally agreed to travel to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters for a photo-op to show his concern. It was one of the most astonishing presidential performances of all time:

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But perhaps the most memorable of all was this:

You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, "How do you know so much about this?" Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President.

Those exchanges illustrated the fundamental bind Trump was in from the beginning of the crisis. He wanted to "downplay" the virus, as he admitted to Bob Woodward around that time, but he also wanted to be the very stable genius who personally solved it. So he wavered back and forth throughout, some days saying the whole thing was just going away by itself and that his political enemies were talking it up to hurt his re-election chances. On other days he promoted snake oil cures, even offering advice to scientists on what they should be researching to treat the virus, apparently convinced that he had brilliant ideas that hadn't been explored:

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This week, Trump told another audience that he had received the booster after all — and he got booed. He took the opportunity to once again try to make the case that he should get credit and that his supporters are "playing into [the Democrats'] hands" by booing him.

"Take credit for it. What we've done is historic," Trump told an audience over the weekend. "If you don't want to take it you don't have to, you shouldn't be forced to take it, no mandates. But take credit because we saved tens of millions of lives, take credit, don't let them take that away from you." ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/22/army-turns-against-him/

[keithbvadu2]

1. "we saved tens of millions of lives"

"we saved tens of millions of lives"

That verifies that not being vaxxed costs lives.

[Midnight Writer]

2. I think it was a jeenyuz move by Biden to give credit to Trump for the vaccine.

Even FOX News is denying that Biden said it.

[niyad]

3. He admitted to Woodward on Feb 7 that Xi had told him how deadly it was.

[CrispyQ]

4. It hit blue states first, so Jared told him not to do anything. Basically, "let it spread."

I haven't had a science class in 50 years, but even I know that a contagious disease doesn't respect boundaries or give a shit about political affiliation.

[lees1975]

5. Evidence of the lack of education in America

is that after four years of incredible stupidity, including stuff like this, achieving absolutely nothing except opening up a channel to re-distribute wealth from those who work for it to the already rich, there are still people who think Trump ought to try for a second term.

[Skittles]

7. how can people believe in a man who speaks nothing but gibberish

I mean, seriously, WTF

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. The Lincoln Project is amused

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