It's almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2014
It's almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2014
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David Frum, The Atlantic, March 11, 2020:
"At every turn, President Trump's policy regarding coronavirus has unfolded as if guided by one rule: How can I make this crisis worse? ... Trump's Oval Office speech of March 11 was the worst action yet in a string of bad actions."
Heather Digby Parton:
"[Trump's] address Wednesday night was leadership failure broadcast live ... a slow-motion train wreck of national and global proportions. At every turn, Trump takes the wrong and most destructive one. ... Trump offered no guidance or policy, no explanation for why testing is unavailable. He issued vague promises of loans for businesses before offering tax deferments to individual Americans soon to have no jobs or incomes to tax. Health care support for victims? Nothing."
Salon: "Officials Walk Back Numerous Inaccurate Claims Made By Trump During Bungled Coronavirus Address":
"The White House said the president "misspoke" when he read the prepared statement from his teleprompter verbatim."
Stick with baseball. Your politics suck. Actually your baseball blog sucks too.
Dan Froomkin:
"Donald Trump's massively botched announcement about restricting travel from Europe was an obvious and desperate ploy to cast himself as the protector of the United States and generate some rare positive headlines. And some in the corporate media fell for it — initially. ...
Within minutes after the speech was over, it became clear that not only had Trump misstated his own plan, but that the entire idea — particularly the United Kingdom exemption — makes no sense whatsoever. Plus, he had engaged in no consultation with his European allies or affected industries. ...
[Trump] blamed Europe for not acting quickly enough to address the "foreign virus" and claimed that U.S. clusters were "seeded" by European travelers. ...
As Thursday progressed, the coverage got more and more savage."
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire:
"This was not a speech. This was a cry for help, an SOS from a guy who knows, as Micheal Ray Richardson once put it, that the ship be sinking. You could almost imagine thousands of tiny feet running for lifeboats behind his eyes. You could see him reacting to storm sirens only he could hear. He is thrashing and floundering and he is surrounded by thrashers and flounderers who owe their entire careers to him now. This isn't chaos. It is surrender to it. ...
[M]inutes after the cameras in the Oval Office went dark, the White House had to rush out explanations that the president*, in discussing his own new policy proposals, didn't know what in the hell he was talking about. ...
[A]s soon as he began speaking, the Dow futures fell off a cliff. Many people noticed that the exemption on the European travel ban granted to the United Kingdom benefitted his golf properties there. ...
You knew it was all going to go terribly wrong in the first few sentences when the president* referred to the source of the pandemic as "a foreign virus" as though it were something Stephen Miller could lock in a cage and then deport. And, of course, the claim was as false as it was stupid. ...
That was not the speech of a president*. That was not even the speech of a bad president*. That was not even the speech of the worst president* we ever elected. It was the desperate wailing of a man who has fallen down a well, and there's nobody up there to hear him."
Tuesday, March 10:
Trump claims he has not been tested for coronavirus. (I call BS on that, but okay.) "I don't think it is a big deal. I don't feel any reason — I feel extremely good. I feel very good, but I guess it's not a big deal to get tested. It is something I would do."
Thursday, March 12:
"Brazilian president's press secretary tests positive for coronavirus, days after meeting Trump"
Trump admin officials are FURIOUS at the boss for botching his #Covid_19 speech. “We're wasting time playing mop-up... And it goes without say[ing] that we aren’t allowed to admit that any of it is the fault of the president.”
"Trump’s Coronavirus Speech Sparks ‘Total Chaos’ in His Own Administration"
thedailybeast.com
Stick with baseball. Your politics suck. Actually your baseball blog sucks too.
Jeez. Took someone long enough ....
OMG. The idiocy! ... Viruses are not named like Super Bowls!
NYDN: "Conservative talk show Rush Limbaugh, who has suggested reports of the deadly disease are part of a conspiracy to undermine President Trump, further misinformed his audience Wednesday by claiming the virus is referred to as COVID-19 because there have been 18 other coronaviruses.
"Why do you think this is COVID-19? This is the 19th coronavirus. They're not uncommon."
The Washington Post reported the name is short for Coronavirus Disease 2019, which is the year it was identified."
Of course, everyone knows the WaPo is simply lying to make Rush, our most recent Medal of Freedom winner, look bad. Huh, fake news! It's a high-tech lynching, a coup, a second impeachment, a deep state plot, etc.
Anyone with half a brain can see the idiocy in our national leadership, but I appreciate these quotes as a kind of greatest hits of the madness.
Find another blog to read. Simple as that.
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