The Trump Pandemic

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, bats will be swinging... from the Poplar trees.

[Scot Dutchy]

To Donald Trump, coronavirus is just one more chance for a power grab

Chaos in response to Covid-19 is no surprise. Nor is the unscrupulous operators’ pursuit of profit and political advantage

The utter chaos in America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic – shortages of equipment to protect hospital workers, dwindling supplies of ventilators and critical medications, jaw-dropping confusion over how $2.2tn of aid in the recent coronavirus law will be distributed – was perhaps predictable in a nation that prides itself on competitive individualism and hates centralized power.

But it is also tailor-made for Donald Trump, who has spent a lifetime exploiting chaos for personal gain and blaming others for losses.

“I don’t take responsibility” for the slow rate of coronavirus testing in the US, he said.

On Friday, when asked if he could assure New Yorkers there would be enough ventilators next week when virus victims are expected to overwhelm city hospitals, he replied: “No. They should have had more ventilators.”

[rainbow]

Nearly a third of a million Americans infected. This could've been avoided with proper leadership.

Agreed.

If the Wuhan victims of this virus had proper leadership, they wouldn't have fled to the four corners of the earth, infecting everyone else.

...except they didn't. Wuhan was in lockdown. The USA should've followed.

Under Trump's "leadership" it was swept under the carpet.

Now the USA are reaping the harvest of Trump's failure.

[Hermit]

Nearly a third of a million Americans infected. This could've been avoided with proper leadership.

Agreed.

If the Wuhan victims of this virus had proper leadership, they wouldn't have fled to the four corners of the earth, infecting everyone else.


Unless you want to blame another world leader, who fucked it up after China did...

There is no doubt that the Chinese government, or at least some of its officials operating in the Wuhan area, spent weeks trying to sweep the problem under the carpet. This does nothing whatsoever to exculpate Trump from doing likewise.

[Tero]

Foxnews pushing Fauci as fake news and Trump-like command to save economy

[Scot Dutchy]

Kushner is stepping up to the okki and everyone is terrified.

Jared Kushner and his shadow corona unit: what is Trump's son-in-law up to?

Jared Kushner has become a key gatekeeper for help tackling Covid-19 and that’s a big problem, critics say

The twist of fate that has cast Jared Kushner as a would-be savior in the greatest public health crisis to confront the United States in a century is a dramatic one.

The moment of national peril has been compared to September 11. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said coronavirus was her country’s greatest challenge since the second world war.

As the leader of the federal government effort to distribute emergency equipment to the states, Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, has mostly shied from the public stage, but he now is working in history’s spotlight.

His vast responsibilities include weighing requests from governors for aid and coordinating with private companies to obtain medical equipment, work he carries out from a special post created for him inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where his team is called “the Slim Suit crowd” for their distinctive tailoring, the New York Times has reported.

“It scares the hell out of me,” said David Pepper, the chair of the Ohio Democratic party, who offered bipartisan words of praise for the crisis response of his state’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine.

“Kushner has terrible judgment, and I don’t remember a decision he’s been involved with that hasn’t just been bad – they’ve been horrible. And the idea that everything has to go through the very flawed judgment of Jared Kushner is downright scary, and I believe at this point is costing American lives.”

[Cunt]

Nearly a third of a million Americans infected. This could've been avoided with proper leadership.

Agreed.

If the Wuhan victims of this virus had proper leadership, they wouldn't have fled to the four corners of the earth, infecting everyone else.

...except they didn't. Wuhan was in lockdown. The USA should've followed.

Under Trump's "leadership" it was swept under the carpet.

Now the USA are reaping the harvest of Trump's failure.

Trump was roasted in the media for being racist, after his early lockdown on travel from China.

Blame him, though. It's very 'rainbow' of you.

Chinese government have been caught a few times being slimy about this. Their sliminess is showing in several other countries.

Should Trump be to blame for the results Taiwan is experiencing?

[JimC]

As Hermit said, the clear culpability of the Chinese government in its initial handling of the crisis, and its current hypocritical posturing changes nothing about the slothful and incompetent reaction of the US government early in its own crisis.

[Cunt]

How much is Trump to blame, compared to Dr. Leiber? Like as a ratio?

[pErvinalia]

71:29

[Hermit]

How much is Trump to blame, compared to Dr. Leiber? Like as a ratio?

Blame for what?

[Cunt]

71:29

That's a lot bolder than I would dare...but it does look bad for Leiber and his cohorts.

[NineBerry]

Who's Leiber. I guess I don't want to know.

[pErvinalia]

Sounds like a German.

[Cunt]

Who's Leiber. I guess I don't want to know.

Some arrested Harvard top-dog-in-his-field. Running a lab in a foreign country got him in trouble, but I don't quite get it, and it triggers my bias, so you might want to check your own sources.