All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Sean Hayden]

Trump's a terrible leader. If even a good leader will be unfairly blamed by the people, how much more blame will a batshit crazy one inspire? He's the kind of guy that eventually gets pulled from a filthy hole by an angry mob, all wide eyed and disheveled.

[Tero]

Fauci, like Collins is holding an appointed job. Collins is not involved this time.

Collins:
On July 8, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health,[34] and the Senate unanimously confirmed him for the post. He was sworn in by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on August 17, 2009.[35]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump's a terrible leader. If even a good leader will be unfairly blamed by the people, how much more blame will a batshit crazy one inspire? He's the kind of guy that eventually gets pulled from a filthy hole by an angry mob, all wide eyed and disheveled.

Or in the U S of A, gets reelected.

[L'Emmerdeur]

[Seabass]

Donald Trump: 'When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total'

[Brian Peacock]

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. Tis a tale told by an idiot; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[JimC]

l'état, c'est moi...

Does a guillotine await?

[Hermit]

Trump has been in charge of the virus response for a year or so.

Fauci for a few decades.

How much responsibility should each take for the failures ?

Fauci does not make policy. The President does that. And why go back a few decades anyway when the Coronavirus epidemic did not exist until November last year?

Whatever. Trump was warned of the impending pandemic in November last year, and warned again in January this year. He chose to do nothing on either occasion. The buck stops with President Trump, especially since - as Seabass has linked to - he claims total power to do anything he wants to do.

[Svartalf]

l'état, c'est moi...

Does a guillotine await?

trump is a modern man, not a traditionalist, so it's the chair for him.

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump the dictator is really close now. He will call off the elections and declare a state of emergency.

Trump claims 'total authority' and attacks media in chaotic coronavirus briefing

In a bizarre tirade, the president bristled at a suggestion by one of the media that his power was restricted

Donald Trump has declared in a White House briefing that his “authority is total” when it comes to lockdown rules during the coronavirus pandemic, and he denied that he was weighing firing Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s foremost infectious diseases expert who sits on the coronavirus task force.

After a weekend reprieve from presidential briefings that have been likened to Trump rallies for their uninterrupted flow of Trumpian id, the president returned to the lectern on Monday to deliver one of his most bizarre performances yet.

He played a campaign video produced by White House staff, in a possible violation of elections laws, that he said highlighted the media’s downplaying of the coronavirus crisis in the early stages of the pandemic.

He jousted with journalists who questioned a tweet he had sent earlier in the day, in which he claimed to have fiat power to override orders by state governors to close nonessential businesses and public spaces and encourage residents to shelter at home.

And Trump bristled at the suggestion that his power was restricted by the American federalist construct, which grants autonomy to the 50 states, and which he has repeatedly during the coronavirus crisis attempted to disrupt.

“When somebody is the President of the United States, the authority is total,” Trump said, referring to matters of public health and police powers inside the states. The assertion was dogpiled by legal analysts as a gross and wild misreading of the Constitution.

But Trump was not just challenged on the airwaves and on Twitter – he was challenged in the room, including by Paula Reid of CBS News, who asked him what his administration did in the month of February, when the health department declared an emergency, to fight the virus.

In response he attacked the media’s “approval rating”.

He has lost it totally which is very dangerous.

[Brian Peacock]

He'll need the support of the police and the military to do that - not just FOX and Brietburp etc. More likely there'll be a palace coup - which is to say, not very likely at all.

If we are to entertain that idea of a Trumptatorship for a moment, then I guess it comes down to whether Republican governors and state legislatures are prepared to swear an oath of allegiance to Trump in spite of what the Constitution has to say - though that would basically mean convincing all those who administrate authority in a state to abandon any allegiance they may have toward the US as a constituted nation and instead pledge fealty to the governor and/or legislatures directly. It could happoen, but I don't think the Republicans have either inclination or the infrastructure to be able to effectively cede power from the Constitution to the White House and maintain order on the ground.

Still, even Rome fell in the end.

[Scot Dutchy]

Took a few hundred years though. I am not saying it will happen but the situation is building up where it could. Dont forget the wealth that he represents. They would be glad to have that power. He also has 30 - 40% of the electorate as supporters and think about the number of weapons supporting him. It is frightening.

[Animavore]

[Animavore]

Saw this and 42 sprang straight to mind.

[Scot Dutchy]

How far can he go before he is shut down?

Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum

President lashed out at reporters, swiped at Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong in coronavirus response

A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night. Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country.

Donald Trump, starved of campaign rallies, Mar-a-Lago weekends and golf, and goaded by a bombshell newspaper report, couldn’t take it any more. Years of accreted grievance and resentment towards the media came gushing out in a torrent. He ranted, he raved, he melted down and he blew up the internet with one of the most jaw-dropping performances of his presidency.

This was, as he likes to put it, “a 10”.

Trump’s Easter had evidently been ruined by a damning 5,500-word New York Times investigation showing that Trump squandered precious time in January and February as numerous government figures were sounding the alarm about the coronavirus.