Trumps daily briefings are profoundly dishonest, delusional, confusing and erratic. The virus will not disappear anytime soon and the worst will not be behind us by June and it won’t disappear in the fall. Trumps handling of this crisis has been deadly. His ineptitude (1)
And incompetence will strangle and choke America’s future for years to come. The conman who said, “I alone can fix it” and promising to make America great again has birthed an era of death, suffering, economic collapse and total chaos across government at an hour of maximum (2)
Testing and crisis for the nation. The truth is the loan programs are not functioning, Frontline healthcare workers lack protective equipment and there is a lack of testing capacity to reopen the economy. The US has the worst response among the countries Trump brags (3)
About bettering. At a moment where 50,000 Americans are dead from COVID-19 and tens of thousands more fated to die, Trump stands in front of the country, behind the Seal of the President of the United States of America and talks about his TV ratings between finger-pointing (4)
And scapegoating everyone and everything that could possibly shield him from the brutal and illuminating light of reality. He is a disaster and lacks the capacity; morally, mentally and intellectually to fulfill the duties of his office. The official coordinating the federal (5)
Response was most recently a Labradoodle breeder and the administration just demoted a top scientists who spent his career developing vaccines because he resisted political pressure to engage in quackery to advance unproven but profitable and politically connected treatment scams
Trump praised the Chinese response for months and told the American people there is nothing to worry about. He possesses a deadly mix of traits that make him as profoundly unfit for a moment like this as a human being could possibly be. We will all suffer for it. This will (7)
Take years to recover from. It is time to be honest about the delusional happy talk and open, raging sewer of bullshit that flows from the White House briefing‘s. This is an hour of national emergency. It will require cooperation, empathy, (8)
Courage, sacrifice and imagination to get through it. Trump is incapable and unfit. He is worsening this crisis. A crisis that remains much closer to its’ beginning then its.’ end. We are headed towards a season of mass unemployment and economic hardship. There is no strategy.
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