Trump tried to bluff the virus away, because he was afraid it would make him look bad leading up to campaign season. That didn't work. The virus spread anyway. Pretending it would vanish didn't make it vanish.

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So he turned it into a reality TV show with him as the star. But the press started calling him on his lies and made him look like the fool he is. The virus kept spreading. Americans kept dying. Trump looked stupid and incompetent.

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Trump tried to use the virus to extort political favors. Tens of thousands died as he withheld help from states he didn't like. The governors of those states got around his extortion, became more popular than Trump.

And the economy crashed.

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Trump had been planning to run on the strength of the economy Obama created. But the unemployment rate will soon be higher during the Great Depression. Trump is trying to order Americans back to work. Hundreds of thousands will die. Trump will lie about the number of deaths.

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And now there increasing numbers of people in the West Wing are testing positive for the virus.

It's all crashing down around Trump.

What's his next play?

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