Have you read the article in WaPo about how the Trump administration handled coronavirus? It’s as long as a piece in The New Yorker so get comfortable.
I can sum it up in three parts: 1.) Trump thought it would go away in a month. 2.) He told everyone to have good thoughts and will the economy into recovery 3.) He’s bored with it now.
The accounts of the advisors, civil servants, volunteers and governors who were there are dumbfounding. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I love how Dr. Deborah Birx of mature hair up bescarved fashion sense objected to the proposal to send white masks to every family in the US. Couldn’t they be neutral colored?
Not that it mattered because when it came right down to it, wearing the equivalent of white jock straps on the face was seen as a non-starter.
But when Governor Hogan of Maryland, lifelong Republican, started losing his cool over all of the presidential positive happy talk, it got a little Twilight Zoney:
The Maryland governor, one of the rare Republicans who seemed unafraid to challenge Trump, said he directly confronted the president in some of these sessions about what was not working.
“I pushed back very hard when there was no testing program and there was no availability of basic supplies, like swabs and tubes and testing agents and ventilators,” Hogan said. “There were a few times the president bristled when I wasn’t saying everything was great. . . . One time the president said on a call, ‘You’re not being very nice to me.’ I said, ‘No, Mr. President, I’m always nice. I’m just telling you what the governors see.’ ”
Yeah, don’t think bad thoughts around him. He doesn’t like that. And he has ways of making you sorry.
I love America when we’re number one in leadership. But right now, the rest of the world thinks we’re pathetic because we have a brat in charge with enough power in his furrowed brow to kill us all.
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