How are people not outraged at this president? How are there still people that support him despite the overwhelming and ongoing display of ineptitude from him and his administration on the handling of this pandemic?
At the time of this writing, April 19, 2020, there are 763,597 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States. As well, there are a reported 40,566 deaths and 70,123 recoveries at this time. The United States has more confirmed cases than any country in the world right now. Currently, the country with the next highest number of cases is Spain with 198,674.
It didn’t have to be this way. There were contingency plans for this very situation. However, because of the hubris of this president, the whole country is suffering. According to an article from Business Insider Trump ignored multiple warnings about the threat of a pandemic. The article reports that officials from the Obama administration briefed Trump on how to respond to a pandemic, just days before Trump’s inauguration. Then, in 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services conducted a training exercise that was remarkably close to what is currently going on. And, as early as January 2020, US intelligence officials warned Trump of a pandemic. By the end of January through the beginning of February warnings of the pandemic were included in Trump’s daily briefings. However, if you believe Trump no one could have known how bad things could be.
Trump has not missed the opportunity to use this global crisis to further erode our democratic republic. He has continued his rhetoric that he has “total authority” as president. On April 14, 2020 Trump claimed that he had “total authority” over states decisions on opening up and relaxing their social distancing guidelines. Surprisingly, Bret Baier from Fox News pointed out the hypocrisy from conservatives stating that “conservatives’ heads would have exploded if Obama had claimed total authority.” During that same program: “Fox News’ chief political anchor replied. “Constitutional scholars will say that this is not the president flicking on the switch, it’s the governors and the local authorities that have that going forward.” [Daily Beast]
On April 15, 2020 Trump has threatened to adjourn the US Congress over his appointees of federal judges and other political offices. [Reuters]
It is absolutely mind boggling how people still support this president and will still vote for him in November. This president wants absolute power with none of the responsibility. You can even watch him say that he takes no responsibility. Even his propaganda machine, Fox News, changed their stance on coronavirus. From the beginning Trump has been gaslighting this country, claiming they have it under control, that it would go away in April, that it was another hoax by the democrats, and on and on.
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