Vox: Trump is facing a coronavirus threat. Let's look back at how he talked about Ebola.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/26/21154253/trump-ebola-tweets-coronavirus

None of it is reassuring.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Feb 26, 2020, 1:20pm EST

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America is now confronting the possibility — or even likelihood — of a coronavirus outbreak within its borders. The novel virus and Covid-19, the disease it causes, could quickly become President Trump’s problem, and it’s instructive to look back at what had to say about Ebola and Obama’s response to it.

Spoiler alert: None of it is reassuring.

Trump used Ebola to make a bunch of reckless attacks against Democrats in the lead up to the 2014 midterms, then promptly dropped the whole thing

Trump’s first tweet about Ebola came on July 31, 2014 — the day before a State Department flying ambulance brought two American health workers back to Emory University, home of the CDC, from Monrovia, where they had contracted the virus.

“Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!” Trump wrote.

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump

Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!

9:04 PM - Jul 31, 2014

The next day, Trump demanded that the health workers not be brought back to the US — “Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!” he wrote — and followed that up by insisting that they “must suffer the consequences” for going to Africa in the first place.

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!

8:22 PM - Aug 1, 2014

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[GusBob]

1. And then when he became president......

the brainiac dismantled all the programs

[Wellstone ruled]

2. So what happens when

a US service member in South Korea is flown back State Side for treatment? Interesting how the level of Stupid increase with this POS.

[malaise]

4. A question I had from the beginning

why were people being quarantined at military bases?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Yah,really,

Military bases with mostly locals as shop keepers,cooks and dish washers as well as landscape and Maintenance workers. Yah,right. Again Stupid is trying to fool the populace 24/7. Once this SARS 2.0 hits his Base or so called Base,all shit is going to happen.

[underpants]

3. Ebola was end of the world big shakes in talk radio back then

A clear example, to them, of Obama's lack of leadership. Manly man Putin was THE leader to them.

I heard a local talk radio guy go on this extended rant about how BOLA WILL KILL ALL OF US!
One of the patients in Houston was allowed to stay in his apartment. It was reported that he vomited outside. ....hold on, here we go.... a dog could eat said vomit then transmit it to the community. Those people surely will transmit it to others and eventually we all die.

Seriously.