Trump's latest rage-fest is one of his most absurd and dangerous yet

[mia]

President Trump is expected to move this week to curb U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, after raging at the W.H.O. for accepting China’s initial downplaying of coronavirus. It’s clear the WHO will be a fat target as Trump deflects attention from damning new details emerging about his horribly botched coronavirus response.

As part of this latest exercise in blame-shifting, Trump has taken his first public shot at Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his own administration’s leading medical expert. Trump angrily retweeted a call for Fauci’s firing, while again hailing his own early restrictions on travel from China and furiously bashing the media for failing to recognize that decision’s foresight and brilliance.

Underlying this rage-fest at all these targets is an actual argument: All criticism of his response pales beside this one travel decision, which he undertook in defiance of his own experts, the media, and international organizations, thus underscoring his brave and heroic leadership.

But this story line is profoundly absurd, for two very fundamental reasons. Amid new signs that it will be absolutely central to his efforts to erase his role in unleashing this catastrophe, it’s worth engaging frontally....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/13/trumps-latest-rage-fest-is-one-his-most-absurd-dangerous-yet/

[dalton99a]

1. Public health is a foreign concept to crazy trash

[Laelth]

2. The WHO does good work, and the US gives more money to the WHO each year than any other nation.

This is a real threat from the President, and our failure to fund the WHO could have a massive impact on global health.

It's a typical, Trump shake-down. "Make me look good. Toe the Party line, or I'll destroy you, even if it has a massive impact on global health. What do I care if an extra 10 million people die? Don't you care about that? If you do, you had better do everything in your power to make me look good."

Malignant narcissism in action.

-Laelth

[iluvtennis]

11. + agree with you. nt

[Iliyah]

3. I've said to friends and family that shithole . .

would kill a lot of USA citizens. Unfortunately I was right.

We need to defund shithole and kick him out of the WH soon, real soon. He hates America and her people.

[utopian]

21. I said the same thing the day after the election

It didn't take Nostradamus, that's for sure.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, Trumps tweet this morning effectively says states are on their own with testing and PPE

[leftieNanner]

15. But in nearly the same breath

he claims that he has authority over the states and can order them to open up their economies.

SMDH and

[uponit7771]

24. He said that in a tweet? This guy's fu kin nuts!!!

[Windy City Charlie]

5. Unbelievable

He keeps acting as if this is like a light where you just flip a switch to turn it off. As if firing people and decreasing funding will automatically make a situation go away.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. OH, so China shouldn't downplay the virus, but it's ok for Trump to downplay the virus

See what he did there?

[liberalla]

14. good point!

[2naSalit]

18. Exactly!

[stopdiggin]

22. exactly. thanks for highlighting the glaring hypocrisy! (nt)

[ashredux]

7. Trump is like a small child, that when corrected for bad behavior, goes and kills small animals

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Of course

that wouldn't be considered "typical" child behavior. That would usually result in a child being sent to a mental institution or the psychologist office (at the very least).

[llashram]

8. the chaos

the chaos this clown has unleashed in the ER's around this nation because of his "hoax" statements concerning Covid-19, his it'll "wash over us and be gone in a few weeks" statements is nothing short of catastrophic. My friend's daughter is an ER nurse and the shortage of PPE is a major danger to our health care first responders. In some of the larger clusters, it is extremely dangerous for our first responders. I will never forget nor will I stop telling people that this CIC is a malignant narcissist concerned only about his press. He cares nothing about us. I will never forget this potus and his general disregard for facts concerning this disease because he thinks he's someone smart.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Are there any adults in the room left that can control this guy?

I feel like, if nobody else, the Democrats in the House need to step up at some point (if they're not already) and discussing another Impeachment if he continues down the road he's on. Firing Dr. Fauci and kneecapping WHO in the midst of all this and possibly even trying to order everybody off of lockdown prematurely and unsafely should be viewed as actual safety threats to millions of people here in the US and billions more worldwide. I would love to see Republicans and Alan Dershowitz try to defend all of this during a Senate trial.

[gab13by13]

12. Yet, how much is it costing us

to keep our troops in Saudi Arabia guarding their oil? Most likely this is another quid pro quo deal, Trump is benefiting some way.

[Raster]

13. Hey Susan Collins... still concerned???

Think #tRumplethinskin has learned his lesson yet?

[saidsimplesimon]

26. chuckle, thanks

[LudwigPastorius]

16. Trump's not done killing people yet.

He needs more body bags to sate the bawling infant inside of him.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Republicans despise all international organizations that might have control.....

in the slightest way over any of their corporate sponsors and friends, dictators, autocrats and plutocrats.

We do remember how they have demonized, demeaned and defunded the United Nations for decades.

Simple: It's all about keeping all the power and control in the hands of those with the money.....

[Captain Zero]

19. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

nt

[Initech]

20. This is for the greater good of America, not the greater good of Donald Trump.

[Takket]

23. congress needs to override this.........

[Brother Buzz]

25. If he does, the optics are going to bite the orange anus in the ass

The one-and-only Lady Gaga is partnering with the WHO and Global Citizen for the 'One World: Together At Home' star-studded, April 18 concert special for the U.N. Foundation's COVID-19 Response Fund.

NBC, CBS, and ABC have joined in and will simulcast they event. Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel are teaming up to co-host it, and you have to be brain dead if you believe they won't take shot's at the orange anus if the ass takes a shit on WHO.




https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R

[empedocles]

28. ' . . . most absurd and dangerous yet . . . ' traitortrump has been talking to putin again

[BjornSig]

29. Defund the WHO

I do not often agree with him! I would like to see a huge reduction in the money that the US taxpayers give to the World Health Organization.

They have not done a good job with this pandemic thus far.