WAPO OPED: The cost of Trump's deadly state of denial: BOOM!!!

[lindysalsagal]

As long as Donald Trump remains in the White House, the crisis that stalks our land will only get worse.

(I just wish it had been written by someone other than Joe Scarborough)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cost-of-trumps-deadly-state-of-denial/2020/04/25/d0488c5c-8591-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

President Trump has been stumbling through a year of magical thinking. The consequences of this deadly state of denial have been catastrophic for pandemic victims and the U.S. economy.

In January, Trump said the coronavirus threat was “one person coming in from China”: “We have it totally under control .?.?. it’s going to be just fine.” But the president’s intelligence community had been warning him for weeks about the coming threat when he made that spurious claim.

In February, Trump predicted the virus would go away by April. “It’s like a miracle. It will disappear.” That reckless prediction also came weeks after White House staff warned the virus could imperil millions of Americans’ lives while costing the U.S. economy trillions of dollars.

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Four months of delusional decisions coming from the White House have not produced a miracle cure. Instead, the country is more vulnerable than ever to a deadly pandemic and a debilitating financial collapse. As long as Donald Trump remains in the White House, the crisis that stalks our land will only get worse.

He mentions that in one day in april, more americans died than in the entire 7-year war in Afghanistan.

[mvd]

1. K&R

I knew Trump was bad enough to be deadly in some way. I just didn’t foresee a pandemic.

[murielm99]

2. Most of us didn't see this.

I thought he would kill us all in a nuclear war, or hand us over, slow motion, to Russia.

[renate]

3. There's still time....

[Dave Starsky]

7. I hear nuclear bombs can just, you know, knock it out.

I don't know. The nuclear just kills it. So maybe that nuclear can go in the blood or in the body or... you know, and that's every exciting. It's a very exciting thing they're doing, you know, with the nuclear. The doctors can do this now.

[Traildogbob]

10. Jeebus😱

Glad he does not come to DU. He would do it if he saw this. Can’t wait to play with small nukes. He could convince Mitch and his cult using those on heaviest hit blue states would save MurKKKa. Just get radio activity in there, through the skin or something, maybe injected. Look into that, you will need medical doctors, but that sounds pretty good there Scarfy McScarf Face. And the heat, peepul, lots of peepul say that heat would kill it too.what do we have to lose. Big beautiful nukes, perfect nukes.

[Jamastiene]

11. I almost wish one of the doctors would tell him this for sure works. Hold still.

Nuclear enema. Patriotic duty fulfilled.

[comradebillyboy]

4. Joe Scab and Meeeeka. Two of Trump's most enthusiastic

enablers. Joe's just bitter because Trump didn't reward him with a cabinet spot in return for all the free air time and fawning coverage back in 2016.

[SoonerPride]

12. This.

I refuse to watch those motherfuckers. They enabled him and giggled at his insanity in 2016.

They own this.

[niyad]

5. 7 year war in Afghanistan?

[alwaysinasnit]

8. That was my thought too. Aren't we still in Afghanistan?

[niyad]

9. Last I heard, we were. Casualties just recently, too.. Even if he meant Vietnam, that went on

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Longer than seven years (longer than eight, too, Gov. Cuomo).

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. Can a president be charged with committing war crimes against his own country?

There are more than 58,000 casualties attributed to the Vietnam War, which lasted years.

If present trends continue unabated, Fat Donnie will have achieved that goal by the end of next week. That's less than three months after the first documented death on U.S. soil. Had he done anything during the early weeks of the outbreak the death toll would have been substantially less than it is.

He's still not doing anything except lying and getting in the way of the governors.

[SheltieLover]

6. K&R