Trump's desperate hours: He was contemptuous of the virus -- now it has him trapped

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Trump was convinced COVID-19 was nothing — and now it's in the White House. He's a desperate, dangerous man


Lucian K. Truscott IV
May 9, 2020 12:00PM (UTC)

Imagine you're dreaming, and it's a really, really bad dream. It's night, and something is chasing you down a dark street. You're running and running and running, trying to get away. All the windows are dark. No lights are on in any of the houses and apartments along the street. You bang on doors, but no one answers. You try the door handles, but the doors are all locked. When you cry out for help, no words come out of your mouth. No one can hear you. You keep running and running and running…

This is why Donald Trump is awake at 2:30 a.m., rage-tweeting. When he sleeps, he dreams, and his dreams are nightmares. He's a frightened, desperate man. Every day, he turns on his television, and the death count from the COVID-19 virus keeps going up. The economy — the precious economy, the one he's so proud of for no particular reason — is tanking. His poll numbers are down. His approval ratings are down. He's losing to Joe Biden in national polls and in every important swing state. Nothing he does is helping.

He has tried everything to beat the virus. First he denied it was a problem. You remember the quotes from February and March: It's only a few cases. Like magic, it will just go away. Then his people convinced him it wasn't going away, and he had to do something. So he trotted out a string of corporate execs and golf buddies onto a stage in the Rose Garden and declared a national emergency. Surely that would fix things!

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Trump's arrogance and dithering and denial has cost tens of thousands of American lives and will cost tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, more. He is the president, and he is supposedly in charge, and nothing he has done has worked. His scattershot plan to "reopen" the economy won't save him. Blaming China or Barack Obama or Joe Biden or anyone else won't save him. He is a defeated, desperate man. We still have to vote in the election in November, but he has already lost. The virus beat him.

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/09/trumps-desperate-hours-he-was-contemptuous-of-the-virus--now-it-has-him-trapped/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I hope he suffers miserably until his last days on earth.

He is the absolute worst vermin I've seen in my lifetime.

[Laelth]

8. He suffers from a very obvious Cluster B personality disorder.

Every day he spends on this Earth is a misery to him. Nothing can change that. The Coronavirus just made it a little worse.

-Laelth

[woodsprite]

2. Which may be one of the reasons he's at Camp David today. nt

[MerryBlooms]

4. Wonder if he's meeting with top republicans and spreading the corona?

[Scarsdale]

9. We can only hope!

Miserable, tiny, failure of a "man".

[keithbvadu2]

11. He is supposedly meeting with the Joint Chiefs at Camp David this weekend.

He is supposedly meeting with the Joint Chiefs at Camp David this weekend.

Our country does not need such risk with Trumpvirus.

[MerryBlooms]

16. So once again, he's putting our national security at risk.

Thanks for the info.

[Grokenstein]

3. Found this beautiful clip in George Conway's replies:

Link to tweet

[Disaffected]

7. Now that is

pretty close to perfection!

[Cousin Dupree]

5. Karma, Baby. Karma. So sweet.

[RKP5637]

6. Just about everything he does, he brings onto himself. He is his own worst enemy. n/t

[Scarsdale]

10. Lindsey Graham must have a crystal ball.

Before the election he said "If we make Donald Trump our candidate, it will be the end of the republican party. AND - we will deserve it" Hey, Lindsey for once you were correct!!

[Blue Owl]

14. +1

I'd be OK with Lindsey's prediction coming true...

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Plus, he's a germaphobe. The Virus followed him to Mar-A-Lago, to the West Wing, to the WH.

He can run, but he can't hide.

Oh, and not to mention, he hasn't been able to play golf since March.

He's got his crankies on.

[matt819]

13. Great read (nt)

[Cha]

15. KARMA Can BE a

MF

[Brother Buzz]

17. Boy howdy, I love the way Truscott writes

I'm somehow reminded of DU's Plaid Adder, and her kick-ass essays back in the day.