Trump shows off his "plan". I just knew this wasn't going to go well

[underpants]

I saw a brief clip of this yesterday and instantly knew this was going to blow up in their face. I didn’t even have the sound turned up but I said out loud “Oh no. Please tell me this isn’t cover for ignoring the Obama playbook”. And then I laughed.

Today we learned that their plans specific to daycare and bars are 1 page Yes/No brainers that everyone already knows.




The New York Post has the video which is HILARIOUS. It looks like Trump and McEnany are either taking kids on a field trip or the worst tour guides ever.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/trump-kayleigh-mcenany-tout-administrations-pandemic-preparedness-plan/

REVEALED: Trump's pandemic 'plan' that press secretary waved at reporters was savaged in wargame report she was also holding - which warned of medical supply shortages, inadequate funding, and federal confusion just months before outbreak

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8321681/Pandemic-plan-Donald-Trump-claims-actually-revealed.html


Trump claimed Thursday that he did have a playbook to battle the pandemic
He had press secretary Kayleigh McEnany carrying binders to prove his point
One was a January 2018 plan titled 'Pandemic Crisis Action Plan Ver. 2.0'
She also held after-action report from 2019 'Crimson Contagion' simulation
The wargame simulated a deadly influenza pandemic originating in China
Report found severe deficiencies in federal preparedness for an outbreak
Warned of confusion in federal response over agency responsibilities
Predicted shortfall of masks and ventilators due to inadequate supply chains
Bluntly stated there was 'insufficient funding' designated for a pandemic

[riversedge]

1. Well, then SHOW US YOUR PLAN!! NOT JUST THE BINDER! YOUR PLAN FOR 7 WEEKS WAS TO PLAY IT DOWN

[underpants]

6. That was the give away for me

Oooh a binder.
Me: oh no. Not a binder.

I noticed the Obama playbook was just clipped together.
See how ours is so shiny and professional?!?!?

I’m not kidding. The visual alone told me everything I needed to know. It reminded me of the table covered with files that Trump used during the campaign to show how complicated his tax returns are. Or when he pulled the letter out of his jacket.

[panader0]

22. I saw that too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13438207

[iluvtennis]

30. + agree nt

[jaxexpat]

55. Of course he has binders, his girl carries them for him.

Some binders of women, some binders of men and some empty binders.
Republicans are really focused on binders.

[coti]

65. Just like in 4th grade. The most important part of a student's geography report was always

the report cover.

[Jarqui]

2. Really stupid people ..nt

[RobinA]

58. One Of These Days

when I watch one of those clips my hand is going to tighten around my mouse and I'm going to smash it right through the monitor.

[GusBob]

3. We have and are seeing their plan in real time

Given the results we are seeing their plan sucked

[Alex4Martinez]

4. underpants: It looks like they just replaced "October 2019" with "January 2020" on the cover

It's damning, they KNEW!

Some links:

Read this document from October, see page 6 cover:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6824-2019-10-key-findings-and-after/05bd797500ea55be0724/optimized/full.pdf

And this NYT article:

WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the United States, it was first detected in Chicago, and 47 days later, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. By then it was too late: 110 million Americans were expected to become ill, leading to 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.

That scenario, code-named “Crimson Contagion” and imagining an influenza pandemic, was simulated by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services in a series of exercises that ran from last January to August.

The simulation’s sobering results — contained in a draft report dated October 2019 that has not previously been reported — drove home just how underfunded, underprepared and uncoordinated the federal government would be for a life-or-death battle with a virus for which no treatment existed.

The draft report, marked “not to be disclosed,” laid out in stark detail repeated cases of “confusion” in the exercise. Federal agencies jockeyed over who was in charge. State officials and hospitals struggled to figure out what kind of equipment was stockpiled or available. Cities and states went their own ways on school closings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.html

This doesn't help their case.

K/R

Thanks for the post.

[underpants]

9. Thank you. I hadn't seen much about it here. Notice something?

I noticed that at least they took the step of printing out a new cover not just scribbling over it with a sharpie.

[central scrutinizer]

16. Damning indeed

Drumpf has repeatedly blamed Obama for the “empty shelves”. Even assuming this ludicrous claim has any truth, we know that they did a simulation in October. You’d think they would have discovered the empty shelves then and acted. But nothing was done (and is still not being done).

[Alex4Martinez]

18. Yup, his own Crimson Contagion report from last year tells him he needs to step the fuck up.

Last edited Fri May 15, 2020, 11:01 AM - Edit history (1)

Not in January of this year but last October.

Are they batshit crazy putting it out?

This is priceless!

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6824-2019-10-key-findings-and-after/05bd797500ea55be0724/optimized/full.pdf

[Baitball Blogger]

32. +1

[underpants]

43. Really. It's better to just not than to

I get the feeling this was Trump throwing a fit and wanting to see HIS PLAYBOOK. They grabbed what they must have thought was close enough and printed a new cover and put it in binders. I mean seriously. As if no one was going to follow up on that.

I don’t know if Mitch flat out lying about the Obama playbook even existed spurred this on. I really can’t imagine what they put out yesterday being even a week in the making. But then who the hell could have really imagined the whole Clustertrump being THIS BAD.

[Alex4Martinez]

60. I'm beginning to think those still hanging on w him are just phoning it in.

There must be a whole lotta people rolling their eyes.

[William Seger]

36. Well, the one from October does say "Draft" in the title

... but I'm willing to bet that the reason this is just now surfacing is that Trump & Co were 100% oblivious to it. Anyway, we'll have to see if the report concluded that we should just let the pandemic "wash over us" and "ride it like a cowboy."

[OMGWTF]

38. Like some jerkhole telling a rape victim to "relax and enjoy it."

[Alex4Martinez]

61. You mean something like, "Nice and easy, nice and easy, just relax"?

Rapist in chief.

[livetohike]

5. The press secretary looks like the kid who wrote a one

paragraph book report the day it was due, but is trying to pass it off as substantial. They really think we’re that stupid. It’s all so pathetic.

[underpants]

7. Yes. I had so many thoughts going

and I didn’t want to make the post too long. Trump is standing there like he’s in the group project and she (with her purse mind you) just ran in with what they slapped together at the last minute.

Too funny. The video is a classic.

[livetohike]

47. It deserves the DU photoshop treatment. I have no clue

how to photoshop, but you’re idea is a great one .

[JHB]

8. "I did TOO read the book!"...

...proceeds to give book report on the Classic Comics version, can't answer questions about parts the comic skipped.

[underpants]

14. Notice how they did it on the way out

I’m guessing they were leaving for his speechify thing in Pennsylvania. It both added to the last minute element and gave them a “oh sorry cant answer questions right now” excuse.

The worst part is that they used a report that spelled how unprepared they were and predicted pretty much everything that was going to happen in this particular part of the entire F’ing Clustertrump.

[Botany]

10. Kayleigh McEnany has sold her soul she went to and got degrees from Georgetown, Oxford, and ...

... Harvard Law and now she is pimping lies for the biggest fuck up in America's history. She is on
record as saying that she makes a lot of money by being pretty and promoting right wing propaganda.

$250 shoes, designer bag $500 (guess), a custom made suit, and $5,000 + on rings, jewelry, make up,
and hair but in the end she is just as phony as Trump's pandemic response plan.

[kimbutgar]

33. Her feet look so ugly in those shoes.

Sorry that outfit is unattractive and she is so plastic looking.

[OMGWTF]

39. She looks like a blow-up sex doll from Spencer's Gifts.

[kimbutgar]

41. I like your user name on DU !

Gave me a good chuckle!

[SammyWinstonJack]

45. Ha.

[Botany]

51. But she is a "Christian Sex Doll"

OMG I just saw her and Trump's statements on his pandemic response plans and after action report from
Jan. of 2020. I guarantee that the inside of those binders were blank.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/trump-kayleigh-mcenany-tout-administrations-pandemic-preparedness-plan/

[calimary]

52. THAT got degrees from Georgetown, Oxford, and Harvard Law???

Seriously?

Doesn’t speak well for those institutions.

[Botany]

54. I was wrong she attended Oxford but her B.A. is from Georgetown

From wiki ..... she is an act for money .... as cold blooded as they come. No doubt those binders
of Trump's plans and after action report were filled with blank paper.

Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, McEnany is the daughter of commercial roofing company owner Michael McEnany and Leanne McEnany.[3] McEnany was educated at the Academy of the Holy Names,[4] a Catholic preparatory school in Tampa. After leaving school, she majored in international politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.[5], during which she studied abroad at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[6][7] While at Oxford, she was taught politics by future British Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds.[8][6] After graduating from Georgetown, McEnany spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show.[5]

From there, McEnany enrolled at the University of Miami School of Law, before transferring to Harvard Law School.[2] Huckabee said that "one of the reasons [McEnany] went on to law school was because she didn't see she was going to have an on-air opportunity at Fox anytime soon."[2] At the Miami School of Law, McEnany was a recipient of the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence, a scholarship awarded to students in the top 1% of their class.[5] She graduated from Harvard in 2016.[2]

[MoonRiver]

11. Binders full of.....NOTHING

[central scrutinizer]

21. Nostalgic for the good old days

When we had Binders full of Women. Nothing life and death important there.

[MoonRiver]

34. Life was so simple then.

[nykym]

12. It's always easier to write a playbook afterthe fact

That way you can address all the accusations with more bullshit.
And of course this one is a blank book with a spiffy cover.

[gratuitous]

25. That's exactly what HHS Secretary Azar was there to say

In "rebuttal" to Dr. Bright, Azar popped out to claim that everything Dr. Bright complained about had been addressed by the administration. What Azar conveniently left out was the fact that the administration started acting months late, and still wasn't putting together a coherent plan that people can use and depend on. The major sticking point for any plan, of course, is that it has to explain why even the simplest things weren't done sooner, or suggest uncomfortable questions about Trump's failures.

[Croney]

13. She dashed by me in painted-on jeans...

(Apologies to Billy Ocean.)

I was just pondering how I would look in those pants. You do not want to know.

This is not bashing her looks. I've never had a thigh gap.

[magicarpet]

19. The vacancies and gaps in her head are far more troubling than her thighs...

[Croney]

24. That's for sure.

[Scarsdale]

48. Could it be that she wore

out that gap, while applying for this "job"? Professional liar? Slept her way to the "top"? Kushner got into Harvard the old fashioned way - daddy made a large donation after Jared flunked the test. Maybe Ms. McA-Ninny used her womanly wiles to get her seat?

[magicarpet]

69. Well,.. that is a marketable commodity as any Capitalist would say,...

.... what,..... are you a socialist ?



Price tags stick to everything,... don't you know ?

[iluvtennis]

31. Caribbean Queen. lol 😂

[mwooldri]

15. I believe that binder was full of women at one point. NT

[True Blue American]

53. You think they

Borrowed it from Romney, when he wasn’t looking?

[Shermann]

17. Seems legit

[underpants]

42. Oooh fancy. Yellow sharpie

LOL. That actually took me a minute.

[Alex4Martinez]

20. Link to the Obama Playbook here:

Lacks the glossy cover page but filled with cautionary information that was ignored by this administration.

Also ignored, their own October report.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6819268/Pandemic-Playbook.pdf

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Surprised they didn't boot a PC up with a Jan 2020 date and create files to show it was done then.

[spanone]

26. Bullshit.

We're supposed to believe this from an administration that is rife with lies about their lies.

[underpants]

46. Someone has to know

See post #43 this smells like appeasing a Trump fit.

With the press, just the WH press, and their relationship being what it is how could they POSSIBLY think this was a good idea?

As I stated elsewhere, it looks like they did this on the way to the event in PA. Drop it, Trump’s happy, act like this didn’t happen, Trump will dismiss questions about it as “nasty” and SpokesBarbie will have some smartassed demeaning contrived BS ready when she’s asked about it.

[Blue Owl]

27. Wow Donny that's so impressive

[samnsara]

28. we arent as stupid as she is...

[Indykatie]

29. The Papers From the UK Often Do a Better Job Reporting on Trump Issues than US Papers

[underpants]

40. This is the Daily Mail

Which I think is usually pretty conservative. Yeah it was THAT bad.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Trump is sick in the head

This is becoming a dementia regression into childhood

[jdanield]

37. blond bimbo deftly crawls up tRumps ass

what #TheCultOfDeath is calling insufficient blah blah blah - judge for yourself

the pandemic playbook Obama left and now supposedly didn't exist -
download all 69pp, here
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6819258/Playbook.pdf

[Scarsdale]

44. Ms. McAninny should

lay off the cosmetic surgery. Her face looks like it is made of silly putty!

[aggiesal]

49. That's not a plan ...

that's an After Action Report.
It's cover date is January 2020, so no doubt it came out on Jan. 31, 2020

A "Plan" comes after studying the After Action Report.

But we had to throw away the 60+ page Obama Plan, because ...
well it was Obama's.

Thanks Obama!

[underpants]

59. In case you haven't seen this

Here’s the thread in case the gif doesn’t work

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213351318

[Buns_of_Fire]

50. The Masks of the Crimson Contagion

Betcha Edgar Allen Poe could do something with that concept.

[greatauntoftriplets]

56. The pages inside probably all were blank.

[snort]

57. I get the feeling anything they show off is going to be

back-dated phony bologna. Ran a sim last year my ass. It's all bullshit.

[area51]

62. Little Kayleigh sez everyone but Trump had a plan.

Link to tweet

"Everyone seems to have a plan except Trump."

[underpants]

66. Too funny

Nice catch.

[Jamastiene]

63. On Twitter, #OperationWarpSpeed is trending.

I despise Trump and ALL of his hangers on. They are the reason evolution takes millions of years. It takes them that long to finally die out so the rest of us can move forward a tiny little bit more.

[Caliman73]

64. Of course it wasn't going to go well.

Here is my take:

What is in the plan is almost irrelevant. Trump and McEnany said they had something ready to go in AUGUST. Okay, they trashed President Obama's plan and had their own (yes, I know it is a lie).

Here is the thing though, let's grant them that they had a plan. YOU HAD A PLAN THAT ALLOWED THE VIRUS TO SPREAD TO 1.4 MILLION AMERICANS AND KILL OVER 85,000!

They own the shitty response. If they had a plan, was it to wait to do anything other than an ineffective travel restriction for over 6 weeks, HAVE NO PPE, NO Ventilators, and NO WORKING TEST? Was it in the playbook to play states against each other then have the Federal government STEAL supplies procured by the states you left hanging?

Like I said, let them tout their stupid "playbook", then the response is all theirs. Either the playbook sucks ass OR they completely failed in their response. Those are the only two options with a playbook. No more blaming others. "You had a playbook, what happened? Why are more than 85,000 people dead in 2 months with YOUR playbook?"

[underpants]

67. Spot on

We had a plan.
It must have sucked.
No it was great. The best.
Why didn’t you follow it?
We did.
THIS was the plan?
Yes. We have a binder too.
Your plan sucked.
It was Obama’s fault.

[Caliman73]

68. Definitely. Accurate summary.

To any logical person, it appears that he is hanging the response around his own neck with his "playbook" that he had all along, since August of last year.

He will definitely deny responsibility for any of the mess ups. That is just how he works. He has a perfect playbook, even though it has resulted in the most infections and the most deaths than any other country and lagging in testing. He is delusional.

[ProfessorGAC]

70. You Forgot A Couple Things

The terrible plan did nothing to prevent 20% market losses & 36 million people on unemployment.
Yep, it's not a very good plan.
Bad plan, worse execution.

[Caliman73]

71. Very true.

I didn't even think to go to the economic effects. I was focusing mainly on the human costs (though losing your job and savings is also a human cost).

Bottom line is that if he wants to claim that he has a plan (or had one since August of last year), then he is admitting that he is responsible for the outcomes since then, for this country.

The media/press really need to start hammering him about this. Either he is responsible or he is not. If he had/has a plan,then what the hell happened? Did he lose 85,000 lives in 2 months by incompetence or through malice? Those are the choices. Did the plan fail? OR Did he fail the plan? Those are his choices for an answer.

85,000 in 2 months AND still counting, is not acceptable.


Again, if President Obama losing 12,100 people to H1N1 over the span of an ENTIRE YEAR, was a disaster to Trump, then what is losing more than 7 times that much in 1/6th the time period? How can he, with a straight face, compare those two sets of facts and view himself favorably?

[ProfessorGAC]

72. Well The Answer To Your Trick Question...

...is 42 times worse! 7x the deaths divided by 1/6th.
And counting!
The answer to your second question about viewing himself favorably is easy!
He's nuts!

[Caliman73]

73. Sorry, I assume rationality...

Not aimed at you AT ALL ProfessorGAC. I have mad respect for you and your posts.

Of course Trump is nuts! Literally, he is clinically deviant and is a danger to others. He should be as we say in California 5150'd. That is the statue in our Welfare and Institutions Code for involuntary detention for psychiatric disabilities.

Trump and his followers would dance around the questions I posed, would come up with nonsensical answers, and would believe that the "owned" me. They are just that nuts.

[ProfessorGAC]

74. Of Course, You're Correct!

Chill out, and have a pleasant evening! Can't get too flipped out over what we can't control.

We can't fix stupid!

[Caliman73]

75. No worries. I calm down very quickly.

Learned long ago that you can't dwell on what you can't control. Also learned that there is very little that we can actually control.

Have a good one!

[Qutzupalotl]

76. Question, Kayleigh?

Since Obama's report was a PDF, couldn't you have put it in a binder too?

[struggle4progress]

77. "We designed this very perfect binder! And no, you can't see what's inside!"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

78. This is a societal setback: They're all as stupid as they look.