As Far as I Know, Donald J. Trump Is the First President

[MineralMan]

to ignore a major health threat to the population of the United States. He has minimized this threat since the very beginning, and continues to make false statements about it, even after over 90,000 people have died from CV-19.

How proud he must be to be the first President to engage in "Genocide by Ignorance." He is making history, though.

[MineralMan]

1. Actually, Come to Think of It, Ronald Reagan Did the Same

with regard to HIV/AIDS. I was mistaken. Trump is the second president to ignore a major health threat.

Notably, both were Republicans.

[Firestorm49]

5. Keep in mind that GW had intel about the World Trade Centers and chose to ignore it.

[jberryhill]

2. .

https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

[MineralMan]

3. Yes. I posted that correction while you were writing this.

Thank you.

[Iliyah]

4. asshole is playing golf while people are dying . .

his attack dogs are blaming CDC, pre-existing condition people and minorities for deaths, like it's their fault. rove is back saying that President Obama "drive buy shooting" speech against shithole - racist wording.

his daughter and musk talking about the "red pill".

firing of IGs and treason barr - gawd awful AG ever . . .

worst person in the WH ever. worst administration ever . .

and the republican party is agreeing with all of this.

[RKP5637]

6. Most of the GOP has turned into terrorist groups against the US. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Worst president Ever. Bought & paid for by Greed Over People. . . . nt

[Brother Mythos]

8. I recently read that Woodrow Wilson did the same thing with the "Spanish Flu."

According to what I've read, since Spain was neutral during WWI, they had no reason to not report honest flu data. On the other hand, all of the countries involved in WWI didn't want negative press about the flu to hamper their war efforts, so they all intentionally hid the real data.

I believe I also read somewhere that some believe the "Spanish Flu" actually originated in the US.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. That the "Spanish flu" originated here was a hypothesis a while back,

but is now largely thought not to be true.

What Woodrow Wilson did was to continue to send our soldiers from crowded, unsanitary camps on crowded, unsanitary troop ships, to Europe even though doctors kept on telling him no pause those troop movements because it was obviously spreading the flu.

John M. Barry's book The Great Influenza is incredibly good. He does hypothesize that it originated here, but has since changed his mind.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. We can add to that the total US dead in Iraq I, Iraq II, and Afghanistan

Wars that did not have to happen, where U.S. soldiers died to prop up Republican presidential egos and Wall Street profits.

[demtenjeep]

11. Just like he did Puerto Rico

They are still horribly in need