St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Exposes Trump's 'Colossal' Lie About Obama

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed former President Barack Obama for his own administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

“The last administration left us nothing,” Trump said last month.

But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that Trump’s own budget documents show the opposite ― exposing what it called “a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions.”

The newspaper’s editorial board said the Trump administration told Congress that the Obama administration left it with everything needed for a pandemic ― and sought big budget cuts from the programs as a result.

Trump’s 2020 budget asked Congress to cut the pandemic preparedness budget by $102.9 million, part of $595.5 million in requested cuts to public health preparedness and response outlay.

“Obama left office with an unblemished record of building up the nation’s pandemic preparedness,” the newspaper said. “Trump systematically sought to dismantle it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-obama-pandemic-budget-cuts-085217775.html

Trump 2016 - only I can fix it

Trump 2020 - I'm not responsible.

[Martin Eden]

1. Trump can only poison and destroy

The only "fix" he delivers is a daily dose of lies and hatred for the addicted members of his cult.

[Rebl2]

25. Like someone

said everything trump touches dies.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Somewhere, in EVERY ad........

they must ALWAYS include:

"I don't take any responsibility at all."

EVERY ad - EVERY time!

[lunatica]

13. With a video of Someone asking and him saying it.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Right on in calling out the lies. How many more lies will it take for everyone to finally notice?

I think that seniors have finally seen the light, being that we've been made victims of the CV, 'if you get the CV and you're old, go ahead and die for the rest of us'.

No. I don't so. I'm sick and tired of others professing vast intelligence telling seniors what to do.

[UpInArms]

4. full editorial at this link

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-if-the-pandemic-preparedness-cupboard-was-bare-it-was-trumps-doing/article_bd1bb8d6-7477-590d-af72-ae4e305de601.html

and it is well worth reading

[stillcool]

5. thank you!

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Thanks For The Link

Those pesky facts again.
These pukes are such terrible liars!
They didn't realize the appropriations tables are public record?

[NBachers]

23. Agreed - well worth reading.

[crickets]

24. Thank you.

The editorial was concise and more informative than most news articles. Well worth the read and bookmark. Journalists should aspire to do as well in getting the point across with straightforward facts.

[JDC]

28. TY

[Beartracks]

6. Trump 2020: I'm not responsible for this mess, but I'm doing a great job!

[Xipe Totec]

7. Trump is a victim of his own suck, says everyone else. nt

[Mr. Ected]

8. Just a blanket generalization, but

If anyone, anywhere, anytime takes Donald J. Trump at his word, they are the absolute worst judge of character in the world and we needn't discuss them any longer.

[KS Toronado]

10. Are you thinking like all our republiCON congressmen who voted nay on impeachment?

[IronLionZion]

11. Dude's only been president 3.33 years

It takes time to rebuild a completely destroyed economy during a great recession...oh wait.

[malaise]

12. This needs wide coverage

i hope Rachel and Lawrence cover this

[SCantiGOP]

14. Trump was right - only he could do it

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be more corrupt than Nixon and dumber than Bush, but trump soared to #1 on both counts.

[LymphocyteLover]

15. Because of course it was a massive lie

I am beyond disgusted with this psychopathic evil administration and this utter piece of shit POTUS

[AllaN01Bear]

16. he said," i take no responsiblity for this ", nature hates a vaccuum, so the state

governors stepped up and he is upset? there has been no leadershio since 2016.

[barbtries]

18. "colossal trumpian proportions"

is redundant.

[world wide wally]

19. And,beyond that he also cleared out all of our ammunition

[Grins]

20. Poor sentence structure...

“...a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions.”

Better:

“another colossal lie of colossal Trumpian proportions.”

[czarjak]

21. I don't feel owned...

[certainot]

22. republicans used ebola scare to turn 9 senate seats in 2014 and dems need to consider

that trump team was considering the recent 2019 congo ebola event similarly, maybe ramp it up with some budget cuts. when that got under control they may have been stupid enough to think they could use covid similarly, and that may explain the delay in acting.

[Blue Owl]

26. Go fuck yourself Trump you miserable asshole

Lying sack of shit who would step on his own mother to get ahead

[Johnnie Mae]

27. My Impotence

Thanks 4 that factual link. Here we are all hating on a sick, demonic moron. Maybe he enjoys it. I don't know. So many good minds & intelligent folks are on our side of the fence. But that will have little impact on those electoral college voters. Anydody read "Hiding in Plain Sight" by Sarah Kendzior? She is often on MSNBC. She warned of Trump's presidency ten yrs ago. It explains a lot. Sarah warns us, if we want to get out of this mess we have a huge job ahead of us. I sincerely hope we can get it done.

[Lock him up.]

29. The election is every State business.

Whatever he whines, cries, tweets dement conspiracy theories all day won't give him any power over how the States will manage the votes.

The way it's going, the 2018's Historic Blue Wave will turn into a Historic Blue Tsunami. Most voters are getting sick and tired of the constant chaos, the daily avalanche of lies and temper tantrums, the inject-disinfectant-and-shine-UV-light-in-the-ass absolute irresponsible crazyness, the carelessness for the preventable 100,000 deads while going golfing and costing over $113M, the endless corruption.

Granted, no complacency allowed. We all saw what happened 3.5 years ago.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

https://electoral-vote.com/

[mopinko]

30. the truth is always welcome, even if it takes too long.

[raccoon]

31. K&R. Nt

[NCjack]

32. The newspaper exposes his lie. It should demand his resignation. nt