Trump refuses to lead as pandemic worsens and allies desert him on masks

[Mike 03]

CNN
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 8:23 AM EDT, Wed July 01, 2020

Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster. But Donald Trump has nothing to say and no answers to mitigate a calamity unfolding on his watch that he seems resolved to ignore.

On the day when the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci said he would not be surprised to see the US record 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day, Trump refused to break his deafening silence.

And the day after his White House described record-breaking new infections that are sweeping the nation as "embers that need to be put out," Trump's campaign claimed credit for the "phenomenal" success of his botched pandemic leadership.

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But Trump on Tuesday tweeted cryptically "THE LONE WARRIOR!" -- apparently embracing his isolation from even political allies and the scientific approaches that have proven elsewhere to at least slow the spread of the coronavirus in the short term.

Undeterred by the deepening national crisis, Trump is pressing ahead with plans for an early July Fourth celebration at Mount Rushmore that will bracket him symbolically and without irony alongside four of America's most revered Presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The social distancing advised by Trump's government will not be enforced.

Read more: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/01/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213681865

[RAB910]

2. This should be a massive scandal that makes Trump unelectable

but it's not because FOX News and its ilk have distorted our nation and its values

[Newest Reality]

3. We must have...

We must have a lot of masochists or people with a death wish in this country if anyone wants to re-elect a tyrant who puts the country in harms way, which is a fact.

Maybe the want to do something new like death by President suicide because they loathe themselves, their lives and everybody else? Maybe they have just been so deplorable that they want as much suffering as Trump and the GOP can dish out. "I've been bad! Very, very bad!"

Well, Predator Grump is certainly the one that can fulfill those morbid, dark needs, that's for sure.

[Cha]

4. trump is no match for anything.. much less the COVID Global Pandemic

trump made sure it spread by calling it a "democrat hoax" for months and then he quit.

Thankfully Leaders have not.

[Nevilledog]

5. I like my warriors to be able to work with their unit.

He's the fucking poster boy for fragging.

[bdamomma]

6. I hope no one shows up

and at Mt. Rushmore, is that his way to say FU to those Presidents, or to start a fire.