Why can't trump just start working on Covid, getting US companies making ppe & testing?

[mahina]

It’s obvious that failing us on this scale is going to lose him a lot of voters. Even if he only cares about himself which is clearly true, why won’t he do what is necessary here?

It’s way past trying to hide the fact that there’s a problem. The problem has escalated to the point that nobody rational doesn’t see it. The only way he’s going to get this under control is getting enough protective equipment and testing happening at scale and right away. Why won’t he do that?

Is he really trying to kill us?

[murielm99]

1. Yes, he really is trying to kill us.

[enough]

2. To do that, he would have to admit that he was wrong. Impossible. NT

[Nevilledog]

16. I really think it's that simple.

[brush]

26. Yes. His brain won't allow it.

[bdamomma]

3. he's

not mentally capable of thinking about others. He's a empty shell.

[JI7]

5. it's all about how he could profit

[sprinkleeninow]

25. defective seems...

[RockRaven]

4. The only reason he's not doing the right things is because he does not want to.

That's it.

[mucifer]

6. Instructions from his boss putin. Easier than paying the taliban and it destroys our economy

all good for putin.

[SheltieLover]

19. Yup

🤬

[catrose]

7. Because he really doesn't know how to do anything

[brush]

28. This too. He's failed at everything in life. Lost the hundreds of millions of his father's money...

he cheated his siblings out of, went bankrupt running casinos for God's sake. Then had to go to the Russkies to get funded because American banks won't lend to him anymore because he doesn't pay back his debts. That scripted reality show is the only reason the dumb half of this country thought he was a successful business tycoon, and in reality, that is "fake news", to use his own parlance.

You're right. He doesn't know how to but thinks he can weasel his way through as he's done his whole miserable life.

[spanone]

8. Then he would be admitting it happened under his watch

as he said, he takes responsibility for NOTHING.

FUCK HIM

[soothsayer]

9. That's a great question. Is he really in deep denial?

Does he truly believe it’s a hoax?

Does Pence feed him a bunch of nonsense about all the supplies they have and how governors are happy?

Do they have supplies and tests they’re sitting on and the prez is unaware Jared is not distributing them?

Does he still think hospital workers are stealing them?

Is he actually trying to kill us because Putin wants him to?

Is he being played by Putin but unaware?

Is he just criminally stupid?

Does he really think it will just magically disappear?

Does he think it will hurt the rocket ship economic recovery if he has to acknowledge the virus is running wild?

[Nevilledog]

17. ...

v

[bdamomma]

10. maybe he wants to

kill Americans and have Russians take over the country. Paranoid answer, but you never know about this maniac case.

[ariadne0614]

11. All roads lead to Putin. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. It's obvious, he's really trying to kill us. He's vicious evil scum.

[Yavin4]

13. Trump has a binary view of the world.

1. Things that helps him win re-election.
2. Things that hurt him from winning re-election.

He sees the virus in the 2nd category. He's incapable of seeing it any other way.

[Initech]

14. Because he's too damn lazy to care.

He's got his marching orders from AM hate radio and Fox News, and the only thing he cares about is what's good for him, the rest of us don't matter.

[Alex4Martinez]

15. It's "The Art of the Deal", He's been feathering his post presidency retirement account from day one

So he cut deals to allow mask and ventilator makers to do so at maximum profit.

He put an oil man in the department of energy, wife of Blackwater in as Secty of Education.

There's nothing he does that can't be tied directly to making rich friends richer.

And that's why he's not doing much for votes.

I think.

[IcyPeas]

18. What's in it for him?

He doesn't give a shit about people dying. Only if he can profit somehow.

It's all just a game to him.

[Skittles]

20. he works for Putin, not America

Trump is Putin's wet dream.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

21. I've been asking this question for weeks and never gotten a good answer

Why hasn’t Exceptional America managed to produce N95 masked for EVERYONE by now?

[brush]

29. Yes. That could've been done months ago. Manufacturing those N95 masks is not rocket science.

We and all the medical professionals could all have been wearing those for months and the virus would've been defeated, that is if we had a president with enough brains to realize that all he had to do was to deploy the Defense Production Act, get the masks assembly lines going and of course, wear a fucking mask in leading by example.

We don't have that president as there was nothing in it for him.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. He felt that DPA was absolutely essentially

to keep meat-packing plants functioning

[brush]

33. Maybe he can't walk and chew gum at the same time but our manufacturing companies can...

do more than one thing at a time. We've got the worst president ever at the worse possible time who can't think beyond meat plants?

We are so screwed.

I can't...I just can't take this much longer.

[uponit7771]

22. Trump is Joker from Dark Knight, the stupid version who wants to see it burn down

[Initech]

31. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

[not_the_one]

23. He is under the delusion that if enough people are sick

he will have an excuse to delay or cancel the election, at which point he will have to invoke martial law to keep us peasants "under control". His cultists will gush orgasmically at his power and maniliness.

Even better, let's force the kids back into school so they can infect each other, their teachers and staff, their parents, and all their family members.

Towards that end, he has delayed every logical response to a pandemic, letting it fester and infect, PREVENTING PPE from being available, PREVENTING tests from being available, so he can ANNOUNCE the vaccine in October, when everyone will say WHEW! JUST IN TIME, have ANOTHER orgasm and re-elect him.

As I said... MASSIVELY delusional.

[dawg day]

24. I don't understand. He could have tried in March, and even if he failed, people would respond.

He keeps bragging ad nauseum about how 5 months ago he (belatedly) stopped some flights from China.
But he doesn't even bother to lie and say he's done anything since.

And if he'd just tried, well, it might have worked at least a little, and people would think better of him. He must have been getting advice from his advisors to do something.

And he just didn't. He also lied and lied and blamed Obama (!). But he also didn't do the smallest thing to make this better. He could even start now. But he won't.
He stopped having those loony "briefings" months ago, which were insane, but at least he could pretend he was "educating' Americans. And then he quit even that.

Maybe he really does want to lose in November.

Or maybe he gets sadistic pleasure with every death.

[GeorgeGist]

27. HE WORKS FOR PUTIN

[MiniMe]

30. He doesn't want more testing

He thinks that more testing means more positive tests. I really don't think that he gets that if people are positive, they are positive, regardless of if they are tested or not. The only difference is you know about it if they are tested.

[CozyMystery]

34. Largest surgical face mask producer in US turned down

A Texas medical supply company told the federal government it could make 1.7 million N95 masks for the US per week — but no order came.

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-us-response-trump/2020/5/10/21253689/covid-19-masks-trump-white-house-prestige-ameritech

"The Post reports Mike Bowen, owner of the largest surgical face mask producer in the US — Prestige Ameritech in Texas — contacted top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services on January 22, the day after the first US coronavirus cases were identified.

His pitch: Provide the funds needed to dust off four dormant manufacturing lines, and his firm would produce 1.7 million N95 masks every week. According to Bowen, he’d been raising the alarm for years that the US was too dependent on foreign countries (where nearly 90 percent of masks used in the country come from) for production, and argued his manufacturing lines offered both a way around that, and to ensure the US would have the masks it needed.

Rick Bright — the former director of HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (who was ousted in April, and later filed a whistleblower complaint alleging he was demoted for fighting for science-based preparations “over political expediency”) — pushed top HHS officials to accept Bowen’s offer, to no avail. Prestige Ameritech later exported a million masks to China. The Post reports Mike Bowen, owner of the largest surgical face mask producer in the US — Prestige Ameritech in Texas — contacted top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services on January 22, the day after the first US coronavirus cases were identified.

His pitch: Provide the funds needed to dust off four dormant manufacturing lines, and his firm would produce 1.7 million N95 masks every week. According to Bowen, he’d been raising the alarm for years that the US was too dependent on foreign countries (where nearly 90 percent of masks used in the country come from) for production, and argued his manufacturing lines offered both a way around that, and to ensure the US would have the masks it needed.

Rick Bright — the former director of HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (who was ousted in April, and later filed a whistleblower complaint alleging he was demoted for fighting for science-based preparations “over political expediency”) — pushed top HHS officials to accept Bowen’s offer, to no avail. Prestige Ameritech later exported a million masks to China."

[mahina]

38. Whoa. So yes.

Painful.

[struggle4progress]

35. Trump? Work?

[Dorian Gray]

36. The sadly ironic thing is

if he had come out strong from the beginning and done this, he may have handily won re-election. I hate the man, and I couldn't have predicted how incredibly horribly and negligently he and his admin would have handled this mess. It's a shitshow.

So, he's dug in his heels and will never admit he's wrong. Therefore, he can't reverse course. I don't think he or Jared would know how to.

[leftyladyfrommo]

37. If he did that he would have to admit there is a problem.

Covid 19 doesn't exist.