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Trump's lost interest in Covid, his advisor said. (Original Post) BigmanPigman Jul 2020 OP
Honestly, there's no difference from when he was (allegedly) interested soothsayer Jul 2020 #1
He only ever saw it as a platform for "looking presidential" and Tanuki Jul 2020 #3
+1 n/t Laelth Jul 2020 #5
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2020 #19
Beans and bullies underpants Jul 2020 #2
The beans will provide plenty of fuel for their gaslighting. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #22
😳😆 underpants Jul 2020 #23
DUzy meow2u3 Jul 2020 #49
Glaringly obvious and in keeping with Trump's usual methods gratuitous Jul 2020 #4
He will also continue to blame everyone from China to WHO to Anthony Fauci Tanuki Jul 2020 #33
He certainly has a short attention span pandr32 Jul 2020 #6
He is only interested in himself Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #31
Manage the pandemic? What a joke. The pathetic loser managing anything? What a joke!!!! SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #7
There's nothing in it for him-- AleksS Jul 2020 #8
His ultra-short attention span makes it impossible to measure his IQ dalton99a Jul 2020 #9
lost interest mnmoderatedem Jul 2020 #10
I lost interest in losing weight central scrutinizer Jul 2020 #44
The Pandemic is too large an issue for Trump to comprehend. MineralMan Jul 2020 #11
Bingo! BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #15
He let it get away too underpants Jul 2020 #26
He lost interest as soon as Hydroxychloroquine proved a bust. stopbush Jul 2020 #12
He was never interested in the disease. Only the messaging. gibraltar72 Jul 2020 #13
This messaging is "I Really Don't Care, Too". BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #18
"not really working this" ooky Jul 2020 #14
Mary Trump pointed out that doing what he's supposed Hortensis Jul 2020 #16
Trump is that guy you know with 10 different "projects" SoCal Roomba Jul 2020 #17
He was spending time on it before? Trenzalore Jul 2020 #20
Doesn't want to be distracted by the giant pandemic that is spiking out of control, PatrickforO Jul 2020 #21
Trump is using Portland as a trial run for military rule. Lonestarblue Jul 2020 #25
Exactly. I wonder by what authority does the Executive have to onetexan Jul 2020 #41
I've been saying this for the last month now. Initech Jul 2020 #24
Out of the classic triad of Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way, Trump can do none of... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #27
Trump in 2016: Only I can fix this! Sloumeau Jul 2020 #28
2020 campaign slogan: "I alone can fix what I alone did." alterfurz Jul 2020 #50
well donnie, the country hasn't. but they have lost interest in YOU. spanone Jul 2020 #29
When did he ever "manage the pandemic"? Mickju Jul 2020 #30
And his loss of interest.... paleotn Jul 2020 #32
Can you say "gross dereliction of duty"? sinkingfeeling Jul 2020 #34
It's probably better this way; at least he won't be stealing states' PPE supplies. Chemisse Jul 2020 #35
Well, he did impose a travel ban from China in January and it saved millions of lives. HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #36
This pig has never even considered "managing" the pandemic JDC Jul 2020 #37
"He's not calling and asking about data." Comedy genius if the subject weren't so serious. yonder Jul 2020 #38
"Maybe he'll catch it and die. Pence too".... Hekate Jul 2020 #39
My doctors all hate him... BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #46
Has anyone heard from Jared Kushner? left-of-center2012 Jul 2020 #40
He is in charge of testing, I don't BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #47
Ssshhhhhhh...can't you see the FSIL is busy solving the opioid crisis, Tanuki Jul 2020 #48
And whatever Jared was supposedly doing to combat the opioid crusis Tanuki Jul 2020 #51
Surprising . . . Richard D Jul 2020 #42
TOTUS Blue Owl Jul 2020 #43
Trump's COVID-19 briefings a disaster (April 2020) struggle4progress Jul 2020 #45
Remove him from office and lock him up, stat. Kid Berwyn Jul 2020 #52

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
3. He only ever saw it as a platform for "looking presidential" and
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jul 2020

furthering his bid for re-election. When that failed miserably, he moved on, because he has no intrinsic interest in the well-being our nation and its people.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Glaringly obvious and in keeping with Trump's usual methods
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:29 PM
Jul 2020

Trump tried two or three half-assed measures, they didn't work (in fact, made a bad situation worse), and now he's bored with it. The administration has in effect abandoned the country to its fate. Trump doesn't care, and he will show that in a thousand ways big and small in the months to come. When his indifference is pointed out, he will whine about how "unfair" it is to expect him to do anything.

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
33. He will also continue to blame everyone from China to WHO to Anthony Fauci
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:02 PM
Jul 2020

to President Obama and Vice President Biden for his own abject incompetence and his role in killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.

AleksS

(1,665 posts)
8. There's nothing in it for him--
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:41 PM
Jul 2020

He muddied the waters enough and has enough surrogates out there STILL calling it a hoax that he’s swept (likely) 200,000 dead Americans under the carpet. He neutralized the highest number of dead Americans under any president except during the civil war as a campaign issue, so why should he care anymore. I’m sure he doesn’t even register the dead people as people.

How the hell his cultists can ignore bodies stacking up in refrigerator trucks in Texas and Arizona, full ICU units in FL, is beyond me. They won’t understand it until they get it themselves.

dalton99a

(81,062 posts)
9. His ultra-short attention span makes it impossible to measure his IQ
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jul 2020

which many people say is too great for measurement


mnmoderatedem

(3,706 posts)
10. lost interest
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:46 PM
Jul 2020

and if I get a a malignant tumor, I'll just lose interest in it and start ignoring it. What bad could possibly happen.

MineralMan

(146,189 posts)
11. The Pandemic is too large an issue for Trump to comprehend.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:47 PM
Jul 2020

His solution is to abandon the issue and look for a simpler one. He simply can't cope with larger, more complex issues, and will not bother with them because he can't understand them.

He does this again and again, whenever his "solutions" for an issue fail to produce immediate and satisfactory results. His response is to abandon the entire issue and take it off his plate.

underpants

(182,270 posts)
26. He let it get away too
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jul 2020

Probably because as you said it was too big for him.

I read that Jared advised him to deal with it like it was just bad PR. That was basically February and after that it was too late. The task force pressers could have saved them a bit but those went south as soon as Trump just HAD to take them over. They turned into a disaster.

stopbush

(24,376 posts)
12. He lost interest as soon as Hydroxychloroquine proved a bust.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:48 PM
Jul 2020

He was all set to ride in on his magical white horse to save the world from the virus. He truly believed his “instincts” would trump science. When it all went belly up, he quit.

ooky

(8,885 posts)
14. "not really working this"
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:57 PM
Jul 2020

More like not working at all. He doesn't work. Locking kids in cages and snatching people off the streets in Gestapo style isn't work, it's how he plays. His evil games have just gotten more sophisticated in how he plays - from his younger days - when he was pulling wings off flies.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Mary Trump pointed out that doing what he's supposed
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:00 PM
Jul 2020

to would require admitting, or imply, that he'd been wrong. So tens of thousands of more people will die because his disordered mind sees admitting mistakes as strictly for weaklings.

Of course this depraved nutcase never was capable of being interested, and pandemic is now a big loser issue so he's abandoned the pretense.

SoCal Roomba

(44 posts)
17. Trump is that guy you know with 10 different "projects"
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:01 PM
Jul 2020

In his garage that never get finished.

“Over there is my Infrastructure Week, I started that and it turned out I needed more parts than I had, so I stopped. I’ll get back to it one of these days. Over there is my Coronavirus Task Force, it works, but honestly it was too difficult And took a lot of patience and time, so I gave up, I might take it out one more time for shits and grins. I just started this Divide the Country using Racial Dogwhistles While protecting statues and it came with this Calling ANTIFA Terrorists Add-on. Works pretty good, should keep me busy for awhile.

Of course there’s my baby over here, my campaign rallies. That stupid Coronavirus Task Force took up all my time and this baby was collecting dust. To be honest I’m pretty much back into this and the new thing I got. Probably gonna be that way through the fall.”

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
21. Doesn't want to be distracted by the giant pandemic that is spiking out of control,
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:12 PM
Jul 2020

and has already caused over 140,000 deaths, is it?

Just over 16 weeks until the election. A lot can happen in 16 weeks.

For instance, there was an armed robbery this morning in Highlands Ranch, Colorado - an affluent suburb to the south of Denver, in northern Douglas County. The suspect was at large, so the Douglas Sheriff ordered a lockdown, but sent what people in that neighborhood are guessing are national guard people - guys in military camouflage, masks and with fully automatic weapons.

I mean, the lockdown is one thing, but fully armed soldiers? To catch a guy suspected of armed robbery?

This shit is happening ALL OVER this country.

Lonestarblue

(9,874 posts)
25. Trump is using Portland as a trial run for military rule.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:26 PM
Jul 2020

So here’s an interesting question. The leaders of the US military services have so far refused to play Trump’s game of declaring war on US citizens after the debacle of a photo op in DC. Now Trump is using the equivalent of his own private army that he controls through agency heads. If things get out of control as Trump plans, would the actual military come to the aid of citizens and counter Trump’s army? They would have to do it without an order from the Commander-in-Chief and possibly after a direct order not to interfere.

I truly am having a hard time getting my brain wrapped the condition of the US government just now.

onetexan

(12,992 posts)
41. Exactly. I wonder by what authority does the Executive have to
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 03:06 PM
Jul 2020

Round up its own army and arrest people. Clearly this cannot be legal & Congresa must help governors fight this blatant overriding of governors' powers

Initech

(99,909 posts)
24. I've been saying this for the last month now.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:25 PM
Jul 2020

He's bored and it's time to move on to the next wacky adventure.

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
27. Out of the classic triad of Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way, Trump can do none of...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:31 PM
Jul 2020

He can't lead. All he can do is bark orders and demand people obey them.

He won't follow becuase he thinks that is showing "weakness."

He won't get out of the way. That would allow someone else to get credit and accolades that Trump think belong solely to him.

Sloumeau

(2,657 posts)
28. Trump in 2016: Only I can fix this!
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:31 PM
Jul 2020

Trump 2020: I find the idea of working on this boring. I'm going golfing.

alterfurz

(2,467 posts)
50. 2020 campaign slogan: "I alone can fix what I alone did."
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 10:44 AM
Jul 2020

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

spanone

(135,627 posts)
29. well donnie, the country hasn't. but they have lost interest in YOU.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:32 PM
Jul 2020

So the deaths of 140,000 Americans is a 'distraction' to trump?

FUCK HIM.

paleotn

(17,778 posts)
32. And his loss of interest....
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 01:41 PM
Jul 2020

will change his handling of this pandemic how? He's disengaged? Who could tell?

Chemisse

(30,793 posts)
35. It's probably better this way; at least he won't be stealing states' PPE supplies.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:20 PM
Jul 2020

Really, anything he touches turns to utter crap.

If only he will focus solely on water pressure and incandescent bulbs, maybe we can survive until January.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
36. Well, he did impose a travel ban from China in January and it saved millions of lives.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:27 PM
Jul 2020

What else could he possibly have done?



yonder

(9,631 posts)
38. "He's not calling and asking about data." Comedy genius if the subject weren't so serious.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jul 2020

I see it now:

"Fauci?"

"Yes sir?"


"Trump here. Get me the Covid mortality reports for May and June, with both 7 and 14 day rolling averages. Got it?"

"Yes sir, I'm on it."


"Oh, and Fauci?"

"Yes, sir?"

"While you're at it, double check your model for the projected infection rate for the first week of August."


"Why, if I may ask sir?"


"After applying my least squares adjustment to the HHS raw data, it reveals an unexpected departure from the projection of the previous week. I think we have that same systematic error creeping back in that I discovered in the April report. I THOUGHT YOU FIXED THAT! Now quit wasting my time with your stupid questions and get me the two reports and your results of the projection model evaluation, on my desk by the end of the day. And don't bother me till then Fauci, Miss Hicks is giving me her report. Got it, Fauci?"

"Uh, yes sir."

No, tRump is not calling and asking about data.



Hekate

(90,189 posts)
39. "Maybe he'll catch it and die. Pence too"....
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jul 2020

It was an interesting way for my doc to end my annual physical a few days ago, I must say.

Both of us wore masks throughout (me and my various things seem to be under control, so yay) — but there was mention of DFT and the pandemic toward the end. So his comment was as he was literally closing the door and poking his head back in.

“Maybe he’ll catch it and die.”

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
46. My doctors all hate him...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 08:16 PM
Jul 2020

They feel free to say so when they see my mask (red slash through tRump's name).

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
51. And whatever Jared was supposedly doing to combat the opioid crusis
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 10:48 AM
Jul 2020

doesn't seem to be working out so well, either.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2020/07/16/nashville-opioid-deaths-soar-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/5444690002/

"The opioid epidemic has led to twice as many deaths as COVID-19 in Nashville in 2020 and is on track to kill more people than ever before, according to new data from the Metro Public Health Department.

Opioid overdoses are up 47% from this time last year. The majority of victims are younger men killed by fentanyl, which is commonly laced into heroin and other blackmarket drugs.


Surging deaths in Nashville expand upon an already growing crisis. Tennessee saw steep growth in drug overdose deaths in 2019 when compared to the previous year, newly released federal data shows.

As all eyes turned to the global coronavirus pandemic, Tennessee's opioid epidemic has quietly worsened outside of the public spotlight. Trevor Henderson, a Metro Health official who tracks the opioid crisis, said drug overdoses of all kinds have increased since the virus arrived in Nashville in March.". .(more)

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
52. Remove him from office and lock him up, stat.
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 10:51 AM
Jul 2020

More than 140,000 have died as a result of his criminal dereliction of duty.

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