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Shortly before the summer kicked off, Donald Trump was hopeful. The president, his campaign, and his top lieutenants in his administration were busy branding Trump the face of an upcoming American rebirth. He and his White House staff made a big push to position him as the frontman for economic revival, as summertime employment upticks seemed on the horizon and as experts and politicians kept their fingers crossed that the seasons heat would help spur a respite from the global pandemic.
Trump and his 2020 team kept promising that they were doing everything they could to get him back on the campaign trail as soon as possible, where attendance at his signature mega-rallies would surely humiliate Joe Biden and the former VPs paltry turnouts. The president was relentless in telling the American public that it was time to get back to work, and that he was right about it being time to triumphantly and speedily open the country and show the coronavirus whos boss.
The planned rebirth would build upon a message crafted in the early months of this year, when Trump was gearing up to campaign on issues such as a strong economy and even criminal-justice reform. That effort was aimed at peeling away as many Black voters as he could from Bidens column, with his campaign knowing full well that even a marginal depression of enthusiasm for a Democratic presidential nominee among that demographic can help ensure Republicans keep the White House.
The summer would end, much to President Trumps giddey enthusiasm, with the 2020 Republican National Convention, a lavish, celebratory, in-person extravaganzavirus be damnedthat at every turn would show up Biden and the Democrats, who clung to their masks, their social distancing, and their safe spaces like politically correct cowards.
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Show the coronavirus whos boss?
What a simpleton.
Celerity
(43,304 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,754 posts)Please not so much conspiracy theory posts!! Please
Doodley
(9,088 posts)Healthcare - simply get rid of Obamacare and that will make it better. Don't replace it with anything.
Iran Nuclear Agreement - simply rip it up because that will make it better. Don't replace it with anything.
North Korea - simply be buddies with Kim Jong Un because Trump is such a great dealmaker - it's easy!
Relationships with our allies - simply insult them and make it clear who is the strongman.
Coronavirus - it will simply go away, despite what the experts say.
He has no strategy for anything other to think like a four-year old and to believe he can fix everything. He is the ultimate simpleton who thinks everything is so easy and refuses to listen to any advice.
Thekaspervote
(32,754 posts)Work either
Doodley
(9,088 posts)qwlauren35
(6,147 posts)REALLY disturbs me.
Republicans in the Senate are treating the stimulus as a campaign gimmick. If they don't think it will deliver votes, then there won't be a stimulus.
wishstar
(5,268 posts)I don't think the stimulus is in jeopardy but they are timing it to their best advantage. And by delaying the unemployment extension as long as possible, they're hoping to force people back to work now to reduce the horrible unemployment numbers.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)only weapon is fear and hatred. They could care less about COVID-19 nor jobs being lost nor invading cities with secret police nor attacking peaceful protestors nor opening up schools with no care for the children, teachers and staff.
They do know how to steal, cheat and lie their asses off. They have no concerns about fellow Americans losing their place to stay nor food on the table nor health care.
Senate went home on Friday and won't be back until Monday. No weekend negotiation and shithole went golfing while over 77,000 Americans today - infections, and death over 1,100.00
republicans just do not care.
underpants
(182,767 posts)I made this
GusBob
(7,286 posts)It reads like a lament, but for whom?
The writer sounds like he is gonna mis all the great things Trump was planning, and boy he makes sure to list them all
Things that he seems to mention in a positive way, as if Trumps' plans were a good thing to be missed
And no horse race for the poor daily beast. I know what they are lamenting