Rise and fall of a mini-Trump: With Florida a global epicenter, Ron DeSantis can shut up now

[Nevilledog]

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/27/rise-and-fall-of-a-mini-trump-with-florida-a-global-epicenter-ron-desantis-can-shut-up-now/

It was a little startling to hear President Trump announce that he would throw out the first ball at a New York Yankees game next month — now that the delayed and shortened Major League Baseball season is underway — since has refused to do this since he became president. But since Dr. Anthony Fauci was getting so much good press in anticipation of his season-opening foray to the mound in Washington, Trump was clearly jealous, and no doubt pleased to learn there would be no crowd in Yankee Stadium to boo him. But then Fauci got ribbed mercilessly in the press for his wild pitch, and Trump was perhaps reminded that he might not be able to do much better. So over the weekend he announced to the nation that he was just too busy.

Our very busy president played golf on Saturday, and spent most of Sunday retweeting images of his paramilitary raid on Portland, rando sh**posters and conspiracy theories. He even retweeted a whiny lament about the greatness of hydroxychloroquine, a golden oldie at this point. So I'm sure the country feels much relieved by Trump's "new tone" that the media keeps going on about, and no doubt the catastrophic collapse of his already tepid poll numbers will reverse itself immediately.

Meanwhile COVID-19 continues to ravage the nation and no matter how hard new campaign manager Bill Stepien and the rest of his team try to get him to take it seriously, Trump is simply unable to do it. He reluctantly had to cancel his convention extravaganza in Jacksonville — which had been moved from Charlotte at his insistence — mainly because even Republican diehards didn't want to travel into the epicenter of America's massive surge in cases.

Trump's fatuous spin that this was another of his "strong" decisions to keep the country safe at all costs fell flat since there are endless clips of him expressing disdain for anyone who thought that staging a crowded political convention in the middle of a raging pandemic might not be a great idea. He has never demonstrated interest in keeping the country safe from this pandemic. He just wants to keep "his numbers" down, and that's not the same thing.

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[efhmc]

1. No one there to boo him.

[empedocles]

2. 'Florida as Global epicenter', plus close to home cases, just may sink in more to trump leaners.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. If they stopped testing

Trump and the republicans I bet they'd care about the covid situation really fast.