Instead of Attacking the Coronavirus, Trump Attacks Americans

[CousinIT]

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-pandemic-war-his-own-citizens-1520593

Donald Trump has said he has "no responsibility" for the coronavirus pandemic, fobbing it off on governors and mayors whose repeated requests for federal help he's denied. Yet he's now sending federal troops to cities whose mayors and governors don't want them.

Trump wants to shift public attention from the virus, which he can't "dominate," to the streets of America, which he and his secret police can.

Even as coronavirus deaths are rising, he's spending time and resources waging a war on his own citizens rather than addressing the pandemic.

More Americans are on track to be hospitalized with the virus than at any other point thus far. Rates of new infections repeatedly shatter single-day records. As a result, the U.S. economy is backsliding.

Trump has never offered a national strategy for testing, contact tracing and isolating those who have the disease. He has provided no standards for reopening the economy, no plan for national purchasing of critical supplies, no definitive policy for helping the unemployed, no clear message about what people and businesses should do. He rushed to reopen without adequate safeguards.

It's been an abominable, chaotic mess—which is why the virus has come surging back.

[SunSeeker]

1. K & R

[Cha]

2. Yeah, what's that fuckoff's agenda?

[Mister Ed]

3. Damn fool could have used Obama's pandemic playbook to make a hero of himself.

Just the way he rode Obama's economy to glory. But he was too small and ugly, too stupid and vindictive. Instead, his team threw out the playbook and tried to bullshit their way out of a pandemic.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Vindictive. Because maybe people don't love him. His words for why we'll have a new president.