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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPelosi on tapes- Nobody wants to cause a panic, you want to show leadership.
This panic excuse reminds me of what the right said about shrub after he stayed in the classroom reading My Pet Goat on 9/11.
Like his only choices were to sit and do nothing or run out of the room screaming, "were all going to die."
Link to tweet
marybourg
(12,586 posts)wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Trump had then quietly gone about doing what he should have done to prevent the spread of the virus. He could have ordered testing, tracing, and lots of PPE without creating panic. He could have suggested people wear masks as a precaution. The fact that he not only didn't do those things but he prevented them from being done makes it all one more lie.
bigtree
(85,975 posts)...sobering that it even needs to be said (to a president) that this is the way to lead a nation.
Just a cursory reading of history will tell you this.
gordianot
(15,233 posts)Panic is one of the few emotional responses in his repertoire.
malaise
(268,693 posts)Rec
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)"We'll see what happens."
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)A) "Just like the AWOL thingy and my DUI, Daddy will fix it." or
B) "My boss, Dick Cheney, will help guide me through this attack."
Each thought indicated to Dubya that he wasn't qualified and that Daddy's friends shouldn't have bothered so much.
Trump's smirk says, "Yep, I got this." And HIS death toll might remain in six figures.
Heckuvs job, Mr. Tangerine Man!
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)All he had to do was put on a mask, and step aside and let the scientists take over. Would this have been so hard?
Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)dem in texas
(2,673 posts)"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Then he laid out his plan.
That's the kind of leader we need right now.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)They'd be running the banks, demanding the government provide face masks, and tests for everyone?
No. The reason for his duplicity is they still wouldn't. They'd just be confused about their Dear Leader agreeing with Democrats and their hoax virus. They'd start to doubt his partisanship. If Trump bowed to the WHO, and the CDC, he was frightened he'd look like a libtard cuck to them. That wasn't his "brand" he was selling.
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)Leadership with the truth and no panic.
Guess which one.