Exactly right. Trump should be throwing everything he can at this. Instead, he has FUBARed so badly.

This NEVER would have happened under BHO and will not happen under President Biden.

The competent pandemic office would have set the alarm last year and acted quickly to prevent the outbreak in China. COVID19 would have been laid to rest in 2019. Also, crucial supplies would have been ready just in case.

He was a smart man.

Trump.is just stupid.

President Obama is not only exceedingly intelligent, but he also has an actual sense of self efficacy and self worth. What we see with Trump aside from being stupid is this profound need to avoid blame. This is actually what is causing much of his stupid behavior. He can't allow anyone else to appear smarter than he is. He can't allow anything to point the finger at his actions or inaction. He has been working hard to cover things up, to stifle opinions, and to keep himself painted as this heroic figure.

President Obama never had to struggle with that. He was okay stepping back and letting other get air time and take credit for their work. President Obama was there helping to coordinate things or helping to just be a calming presence. He didn't need it to be about him and so he could get out of the way and focus on his particular part of the solution.

this way

He's just too fucking stupid to understand that.

Trump's tool box is extremely limited in terms of character traits and actions. He bullies, blames, evades, and pumps himself up. That is it. He has no other responses.

President Obama would have activated the Pandemic Response Team, would have coordinated with Governors around measures to stop the spread. Would have worked with FEMA and HHS to make sure all hospitals had sufficient PPE, and would have been out front calming people while exhorting them to follow protocols while allowing the real experts to talk about the virus and responses needed.

He doesn’t understand how truly earn Nobility through good works. Like the Nobel Peace Prize, he falsified an application to get nominated and bribed others to vote influence the process.
If he earnestly did everything he could to protect lives here and abroad, without concern for credit or fail, the accolades would fall into his lap and he would get the grand parade that he dreams of and the Stock market would respond accordingly.
Bannon was correct saying this could be Trumps finest hour, but it isn’t within Trumps comprehension or ability.
He feels that heros are built by public relations, not by acting heroically.

. . .until he wises up.





#newrostrong

... is for the Fed and the Federal Government to fire up the printing presses and open the spigots. Debt jubilees, free money... zero interest loans... you name it.

Who else in the Trump family is cashing in? Trump is doing things that prolong the virus while claiming to be frustrated with it. Is that on purpose or is he just too stupid to understand what is needed?

Since the market first cratered it’s seemed clear that the inept leadership of this administration has caused the economy to falter. No one in the media has connected the lack of leadership and the market failure that I’ve heard or read. The MSM is largely cowardly and culpable. We need to be clear that Trump’s inaction is the root cause of Wall Street’s tumble and that a massive corporate slush fund is NOT the answer.

If we all take the anti Melania pill trump feels so good about, would that have a positive affect on the White House virus?

From Covid-19. That's where we are...

Is purely insane. Trump is messaging that after the 15 day period for social distancing and for people staying home could end the program, saying the cost of the shutdown can't exceed the cost for reopening things up. Kudlow echoed that message and the Surgeon General said that ventilators cannot end the crisis, only mitigation can do that. Geez.

Trump wants 99 million to get sick and the Surgeon General is more interested in covering up for Trump's incompetence on ventilator availability as he is with keeping people from getting sick. You have to do both. You need the ventilators to keep people alive and you need mitigation (people staying home) to protect those not yet sick.

No wonder handing these people a mic results in crowded beaches and other sites. The irresponsibility is off the scale.

not the front line working folks

Suffering. But a guy who only cares about his re election and trying to make a profit off the crisis for him and his rich donors.

and stayed out of sight, I have to believe the economy would see some improvement. He's his own worst enemy. Well, and ours.

Not to mention the ones that become permanently disabled with chronic lung proplems.

If anyone went around talking like trump and claiming he was President of the United States, we'd lock them up.

know if I'm whistling out to the wind, but we all have to call our REPS and Senators to DEMAND we need to stop this. Call it the Trump virus period.

Would you think this our general strike???