Trump: I'm Doing a Great Job Fighting the Coronavirus, and 100,000 of You Will Die

Seriously, literally, things that Trump touches are dying, and he’s still just making shit up to get him through each day, and then making up different shit the next day.

Rick Wilson

Editor-at-Large
Updated Mar. 29, 2020 8:19PM ET



By the time you read this, the coronavirus may have killed as many Americans as Osama Bin Laden did on 9/11, with many more deaths to come.

It didn’t have to be this way.

Sunday, the president said that 100,000 deaths would be a great win. Only in the world of Trumpian dumbfuckery could anyone brighter than a toaster oven think 100,000 avoidable deaths is a win. That’s like saying, “Hey, honey, I went to the strip club, caught an STD, knocked up a stripper named Destynee, and got a second mortgage to bail her meth tweaker boyfriend out of jail…but at least I didn’t touch the kids’ college fund.”

It was inevitable that Trump would face a crisis immune to tweets or stupid memes or insulting nicknames. The damage he does to everyone and everything around him has become an iron law of American politics, an invariable and inevitable process. Still, I didn’t think it extended to everyone in the country; that it would produce actual bodies stacked like cordwood in a preventable, slow-rolling pandemic. When I wrote Everything Trump Touches Dies, I didn’t mean it literally.

Donald Trump seems intent on proving me wrong.

Trump’s handling of the Coronavirus has veered between tragicomic and insidious in the past weeks. Disturbingly – and even now, it’s disturbing -- all while still leaving him seemingly unmoved by the brutal realities facing us in the coming months. He’s made a few pro-forma nods to the deaths to date and to come, but expressed no genuine human sympathy for either the dead or the army of heroic doctors, nurses, EMTs in viral war zones in almost every hospital in the nation.

Nothing changes him. Nothing moves him unless it gives him adulation, money, or an erection. Sunday, Trump even boasted that his daily, Castroesque press briefings are getting “great ratings.”

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