https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-angry-defensive/index.html
Trump was short-tempered and
rude during much of his daily briefing on Monday as he refused to even
listen to questions about shortcomings in the federal government effort.
On Sunday, Trump muzzled the country's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci before he could contradict his own gushing assessment of an unproven Covid-19 therapy. On Monday, the President also blasted a report by an experienced Health and Human Services Department
watchdog official that found critical supply shortages at hospitals all
over the country, claiming it was politically motivated.
What a disgraceful performance. To blame this on Obama -- even just to try to blame it on Obama -- is just so ludicrous. Amazingly, no matter how blatant the huckstering, how clear the incompetence & dishonesty, it simply will never be visible to his supporters, who are caught in a never-ending version of the Emperor-Has-No-Clothes fable.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't even seem to help that it's self-refuting: If we grant his assertion that he's surrounded by deep state government operatives, 3yrs into his admin -- operatives whom he himself has not sacked but retained -- then he has failed to keep his own promise to "drain the swamp", hasn't he? Yet somehow that most basic of questions never seems to make it into supporters' minds.... Curious.