Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Trump rages at criticism while governors craft their own plans to reopen the economy
With 23,000 Americans dead and millions without a paycheck, President Donald Trump dimmed the lights in the White House briefing room, fired up a misleading propaganda video and boiled over.
In
one of the most unchained presidential tantrums ever captured on
television, Trump's Monday display flouted every notion of calm
leadership by the commander in chief in a crisis.
He
claimed powers never envisioned by the Constitution and insisted his
"authority is total" to order states and cities to get moving again to
break out of the frozen economy. His warning came as two blocs of
Eastern and Western hot-spot states banded together in an implied
challenge to his vow to get people back to work soon, setting off a
brewing confrontation over the power of the federal government.
During the news conference, Trump moaned that the press was not giving him credit because "everything we did was right" in the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday, April 13, 2020
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief
On Thursday,
March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have
insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer
out an emergency aid package addressing the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead, he recessed the Senate for a long weekend, and returned home to
Louisville, Kentucky. McConnell, a seventy-eight-year-old Republican
who is about to complete his sixth term as a senator, planned to attend a
celebration for a protégé, Justin Walker, a federal judge who was once
his Senate intern. McConnell has helped install nearly two hundred
conservatives as judges; stocking the judiciary has been his legacy
project.
Trump's poll numbers dip over handling of coronavirus pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/trump-poll-numbers-dip-handling-coronavirus
Support for Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus has plunged
over the past week, polls show, as some of his advisers and Republican
allies are said to be concerned over the US president’s daily briefings
on the pandemic.
CNN Poll of Polls: Trump's approval ticking down on coronavirus response
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/politics/cnn-poll-of-polls-trump-approval-coronavirus-general-election-biden/index.html
A new CNN Poll of Polls out on Thursday finds President Donald Trump's approval rating and the public's approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic trending down in the last month.
Trump's averaged approval rating stands at 46% approve, 49% disapprove -- ticking down from 48% approval in late-March.
Top hospital head to 'Post': Coronavirus strategy failed
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/health-ministry-strategy-failed-senior-health-official-tells-post-623682
The Health Ministry’s strategy for tackling the
coronavirus crisis is a failure, the head of one of Israel’s leading
hospitals told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday as the ministry announced it
had fallen far below its original test target, leaving the country
without an end in sight for its isolation strategy.
“We
are in the third week of isolation and the numbers continue to rise –
and in big numbers,” the senior official said. “We need to think about
another strategy. Isolation has not brought us any good.”
Only One President in the Last 20 Years Wasn’t Worried About a Pandemic
https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/only-one-president-in-the-last-20-years-wasnt-worried-about-a-pandemic/
On March 30, President Donald Trump went onto the most important news venue in America, Fox & Friends, to defend his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Here is a thing he said:
“Nobody could have predicted something like this . . .”
This is false.
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Bull Session: Ted Cruz Says the Press Is “Giddy With Glee” Over Pandemic
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/ted-cruz-says-press-giddy-with-glee-over-coronavirus-pandemic-bull-session/
Callooh, callay! It’s another glorious day in the mainstream media
where, as Texas senator Ted Cruz recently noted, we’re all simply “giddy with glee”
over this global pandemic. The sun is shining on all of God’s green
earth that the governor recently closed, the birds are chirping in
between the distant wail of ambulance sirens, and we members of the
press are feeling particularly lighthearted, a sensation we keep
checking against all the known symptoms of COVID-19. You could tell from
the huge smiles on our faces, if only you could see them beneath these
homemade masks.
Boy, am I ever! Personally, nothing gives me greater pleasure than
waking from yet another anxiety dream about going to the grocery store,
then opening my phone to find that another thousand people died
overnight, a friend lost their dad, and everything remains closed
indefinitely. Humming a tune by a favorite artist who was killed
prematurely by a preventable public health crisis, I leap from my
flop-sweat-soaked bed, eager to begin another day of cheerleading for
our nation’s incipient collapse—right after my wife and I figure out how
we’re going to juggle the demands of our jobs with another day of
watching the two small, restless children trapped inside with us. Then,
during the few allotted hours I’m able to work for an industry that is,
like so many other businesses, faltering under mass layoffs, it’s party time, baby. That’s when I get to write about all this death and malfeasance for an audience that openly resents me for it! Yippee!
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