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Donald Trump's choker performance is making Joe Biden appear more presidential every day.
Donald Trump choked and failed to lead in the fight against the coronavirus and is still failing.
In contrast, Joe Biden gave a polished and relevant performance in comparison to Donald Trump's choked, wooden, uninspiring performance.
The coronavirus has exposed Trump as a bombastic, lying, incompetent who chokes when challenged.
Trump is in failing the face of crisis — and Biden is stepping up – Alternet.org
Donald Trump choked and failed to lead in the fight against the coronavirus and is still failing.
In contrast, Joe Biden gave a polished and relevant performance in comparison to Donald Trump's choked, wooden, uninspiring performance.
The coronavirus has exposed Trump as a bombastic, lying, incompetent who chokes when challenged.
Trump is in failing the face of crisis — and Biden is stepping up – Alternet.org
Trump is in failing the face of crisis — and Biden is stepping up
Written by Joe Conason / Creators.Com March 13, 2020
Is Joe Biden president yet?
Biden certainly sounded like the commander in chief on Thursday morning when he addressed the pandemic crisis in a sobering televised speech. Calmly yet firmly, he called the American people to action, proposed a substantive and detailed plan to mitigate the new coronavirus outbreak, and promised to protect the nation from future threats in cooperation with our overseas allies.
If his words lacked the emotive power of a Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, the former vice president was more than adequate to the moment — especially in contrast to the wretched performance of the actual president the prior evening. Even Donald Trump must have realized that his flat, monotonous, seemingly spooked reading of the teleprompter had failed to reassure the country, when markets reacted with another record-breaking decline.
Drafted by his kooky xenophobic aide Stephen Miller, Trump’s speech struck an immediately discordant tone. When he referred to “a foreign virus,” the president echoed moldy tropes of bigotry, dating from the Dark Ages, when fearful monarchs blamed the outbreak of the plague on Jews and other “foreign” influences. His announced policy initiative — to curtail travel between Europe and the United States — embodied that backward worldview without much likelihood of reducing infections or saving lives.
No doubt Trump meant to “reset” his ruinous approach to the pandemic, realizing that continuing failure will inevitably mean his ejection from office in November. He needed a major adjustment after weeks of downplaying and distorting the coronavirus threat and encouraging his idiot supporters to depict it as a “hoax.” But his speech — devoid of serious proposals to avert catastrophe — only emphasized how poorly he and his cohort are serving the nation. ...