Donald Trump is risking the lives of millions of Americans with his snake-oil antics, his insane blather, and his lies.
"Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally."
Donald Trump has turned the coronavirus press conferences into a politicized circus of confrontations, attacking the media and viciously attacking individual journalists and state government officials.
Donald Trump has been lying since day one of the crisis because that is his only talent, lying.
None of the things Trump has promised have come true. Not the first Trump lie that "this will be over in a few days', not the promises of ventilators and PPE.
The President Is Trapped
Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally.www.theatlantic.com
"The President Is Trapped
Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally.
MARCH 25, 2020
Peter Wehner
For his entire adult life, and for his entire presidency, Donald Trump has created his own alternate reality, complete with his own alternate set of facts. He has shown himself to be erratic, impulsive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, mendacious, and devoid of empathy. None of that is new.
But we’re now entering the most dangerous phase of the Trump presidency. The pain and hardship that the United States is only beginning to experience stem from a crisis that the president is utterly unsuited to deal with, either intellectually or temperamentally. When things were going relatively well, the nation could more easily absorb the costs of Trump’s psychological and moral distortions and disfigurements. But those days are behind us. The coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions that can catalyze a destructive set of responses from an individual with Trump’s characterological defects and disordered personality.
This is the story of an unnatural disaster.
We are now in the early phase of a medical and economic tempest unmatched in most of our lifetimes. There’s too much information we don’t have. We don’t know the full severity of the pandemic, or whether a state like New York is a harbinger or an outlier. But we have enough information to know this virus is rapidly transmissible and lethal.
The qualities we most need in a president during this crisis are calmness, wisdom, and reassurance; a command of the facts and the ability to communicate them well; and the capacity to think about the medium and long term while carefully weighing competing options and conflicting needs. We need a leader who can persuade the public to act in ways that are difficult but necessary, who can focus like a laser beam on a problem for a sustained period of time, and who will listen to—and, when necessary, defer to—experts who know far more than he does. We need a president who can draw the nation together rather than drive it apart, who excels at the intricate work of governing, and who works well with elected officials at every level. We need a chief executive whose judgment is not just sound, but exceptional. ..."
Well, if Peter Weiner says so...…...
... you're on your knees?
Are you touching yourself right now?
