Originally Posted by
Sandy Shanks
Trump then turned and looked at Dr. Birx.
“
And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?” he asked. “
Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
A camera panned on Birx. Her face turned blank. It was obvious she couldn't believe what she was hearing from the President.
Originally Posted by
Sandy Shanks
The Friday morning figures were head-spinning, showing 20.5 million jobs lost in April, the worst month since the government began tracking the data in 1939.
What was Trump's response? He crawled into his paranoid shell, concerned Americans would blame him.
"We created the greatest economy in the history of the world," Trump said as Friday's numbers were washing over a nation gripped by anxiety and fear. "Best employment numbers, best stock markets, best number of jobs in every way, the best economy in the history of the world. We were blowing away China. We were blowing away everybody. We were the envy of the world, and then they came in and they explained it, and they said 'Sir, you have to turn it off. We have to close the country.'"
Of course, Trump did nothing to close the economy. That was done by the various state governors, and Trump has admitted that reopening the economy is in the hands of the governors.
Originally Posted by
Sandy Shanks
In mid-April Trump announced that he was halting funding to the World Health Organization during a world-wide pandemic.
On Tuesday, Trump confirmed that the White House coronavirus task force would be disbanded.
On Wednesday, Trump said the White House task force on coronavirus will "continue on indefinitely." Trump said he didn't know how popular it was.
Also on Wednesday, in the face of a pandemic with 19,858 new cases and 1,895 new deaths in one day in the U.S. alone, Trump told reporters, “We want to terminate health care under Obamacare.”
This man is sick.
The enormous tragedy of all this: This is the worst crisis facing Earth since World War Two and Trump is the American President!
Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering critique of the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis, describing it as "an absolute chaotic disaster" during a private call Friday night with people who worked for him in the White House and across his administration.
"This election that's coming up -- on every level -- is so important because what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party," Obama said. "
What we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy has become a stronger impulse in American life."