Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response

[2aguy]

The NSC has no business in pandemic response, that's up to the CDC and NIH. Eliminating redundant bullshit is what Trump does best. maobama ballooned the NSC from about 100 to 250 people, Trump is cutting the fat to get it back to a more manageable level.

Did your mom drop you on your head as a kid.

Priority #1 for members of the admin trying to keep the public informed.........but don't get between Big Fat Don and The Following.

Azar warns ‘medically fragile’ Americans against large gatherings — but stays mum on Trump rallies
Azar warns ‘medically fragile’ Americans against large gatherings — but stays mum on Trump rallies

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday warned “medically fragile” Americans to avoid flights, cruises and large gatherings — but stopped short of telling them to skip a rally with President Donald Trump.

Ahead of an expected announcement later in the day of an upcoming Trump campaign event, Azar was asked whether it was wise for the president’s reelection effort to proceed with its plans given the administration’s guidance to “consider adjusting or postponing large meetings or gatherings” in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

Soooo, biden, sanders have cancelled their rallies and photo ops?

You are a doofus.

 

[easyt65]

When D-Murphy, D-Menendez, & D-Kerry self-quarantine after sneaking off to meet with Iranian govt officials in secret meetings - especially since the Iranian govt is the hardest hit / infected government administration in the world, their VP having died from it alrerady - perhaps we call then begin to take Coronavirus seriously....but since they have not shown concern enough to do so then it must not be that serious, right, snowflakes?

 

[IM2]

Trump is the greatest! He undid all the burdensome extra government and regulation imposed by Obama. Now look at us.

The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.

Amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become a pandemic involving the U.S., alarmed readers asked Snopes to verify a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump had “fired the entire pandemic response team two years ago and then didn’t replace them.”

The claim came from a series of tweets posted by Judd Legum, who runs Popular Information, a newsletter he describes as being about “politics and power.” Legum’s commentary was representative of sharp criticism from Democratic legislators (and some Republicans) that the Trump administration had ill-prepared the country for a pandemic even as one was looming on the horizon.

Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that had gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The “pandemic response team” firing claim referred to news accounts from Spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, whom the Washington Post reported “had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks,” had been fired one month prior.

It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

Funny I did not see you or others yelling when so many died from the swine flu under 44. Was it because you were infatuated with the worst president we have ever had?
How many times have you lambasted any of the last presidents for their failure to stop the 12,000 deaths each year from all the other flu deaths?

Oh I get it you really don't care about it. This is just another way to blame something on Trump. Man it must suck to be that stupid and that partisan.

Actually people were yelling, but the response was different and effective. Stop trying to make excuses for trump.

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

 

[Maxdeath]

Trump is the greatest! He undid all the burdensome extra government and regulation imposed by Obama. Now look at us.

The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.

Amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become a pandemic involving the U.S., alarmed readers asked Snopes to verify a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump had “fired the entire pandemic response team two years ago and then didn’t replace them.”

The claim came from a series of tweets posted by Judd Legum, who runs Popular Information, a newsletter he describes as being about “politics and power.” Legum’s commentary was representative of sharp criticism from Democratic legislators (and some Republicans) that the Trump administration had ill-prepared the country for a pandemic even as one was looming on the horizon.

Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that had gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The “pandemic response team” firing claim referred to news accounts from Spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, whom the Washington Post reported “had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks,” had been fired one month prior.

It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

Funny I did not see you or others yelling when so many died from the swine flu under 44. Was it because you were infatuated with the worst president we have ever had?
How many times have you lambasted any of the last presidents for their failure to stop the 12,000 deaths each year from all the other flu deaths?

Oh I get it you really don't care about it. This is just another way to blame something on Trump. Man it must suck to be that stupid and that partisan.

Actually people were yelling, but the response was different and effective. Stop trying to make excuses for trump.

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

No you are attempting to conflate a virus that has killed less the fifty people in the states with viruses that have killed thousands. Even the common flu virus kills thousands each year.
Even the CDC says that they are perfectly able to handle it.
Trump has not called the virus a hoax he called the democrats and the media hype a hoax.
But hey don't let that stop you from running around yelling the sky is falling. You know if you guys sell it well enough you might even get some believing that the democrat hopefuls are viable candidates.

 

[IM2]

Trump is the greatest! He undid all the burdensome extra government and regulation imposed by Obama. Now look at us.

The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.

Amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become a pandemic involving the U.S., alarmed readers asked Snopes to verify a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump had “fired the entire pandemic response team two years ago and then didn’t replace them.”

The claim came from a series of tweets posted by Judd Legum, who runs Popular Information, a newsletter he describes as being about “politics and power.” Legum’s commentary was representative of sharp criticism from Democratic legislators (and some Republicans) that the Trump administration had ill-prepared the country for a pandemic even as one was looming on the horizon.

Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that had gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The “pandemic response team” firing claim referred to news accounts from Spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, whom the Washington Post reported “had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks,” had been fired one month prior.

It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?

Funny I did not see you or others yelling when so many died from the swine flu under 44. Was it because you were infatuated with the worst president we have ever had?
How many times have you lambasted any of the last presidents for their failure to stop the 12,000 deaths each year from all the other flu deaths?

Oh I get it you really don't care about it. This is just another way to blame something on Trump. Man it must suck to be that stupid and that partisan.

Actually people were yelling, but the response was different and effective. Stop trying to make excuses for trump.

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

No you are attempting to conflate a virus that has killed less the fifty people in the states with viruses that have killed thousands. Even the common flu virus kills thousands each year.
Even the CDC says that they are perfectly able to handle it.
Trump has not called the virus a hoax he called the democrats and the media hype a hoax.
But hey don't let that stop you from running around yelling the sky is falling. You know if you guys sell it well enough you might even get some believing that the democrat hopefuls are viable candidates.

I'm not conflating anything. The coronavirus cases are still increasing and since the threat has not ended and there seems no end in sight right now, We don't know how many people will get it or die. And right now the presidents leadership on this matter is sorely lacking. Trump did call it a hoax, and he said yesterday he doesn't think its all that serious as he has had contact with people who have quarantined themselves but he won't get tested. While places are refusing to have big events our president is still going to hold his propaganda rallies which could increase infections.

Every time trump fucks up you guys try bringing up Obama. Well H1N1 is gone, and Obama is not president. We are facing increasing numbers of Americans coming down with COVID19 and trump is the president. The buck stops at the president, not the former president.

 

[Maxdeath]

Funny I did not see you or others yelling when so many died from the swine flu under 44. Was it because you were infatuated with the worst president we have ever had?
How many times have you lambasted any of the last presidents for their failure to stop the 12,000 deaths each year from all the other flu deaths?

Oh I get it you really don't care about it. This is just another way to blame something on Trump. Man it must suck to be that stupid and that partisan.

Actually people were yelling, but the response was different and effective. Stop trying to make excuses for trump.

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

No you are attempting to conflate a virus that has killed less the fifty people in the states with viruses that have killed thousands. Even the common flu virus kills thousands each year.
Even the CDC says that they are perfectly able to handle it.
Trump has not called the virus a hoax he called the democrats and the media hype a hoax.
But hey don't let that stop you from running around yelling the sky is falling. You know if you guys sell it well enough you might even get some believing that the democrat hopefuls are viable candidates.

I'm not conflating anything. The coronavirus cases are still increasing and since the threat has not ended and there seems no end in sight right now, We don't know how many people will get it or die. And right now the presidents leadership on this matter is sorely lacking. Trump did call it a hoax, and he said yesterday he doesn't think its all that serious as he has had contact with people who have quarantined themselves but he won't get tested. While places are refusing to have big events our president is still going to hold his propaganda rallies which could increase infections.

Every time trump fucks up you guys try bringing up Obama. Well H1N1 is gone, and Obama is not president. We are facing increasing numbers of Americans coming down with COVID19 and trump is the president. The buck stops at the president, not the former president.

Let's face it you have no idea but you are parroting what CNN has told you.
I have to laugh a you 44 apologists. If anyone even suggests something that you kids can bring up either of the Bushs to blame instead of 44 you have no problem but how dare anyone bring up your God.
So far we have less then 100 deaths and they are all from those with compromised systems. But it sure is fun to run around screaming we are all going to die.
Trump has followed the advise of the medical community as to when to get tested.
Someone does not need to get tested just because they are feeling afraid.

We can play the it is someone's fault. But they are already talking a vaccine test in Washington where the most cases are.

I understand that you and the media are pushing scare tactics and false claims in the hope you can make one of your presidential hopefuls look like a viable candidate but don't be surprised when it doesn't work.

 

[satrebil]

Leftists: "Look at how bad the government is responding to this virus!"
Also leftists: "Government should run the healthcare system!!"

How you people can live in such a perpetual state of contradiction really boggles my mind.

 

[Desperado]

So Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), is a racist because he called it Wuhan coronavirus and not the coronavirus19

 

[IM2]

Actually people were yelling, but the response was different and effective. Stop trying to make excuses for trump.

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

No you are attempting to conflate a virus that has killed less the fifty people in the states with viruses that have killed thousands. Even the common flu virus kills thousands each year.
Even the CDC says that they are perfectly able to handle it.
Trump has not called the virus a hoax he called the democrats and the media hype a hoax.
But hey don't let that stop you from running around yelling the sky is falling. You know if you guys sell it well enough you might even get some believing that the democrat hopefuls are viable candidates.

I'm not conflating anything. The coronavirus cases are still increasing and since the threat has not ended and there seems no end in sight right now, We don't know how many people will get it or die. And right now the presidents leadership on this matter is sorely lacking. Trump did call it a hoax, and he said yesterday he doesn't think its all that serious as he has had contact with people who have quarantined themselves but he won't get tested. While places are refusing to have big events our president is still going to hold his propaganda rallies which could increase infections.

Every time trump fucks up you guys try bringing up Obama. Well H1N1 is gone, and Obama is not president. We are facing increasing numbers of Americans coming down with COVID19 and trump is the president. The buck stops at the president, not the former president.

Let's face it you have no idea but you are parroting what CNN has told you.
I have to laugh a you 44 apologists. If anyone even suggests something that you kids can bring up either of the Bushs to blame instead of 44 you have no problem but how dare anyone bring up your God.
So far we have less then 100 deaths and they are all from those with compromised systems. But it sure is fun to run around screaming we are all going to die.
Trump has followed the advise of the medical community as to when to get tested.
Someone does not need to get tested just because they are feeling afraid.

We can play the it is someone's fault. But they are already talking a vaccine test in Washington where the most cases are.

I understand that you and the media are pushing scare tactics and false claims in the hope you can make one of your presidential hopefuls look like a viable candidate but don't be surprised when it doesn't work.

Lol! trump tells you CNN is bad and you say CNN is bad. I don't watch CNN and you should not have run your mouth because you are about to get embarrassed. People rode Obama about everything, and his response to H1N1 was no different. But he was honest about the problem and went to work. trump has lied and bullshitted knowing that idiots like you would fall for it all.

 

[IM2]

When a conservative pro trump media source says trump is failing, you guys have nothing to say.

President Trump Needs to Step Up on the Coronavirus
By The Editors
March 10, 2020 2:00 PM

Every American should want President Trump and his administration to handle the coronavirus epidemic effectively and successfully. Those who seem eager to see the president fail and to call every administration misstep a fiasco risk letting their partisanship blind them to the demands not only of civic responsibility but of basic decency.

At the same time, however, it is important that the president’s defenders not be blinded by partisanship of their own into excusing failures of leadership and diminishing the danger of the epidemic itself. This can be particularly difficult because some of the most significant inadequacies of the administration have been the president’s own. So far in this crisis, Donald Trump himself has obviously failed to rise to the challenge of leadership, and it does no one any favors to pretend otherwise.

The failures of leadership at the top, however, show no sign of being corrected. In a serious public-health crisis, the public has the right to expect the government’s chief executive to lead in a number of crucial ways: by prioritizing the problem properly, by deferring to subject-matter experts when appropriate while making key decisions in informed and sensible ways, by providing honest and careful information to the country, by calming fears and setting expectations, and by addressing mistakes and setbacks.

Trump so far hasn’t passed muster on any of these metrics. He resisted making the response to the epidemic a priority for as long as he could — refusing briefings, downplaying the problem, and wasting precious time. He has failed to properly empower his subordinates and refused to trust the information they provided him — often offering up unsubstantiated claims and figures from cable television instead. He has spoken about the crisis in crude political and personal terms. He has stood in the way of public understanding of the plausible course of the epidemic, trafficking instead in dismissive clichés. He has denied his administration’s missteps, making it more difficult to address them.

This presidential behavior is all too familiar. It is how he has gotten through scandals and fiascos for more than three years in office. But those were all essentially political in nature, and most were self-created. The country has been lucky in the Trump era, largely avoiding the sorts of major, unforeseen crises that make the greatest demands of the modern presidency. That luck has now run out, and this demands a new level of seriousness from the president and those around him.

Trump Coronavirus Response: Failure So Far | National Review

 

[keepitreal]

When Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Wuhan coronavirus a public health emergency.

A WEEK AFTER TRUMP DID

 

[Maxdeath]

Lol you are such a sad little character.
Just pointing out your hypocrisy. I don't need to make excuses for anyone.

Except you're not pointing out any hypocrisy. Pressure was put on Obama but he did not blame the republicans, the media or the Bush administration for what faced him. He didn't call it a hoax. He also didn't lie about the seriousness of the flu and he was straight up about the work that needed to be done. On top of that he created things that would prevent our country from going through the same things he did and trump got rid of them. So you're making excuses for trump and that's standard for you dumb asses every time we see a trump fail.

No you are attempting to conflate a virus that has killed less the fifty people in the states with viruses that have killed thousands. Even the common flu virus kills thousands each year.
Even the CDC says that they are perfectly able to handle it.
Trump has not called the virus a hoax he called the democrats and the media hype a hoax.
But hey don't let that stop you from running around yelling the sky is falling. You know if you guys sell it well enough you might even get some believing that the democrat hopefuls are viable candidates.

I'm not conflating anything. The coronavirus cases are still increasing and since the threat has not ended and there seems no end in sight right now, We don't know how many people will get it or die. And right now the presidents leadership on this matter is sorely lacking. Trump did call it a hoax, and he said yesterday he doesn't think its all that serious as he has had contact with people who have quarantined themselves but he won't get tested. While places are refusing to have big events our president is still going to hold his propaganda rallies which could increase infections.

Every time trump fucks up you guys try bringing up Obama. Well H1N1 is gone, and Obama is not president. We are facing increasing numbers of Americans coming down with COVID19 and trump is the president. The buck stops at the president, not the former president.

Let's face it you have no idea but you are parroting what CNN has told you.
I have to laugh a you 44 apologists. If anyone even suggests something that you kids can bring up either of the Bushs to blame instead of 44 you have no problem but how dare anyone bring up your God.
So far we have less then 100 deaths and they are all from those with compromised systems. But it sure is fun to run around screaming we are all going to die.
Trump has followed the advise of the medical community as to when to get tested.
Someone does not need to get tested just because they are feeling afraid.

We can play the it is someone's fault. But they are already talking a vaccine test in Washington where the most cases are.

I understand that you and the media are pushing scare tactics and false claims in the hope you can make one of your presidential hopefuls look like a viable candidate but don't be surprised when it doesn't work.

Lol! trump tells you CNN is bad and you say CNN is bad. I don't watch CNN and you should not have run your mouth because you are about to get embarrassed. People rode Obama about everything, and his response to H1N1 was no different. But he was honest about the problem and went to work. trump has lied and bullshitted knowing that idiots like you would fall for it all.

Roflol. You think I care what you or Trump says. You really have lost it. Of course they rode 44, he was the worst president to ever be elected. He has tried to blame everyone and anyone for all of his failures.
He even claimed that his administration never had a scandle. Well I guess he was partially right he had a lot more then one.But then again he counted on low IQ people like you.

 

[Maxdeath]

When a conservative pro trump media source says trump is failing, you guys have nothing to say.

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President Trump Needs to Step Up on the Coronavirus
By The Editors
March 10, 2020 2:00 PM

Every American should want President Trump and his administration to handle the coronavirus epidemic effectively and successfully. Those who seem eager to see the president fail and to call every administration misstep a fiasco risk letting their partisanship blind them to the demands not only of civic responsibility but of basic decency.

At the same time, however, it is important that the president’s defenders not be blinded by partisanship of their own into excusing failures of leadership and diminishing the danger of the epidemic itself. This can be particularly difficult because some of the most significant inadequacies of the administration have been the president’s own. So far in this crisis, Donald Trump himself has obviously failed to rise to the challenge of leadership, and it does no one any favors to pretend otherwise.

The failures of leadership at the top, however, show no sign of being corrected. In a serious public-health crisis, the public has the right to expect the government’s chief executive to lead in a number of crucial ways: by prioritizing the problem properly, by deferring to subject-matter experts when appropriate while making key decisions in informed and sensible ways, by providing honest and careful information to the country, by calming fears and setting expectations, and by addressing mistakes and setbacks.

Trump so far hasn’t passed muster on any of these metrics. He resisted making the response to the epidemic a priority for as long as he could — refusing briefings, downplaying the problem, and wasting precious time. He has failed to properly empower his subordinates and refused to trust the information they provided him — often offering up unsubstantiated claims and figures from cable television instead. He has spoken about the crisis in crude political and personal terms. He has stood in the way of public understanding of the plausible course of the epidemic, trafficking instead in dismissive clichés. He has denied his administration’s missteps, making it more difficult to address them.

This presidential behavior is all too familiar. It is how he has gotten through scandals and fiascos for more than three years in office. But those were all essentially political in nature, and most were self-created. The country has been lucky in the Trump era, largely avoiding the sorts of major, unforeseen crises that make the greatest demands of the modern presidency. That luck has now run out, and this demands a new level of seriousness from the president and those around him.

Trump Coronavirus Response: Failure So Far | National Review

Good god an opinion piece is what you are going to pretend is factual. We could probably find opinion pieces by at least congress critters and doctors that will show just the opposite. But at least we understand that the only thing good about opinions is you can wipe with them.