Good Video on Covid-19

Trump Will Always Be Trump

While Trump has finally taken some steps to address the Covid-19 crisis, realizing his reelection depends on it, he can’t help reverting to form, as he did in the press conference today. Just a few examples of the good ole Trump unable to cover up his tendencies:

1. Thought not as explicitly as he has in recent days, he still blamed China for covering up information that could have got our doctors there (though one wonders if that would have happened anyway). China, by the way, is saying the virus started here, which seems highly unlikely. But a war of words and pushing blame onto others, as Trump is want to do on a regular basis, does nothing to actually alleviate the problem. 
2. Attacking reporters, and NBC and “Con”cast in particular, thus delegitimating the very institution that could keep people informed and acting appropriately. He then went on, along with others who took to the podium, to excoriate them for the “fake news” they spread, from an administration that has spouted lies, among other things about the novel coronavirus itself, at historic levels. 
3. Blaming the Obama Administration for not preparing them, even as the Washington Post reported two years ago that the Trump Administration disbanded the task force and folded it into another department (WP) probably watering it down in the process. It is, of course, his obsession with Obama that led us down the path to him eventually becoming President but one wonders what it is, exactly, he has against the man beside a small slight many years ago. In a broader sense, has there ever been a President who has gone out of his way to spend so much time blaming his predecessor? Even Obama, who had every reason to do so, did not!
4. Congratulating himself and his administration on multiple occasions for the great work they are now doing, even though his ignorant refusal to admit the looming crisis made it substantially worse (WP2).
5. Again taking the opportunity to talk about immigrants and the ways we will quickly send them out of the country to anywhere that will take them (okay, a bit of an exaggeration, but it was interesting to hear him talk inaccurately about what is happening at the moment).
6. Undermining doctors and his own expert in claiming the very preliminary anecdotal evidence that a malaria drug might work both to mitigate the effects of the virus for those who already have it and potentially even block it in others is now a viable solution to the problem, which fits the administrations anti-science discourse from the first days of his presidency.
7. Go out of his way to call the Senators who cashed in on preinformation of the Coronavirus threat by selling stocks “honorable people,” and making sure the public knew one of them was a Democrat. 

There were other examples throughout, but the point is that this is the most unpresidential President in history and a stain on our collective history that hopefully people will start to see for who he really is. Of course, they should have been able to see it almost four years ago, so maybe my hope is misplaced. But a boy can dream …

Trump's Changing Tune on Covid-19

I know the memory of many Americans is short. This video should remind you that the President's tune on the novel coronavirus has changed pretty rapidly, and that a different initial response might have helped mitigate against our current circumstance ...