The Donald Trump Score Card

Cant imagine why

 

Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality Did This

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"The bizarre ritual of public-health officials fawning over the president during coronavirus briefings is not some trivial matter. In fact, it illustrates how democratic backsliding during the Trump administration has damaged the federal government’s ability to respond to emergencies and the credibility of its public statements on matters of life and death. Authoritarian leaders prize loyalty over expertise, and part of the way such leaders determine loyalty is through demanding sycophantic praise from underlings, smoking out those unwilling to bend the knee. This is how you end up with the president’s unqualified, pampered son-in-law, his foggy brain addled by Fox News propaganda, using his influence to undermine officials trying to turn back the outbreak.

A pandemic is precisely the kind of situation that shows why it is important to have a government staffed by qualified civil servants, rather than whimpering toadies who can’t deliver bad news to a mercurial president whose main priority is protecting himself. At least part of the federal government’s delayed response, Politico reported, is because Trump “rewards those underlings who tell him what he wants to hear while shunning those who deliver bad news.” The president’s fragile ego is proving deadly."

 

Trump Likes Farmers Better Than Some Other Welfare Recipients
Now why would that be?
By Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Columnist
Jan. 14, 2020

Opinion | Trump Likes Farmers Better Than Some Other Welfare Recipients

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"President Trump bragged about these payments at a recent rally in Toledo, Ohio, and promised even more for the nation’s farmers. “We’re signing a monster,” he said. “A big, beautiful monster. Forty to 50 billion dollars to our farmers.”

But “our farmers” isn’t inclusive of the whole. The vast majority of payments have gone to white farmers, with large landowners the greatest beneficiaries. It’s true that most American farmers are white. But disparities exist nonetheless. In Mississippi, for example, 14 percent of farms are run by black operators, but those farmers have received 1.4 percent of the aid that has been distributed in the state.

This is welfare chauvinism, albeit modest in scope. The payments will strengthen Trump’s political position — generous compensation to a vocal constituency will buy votes and keep negative stories about his tariffs out of view — as well as signal his commitment to one group of Americans over another."

 

Trump and Melania.

 

The New York TImes.
March 20, 2020

"Pandemic warning last year went unheeded

Asked at a news conference on Thursday about the government’s preparedness, President Trump said, “Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this.”

But internal documents show that the federal government did, in fact, have considerable knowledge about the risks of a pandemic and accurately predicted the problems that it is now trying to address.

A draft report about a simulation last year showed that federal officials were aware of the potential for a respiratory virus originating in China to spread quickly to the U.S. But the report’s urgency apparently never received sufficient attention at the highest level of the executive branch or from Congress."

 

Threats can be easily laughed off until you or your relatives become victims.

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC was known for praising G.W. Bush in the years after the 9/11 attack. His view changed after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and Florida where he had been a U.S. Representative.

After Scarborough saw the damage done by the hurricane and lack of federal government response, he became highly critical of Bush.



Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick. She Had an Answer.
By Elaina Plott
March 19, 2020

Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick. She Had an Answer.

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"Heaven Frilot is normally a private person. But this is not a normal time. So she and her husband are now the face of the coronavirus for their conservative Louisiana community.

Crises are political only until they are personal. As news of Mr. Frilot’s diagnosis spread, among his friends and on Nola.com, his story was no longer just that of a young, healthy person who caught a virus that young, healthy people had been told they were not supposed to catch. It was a revelation for the conservative suburbs of New Orleans, where many had written off the pandemic as liberal fear-mongering. Mr. Frilot, a registered Republican, and his family are generally apolitical, and were not thinking much about the virus — whether as a fiction or anything else — before he got sick. But many in their community had opinions on it from the start.

The language they used was the language politicians and media figures were also using. On March 8, when Mr. Frilot first went to urgent care, President Trump retweeted a joke from his White House social media director about Nero fiddling as Rome burned. The next night, Sean Hannity said on his prime time Fox News show that the virus was the media’s attempt to “bludgeon” Mr. Trump with “this new hoax.”"

 

’50-state Hurricane Katrina’: Joe Scarborough buries Trump for screwing up even worse than George W. Bush
By Brad Reed
March 20, 2020

’50-state Hurricane Katrina’: Joe Scarborough buries Trump for screwing up even worse than George W. Bush

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"Scarborough then knocked Trump for trying to place the burden on individual states to scrounge up medical supplies.

“The President, the White House, and the Federal Government MUST lean into this crisis on testing, medical supplies, and ventilators,” he wrote. “This is not a construction project. You cannot subcontract a global pandemic to mayors and governors.”

He then linked to an article in The Atlantic outlining how to effectively combat the pandemic.

“The White House must read this,” he wrote. “The US must rapidly build up medical infrastructure for the coming storm this fall. We should buy time now, ramp up testing for all citizens and strengthen our medical systems. If we don’t, the Fall will be disastrous.”"

 

Why don't you and VG go on a Princess cruise?

 

Trump's tone veers wildly under pressure from coronavirus
There is growing concern among people close to Trump that as the crisis grinds on, his patience will further fray.
By Carol E. Lee, Kristen Welker and Monica Alba
March 21, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

Trump's tone veers wildly under pressure from coronavirus

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"That’s a tough message to sell to a president with a background in show business who likes swift endings in which he’s the hero. And the multiple tentacles of this crisis — from public health to the economy to Trump’s re-election campaign — and all the ways they overlap have raised the stakes for the president. They’ve also compounded his decision-making by ushering in a multitude of outside opinions, solicited and unsolicited.

“A lot of people are calling him with suggestions and ideas,” another person close to the president said.

People close to Trump described him as still being “in shock” that the stock market has dropped so much in the past couple of weeks. One of them noted that for two weeks Trump hasn’t been able to golf at any of his clubs or travel to his resorts in Florida or New Jersey — activities he is accustomed to doing to unwind and engage with friends and family outside of the White House. The person said that has further made the president feel as though he’s operating inside a pressure cooker."

 

Trump's tone veers wildly under pressure from coronavirus

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"“The hardest thing is he wants to use every lever of power that is available to him to respond to the crisis. In some cases because of our federal system some of those levers aren’t available to him,” the person familiar with the thinking inside the White House said. “The president is using every authority that he has, but it sometimes takes days or weeks.”

Critics of the president’s response have said that had he taken certain steps earlier, the needed equipment, supplies and facilities would be in place now."

 

The coronavirus has also spoiled Trump's ability to go to Mar-a-Lago, his safe haven.

 

For VG and other "true believers" in Trump - their best responses these days are some smart-ass comment that has no factual info. The TV video tape doesn't lie when Trump hangs himself in front of the cameras. Nowhere to run. So now I see here & on other forums that some of the Trump faithful flock (lemming herd) have taken to making assumptions on what a Biden or Sanders administration might do and are making "clairvoyant" accusations about future events. Trump has painted himself and all his faithful followers into a corner by running his "genius" mouth.

Funny - it appears some of the Repubs have not listened to their self-deified Trump-god. Some Republican senators sold their stock holdings as the Senate briefings on the seriousness of the corona virus was laid out to them. And not one mouth opened to refute Trump or warn the American people of the looming free-fall that would soon overtake their 401-k's. Lying, cheating, swindling bastards. I'm waiting for some twit to say the one thing I'm betting they'll say - and I'm ready for that.

Where's Lindsey Graham these days??? Why isn't he out there publicly defending & adoring his Trump-god??? Mitch has been quiet and not come to Trump's aid in his "TIME OF NEED!" Where's Chuck Grassley?? Why isn't he chirping in support of his Trump deity??? Is Devin Nunes in hiding?? What happened to all the Trump faithful flocks??? Lots of silence among the flock (lemming herd).

 

The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services ran a series of exercises last January to August. code-named “Crimson Contagion” in which they imagined an influenza pandemic striking the U.S.
and what stockpiles we currently have, and what will be needed, and nothing was done.


Trump was so obsessed over his wall and keeping out illegal aliens, that he completely ignored the real threat that entered our country. COVID-19

 

This is just pathetic

Sad sad miserable little men all of you

 

U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic

U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action
that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.

 

Haha
Well I am no fan of Trump but people complain even when he does something right. It’s out of control and pretty useless.

 

Same to you, mate!

 

Just post a link to one of those reports then

And tell me which security agency it was providing independent medical advice

Pathetic

 

Do you even know the meaning of the word classified?

Sure I could use my advanced computer skills to hack into the NSA to provide you with a copy of the reports, but I don’t want the FBI knocking on my door
on Monday morning with a warrant for my arrest.....lol.....

 

You didn't link the article on purpose because it's the usual Washington Post a magical source familiar with the briefing crap

...about a report with no medical information or case projections that was supposed to fore warn the President in January, even though January 20th he could just switch on the news like everybody else and see the first US case was reported

Pathetic