The Donald Trump Score Card

Dow Plunges 2,300 Points: Stocks In Meltdown As Panic Selling Continues
Avie Schneider
March 12, 2020 9:10 AM ET

Dow Plunges 2,300 Points: Stocks In Meltdown As Panic Selling Continues

excerpt:

"The stock market has suffered a relentless, breathtaking drop — moving deeper into bear territory. Stocks fell so fast Thursday morning that it triggered a 15-minute halt in trading for the second time this week.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,352 points, or nearly 10% — the biggest one-day drop since 1987. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were each down more than 9%."

 

Trump can't even handle the crises he deliberately invokes, such as not anticipating retaliatory tariffs in response to his trade wars and scrambling to try to repurpose money for bailouts.

Article from May 2017.



Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis
After chaotic, self-inflicted week many fear chaos Trump can't control.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
05/13/2017 07:17 AM EDT
Updated 05/14/2017 08:28 AM EDT

Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis

excerpt:

"So, what if there’s a real crisis?

A real war — not a war with the media, or James Comey. A real showdown — not a political showdown. A real surprise that’s out of the White House’s control — not a situation of President Donald Trump’s own making that spins out of control because the president and his inner circle sprung a decision on an unprepared staff. But what if there’s a real crisis?

Something, and likely more than one thing, is inevitable, because he’s the leader of the country and the free world, and something always does. And Trump’s behavior, chaotic management style and carefree careening through too many versions of what happened this week for any of them to have credibility has people throughout politics and national security terrified."

 

Trump Can’t Handle the Truth
And neither can the rest of America’s right.
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
March 9, 2020

Opinion | Trump Can’t Handle the Truth

excerpt:

"Over the weekend Donald Trump once again declared that the coronavirus is perfectly under control, that any impressions to the contrary are due to the “Fake News Media” out to get him. Question: Does anyone have a count of how many times he’s done this, comparable to the running tallies fact checkers are keeping of his lies?

In any case, we’ve pretty clearly reached the point where Trump’s assurances that everything is fine actually worsen the panic, because they demonstrate the depths of his delusions. Even as he was tweeting out praise for himself, global markets were in free-fall.

Never mind cratering stock prices. The best indicator of collapsing confidence is what is happening to interest rates, which have plunged almost as far and as fast as they did during the 2008 financial crisis. Markets are implicitly predicting not just a recession, but multiple years of economic weakness."

 

Coronavirus is exposing Trump's unsuitability to handle a crisis
by Philip Klein
March 08, 2020 11:51 AM

Coronavirus is exposing Trump's unsuitability to handle a crisis

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"If anybody was hoping that Trump had the ability to rise to the moment, his comments upon touring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should disabuse them of that notion.

Trump, speaking from the facility with a red “Keep America Great” campaign hat, found time to praise the ratings of his town-hall interview on Fox News. He declared, “I don’t watch CNN because CNN is fake news.” He attacked Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who is dealing with the most deadly coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., as a “snake.”

Dipping into the greatest hits from his impeachment defense, Trump said of the CDC tests that have run into significant problems: “The tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect, right? This was not as perfect as that, but pretty good.”"

 

The frightening thing is I think you may actually believe that--or want us to.

 

Who exactly do you think thinks the virus itself is a hoax? Point them out to me

 

Trump was concerned about a pen mark.



Trump was caught saying 'oh f---' into a hot mic moments before he began his televised speech on the coronavirus
Business Insider
March 12, 2020, 10:19 AM EDT

Trump was caught saying 'oh f---' into a hot mic moments before he began his televised speech on the coronavirus

excerpt:

"C-SPAN caught Trump in the moments before he delivered the speech.

"Oh f---," Trump said with a sigh while his microphone was on before delivering the speech. "Uh-oh, I've got a pen mark."

He then asked his staff for "any white stuff."

The moment was posted online by several Twitter users:"

 

As of today, US, 1573 cases, 40 deaths. 52 days since the first reported case inside the US

Told you it wouldnt spread in the US any where near the way it did in China

You would be somewhere in the vicinity of 50,000 cases today if it had

 

Pence is about as white as stuff can be.

 

Pence has assumed the role of President and press secretary.

Amazingly, the Trump administration is starting to use the Brady press room for press conferences. Even Trump showed up at one.



Make Mike Pence the New White House Press Secretary
His coronavirus briefings show why the executive branch needs to bring back the daily press conference.
By JACK SHAFER
03/10/2020 05:56 PM EDT

Opinion | Make Mike Pence the New White House Press Secretary

 

The problem is we don't know how many cases there are, because (Trump to the contrary) we don't have nearly enough test kits & are playing catchup. The U.S. is way behind South Korea in its testing.
U.S. coronavirus testing is ‘failing,’ top health official says
Health official: Gov't has 'failed' to give easy coronavirus testing in U.S.
Journalist covering coronavirus: U.S. lags behind in testing
U.S. Is Woefully Behind in Testing for Coronavirus: Report

 

Make America Healthy Again
Vote for democrats in November.

 

Gutfeld on the media 'hoax' hoax

Comment section

And I guess I was correct and you have no answer.

 

Sean Hannity and Billy Cunningham and Buck Sexton all said it was a hoax. I listen to them at night all the damn time, on am radio.

 

Rush Limbaugh says it's just the common cold....


But he has brain damage, so I'd take what he says with a grain of salt.

 

Errrr

The article you linked is making fun of the left media going from Trump saying Dems making the virus political is their news hoax to saying.....



"On Friday, when President Trump called Democrats’ attempt to politicize coronavirus a “hoax,” how did the media portray that? That he was calling the virus itself a hoax"

 

Wrong. He said (like his son, Hannity) that it was a democratic hoax. "Locked down tight." "the number will fall soon." Just a little of the bullshit -----

 

Is Biden going to make it to November?

 

You need tests to see if people are dead?

 

Who are you talking to?