The Donald Trump Score Card

Summary of states' preliminary plans.



Hardest-hit states don't plan to follow Trump's national guidance on reopening
The president says his "authority is total." Governors of both parties disagree.
By Geoff Bennett, Monica Alba and Jacob Gardenswartz
April 14, 2020, 8:14 PM UTC / Updated April 14, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

Hardest-hit states don't plan to follow Trump's national guidance on reopening

excerpt:

"Virginia

The stay-at-home order in Virginia is currently set to remain in place through June 10, over a month past the goal the White House set for a partial reopening beginning next month. At a news conference Monday, Gov. Ralph Northam told reporters that the state's social distancing measures were working, but cautioned against reopening things too early."

 

This man is a bloody scourge. He is the living proof that a stupid master is worse than an evil one: evil, once in a while can take a rest. But there is no way to fix stupid. Now this great orange pillock is both things

Trump halts World Health Organization funding over handling of coronavirus outbreak

 

In Trump's mind, the overbearing, evil tyrant is the hero of a film.

 

^^^^^ Egger post 22203 - Only the truly blind and unthinking lemmings cling to Trump's "expertise" in all things. Some Republican governors have to face the reality that they can no longer hitch their wagons to Trump and his insanity.

 

I'm glad he did this . why pay for something that's is not working or doing any good ?

 

Trump April 14, 2020:

"Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China's lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death,"


Trump January 24, 2020:

"China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"

 

Trump enthusiasts can praise Trump for the lack of school shootings in the month of March 2020, like they have the low gasoline prices.



March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
By Sophie Lewis
April 14, 2020 / 2:45 PM / CBS News

March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002

 

2,349 new coronavirus deaths in the U.S. in one day.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,996,862 Cases and 126,537 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

Post of a blogger:


What did Trump say AFTER Who declared the pandemic?

March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”

Mar 6th 319 cases

March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

Mar 8th 541 cases & 15 deaths

March 9: “This blindsided the world.”

March 9: "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.”

Mar 9th 704 cases & 26 deaths

March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

March 10: “As you know, it’s about 600 cases, it’s about 26 deaths, within our country. And had we not acted quickly, that number would have been substantially more.”

March 10: “And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”

Mar 10th 994 cases & 30 deaths

March 11: “I think we’re going to get through it very well.”

Mar 11th 1301 cases & 38 deaths

March 12: “It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.”

Mar 12th 1630 cases & 41 deaths

March 13: Says Food and Drug Administration “will bring, additionally, 1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month. I doubt we’ll need anywhere near that.”

Mar 13th 2183 cases & 48 deaths

 

Post of a blogger:


March 14: “We’re using the full power of the federal government to defeat the virus, and that’s what we’ve been doing.” Also retweeted supporter Candace Owens who cited “good news” on coronavirus, including that, “Italy is hit hard, experts say, because they have the oldest population in Europe (average age of those that have died is 81).”

Mar 14th 2770 cases & 57 deaths

March 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.”

Mar 15th 3613 cases & 69 deaths

March 16: “If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under control for any place in the world. ... I was talking about what we’re doing is under control, but I’m not talking about the virus.”

Mar 16th 4596 cases & 87 deaths

March 17: “We’re going to win. And I think we’re going to win faster than people think -- I hope.”

Mar 17th 6344 cases & 110 deaths

Mar 24: “I’d love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,”

Mar 24th 54,856 cases & 780 deaths

Mar 25th 68211 cases and 1027 dead

March 29th 139,000 cases and 2,400 dead

March 31st 182,543 cases and 3,732 dead

April 1st Coronavirus has not disappeared as Trump said

April 1st over 211,600 cases and 4,751 dead

April 5th over 337,072 cases and 9,619 dead

April 8th over 419,975 cases and 14,262 dead

April 10th over 486,000 cases and more than 18,000 dead
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April 14h over 600,000 cases and more than 22,000 dead including 2,200 dead in one day.

 

Another acting official in the Trump administration.


Trump budget chief holds firm on CDC cuts amid virus outbreak
By Niv Elis
03/10/20 12:26 PM EDT

Trump budget chief holds firm on CDC cuts amid virus outbreak

excerpt:

"Russ Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, on Tuesday doubled down on proposed cuts to health services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite the coronavirus outbreak.

Vought came under intense questioning from Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) at a hearing about President Trump’s 2021 budget request. It proposed cutting Health and Human Services funding by $9.5 billion, including a 15 percent cut of $1.2 billion to the CDC and a $35 million decrease to the Infectious Diseases Rapid Response Reserve Fund's annual contribution."

 

Trump says China “should have told us” about coronavirus. He removed the official meant to do that.
A US epidemiologist was embedded with the Chinese CDC. The Trump administration discontinued the position.
By Sean Collins
Mar 23, 2020, 1:10pm EDT

Trump says China "should have told us" about coronavirus. He removed the official meant to do that.

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump loves to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic, but new information surfaced over the weekend that the administration eliminated a position last July that potentially could have helped the US get an earlier jump on a response to the crisis, suggesting the president may need to place blame a little closer to home.

The Trump administration told the United States’ embed at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the position would be defunded, causing her to leave her post in July 2019, according to a report from Reuters’s Marisa Taylor. The embed helped train Chinese public health experts and served in part as a liaison between Chinese officials and their counterparts in the US."

 

Trump's staff cuts have undermined Covid-19 containment efforts, watchdog finds
White House cut staff tasked with identifying global health problems in China, and tried to slash CDC funding
Oliver Milman
Published on Tue 24 Mar 2020 09.00 EDT

Trump's staff cuts have undermined Covid-19 containment efforts, watchdog finds

excerpt:

"Over the past three years, the Trump administration has drastically reduced a team working in China to identify global health threats like Covid-19, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. The initiative’s 11 CDC staffers have been cut to three people, while 39 workers classed as “local employees” have been reduced to 11 people.

The administration disbanded the national security council’s directorate charged with global health and has sought to go further still, requesting budget cuts from the CDC of up to 20% for each of the past three years, only to be rebuffed by Congress. Trump’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act would also have reduced the CDC’s funding by around 8% a year.

The CDC has still undergone an “erosion of budget and staff under Trump” but without Congress’s defiance “thousands more Americans would likely die over the next few months because of even more reduced capacity at the CDC”, according to the report, compiled by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI)."

 

Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak
Marisa Taylor
March 25, 2020 / 6:26 PM

Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.

Most of the reductions were made at the Beijing office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and occurred over the past two years, according to public CDC documents viewed by Reuters and interviews with four people familiar with the drawdown.'

 

Tells people to not touch their face....

Can't help but do a facepalm every time Trump speaks.

 

....and he is 79

 

There was a that phrase again

" four people familiar with"

 

So?

 

So?

 

Translation for we just made this shit up