TotalCretin.Com - Trump and Coronavirus
NB: 'The most comprehensive effort to confront a virus in modern history': Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the Trump administrations' strategy on the pandemic. The only truly unprecedented thing is the incorrigible narcissism and lunacy of the man currently occupying the White House. DS
Total Chaos: Trump Coronavirus Speech Baffles His Admin
Trump’s coronavirus ban on travel from the EU is backfiring already
….Sure enough, when he referred to the virus as a “horrible infection”, after weeks spent dismissing it as a glorified cold or flu, it fed the hope that Trump might finally be ready to acknowledge that his approach up until this moment had not worked – that this was not a problem that could be dealt with in the usual away, swatted aside with a tweet or by hanging a comic nickname around the neck of one of his enemies.
Total Chaos: Trump Coronavirus Speech Baffles His Admin
In his Oval Office
address Wednesday night, President Trump announced that he was banning travel
from Europe to the U.S. but did not specify the details of how that plan would
be rolled out or if Americans could still travel to the region. He also did not
give European officials a heads up, saying the situation required him to move
with haste.
The result was
confusion. Another U.S. official said they received calls from their European
counterparts asking for clarification on exactly what the president was
restricting in regard to travel to and from European countries. As of Thursday
night, U.S. officials abroad said they were still unclear exactly how Trump’s
proclamation would be implemented in real-time. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
had not updated embassies with any guidance or notes on preventive measures.
“I’m used to it with
this administration that we wouldn’t know anything until the morning after,”
another U.S. official said. “But now basically a full work day later? That’s
surprising even for these times.” That lack of clarity
extended to within the walls of the White House. Shortly after President
Trump's speech on Wednesday, White House aides and administration officials
were already scrambling to walk back, clarify, or straight-up correct key
portions of his high-stakes Oval Office address, furiously communicating with
one another and inquisitive media outlets trying to figure out what had just
happened...
Trump’s coronavirus ban on travel from the EU is backfiring already
….Sure enough, when he referred to the virus as a “horrible infection”, after weeks spent dismissing it as a glorified cold or flu, it fed the hope that Trump might finally be ready to acknowledge that his approach up until this moment had not worked – that this was not a problem that could be dealt with in the usual away, swatted aside with a tweet or by hanging a comic nickname around the neck of one of his enemies.
But no sooner had that
hope appeared than it faded away. For in the course of nine minutes, Trump
swiftly reverted to type. He described Covid-19 as a “foreign virus”, and took
pains to point out that “a large number of new clusters in the United States
were seeded by travellers from Europe”. His doctrine of “America first” – a
phrase he used once again – forever pits the US against the world, with its
implication that America’s purity is permanently under threat of contamination
by alien hordes. Trump has used that imagery in the context of immigration for
more than four years; it should hardly be a surprise that he uses it now in the
context of disease....
