Day 1155 That’s a Nasty Question
Wednesday March 18, 20120
228 Days until the election on November 3rd
308 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
I keep thinking about Trump’s response to NPR reporter Yamiche Alcindor’s question. She asked how it was Obama’s fault (e.g. the slow response of the Trump administration to the corona virus) when he Trump had disbanded the US Pandemic Response Team.
This is classic Trump. When he is asked to explain one of his lies he attacks the person for asking. He then goes on to deny he was responsible. Someone else possibly in the administration did it but not him. What BS!
The day before that at the press briefing the reporters were handed a one and half page memo. I guess it was a memo. It wasn’t marked as such. It was some bullet points and paragraphs about what to do to stop the spread of the Corona Virus. Some of its suggestions were different than the CDC’s. Naturally, reporters were confused. What is this? The truth? You want the truth? We don’t know. It was some random ideas, handed out at a White House briefing. Why? We don’t know.
I think I know. It was Jared’s “research.” What allegedly held up the White House response to the Corona Virus. This supposed memo looks like a high school student’s searches on google to find out what to do about the Corona Virus. I think the big hold up was trying to figure out how to change half of the bullets from little round dots to shields. But I’m just guessing. We will probably never know.
Edward Hopper
Also the other day Trump decided this was a health crisis. I don’t know if this precludes him from thinking it’s a plot by the deep state to get him. It doesn’t stop him from tweeting racist views on the subject that we know because after giving his semi-heartfelt Oval Office teleprompter reading (where he allegedly stuck to the script most of the time and only told two lies, and that was attributed to his inability to read) he then took to twitter to call it the China Virus or the Hunan Flu. Nice. Just what we need.
Andrew Cuomo has tried to make nice and gave a real heartfelt speech about the virus and the effect on family. Something Trump can not do because he has no idea what that is. I’m not being funny. Trump is incapable of either humor or remorse or empathy because it is absent from his psyche. It ain’t there. I refer you to an interview NPR had with Seth Myers talking about Trump on SNL. They did a skit where they were selling Trump chicken wings. The skit ended with them singing to the Pointer Sisters’ song “Jump” but instead said, “Trump.” He didn’t get it. He didn’t understand the humor. He had to watch other people laugh and then he saw they thought it was funny, but he did not get it. It wasn’t just that bit. He doesn’t understand humor – period. His idea of humor is to put someone down. That’s his idea of funny, and it isn’t really funny to him. It’s just “look at that poor slob” kind of bullying.
It’s sad but true.
The Corona Virus? Well, he doesn’t get that either. He is flailing about. First he tried to say it wasn’t happening here. Then it wasn’t his fault. Then it was “we are doing a fabulous job.”
This is all predictable. There is nothing new here. Hopefully, people like Cuomo will jolly and cajole Trump into doing something helpful. They will have to treat him like the fat sergeant in Zorro, or Colonel Clink in Hogan’s Heroes. They will have to praise Trump for the great job he is doing and for the terrific ideas he has had, all the while knowing that they manipulated him into doing it.
We need more Putinesque handling of him. Maybe with a little Mao praise thrown in:
“The Corona Virus was due to wipe us all out had it not been for the brave and valiant leadership of our glorious president Donald J. Trump. For it was he, and he alone, that wiped it from our shores … “
228 Days until the election on November 3rd
308 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS “We Are F*cked” by Edward Hopper (Okay, I renamed the painting.)
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