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April 2020 Trump playing the blame game
This has been an
especially bad week for Donald Trump. Multiple media reports have carefully
cataloged his conflicting statements in response to the Coronavirus. He
initially praised China’s and later charged them with withholding critical
information. Twisting his Rubik’s Cube of blame he now blames the World Health
Organization (WHO) of being too China-centric.
Halting American
funding of WHO during a raging pandemic is like torching a fire department’s
trucks in the middle of an inferno. WHO rang the alarm as early as January 4
and declared the Coronavirus an international emergency at the end of the
month. Tragically, the Trump
administration ignored their warnings and rejected their diagnostic testing kit
which has been used in dozens of countries.Trump repeatedly downplayed the
severity of the Coronavirus dismissing it as a Democrat hoax claiming the
number of infections would quickly disappear. His passivity has caused the
death of thousands of Americans and left large numbers of doctors and nurses
unprotected.
No amount of bobbing and weaving, screaming
and insulting reporters detracts from Trump’s gross incompetence. He likened
the virus to the flu which encouraged large gathering in Churches and young
people to frolic on Florida beaches.
According to recent statistics, the
U.S. had 80 deaths per million compared to four in South Korea and less than
one in Taiwan.
Meanwhile,
Dr Strangelove Trump continues to promote Hydroxychloroquine as a cure.
Yes, he does have a personal stake in the sales of the malaria drug.
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