Opinion: The Covid-19 lessons Trump didn’t learn
4 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: The Covid-19 lessons Trump didn’t learn

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst. Instead, Trump spewed a near-constant stream of lies, thwarted infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ability to hammer home public health guidance, and undermined faith in the vaccine development process. Despite the President’s efforts to rush a vaccine through “Operation Warp Speed,” the country is still reeling from a surge in Covid cases. “We want them to do it, we’re not going to be running a parking lot in Arkansas.” Politically, there is nothing more powerful for an incumbent President than to lead a national effort, bring the country together and demonstrate on a daily basis the awesome power of the presidency and the US government. Leaders like former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill drew great political power by speaking to the force of a country that comes together to face an existential challenge.

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Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

Salon  

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with unprocessed trauma from the global pandemic. It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and …

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember

Salon  

At a campaign event in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump asked the crowd a question Ronald Reagan also asked voters in the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter, and one many presidents before have asked. “People are still framing questions like that as if where we were four years ago was not in the early stages of a …

Trump botched America’s pandemic response — but a 2nd term would be even more catastrophic
6 months ago

Trump botched America’s pandemic response — but a 2nd term would be even more catastrophic

Raw Story  

I think it’s important to remind yourself of the basics. READ: ‘Creepy weirdos’: Senator fears Trump WH staff would destroy government from ‘inside’ “ I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump said in March 2020. Far-right voters oppose life-saving vaccines, so the Republican candidate is only too pleased to tell them what they want to hear.” Expect more of this …

COVID-19 Isn't Just A Trump Failure. It's a Right-Wing Failure Too.
4 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 Isn't Just A Trump Failure. It's a Right-Wing Failure Too.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Voters are getting exactly the picture they should on the eve of Election Day: President Donald Trump in denial of an ongoing pandemic and actively participating in its spread. A Trumpy Approach To The Virus It is not surprising that a president who seeks economic advice from Lawrence Kudlow, whose record includes predicting Bill Clinton’s tax hikes …

‘Enough Of The Lies’: Joe Biden Is Done With Donald Trump’s COVID-19 BS In New Ad
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Enough Of The Lies’: Joe Biden Is Done With Donald Trump’s COVID-19 BS In New Ad

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump’s monthslong lies about the coronavirus pandemic are the focus of a new ad from Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign. The 51-second clip begins with footage of Trump in January claiming COVID-19 will simply “disappear.” Subsequent footage shows Trump repeatedly downplaying the threat of the virus, while acknowledging its danger in private. The United States …

Donald Trump is running the kind of presidential campaign he likes, but not one he needs
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump is running the kind of presidential campaign he likes, but not one he needs

Firstpost  

Away from their candidate and the television cameras, some of Trump’s aides are quietly conceding just how dire his political predicament appears to be, and his inner circle has returned to a state of recriminations and backbiting In public, President Donald Trump and his campaign team project a sense of optimism and bravado. Less than three weeks before Election Day, …

US election 2020 (opinion): Desperate Trump is putting democracy at risk
4 years, 2 months ago

US election 2020 (opinion): Desperate Trump is putting democracy at risk

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.” Follow him on Twitter @julianzelizer. He repeated falsehoods about Joe Biden wanting to defund the police and …

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump fears coronavirus: Urgency US president showed in seeking treatment puts paid to lies about pandemic

Firstpost  

The facts of Trump’s experience with coronavirus, including how how quickly it sickened him to the point of requiring intensive medical care, are the best tools to fight the misinformation campaign against COVID-19 Something momentous happened late last week, a brief pinprick of clarity piercing through the haze: President Donald Trump finally showed Americans the truth about the coronavirus. But …

Analysis: The Trump presidency is now the coronavirus presidency
4 years, 2 months ago

Analysis: The Trump presidency is now the coronavirus presidency

Al Jazeera  

The virus is likely to determine Trump’s political fate, despite his efforts to avoid just that. For better or for worse, and despite US President Donald Trump’s efforts, coronavirus and Trump are forever entwined: It has defined his presidency and may likely decide his political fate. He bulldozed his way through a widely-panned first presidential debate with Biden last week, …

Trump rebukes CDC chief for his cautions on a coronavirus vaccine and masks
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump rebukes CDC chief for his cautions on a coronavirus vaccine and masks

LA Times  

President Trump contradicted one of his administration’s top scientists and announced Wednesday that widespread distribution of a coronavirus vaccine would begin as early as next month, further rattling the scientific and public health communities and stoking rival Joe Biden’s claim that Trump can’t be trusted to oversee development of a safe vaccine. For a vaccine to be “fully available to …

Donald Trump spinning virus failure as a win again by celebrating ‘encouraging’ progress
4 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump spinning virus failure as a win again by celebrating ‘encouraging’ progress

CNN  

CNN — Every time President Donald Trump and his political team claim great progress in the pandemic it’s a dangerous sign: things are likely about to get worse. Forever spinning their failure in handling the crisis, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday made selective claims of “significant” advances and “very encouraging” signs and celebrated “plateauing” cases in sunbelt …

Trump’s pandemic pivot is about politics, not policy (opinion)
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump’s pandemic pivot is about politics, not policy (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. Trump declared, “It will probably get worse before it gets better.” That would come as a shock to anyone who has limited their intake of information to the President’s rosy statements. For a moment, he sounded like a man who actually understands the virus is …

Trump says Covid-19 pandemic ‘will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better’
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump says Covid-19 pandemic ‘will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better’

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump warned the coronavirus pandemic is likely to worsen before improving, during the first outing of his revived daily briefings on Tuesday. “It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better,” Trump said – echoing a prediction he made at the start of April of a “rough” two weeks ahead. “Whether you like the mask …

Trump’s callous claim pandemic is ‘handled’ exposed by rocketing Covid-19 infections
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump’s callous claim pandemic is ‘handled’ exposed by rocketing Covid-19 infections

CNN  

CNN — This is what President Donald Trump’s “handled” pandemic looks like. Texas, Florida and Arizona – Republican-run states that most aggressively embraced Trump’s impatient demands to get the economy open again – are heading into what one expert warned is a viralthreatthat is approaching “apocalyptic” levels. Even Vice President Mike Pence, who rarely pauses his praise of Trump’s “leadership,” …

Donald Trump’s strange way of thinking (opinion)
4 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump’s strange way of thinking (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. CNN — “There is nothing either good or bad,” Hamlet tells his old childhood buddies in Shakespeare’s play, “but thinking makes it so.” President Donald Trump borrowed that principle this week as he strove in vain to turn bad news about the coronavirus into some kind of …

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