Donald Trump has proven to be unfit for office.
Over and over again, Trump's tweets, childish namecalling, and lack of ethics and morality have largely gone unnoticed by those who voted for him.
Instead, they'll focus on the economy and the stock market. Now, anyone with a fully-functioning brain knows Trump has coasted in those two areas for the first three years of his "presidency."
Look at the chart above.
Notice that steady growth under Obama? Trump was trending slightly below Obama's path until the Coronavirus struck.
Now, we all know the economy and stock markets react to the unstable events around us.
Here's what happened during the Swine Flu outbreak:
You can guess how Fox News covered that stock market crash compared to how it's covering today's events.
But, here's the real scary part about Trumpism.
Aside from giving Trump credit when the stock market grows and blaming someone or something else when it doesn't, Trump supporters believe everything he says and that's now hurting this country more than ever.
Instead of providing leadership in the time of crisis, Trump did the worst thing imaginable. He gambled on human lives.
The Coronavirus first broke in December 2019. The first case hit the U.S. in January. Up until a few days ago, Trump has not taken it seriously, which led Fox News and other "conservative" talking heads to mock the pandemic.
The Lincoln Project, which is a group created by prominent anti-Trump Republicans, released a video of many of Trump's comments downplaying the severity of the outbreak, which has now closed schools in many states, canceled major sporting events worldwide and has caused the loss of thousands of lives across the globe.
In addition to disrupting the daily lives of Americans, hundreds of thousands of hourly workers will be displaced as the result of restaurants and bars and gyms and movie theaters and other gathering places shuttering their doors for several weeks.
And, yet, Donald Trump didn't take it seriously.
This shouldn't surprise anyone.
We knew who Donald Trump was. He told us repeatedly during the election that he was a character-depraved, unethical huckster who sought only to profit from a presidential run.
The Mueller Report proved what many have suspected and someday, when that full, unredacted report, is released, we'll know how sinister his actions were.
The problem is many people don't care.
They somehow feel as if they're winning. They're owning the libs.
Meanwhile, we're eight weeks into a pandemic and only recently did we start testing for the disease so we can quarantine off the sickest among us. Most people still can't get tested unless they play for an NBA team or are the chairwoman for the Republican Party.
Sure, Fox News has now changed its tune but it's too late.
According to an NPR study, the partisan differences regarding the Coronavirus outbreak are startling.
"And a majority of Republicans — 54% — now say the response to the coronavirus is overblown, a significant jump from last month, when about 23% of Republicans held that view."
Finally, here's a list of Trump quotes regarding the Coronavirus. It's easy to see why so many (idiots) haven't taken this seriously. I deleted many of the quotes other publications have posted due to a lack of context or stretching the meaning of Trump's words. I'll let his words stand on their own.
This list doesn't include his comment about the Democrat's hoax. "Conservatives" have argued he was only responding to the reaction of the Democrats and not the virus itself. But, still, if he accused the Democrats of overreacting (the hoax) over a month ago, isn't that more evidence he didn't provide the proper reaction?
This list doesn't include his comment about the Democrat's hoax. "Conservatives" have argued he was only responding to the reaction of the Democrats and not the virus itself. But, still, if he accused the Democrats of overreacting (the hoax) over a month ago, isn't that more evidence he didn't provide the proper reaction?
It's time for Trump to finally be forced from office. We need an adult in charge.
Jan. 24: “It will all work out well.”
Jan. 29: “Just received a briefing on the Coronavirus in China from all of our GREAT agencies, who are also working closely with China. We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!”
Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it. So that I can assure you.”
Feb. 2: “Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China. … We can’t have thousands of people coming in who may have this problem, the coronavirus. So we’re gonna see what happens, but we did shut it down, yes.”
Feb. 7: “Nothing is easy, but [Chinese President Xi Jinping] … will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone.”
Feb. 14: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”
Feb. 19: “I think it’s going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus. So let’s see what happens, but I think it’s going to work out fine.”
Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 25: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are … getting better. They’re all getting better. … As far as what we’re doing with the new virus, I think that we’re doing a great job.”
Feb. 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus, including the very early closing of our borders to certain areas of the world.”
Feb. 26: “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done."
Feb. 26:
Q: This is spreading — or is going to spread, maybe, within communities. That’s the expectation.
A: It may. It may.
Q: Does that worry you?
A: No. ... No, because we’re ready for it. It is what it is. We’re ready for it. We’re really prepared. ... We hope it doesn’t spread. There’s a chance that it won’t spread too, and there’s a chance that it will, and then it’s a question of at what level.
Feb. 27: “Only a very small number in U.S., & China numbers look to be going down. All countries working well together!”
Feb. 28: “I think it’s really going well. We did something very fortunate: we closed up to certain areas of the world very, very early — far earlier than we were supposed to. I took a lot of heat for doing it. It turned out to be the right move, and we only have 15 people and they are getting better, and hopefully they’re all better. There’s one who is quite sick, but maybe he’s gonna be fine. … We’re prepared for the worst, but we think we’re going to be very fortunate."
Feb. 28: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb. 29: “We’re the number-one travel destination anywhere in the world, yet we have far fewer cases of the disease than even countries with much less travel or a much smaller population.”
March 5: “With approximately 100,000 CoronaVirus cases worldwide, and 3,280 deaths, the United States, because of quick action on closing our borders, has, as of now, only 129 cases (40 Americans brought in) and 11 deaths.”
March 6: “We did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm. It’ll go away.' ”
March 7: “It came out of China, and we heard about it. And made a good move: We closed it down; we stopped it. Otherwise — the head of CDC said last night that you would have thousands of more problems if we didn’t shut it down very early. That was a very early shutdown, which is something we got right."
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. Surgeon General, ‘The risk is low to the average American.’ ”
March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”
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.”
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.”
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.”
March 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.”
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.”
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