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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America

'I don't take responsibility': Trump shakes hands and spreads blame over coronavirus

Declaring a national emergency at the White House, the president defied medical advice and acted like a one-man coronavirus cannon

David Smith in Washington
Sat 14 Mar 2020 01.20 GMT

He fingered the microphone and put his lips up close. He shook hands with everyone he could. Donald Trump, who promised you’re going to win so much you’ll get sick of winning, might also just make you sick.

In the White House rose garden on Friday, the US president defied the advice of medical experts standing behind him and behaved like a one-man coronavirus cannon.

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'I don't take responsibility': Trump shakes hands and spreads blame over coronavirus

Declaring a national emergency at the White House, the president defied medical advice and acted like a one-man coronavirus cannon
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The irony...

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The man is out of control. Words like hubris can't describe his personal demise, because the tragedy of him envelops everyone, and he takes no responsibility as leader. There is no tragedy in this small man .
 
old boy said:
The man is out of control. Words like hubris can't describe his personal demise, because the tragedy of him envelops everyone, and he takes no responsibility as leader. There is no tragedy in this small man .
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Apologies for going Godwin, but I can imagine Trump appearing like Bruno Ganz in Downfall, as Hitler screaming at everyone from his bunker under the White House, I mean Reichstag.

At the end the day, Trumps’ incompetence may save many more future lives during a much more deadly pandemic by demonstrating the flaws in the CDC and system during covid19.
 
Admiral Beez said:
Apologies for going Godwin, but I can imagine Trump appearing like Bruno Ganz in Downfall, as Hitler screaming at everyone from his bunker under the White House, I mean Reichstag.

At the end the day, Trumps’ incompetence may save many more future lives during a much more deadly pandemic by demonstrating the flaws in the CDC and system during covid19.
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Like this...

 
Admiral Beez said:
Apologies for going Godwin, but I can imagine Trump appearing like Bruno Ganz in Downfall, as Hitler screaming at everyone from his bunker under the White House, I mean Reichstag.

At the end the day, Trumps’ incompetence may save many more future lives during a much more deadly pandemic by demonstrating the flaws in the CDC and system during covid19.
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If nothing else I can see this whole situation being the undoing of the Republican Senate. There are reports that Mitch McConnell let the senate take a long weekend as of this past Thursday so he could attend a convention. The optics of the US Senate being dismissed for a long weekend during a national emergency so their leader can attend a convention are not good.
 
Admiral Beez said:
Apologies for going Godwin, but I can imagine Trump appearing like Bruno Ganz in Downfall, as Hitler screaming at everyone from his bunker under the White House, I mean Reichstag.
At the end the day, Trumps’ incompetence may save many more future lives during a much more deadly pandemic by demonstrating the flaws in the CDC and system during covid19.
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The flaws are not the CDC and the system per se - the flaws are precisely the result of his not only incompetence, but his malfeasance enabled by one of the co-equal branches of government.

AoD
 
Nancy Pelosi Once Again Bails Out a GOP President Facing a National Crisis

From link.

For the second time in her career, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was tasked with bailing out a Republican president in a moment of national crisis and, with a tanking stock market in the background, came through with a bill.

Twelve years ago, Pelosi worked with President George W. Bush and his lieutenants to craft the 2008 emergency bank bailout. Late Friday night, she’d nailed down a deal with the Trump administration on legislation to respond to the spiraling coronavirus outbreak.

But unlike the first time—when the speaker and the man in the White House had a relatively decent working relationship—Pelosi this time was collaborating with a president who’d spent weeks trashing her as, among other things, “incompetent.”
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The name-calling, ultimately, proved to be a minor hurdle, if one at all; as Trump was largely sidelined during negotiations. Over the course of Thursday and Friday, Pelosi spoke instead with Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, nearly 30 separate times as they hammered out a deal.

Through it all, the speaker did not speak with the president once. Asked at a late-night Friday press conference if they had talked, Pelosi looked almost shocked that anyone might think so. “There was no need for that,” she said.

Bush was a participant in TARP discussions, though he strategically kept some distance as he and his aides felt that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson would be more palatable a negotiating partner for lawmakers on the Hill. It was Paulson who famously leaned so heavily on Pelosi to help get the bank bailout through the House that he even got down on one knee to beg her to push the bill through her chamber.

The parallels between then and now aren’t perfect. But they aren’t far apart either. For lawmakers who were there during the autumn of 2008 the most important difference is the most obvious: Trump.

“The crisis atmosphere seems similar. The inability of the president to provide any real leadership is different,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) shortly after a midnight vote on Saturday to approve the coronavirus legislation. “I disagreed vigorously with the Bush administration, but at least the president led and worked with his team on this. We're here at this hour, in large measure, because Donald Trump's provided no leadership, just obstruction.”
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“I never thought I would say this,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who voted for the bailout at the time, “but Bush was capable of acting.”

While Trump made broad requests for the type of legislative response he wanted, he didn’t provide much in the way of specific details, so Democrats—led by Pelosi—simply plowed ahead. The first relief effort from Congress, a bill passed last week to inject $8 billion into the U.S. public health system, blew past the administration's initial ask of just over $2 billion—with the enthusiastic buy-in of Republicans in both the House and Senate.

The foundation of the deal passed on Saturday was laid out by congressional Democrats earlier in the week, who offered a list of legislative priorities to deal with the outbreak, including expanding paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, food assistance, and COVID-19 testing.

With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proposing no legislative plans, House Democrats’ plan became the only game in town. And instead of coming up with a bill of their own, the Trump administration chose to negotiate, as public demand grew for a response to the escalating crisis.

Through those negotiations, the deal that was approved by an overwhelming, bipartisan margin of 363 to 40 was brought down from the benchmarks many Democrats wanted to see. Progressives, on Saturday, were perplexed and angered that the bill exempted companies with more than 500 employees from having to provide paid sick leave. But Pelosi’s office argued that most employees at these large companies already had paid sick leave. And beyond that concession, Pelosi did not stray far from her core objectives.

If this GOP president’s own role was a major departure from 2008, so was his relationship to his own party. Unlike in 2008, when an ascendant faction of conservatives tanked the deal that Bush and Paulson had negotiated with Democrats, a House Republican conference fully in Trump’s grasp simply needed his public blessing before getting in line. After that came in the form of a Friday night tweet, all but the most conservative members of the party ended up voting yes on the legislation—and many staunch conservatives did vote for the bill, out of fealty to Trump and out of pressure to do something.
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The MAGA movement is really splintered on COVID-19. Some Trump supporters think it is all a liberal hoax, but some take it seriously.


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Trump is livid at Jared Kushner over the ‘inept and flat-footed’ coronavirus response: report

President Donald Trump has lost faith in his son-in-law and senior advisor, according to a bombshell new report by Gabriel Sherman in Vanity Fair."With the markets in free fall despite emergency action by the Fed over the weekend, Trump is waking up to the reality that’s been clear to everyone...
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Trump is directing his rage at Jared now.
 
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TheKingEast said:
This guy never takes any responsibility. He makes dumb decisions like putting people with no experience in important roles then blames them when things fail.

What a jackass.
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Well, he always said he had the best people...

Videodrome said:
The MAGA movement is really splintered on COVID-19. Some Trump supporters think it is all a liberal hoax, but some take it seriously.
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Wait till it is them and their family/friends who gets sick, put into ICU and started dying. Disease have an interesting way of asserting reality on disbelievers.

AoD
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Well, he always said he had the best people...



Wait till it is them and their family/friends who gets sick, put into ICU and started dying. Disease have an interesting way of asserting reality on disbelievers.

AoD
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Everyone becomes a socialist during a pandemic. Even the most rightwing nutter will be demanding the government save them.
 
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