After having totally botched the coronavirus response in the first two months -- ignoring it, then dismissing it as a hoax, then happy talking about it going away -- clueless sociopath Donald "I Alone Can Fix It" Trump has an answer to his badly damaged image. Fighting COVID-19 is a "war", and Trump is therefore a "wartime president." He wants to shift from the fact that he was foolishly undermining public health efforts up until a few days ago, to being a "wartime president." That's rich. Of course, Fux correspondent and blowdried guy John Roberts helpfully tossed him the softball question about being a "wartime president" at yesterday's press briefing. Always helpful to have state television coordinating the message with you.
Last week's disastrous Oval Office speech tanked the stock market, as did his bragging a few days later about the Fed's lowering of interest rates. While he let his loyal valet Mike "Dense" Pence handle the daily COVID-19 press briefings earlier, he's been emceeing them lately, likely bothered that Pence was overshadowing him. In addition, he still needed a platform to vent his diversions and bigotry ("China Virus") and to attack political rivals, something that the public health professionals lined up behind him weren't going to do.
Ironically, the guy that evaded the draft during the Viet Nam war while clubbing in New York, only to later demean veterans like Sen. John McCain and the Khan family for their sacrifice, and to call his top military officers "dopes and babies" and worse, now wants us to think of him as a wartime president. His real war is with our democratic republic and the majority of its citizens. He showed that in the first few weeks of "battle" when he ignored and misjudged, and thereby aided, the enemy attacking us.
BONUS: The lying and happy talking continue. It turns out contrary to Trump's claim, the Naval hospital ships Comfort and Mercy are undergoing maintenance, and lack medical crews. Their deployment is weeks away.
(photo illustration: In his dreams)
