"American people, your president has a message: Can we all agree to forget this happened?
"Except, of course, for the deaths,
which he guesses you may not be able to instantly forget. Except for
that small detail, it would be much nicer for the country if we could
forget that all of this happened. As we have always said after tragedies
in this country’s past: Never Remember.
"It would
be best if you could just remember that, for a brief shining moment
during the months of March and April, the president appeared on TV every
day and got wonderful ratings for no reason at all. It was just that
what he was saying was, in his own words, 'incredibly interesting.'
"It
had nothing to do with the deaths (which he guesses you may not be able
to instantly forget) or the fact that the things he was saying were
causally linked to how many more deaths there would be. It was just that
he was such a compelling speaker. 'I’m sure people are enjoying it,'
the president said (we can decide whether or not to remember this). It
was a dark subject, he admitted, but people 'can’t get enough.'” -- Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri, on self- absorbed existential threat Donald "Moron Vector" Trump's on- going effort to erase the memory of his incompetent, deadly inaction as the coronavirus epidemic hit our shores. The whole piece is priceless and worth a read.
