... Irony failed and exaggeration proved impossible when the president of the United States retweeted the medical opinions of former game-show host Chuck Woolery as ammunition in his weird war against National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci. [snip]
The president’s impulsive, unserious response to covid-19 has bollixed
the nation’s business. Scoffing at masks and flouting social distancing,
Trump undermined our best hopes for opening a parachute over the
plummeting U.S. economy. Three of our leading economic engines —
California, Texas and Florida — are struggling with the consequences of
too many people emulating Trump’s reckless example.
And he’s
botching his own business in the process. The law firms, financial
planners and trade associations that might have booked meetings at
struggling Trump Doral won’t be looking to Woolery for medical advice.
They’ll be more interested in the views of David De La Zerda, director
of the intensive care unit at Miami’s Jackson Medical Center, who told
an NPR interviewer that the surge in cases filling his beds is both younger and sicker than his covid-19 cases in the spring.
Before the pandemic, Trump complained — without evidence — that serving as president was costing him “a fortune.”
Now it is almost certainly true. By underestimating the problem and by
failing to rally the country to a unified, medically sound response, he
wrecked the economy and shot himself in the foot. Sadly, that’s no joke. -- David von Drehle, today in the Washington Post, on the self- parodying, self- sabotaging "unhinged" COVID Donnie.
