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Trump created a situation where the direct cause, a virulent, infectious virus, could spread rampantly and unchecked.
Had Trump put his ego aside and focused on an actual comprehensive plan and stuck to it, without confusing people with his idiotic opining, and then actually directed his agencies to implement that plan clearly and effectively, we might have gotten a handle on it and prevented clusters from turning into huge state-wide outbreaks.
His speech March 11 gave me hope that this was so serious, he might actually take a sober approach dictated by needs of his people instead of self-aggrandizement. That was a foolish hope.
Trump did not listen to his own advisors, and here we are.
I’m old enough to remember the adage: The buck stops here.
Trump is the president, and the final responsibility lies with him for how the feds handled this, how his CDC handled it, how he presented the seriousness of the situation to the Americans, how he threw out one unfounded statement after another after another on the virus. He fiddled away, contradicting his own health experts, who are trained in the medical sciences, and sending so many mixed messages, it was inevitable that Americans split politically over such basic, common sense practices such as wearing masks to reduce droplet transmission.
Until we got to June, where it seems he could no longer detract or obfuscate, and finally admitted, a lot of Americans are going to die, and “it is what it is.”
I absolutely hold the President ultimately responsible for 173,979 Americans dead and counting. Because the buck stops with his office, and regardless of whether he acknowledges it, the safety of the American people is, first and foremost, his burden, as Commander-in-Chief and the President of the United States of America.
That, alone, is an abysmal failure and even at this late date, we have no clear plan from him for how this pandemic is going to be handled this fall/ winter. We have schools opening up, colder temps will drive people indoors where transmission rates are much higher, and flu season is around the corner. What is his plan to save his country from a truly grotesque body count in the next several months?
Telling his rally of 150 supporters in Mankato, MN that they better vote for him and that he better win MN this time, or he won’t bother coming back to talk for his third, fourth, and fifth terms?
Trump is beyond any semblance of decency. He will hide in a bunker while his nation splinters and burns, but get tested daily to make sure he’s safe, while telling suffering Americans, “it is what it is.”
He has no plan, and I have no respect for him. He’s a menace to the public’s health and to the republic, itself.
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