Well, it’s even worse than I thought. According to Peter Alexander, as far as Trump is concerned, we are already 7 or 8 days into those 15 days, so his decision is coming maybe about next Monday or so.
Actually, HMS isn’t far off. What’s the worst thing Trump believes can happen to him? Anything which makes him look bad, including a bear market.
Some reporter should once again ask Trump to reassure the public, just to see him go off (again) on an insane insulting rant against a reporter.
They should all ask him that over and over and over until he has an attack and falls gibbering to the floor.
I really think the Dems should impeach him over this. Just because they’ve already done it once, so what? He’s a clear and present danger to millions of Americans.
Of course the Senate wouldn’t remove him. But at least they’d be confronted with the responsibility for thousands, perhaps millions, of deaths.
It means that he’s giving the illegal alien Chinese virus until the end of the week to vacate the premises. If it hasn’t by then, he’ll send in ICE to arrest and deport it.
In a few days he’ll deny he ever said it and his cultist base will go along.
I have a feeling that this presidency has underlying health conditions, which likely won’t survive COVID-19. We will see once the general election starts. Until then, hopefully local government leaders will handle things well enough.
Heck, what was that outburst he had yesterday about “nobody thanks me?” He seems to be ever more touchy about it.
I think he’s pissed off that he has to stand behind a podium every day and pretend to be on top of this, instead of out playing golf.
You forgot about the bit of “starving the beast” - defunding and shrinking government until it is “small enough to drown in a bathtub”. There is a crowd that decades ago set out to dismantle the Federal government and they’re the guys in charge now - they won, they succeeded.
If it wasn’t so damn sad I’d laugh because so many of their stupid followers will die gasping for their last breath in the corridor of an overwhelmed hospital wondering how things got so bad so quick. I can’t though - they’re going to take a lot of other people with them.
True. And he’s right that in theory we could take actions in the name of a cure that would be worse than the disease. That’s why we’ve accepted the increased risk caused by keeping grocery stores and pharmacies and the businesses that supply them open, because the likely outcome of shutting down the food supply chain WOULD be worse than the disease.
But Trump wont be capable of striking the proper balance because still doesn’t understand the dynamics of exponential growth and he’s too stupid to grasp it. I could probably negotiate a good deal with him by offering to work for a dollar the first day if he doubled my pay every day for a month.
HE JUST DOESN’T GET IT.
I called this a few days ago, even though I’m not going to hunt down the post. It was based on seeing Pence constantly showing that 15 Days to Slow The Spread pamphlet. He didn’t talk about it that much but he always held it in camera view.
I think his rallies are what he really misses, all those adoring crowds of Trumpists who believe he’s wonderful. Someone pointed out the other day that the daily pressers started up just after the rallies had to be canceled.
Young folks typically hate the idea of getting old. Trump has a plan for that.
Is this the most days in a row that he has spent in the White House?
Trump is tired of social isolation.
He seems to think the stock market is a better indicator of his chances for re-election than the welfare of Americans during a deadly virus outbreak.
It has been 2 weeks since he played…
From the right wing Facebook posts I’ve seen, the faithful have not abandoned their Dear Leader. One bemoaned that the money that Democrats spent on impeachment should have been spent on helping Americans. That drew a comment that she stole the money from Social Security to pay for impeachment. Another meme said that the drunken bitch who tore up the State of the Union Address refused to aid Americans. Nice and subtle.
The base doesn’t care what he says or what he does. He could very well say in 15 days “Fuck it, crisis is over, everybody get back to work. If people die, tough titties. We have to get the stock market back up” The base would happily lap it up just as fast as they would lap it up if he took a dump in their kitchen.
Now poor little Mitch is whining that the Democrats wouldn’t swallow his bill that would have given the administration $500 billion to distribute to corporations as it sees fit with no oversight. Seriously, these clowns are running the circus.
Jeez, no wonder he’s getting so antsy.
It sounds like you have better information than I do. Would you care to share it?
What’s happening here is obvious. Trump doesn’t want to focus on the crisis any more. His attention span is less than that of my 3 year old grandson. Everyday he has to stand up there and say something, and he’s getting tired of it. This is the one agenda he can’t control. He can’t turn coverage to anything else.
If he tells everyone they can come out now he can turn his attention to something else - that what he must be thinking. We all knew he was not up to the job but this is proving it.
The best thing Trump could do for the country at this point is to fall over dead of a stroke or heart attack. Pence may be an asshole, but he can focus on something for more than a week. Or two days.