Like the Vietnam Memorial, but with the names of everyone who’s died of COVID-19, sacrificing their lives in the losing war to try to save Trump’s economy.
Like with Vietnam, most of the names on that wall will have been conscripts, not heroes.
We’re gonna need a bigger wall.
Do we build one for every country in the world with coronavirus deaths or just the US?
Just the ones in which Presidential incompetence (like appointing his worthless son-in-law and a bunch of young idiots to lead task forces for which they are totally unqualified), corruption, and grift increases the chances of people dying from the virus.
The guy does love walls…
Every country can build one if they want but ours will be the biggest.
The worst case scenario is Belgium and if we had their deaths per capita we would have an extra 165,000 deaths so far.
I don’t know how many presidents have saved the lives of 165,000 people but it can’t be that many. Maybe we should be saving room on the mall for a monument to Trump as one of our country’s greatest heroes, or maybe the president isn’t a god-king and coronavirus deaths have very little to do with who is in charge of government
Or his juvenile, petty and vindictive policies are causing people to get sick and/or die.
No, the worst case scenario is global nuclear annihilation. Every president (at least, so far) has avoided that, so they’re all responsible for saving billions of lives.
Did the president of Belgium put Jared Kushner in charge of a group trying to find needed medical supplies? If not, then Trump is doing a lot worse than the leader of Belgium.
Care to defend putting an idiot with zero qualifications in charge of an important group in a medical crisis? Or is that just fine for you?
The Trump legacy according to one of his supporters: We should be grateful because he didn’t kill as many Americans as he could have.
Not on the Mall, put it a Mar-A-Lago, which will have been seized to cover the class-action wrongful death suits.
Bottom-up activism, not top-down imposition: Memorial walls in every willing community but with no mention of Donny, whose name deserves no place on any public monument. Idea: an orange wig atop a tall pole beside each memorial wall, suitable for passing birds to shit upon. Hmmm, that’s pretty painless, but it’s a start.
Ah, this reminds me of this classic exchange on Twitter:
Apparently it has worked because the US has less than half the deaths per capita as Belgium so maybe they should have had Kushner. Should he get a monument too?
Just on the off chance we actually live in the same universe, does it bother you that Trump has said many false and dangerous things about COVID, and that he’s put incompetent and unqualified people in charge of many aspects of the response?
If that is the standard we should take out the FDR memorial. In just his first year of office 67,000 people died of tuberculosis.
Lincoln has a memorial but under his presidency 440,000 -500,000 people died of contagious diseases. He must have been an awful president to kill so many people.
Did Lincoln and FDR appoint unqualified clowns to oversee important parts of their epidemic responses?
In his first year! What a piker!!
The coronavirus has killed more Americans than that in the past five weeks.
You mean, back when medical science was practically nonexistent by our standards?
Not to mention, this thing’s just getting started. With states opening up, it’s hard to see how the death rate goes down much. We could lose that many people to the coronavirus. Absent a change of President by resignation, impeachment, or the 25th Amendment (which almost surely won’t happen), we could lose that many to the coronavirus before January 20.
The thing is, we have a ton of knowledge about how to deal with a novel virus like this one. Hell, Obama’s people left a detailed playbook on this subject for the Trump people, they did a tabletop role-playing exercise with them during the transition, ranked it as one of the top three threats they might have to deal with, had a team on the NSC to take charge of dealing with the next pandemic - and Trump threw all that away.
Then when this particular virus came along, Trump went into denial mode for two months, pretending that it barely existed here and would soon vanish, then pretended to be a ‘wartime President’ for a week or so, then dumped all the responsibility for dealing with the worst worldwide pandemic since the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic onto the states. And forced them to bid against each other (and his own agencies) for resources, and on those occasions when they won the bidding, his minions swiped the PPE, ventilators, test kits, etc. out from under him.
The governor of my state was able to procure 500,000 testing kits from South Korea, and he had to guard the damn things with the state police and the Maryland National Guard. What insanity is this??
Not only does Trump have no idea what he’s doing, but he’s not willing to hire people who do know what they’re doing, and turn the whole thing over to them.
The coronavirus isn’t his fault, but the absence of a coherent national response to it is entirely his fault. We might have had several thousand deaths under the best of responses, but we didn’t have to have anywhere near 77,000 deaths. Most of those deaths are on him. And we’ll almost surely have that many more to come, and all those deaths are on him.
He deserves a memorial that says, “these are all the Americans Trump killed.” Because he did.
And there is this tweetfrom Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, comparing Trump with the Death Star getting ready to destroy a planet full of innocent people.
He hasn’t vaporized an entire planet, but 77,000 Americans is all too horrendous a start.
This time, his incompetence and stupidity doesn’t protect us from his evil nature.
A lot of people may have died of diseases during Lincoln’s and Roosevelt’s administrations. But both presidents were generally opposed to that.
Trump is the first president we’ve had that encouraged people to ignore professional medical advice and go out and contract a disease. Or as you put it, Trump is an awful president who killed a lot of people.
Back in 2016, while he was running for President, Donald Trump said that he could get away with openly killing somebody in the middle of New York City. At the time, I didn’t realize it was the one campaign promise he planned on keeping.