Gonna happen, happen sometime
Trump says everything’s fabulous.
Donald Trump barely mentioned the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the US in his incendiary speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday night. But in an appearance at the White House to wish Americans a happy fourth of July, the president referenced the virus, albeit to tell people how great a job he is doing. Predictably, he also recycled his old tactic of blaming the virus on China.
Chinadiddit therefore it’s fine that Trump has done everything he can to make it far far worse than it had to be.
“We were doing better than any country had done in history … and then we got hit with this terrible plague from China and now we’re getting closer to fighting our way out of it,” said the president as numbers show Covid-19 cases are rising in 37 states across the US, and falling significantly in only one, Vermont.
That’s not getting closer to “fighting” our way out of it. That’s getting closer to being submerged and defeated by it.
Despite evidence to the contrary, the president then suggested America was on its way to beating the virus. “Our country is coming back, our jobs numbers are spectacular, a lot of things are happening that people don’t quite see yet,” he said. “We’re on our way to a tremendous victory. It’s going to happen and it’s going to happen big. Our country will be greater than ever before.”
We’re not though.
Sounds similar to the plot of a typical disaster movie I seem to recall from the last decades of the last century.
There’s an asteroid heading for Earth and is calculated to hit slap bang in the middle of the continental US. All over the world, governments are building bunkers for the people and getting ready for the fallout. In America, beautiful and brilliant scientists, and the handsome and brave leaders of the US military, want to intercept it with a nuclear missile and head it away from Earth; and the heroic US president says – leave it, it was the Chinese who spotted it first, so it’s their fault that everyone is going to die.
That is how it went, isn’t it?
Yes, I freely admit that there are “a lot of things happening that people don’t quite see yet.” The problem is that he claims things that nobody EVER sees. And he fails to see much that everyone else does.
Is this before or after the virus goes away “like a miracle?”