This week the president went from peddling deadly hydroxychloroquine
as a game changer to promoting the idea of bleach taken internally as a cure. It will also kill you, but more quickly
The next day, Trump tells us he was being sarcastic, as his worst remarks, like roughing up protesters, loving Wikileaks, wanting to stay in office for 10 years, all are when challenged. For those who don’t process irony, Lysol issued an immediate warning not to ingest its product—in case the skull and crossbones on the container isn’t enough.
As for the phony cure, Trump was unapologetic. "Obviously there have been some very good reports and perhaps this one’s not a good report — but we’ll be looking at it."
That’s where we are, four months into a pandemic everyone but the president saw coming, Trump is acting out the movie "Groundhog Day" in reverse. Instead of learning and growing like Bill Murray’s Phil Connors, Trump is getting dumber and shrinking before our eyes. In rushing to end restrictions, Trump’s repeating the mistakes he made during the lost weeks of winter when, stuck in a protective crouch, he cost the country lives.
He’s in denial again as he races to open businesses, essential and not, by May 1, in hopes of resurrecting the Dow (buy on the dip!), lowering unemployment, raising his poll numbers, and throwing open the doors to his shuttered hotel down Pennsylvania Avenue —the one his sons are hoping the federal government will give a break.
If the president moves fast enough, it could be in time for his wealthy supporters to spend their outsized winnings from the stimulus bill on $25 craft cocktails.
If only Trump were a neurotic and believed everything was his fault, instead of being a narcissist who thinks it’s all someone else’s. No one appreciates that he’s the king of ventilators and a hero for closing down travel from China, although with loopholes
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