Still waiting
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As President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony Saturday — spewing mistruths about his opponent’s plan for policing and claiming the coronavirus is “disappearing” while hundreds of people watched from below — it was clear that his illness has taught him very little and he will continue to endanger Americans until Election Day.
There was a chance for a strategic pivot by the President after he contracted Covid-19 that would have helped him shore up his flagging approval ratings on the handling of the virus. After learning a great deal about coronavirus, as he claimed during his stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he could have chosen a path of responsibility by using his platform to educate the public about the risks of the virus at a time when US cases are surging and doctors fear that the nation is entering a second wave.
Hours after Trump’s dark and divisive White House speech, his doctor still won’t say if he’s tested negative But nine days after he announced his coronavirus diagnosis — and hours before his physician said he is no longer considered “a transmission risk to others” but did not say he had tested negative — Trump chose his familiar tactics of denial, risk and ignorance. Two weeks after one super-spreader event in the White House Rose Garden, he held another on the South Lawn with no social distancing. This time, it was before an audience of Black and Latino Americans, groups who have been disproportionately harmed by the pandemic.Rather than mitigating risk, Trump is planning at least three campaign rallies next week in Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa, stating Saturday, “We are starting very, very big with our rallies and with our everything” as he again threw caution to the wind.
I would have been an NBA star, but I chose my familiar tactics of shooting airballs on layups and choosing not to jump over a line of matchboxes, instead raining three-pointers like Steph Curry and throwing down tomahawk jams like LeBron James.
It’s not an act: this is who he is and has always been. I guess four years wasn’t long enough for our media to learn that, and I’m pretty sure four more years wouldn’t be enough either, although I’m not eager to run the experiment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/politics/trump-white-house-coronavirus.htmlI am, I am Superman:
In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.
It’s always kayfabe with him all the way down.
For the rest of its history, this country will never wash away the stain of having electing Trump president.