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So true.....

"The Trump Presidency Is Over" "He knows nothing will be the same" Peter Wehner, The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/ 

The Trump Presidency Is Over 
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. 

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It took until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump. 

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The president’s misinformation and mendacity about the coronavirus are head-snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had “shut it down” when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn’t. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear “like a miracle”; it won’t. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more. 

Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. (He said that it was three weeks prior to the point at which he spoke; the actual figure was twice that.) The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting “much better” when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements an American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low. 

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“I like the numbers,” Trump said. “I would rather have the numbers stay where they are. But if they want to take them off, they’ll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 [cases] is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 [deaths] will be a higher number too.” (Cooler heads prevailed, and over the president’s objections, the Grand Princess was allowed to dock at the Port of Oakland.) 

On and on it goes.  

To make matters worse, the president delivered an Oval Office address that was meant to reassure the nation and the markets but instead shook both. The president’s delivery was awkward and stilted; worse, at several points, the president, who decided to ad-lib the teleprompter speech, misstated his administration’s own policies, which the administration had to correct. Stock futures plunged even as the president was still delivering his speech. In his address, the president called for Americans to “unify together as one nation and one family,” despite having referred to Washington Governor Jay Inslee as a “snake” days before the speech and attacking Democrats the morning after it. As The Washington Post’s Dan Balz put it, “Almost everything that could have gone wrong with the speech did go wrong.” 

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Taken together, this is a massive failure in leadership that stems from a massive defect in character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, shortsighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause. And he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president’s disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless; it is downright injurious. 

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It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over
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7 minutes ago, Kivalo said:

Trump's response (real & presumed) to this virus could very easily sink his presidency. 

Well, That may have been true if he had a viable opponent.  Biden or Bernie....I don't think so.

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1 minute ago, ManOnManOral said:

Right now he is declaring a state of emergency, and mobilizing health care and corps to work together. Great job by this administration. The dems are in the back hoping millions die.

It really is pathetic to see the political divide we are seeing today.  It will be remembered.

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1 minute ago, ManOnManOral said:

Right now he is declaring a state of emergency, and mobilizing health care and corps to work together. Great job by this administration. The dems are in the back hoping millions die.

Meanwhile you have a fucktard like pouty picking apart his speech. 

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1 hour ago, ManOnManOral said:

Right now he is declaring a state of emergency, and mobilizing health care and corps to work together. Great job by this administration. The dems are in the back hoping millions die.

Two months too late.

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2 hours ago, Mainecat said:

Meanwhile mcTurtle holds up funding in the senate.

Trumps 3 months late you clowns.

so what would you have said 3 mo ago if he shut down every port in and out of the US,? 

really what do you think you would have said ???

because let's be honist it is the only way it was not going to get here .

or option 2 every one coming in to the countery had to sit in federal quarenteen IE a cell for 13 days .

i garentee your pussy would still be gushing blood over it . guarenteed 

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1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Two months too late.

what would a state of emergency done 2 mo ago ? 

nothing because you would not have been willing to do what it really took to stop it from getting here . 

so just more sniviling . 

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SACRAMENTO — 

 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a sweeping executive order on Thursday that allows the state to commandeer hotels and medical facilities to treat coronavirus patients and permits government officials to hold teleconferences in private without violating open meeting laws.

 

 

let's guess you are all good with this right 

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