What COVID-19 has revealed is that the man who presently occupies the white house is actually the virus that may destroy this country and democracy. It has revealed that no one is really in charge.
Trump and his administration are unable and too incompetent to handle a health crisis that has already killed more than 50,000 Americans. In fact, trump has finally come up against a foe that he can’t defeat. He can’t sue it, shame or humiliate it, can’t refuse to pay it by declaring bankruptcy, can’t con it, can’t call upon his supporters to take up arms against it. He can’t intelligently articulate much of anything about the corona virus except his usual lies – plenty of ventilators, plenty of PPEs, more testing than any other country, he and his team are doing a great job, a better job than anyone else.
Instead of allowing the health professionals to speak at these briefings, he gets up there in his orange makeup, his yellow hair, and touts “cures.” First, it was hydroxychloroquine, a drug to treat malaria that Fox News also touted at every opportunity. From The Guardian:
“The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.
“In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body.” He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19.”
“A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!” He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”
The president of the U.S. is saying this. Chug your Lysol and Clorox, folks, and cleanse your body of the virus. The statement was so shocking in its stupidity, so dangerous, that Lysol and other disinfectant companies quickly issued warnings about NOT drinking or inhaling their product.
Dr. Brix sat off to the side, looking so stricken she probably would’t have cared if the floor under her chair had collapsed. Memes popped up about Lysol gummies, Clorox IVs, and trump became the joke of the Internet. The next say he said he was just “being sarcastic: to see how the fake news would report this.
The truly stunning part of this is that trump loyalists, trump cultists, immediately believed this absurdity. That it was sarcasm.
In many ways, trump is another Jim Jones, a cult leader who, in 1978, ordered his followers to drink a cyanide-poisoned Kool Aid that killed the 918 members of his Guyana commune, 304 of them children. Trump loyalists imbibe his version of that Kool-Aid daily, with the help of his enabler, Fox News and its anchors – Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and of course, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs.
All of you Republican senators out there who voted to acquit him, are you feeling any shame yet? Any remorse? Are you drinking something something else these days like, you know, SCIENCE?
Corona is a Spanish word that means crown, the very thing trump has always coveted. But a crown disguised as an autocrat, a dictator, a Putin or Kim – “I have absolute power to…(fill in the blank, trump has probably said it at one time or another) – and now that he sees the opportunity possibly slipping away, he’s panicking.
So to you trump loyalists, you cultists, you people who defend his policies, run to your closest grocery store and buy your Lysol and Clorox. Keep them close just in case someone coughs or sneezes on you. Then start chugging.
Telling jokes not his forte. He needs to teach by example. I would support his recommended self medication using any or all of these substances and be sincere in my praise of his initiative. Truly a courageous act.
You mean, if he tried them himself during a briefing?
Publicly. Briefings are more private than his tweetings, which create a lot of noise but are not nearly visible enough. If we saw more of him in his briefings, there would probably be less of him.
It’s appalling how ANY body can support a mentally unstable dictator squatting in the Oval Office, embarrassing our country on a daily basis. Precluding a complete psychotic meltdown on national TV where he’s carried off in a straitjacket, Chump needs to do the world a favor and take some of his own medicine. It will ‘cure’ what ails him!
Even if it was a “joke” and “sarcasm” to “get the fake news media”, how utterly appalling and without a shred of intelligence or compassion to say such things while so many people are suffering and dying. This country has no leadership, and it’s sad indeed that that the U.S.A. is falling apart, not with a revolution, but with utter mindless greed and stupidity.
The disinfectant comment might be the stupidest one, but he’s had a few other humdingers. These go beyond his everyday lies into the world of utter nonesense, and provide more proof (as if we needed any more) that he is unfit for office. Take a look here: https://join.tyt.com/dumb/. Some people have noted with distain that Trump typically doesn’t get to the Oval Office until late morning. That’s good. He should stay out all day. He doesn’t belong there.
It tells us where we are at as a corrupt banana republic that he wasn’t impeached, when the evidence was so clearly there.
Fake news! Hoax! Yeah.
Besides the horror of all the deaths because of this virus is the revelation of how many really stupid people there are.
Or how brainwashed.
It’s pathetic.