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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'He's an idiot': critics say Trump has failed the US in this test of reassurance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-outbreak-response-trump-us?CMP=share_btn_fbFor Trump, who has spent years undermining experts, scientists, and trust in government, the pandemic has shown his weaknesses
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Sat 14 Mar 2020 02.00 EDT
It was just before 9am and the sky was overcast when a small group of reporters were suddenly ushered through the White Houses south portico. They gathered in the diplomatic reception room, once home to Franklin Roosevelts fireside chats, and stared at a desk with pen, documents and the presidential seal.
Donald Trump strode in, wearing a black bomber jacket and white shirt unbuttoned at the top, and settled down beneath a portrait of George Washington. He signed a congressional emergency spending bill to combat the coronavirus for $8.3bn more than three times what the president himself had requested and held it up to a chorus of clicking cameras.
Were doing very well, he insisted. But its an unforeseen problem. What a problem. Came out of nowhere, but were taking care of it. He gazed around the oval-shaped room, wallpapered romantic American landscapes, and took questions. Someone asked: How do you keep people from panicking? Trumps response in part: Calm. You have to be calm. Itll go away.
It has not gone away.
A week later, coronavirus cases in the US have soared past 1,300, with at least 38 deaths. The stock market suffered its worst percentage drop since the 1987 Wall Street crash. On Wednesday night alone, Trump announced a travel ban on most of Europe during an Oval Office address, the National Basketball Association suspended its season and it emerged the Hollywood actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson had tested positive. The New York Posts front page headline declared: A world turned upside down.
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'He's an idiot': critics say Trump has failed the US in this test of reassurance (Original Post)
G_j
Mar 2020
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Blecht
(3,803 posts)1. Let me fix that quote
"He's a fucking idiot."
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Hey folks,the Upside is,
our de-facto new President Nancy Pelosi has got this. One could see this coming miles away. The Orange Anus is toast,and Moscow Mitch sent his Gang home as so they would not have to be sprayed by the fallout until Monday.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)3. Someone asked: "How do you keep people from panicking?"
Someone asked: How do you keep people from panicking?
Trumps response in part: Calm. You have to be calm. Itll go away.
'So... how do you keep people calm?'
'You stop them from panicking.'
'But... how... ah, fuck it.'
Buns_of_Fire
(17,178 posts)4. An Executive Order should do it. He's good at that.