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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/12/1936653/-Trump-thinks-disastrous-coronavirus-pandemic-gives-him-bragging-rights#read-moreTrump thinks disastrous coronavirus pandemic gives him bragging rights
Lauren Floyd
Daily Kos Staff
Sunday April 12, 2020 · 5:50 PM EDT
Lucky Americans. Even amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic, we have a president who still manages to regularly pat himself on the back. President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday: For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!
Trump signed Wyomings declaration Saturday, the same day the United States coronavirus death toll surpassed Italys, making the United States the pandemics deadliest country, according to The Hill. Doesnt it all just make you feel safe and protected?
The declaration makes federal funding that Democratic legislators and leaders have been advocating to get for weeks available to states and territories the Federal Emergency Management Agency covers. The United States has already reported at least 21,686 deaths and 546,874 coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
In New York, the virus epicenter, more than 9,380 coronavirus patients had died by Sunday, The New York Times reported. D'neil Schmall, an ICU nurse in New York City, said weeping in an 8-minute video posted to her Facebook page Tuesday that theres only so much anyone can take. Im tired of walking into rooms and your patients dead, she said. You just walk into a room, and theres a dead body in there. She said she feels so much sadness for fellow nurses and patients, especially the ones that are hanging on by a thread.
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The entertainer-in-chief instead, spent weeks in denial about the virus. When he made his first public remarks about COVID-19 in a TV interview Jan. 22, Trump responded to a question asking him if he had any worries about the virus with: No. Not at all. He added: And we have it totally under control. Its one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. Its going to be just fine. By late February, the president had repeatedly made false claims that the situation was getting better, The New York Times reported. "Its going to disappear, he said Feb. 27, 2020. One day its like a miracle it will disappear. Well, it hasnt disappeared. People are still dying, but kudos to Trump for finding a silver lining to further inflate his ego.
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Trump thinks disastrous coronavirus pandemic gives him bragging rights (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2020
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. The world of a malignant narcissist is a wonderous place.
sop
(10,192 posts)2. Trump found a bright side to the 9/11 attacks, too.
On September 11, hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, Trump bragged that one of his buildings was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan:
"I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest."
As usual, that was a lie, Trump's building was not the tallest.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,023 posts)3. Trump is the best American president ever
Just ask him and he'll tell you.