A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled

[William Seger]

One month ago today, President Trump declared a national emergency.

In a Rose Garden address, flanked by leaders from giant retailers and medical testing companies, he promised a mobilization of public and private resources to attack the coronavirus.

"We've been working very hard on this. We've made tremendous progress," Trump said. "When you compare what we've done to other areas of the world, it's pretty incredible."

But few of the promises made that day have come to pass.

NPR's Investigations Team dug into each of the claims made from the podium that day. And rather than a sweeping national campaign of screening, drive-through sample collection and lab testing, it found a smattering of small pilot projects and aborted efforts.

In some cases, no action was taken at all.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/832797592/a-month-after-emergency-declaration-trumps-promises-largely-unfulfilled

[MineralMan]

1. Trump likes to give orders, but dislikes the work involved in carrying them out.

He is a lazy, lazy man, with no ability or inclination to follow through.

[Wounded Bear]

2. He also likes to brag about shit that never happened, too...nt

[crickets]

5. His habit of appointing family and toadies as 'talented' as himself

might have something to do with that as well.

[spanone]

3. The Bullshitter-in-Chief

[gratuitous]

4. Talk is cheap; Trump is cheaper

We need to hear from influential folks calls for Trump to resign.

[dalton99a]

6. The only "work" he has done is lying and gaslighting.