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Less than four months before the presidential election, Team Trump seems dazed and confused. Held despite warnings from public health officials, the big rally in Tulsa was poorly attended. Concerns over turnout factored into canceling a rally in New Hampshire. Revelations that White House staff, Secret Service personnel, and members of the presidents entourage who attended recent events tested positive for COVID-19 embarrassed the administration. Most important, Team Trumps response to this summers surge in Coronavirus cases and the protests following the killing of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks by police officers has been inconsistent and incoherent.
On July 5, Trump bit Fox News, the hand that has fed him, for reporting on polls showing that Joe Biden has a substantial lead in battleground states. We are leading in the real polls, the president tweeted, without evidence. Declaring that Fox was getting into CNN and MSDNC territory, Trump recommended that his supporters switch to OANN, a far-right platform that has promoted false claims that Hillary Clinton is secretly bankrolling antifa, California legislators want to ban sales of the Bible and that the Coronavirus was created by the Deep State in North Carolina (citing a citizen investigator who believes Dr. Anthony Fauci personally funded the creation of the virus).
Team Trump fought a belated and futile fight to suppress publication of John Boltons book The Room Where It Happened, alerting potential readers to the former National Security Advisors claims that the president always put his own personal interests ahead of national security. And, apparently, Team Trump didt learn. An ill-considered effort to block the release of a memoir by Mary Trump, the presidents niece, has helped propel her book to the top of the bestseller list. In Too Much and Never Enough, Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, describes her uncle as much as he was when he was three years old: incapable of growing, learning or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information; a man who values human beings only in monetary terms, subscribes to cheating as a way of life, and now threatens the worlds health, economic security, and social fabric.
The administrations apparent plan to urge Americans to learn to live with the Coronavirus, complemented by the presidents false claim that 99 percent of cases are completely harmless, has not played well, especially with older voters, who provided the margin of victory for Trump in many states in 2016. According to recent polls, many Americans over 65 now find Trump coarse, disrespectful, and divisive. Feeling at risk from COVID-19, they believe his administration has not prioritized public health over reopening the economy.
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Mike 03
(16,616 posts)To:
pandr32
(11,588 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)It's scary as hell, too.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Something serious going on in various interlocking 'con circles - 'me thyncth'
Mme. Defarge
(8,034 posts)with his success.
skamaria
(329 posts)Must be excited about something!
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)I think he lets Jared lick it sometimes.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t