Well of course he’s sending mixed signals about something as simple as wearing a mask. This is the guy who goes home to his wife after having unprotected sex with porn stars. He’s not exactly a health expert.
\In the three years before Trump took office, during the Obama-Biden administration, the economy was creating about 225,000 jobs a month. In Trump’s first three years, it was creating about 180,000 jobs a month. He inherited a great economy and it continued to do well. So, what does that prove? He can peddle fast downhill.
\Then when he hit his first steep hill – when he hits his first crisis – the economy is a disaster. This year – even including January before COVID shut things down – the economy has been destroying an average of one million jobs per month. One million. Per month.
COVID is Trump’s 9-11, his Sputnik moment, WWII, Great Depression. This is his moment to become a leader. What does he say about 210,000 Americans dead from COVID? “I don’t accept responsibility.”
And what does he do? He tweets.
He can’t tweet his way out of this, even though he’s tried. In 2020, he’s been tweeting 5X as much as he did in 2016, before he became president. On a single day in June of this year, he posted 200 tweets and retweets. This is how he battles a pandemic. We pay him to watch TV and rage tweet.
And now he won’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power. It’s like saying that if your team doesn’t win the super bowl, you’ll ask your fans to burn down all the football stadiums. If we don’t win, football is over. No president has ever done this before because for every previous president, this democracy was more important than how they did in the election. Not so for Trump. In his mind, he is literally more important than our 232-year-old democracy. How small is the mind or big is the ego that would believe this?
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