Raging Trump Flings his Poop at the Voters

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Somehow the United States of America has managed to amass the highest positive COVID caseload of any country in the world, and even though the US has less than five percent of the world's total population, our country has reported more than twenty percent of the world's COVID deaths.   Despite months of trying to obscure and cover-up the truth about the pandemic, the facts about how the worldwide catastrophe managed to get such a firm hold in the United States are finally starting to come to light.  

It turns out that the US response to the pandemic has been poorly managed since the first reports of the looming crisis began appearing this past January.   Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward - on tape - that he first learned about the crisis in January but did not inform the American public because he did not want to alarm them.  And when the word finally got out anyway and the first cases here were being reported, Trump assured the public that the problem would be short-lived and would likely disappear within a couple of weeks.

And again, he knew better.

Not only is Donald Trump someone who seldom steps forward to take the actual lead in anything, he NEVER assumes responsibility for problems.  Anything that goes wrong in Trump's world is ALWAYS the responsibility of someone else.  Trump is never, nor has he ever been, the person who is ultimately responsible for bad news.

Some of Donald Trump's reluctance to tell America about the approaching catastrophe was his fear that it would wreck the stock market.  Trump believes in numbers, ratings, ways of scoring things numerically.  The stock market had gone up during his reign - as it had throughout the entire Obama administration of eight years, and he did not want anything to bring those numbers down.  Another fear that he had was that people would blame the numbers of COVID infections and deaths of him - and he did not want to be attached to those negative numbers.

At first he chose to set up a working group in the White House, one headed by the very expendable Vice President Pence, to manage the crisis and to communicate with the public.  That group would serve to deflect blame away from Trump.  However, Pence's daily briefings soon became so important to the nation that Trump rushed in and took them over to draw all of that attention to himself.  He changed th gist of the briefings from medical information to a stew of self-praise that began sounding like campaign infomercials.  Eventually as the press and public became more critical of what he had to say, the briefings stopped.

Trump also tried to inject nationalism and race into the situation by emphasizing again and again that COVID was actually a "Chinese" virus because China was the country of its origin.   But despite the roots of the pandemic, it was becoming more and more obvious to many Americans that the United States was doing less to protect against the virus that any of the other industrialized nations.

Trump turned his attention to trying to reopen the economy, a strategy that included bullying Democratic governors who were committed to commonsense practices aimed at keeping their people safe.  Trump pushed for states to reopen their businesses and their schools, and he stirred up angry and armed citizenry to intimidate politicians into following his ill-fated guidance.

As the states began reopening in compliance with Trump's pressure, COVID cases once again started to rise, and some states began re-instituting public safety measures that angered Trump.  And as that was happening, the election season was also heating up.  The Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, prudently wore a mask and socially-distanced when he was in public, while Trump started holding his large, basically unmasked public rallies.  Trump never missed a chance to make fun of Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, for wearing masks, and he portrayed himself as someone who was not fearful of a case of the "sniffles."

Then, of course, the normally unmasked Donald and Melania Trump were both diagnosed with COVID-19, a condition which sent the elderly Trump to the hospital for four days.  After he got out, Trump quickly resumed his rallies at a frenzied pace in order to play catch-up with Biden in the race for the White House.

Now Donald Trump is lashing out in several directions as he tries to regain control of campaign that he once assumed would be an easy victory - and COVID is proving to be a major obstacle in his pursuit of a second term.   220,000 Americans have died from the disease, the rate of infection is growing in a majority of the states, and many fear that we are just in the early days of a significant autumn spike in cases.  Even Trump has had the disease, so it is not imaginary or a government ruse as some of his supporters once seemed to believe.

The virus is real, the number of infections and deaths are on the rise, and Trump's poll numbers are falling - due in large part to the COVID crisis that will not go away.  So what does he do?

Trump falls back to his standard position of marginalizing the problem and trying to blame others.   This week Trump went on the attack against an American physician who has done more to alert the public to the dangers of the coronavirus and COVID-19 than anyone else in government.  The desperate politician called Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, a "disaster'" and lumped him in with a group of medical experts who he referred to as "idiots."

In reality Dr. Fauci is a very knowledgable and highly respected public servant who has worked for six presidential administrations - and he polls better than Trump!  Newsman Dan Rather noted on Twitter:

"You have to live in an echo chamber the size of a walnut to think that attacking Dr. Fauci is good electoral politics."

And then, before that wad of venom was dry, Trump pivoted to his favorite target, the media, and took a shot at CNN.  Trump argues that America is "tired" of hearing about COVID, so he blames the messenger.  On Monday at a rally in Prescott, Arizona, Trump lashed out at the national news service by saying:

"They are (the people) getting tired of the pandemic, aren't they?  You turn on CNN, that's all they cover.   COVID, COVID, pandemic, COVID, COVID, COVID.   You know why?  They're trying to talk everybody out of voting.  People aren't buying it, CNN.  You dumb bastards."

The reality is, of course, that the Republican Party, the Party of Trump, has been busy in various courts of law trying to block people from voting, partly because voting will help to tell the tale of who the public really blames for the widespread prevalence of the pandemic in the United States - and that is a tale that Donald John Trump does not want told.

So Dr. Fauci is a "disaster," CNN is a collection of "dumb bastards," and Donald Trump is having a rage in his cage and flinging his poop at the voters!

America deserves better than Donald Trump!