I'm sure if Sleepy Joe was in charge he would be doing a horrible job from the nursing home.
Trump has not only completely and utterly botched this. He has absolutely zero empathy for the typical everyday working family. The only thing he really cares about is the Dow and how he can spin whatever happens to aid in his re-election.
1. Just like 7 weeks ago (while the pandemic was racing through China), in its 2021 budget, the Trump administration announced proposed cuts that would reduce CDC funding by 16 percent and slash $3 billion for global health programs.
Source:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...s-global-health-amid-global/story?id=68911515
2. In 2018, the National Security Council’s global pandemic director left his post abruptly; then his entire team was disbanded by former national security adviser John Bolton. The Trump administration has yet to refill any of those positions, leaving huge vulnerabilities in our global pandemic preparedness.
3. In press conferences and tweets, Trump has been downplaying the severity of the coronavirus. On February 26, he claimed that the number of cases was declining in the United States; he claimed that the fatality rate for coronavirus was lower than the flu, and a vaccine was coming quickly.
4. As of March 3, approximately 3 months after knowing about the coronavirus, fewer than
500 people had been tested in the United States, compared with
13,911 in the UK and
1,126 in the Ontario province of Canada alone at the time. Judging by Trumps remarks about the Grand Princess, while refusing to let it dock — 'I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault' — I wouldn't be surprised if his thinking was: less testing means lower numbers.
5. In 2018, the Trump Administration cut 80 percent of CDC funding used to fight global pandemics. The funding support, which went to training local health professionals and bolstering emergency response across 49 countries, was reduced to just 10 nations. China wasn’t included in the revised list.
6. Last October, the Trump Administration opted to discontinue a Bush-era program expanded under Obama—called “Predict”—that monitored the threat of animal-born diseases to humans, the possible origin point of the novel coronavirus. The program was behind the discovery of more than 1,000 viruses, including an Ebola strain.
7. As the crisis unfolded early in March, one-third of the coronavirus task force took time off to speak at the Conservative Political Action Convention. The list of CPAC attendees also on the task force included White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, HHS secretary Alex Azar, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien. Vice President Pence, who heads the task force, told CPAC attendees that the risk of infection “remains low.”
8. In early March Pence and his office took control of all public government statements on the coronavirus, which now go through his press secretary, Katie Miller. Because of this move, the CDC and the National Institutes of Health can no longer share their own research, and a Pence office stamp of approval is required to broadcast independent information
source:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/484989-pence-office-to-handle-media-on-coronavirus
And there are several more blunders that have to do with the CDC and FEMA which I can't directly credit to the Trump admin, but it's reasonable to assume that had all those agencies not been gutted and budgets severely cut, many of those would have been avoided. The whole point of having a Global Pandemic Director was to coordinate these things seamlessly and have protocols in place.
Biden is in lala-land. The only reason he'll get the nomination is because he's been propped up by the DNC and the corporate media establishment to stop Bernie.
But Trump? He is a disaster. He is a con and a sociopath.
February 26: "So far, the results of all of this that everybody is reading about — and part of the thing is you want to keep it the way it is. You don’t want to see panic because there’s no reason to be panicked about it.... we’re ready for it. It is what it is. We’re ready for it. We’re really prepared. We have — as I said, we’ve had — we have the greatest people in the world. We’re very ready for it. We hope it doesn’t spread. There’s a chance that it won’t spread too, and there’s a chance that it will, and then it’s a question of at what level... So far, we’ve done a great job. When you have 15 people, with this whole world coming into the United States, and the 15 people are either better or close to being better, that’s pretty good.
March 30: “So if we can hold that down, as we’re saying, to 100,000, it’s a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 [thousand] and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job.”
He is a loser and a con artist and he's taking us all down with him.
