“The president has said unmistakably that he wants school to reopen. When he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this.”
—White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. [Sure. Why let science stand in the way?]
“He is going deeper and deeper into a darker and darker place, and he is starting to drive away people who were formerly voters of his.”
—Democratic strategist Steve McMahon, on Donald Trump’s meltdown leading up to the November election.
“I can’t explain Peter Navarro. He’s in a world by himself.”
—Dr. Anthony Fauci, responding to bizarre criticism of him by Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
“He may be out of the loop and in disfavor with the White House, but it’s clear from the numbers, voters would like Dr. Fauci back on call.”
—Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy, on poll results showing that 65 percent of Americans trust Fauci.
[The op-ed piece by Navarro] “did not meet USA TODAY’s fact-checking standards” because of factual errors with “several of Navarro’s criticisms of Fauci.”
USA TODAY editorial page editor Bill Sternberg, on Navarro’s piece that the paper ran on Tuesday.
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Navarro is an expert liar. He can lie so convincingly you get the impression he believes his own lies. He is a better liar than his boss. McEnany]s press conferences are an even bigger waste of time than Huckabee’s. I have never heard anybody supporting Trump’s demand to open schools (fully) address, HONESTLY, the stupidity, from a human standpoint, of doing so at a time when the virus is already escalating dramatically – the simple fact that children can easily bring home the virus to their parents, grandparents, and others who can suffer greatly from COVID-19 even if the children have no symptoms at all. I sincerely hope Steve McMahon is correct, but we cannot afford to let down our guard. We have to vote Trump out of office and do so convincingly and hope he cannot do more irreversible harm in the meantime.
As Dana Milbank recently wrote,
“Whenever you are asked to name the lowest moment of the Trump presidency, one answer is almost always correct: Tomorrow.
As the nation ricochets between chaos and calamity, the one reliable constant is the near certainty that things will get worse.”
His tools, denial, distraction, and demonization of others have served him well. It is unfortunately both regrettable and deplorable that we have to discount anything coming out of the WH as being truthful. Everything has to be fact checked for lies. Yet the worst is not knowing from minute to minute and hour to hour what dreadful distraction he will contrive to harm to us all. Always having to live in fear of an ego that is going “deeper and deeper into a darker and darker place.”
Don’t forget his scorched earth approach to elections. If 2016 is any indicator, then October & the first week in November will be an excruciating volley of “gotcha” attacks every day.
Yes. It will be time for Netflix, HBO, etc. only on TV and, as always, only public radio. Hey, maybe full time escapism is not such a bad idea for right now…unfortunately, it is. Timothy Leary did not have the right idea about the best way to deal with an unbearable civilization.
What precautions is St. Andrew’s Episcopal in DC, Barron’s Trump school taking? It seems that private schools want in person instruction while they are better positioned to provide for physical distancing, small classes, cooperative parents and children (i.e., they will wear masks and follow instructions), parents that will provide private transportation, installing plastic shields where necessary, etc. Can public school systems, many of which are struggling with budgetary issues provide such accommodations?
Navarro, since he is smarter that Trump, is more insidious and dangerous, surpassed maybe by Barr.
In the last days of Watergate (as reported by Henry Kissinger), Nixon was going around the WH in stupor (drunk?), talking to the pictures of previous presidents. while Pat was locked in her room, a very depressing picture. What will Trump do as the alligators keep going around in an ever tightening circle? We are dealing with a deranged man surrounded by a cabal that abets his behavior.
First the fight on masks, now schools reopening, next, college sports (re Mike Pence’s and Coach Orgeron’s) and professional sports, Of course, we want schools to reopen and play sports, but let’s do so in a responsible, safe manner..is it too much to ask to consider the welfare of others, particularly when that welfare affects all of us? COVID 19 does not care; it gives equal misery to everyone: illness,anguish, and death.
tRump is a useless pos, all he’s interested In is the economy. Piss on him. He’s the worst president in the history of our country!