Louisiana Voice

“When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total.”

—Donald Trump, at Monday’s coronavirus update [No, Mr. Trump, you are as wrong as a monkey in a mortuary. We’re not living under a totalitarianism system….yet.]

“You said when someone is president of the United States, their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?”

—CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, in a follow-up to that nonsense.

“Enough.”

—Donald Trump, cutting Collins off as he always does when he feels the heat of his untruths.

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

—James Madison

“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

—Tea Party patron saint Grover Norquist.

“They got their wish. What you see today is your government, drowning — a government that couldn’t produce a rudimentary test for coronavirus, that couldn’t contain the pandemic as other countries have done, that couldn’t produce enough ventilators for the sick or even enough face masks and gowns for health-care workers.

–Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, April 10, 2020.

“The Wall Street Journal always ‘forgets’ to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are ‘through the roof’ (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News!”

—Donald Trump, April 9, 2020, response to Wall Street Journal editorial suggesting that Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings (which usually turn into either a campaign rally or an attack on the media) are wearing a little thin with Americans [demonstrating once again that as far as the Big Cheeto is concerned, everything is always about him].