Recently there was a very comprehensive post on Slate.com detailing the chronology of Donald Trump mistakes and lies regarding the coronavirus pandemic and it's impact on the United States. Click here for William Saletan's post for the full report but there's one thing that I wanted to discuss here.
Back when the coronavirus was first making itself known, Donald Trump dismissed the threat, saying that come April when the weather got warm, the virus would "miraculously" go away.
Well, it's August now, it's hot and humid as hell while the rate of infections is going up and the death toll keeps rising. Saying the coronavirus would go away when the weather got warm was wrong.
Donald Trump actually concurs it was an incorrect statement. But not actually his incorrect statement, of course.
In his July 17th interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Trump had this to say on that topic: "Everybody thought this summer it would go away. They used to say the heat, the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? So they got that one wrong.”
Oh, Donald, you god damn lying motherfucker, NO! "Everybody" wasn't thinking that! The only one promoting the idea that hot weather would make the coronavirus go away, time and time and time again, was Donald J. Trump. In fact, it was in response to Trump's repeated untested, unproven assertions that U.S. public health officials all had to make a point to caution against that assumption.
Now here is something I learned from William Saletan's article was where in the hell did Trump get this idea that hot weather would make the coronavirus go away.
Oh, you're gonna love this!
Li'l Donnie got this idea that hot weather would make the coronavirus go away from Xi Jinping, the president of China, in a phone call in February.
Trump was NOT listening to his medical advisors or his national security experts. Trump was listening the president of a rival nation. Xi Jinping gave Trump what he wanted to hear, an easy answer. No need to worry, no need to panic, no need in fact to actually DO anything.
When the weather gets warm, it all just goes away.
Seriously, click here for William Saletan's post which provides the most comprehensive and damning indictment of Donald Trump's ignorance and incompetence in dealing with this national tragedy that has claimed the lives over 160,000 Americans.
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