Day 1,148: 24 hours after Trump’s disaster of an address to the nation, turmoil reigns

Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic. The speech was an effort to reassure Americans and the rest of the world that the U.S. was taking the disease seriously and had a strategic plan to combat it.

Instead, the address was a complete disaster.

Looking dark orange and extraordinarily nervous, Trump fidgeted with his hands, breathed heavily and sniffed up a storm as he awkwardly and haltingly read off a teleprompter. There was no passion, no leadership, no sense of calming a fearful nation.

Instead, he blamed China and Europe — including slapping a travel ban on the latter continent, minus the U.K., for the next 30 days — for failing to take steps to adequately contain the virus. Ignoring the last few months, he praised himself and his team’s response.

That may have something to do with the fact that speech revisions were happening until just moments before Trump appeared on TV.

Just a day removed from the speech, the world has reacted strongly and negatively in response to Trump’s feckless address.

The stock market? It immediately went into a bear market on the heels of its worst trading day in over three decades.

Americans overses? Panicking.

European allies? Furious.

Trump’s own administration? In total chaos.

And Trump? Still in total denial and living in abject ignorance.

It’s hard to imagine a worse person giving worse remarks at a worse time to a nation that has been totally ill-prepared by said person.

1,148 days in, 314 to go

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