Day 1,167: Trump tries to rewrite history about his coronavirus response despite mountain of evidence against him
Donald Trump spent two hours speaking at a rambling press briefing Tuesday where he discussed the grim realities of the coronavirus.
Trump stood in front of projections showing that one of the new “goals” is limiting the number of Americans dying to 100,000 to 240,000. That is despite barely a month ago Trump promising the number of infected Americans would soon be “close to zero.”
Tuesday, Trump tried to take credit for steps his administration took in combating the coronavirus from spreading, but all his boasts were built on fiction. If the chart above isn’t evidence enough, his past words are.
For instance, during his briefing he claimed that “people” told him to think of the coronavirus as the flu, but he knew it wasn’t.
Except, those “people” included him.
He actually compared the coronavirus to the flu just a week ago.
It’s not the only thing he flip-flopped on while pretending his response has been correct the entire time.
No single person with anywhere near the standing as Trump has been more cavalier about the coronavirus than him. He referring to it as a “hoax” on multiple occasions. By playing golf and working his rally-attendees into a frenzy as recently as the last month, Trump continued to live and talk as if nothing was amiss.
Meanwhile, despite Trump claiming total preparedness, hospitals and medical professionals are begging for adequate safety equipment. Turns out, Trump already sent huge stockpiles overseas.
Trump frequently blames Barack Obama for anything wrong in his own administration, no matter the true culpability. One of Trump’s most recent complaints is that Obama failed to stockpile adequate personal protective equipment in case of an emergency. So despite Trump being in office for more than three years and doing nothing about the apparent problem, it turns out he was giving huge chunks of it away.
Trump can try to rewrite history with a lengthy press conference or two, but, as John Adams once said, facts are stubborn things.
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