Day 1,258: Trump, focused on minor vandalism and cable TV lineups, has had one event on public schedule in past two days combined
The COVID-19 death toll has eclipsed 127,000 in the U.S. There are renewed and serious questions about police brutality and racial inequalities in the country. Twenty million Americans are out of work. Russians have put bounties on American soldiers’ heads.
And Donald Trump has continued to show he’s far more interested in his golf game and Twitter than figuring out solutions to any of those problems.
Tuesday, that remained as clear as ever. He spent vast chunks of the day tweeting, focusing on acts of vandalism and cable news lineups.
Two guys threw paint on a George Washington statue and Trump had harsher words for them than he’s had for Vladimir Putin about the bounty plot.
Trump also begged Fox News for more sycophancy, by speaking to the ghost of its former CEO.
After many on social media questioned if Trump understood that Roger Ailes has been dead for years, Trump, as he always is, was baited into a response.
Trump’s inability and lack of desire to do anything has everything to do with ineptitude and nothing to do with time constraints. Historically lazy, over the past two days the only event on his public calendar, outside of a lunch date with Mike Pence, was an afternoon intelligence briefing on Tuesday.
Two days. One event on his public calendar.
A president’s day should be full, even during calmer times. Halfway through 2020 is not one of those times. There are real problems affecting millions of Americans and Trump’s biggest concerns are embarrassingly trivial.
1,258 days in, 204 to go
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