Last Monday, Trump’s Truth Social account blasted “ARE YOU BETTER THAN YOU WERE OVER FOUR YEARS AGO?” Let’s go back in time, shall we? This week, four year ago, Trump was in a dangerous state of denial, as his extravagant mishandling the COVID crises plunged the nation almost hourly into panic attacks. There were
[[{“value”:”” ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AG O”? blared Trump’s Truth Social account next Monday.
Let’s take a trip again, shall we?
This week, four years back, Trump was in the throes of harmful denial as his extravagant mishandling of the COVID crisis plunged the nation into almost daily panic attacks. There were now about 18, 000 reported cases in the United States, and more than 260 deaths.
Trigger warning on this one: On March 21, 2020, Trump tweeted,” HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE &, AZITHROMYCIN, taken up, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine”, which was as misleading then as it is now. Two days later—four years ago today, on Day 63 of the crisis—it was reported that an Arizona man died after consciously ingesting chloroquine phosphate, a fish tank cleaner. Trump told a press briefing,” Parts of our country are very quietly affected”. Only a few days later, the country he ran, and wants to run again, reported more coronavirus cases than any other country.
These are only a handful of the nightmarish details drawn from March 2020, four years ago. The president’s vanity and lack of preparedness in those first 100 days of the pandemic allowed the virus to metastasize into the supersized public health crisis he’s then asking voters to forget. This period was also a showcase of his very worst traits in office: his reliance on spin and bluster, his aversion to taking responsibility (” No, I do n’t take responsibility at all”, he said on March 13, 2020 ), and his magical thinking. He indulged in eager blame shifting, bunk science, and mingled messaging—the antithesis of good public health leadership.
At the time, Mother Jones took on the huge reporting task of properly cataloguing, often hour by hour, the missteps, miscalculations, and cruelties of Trump’s response to the disaster unfolding on his watch. The resulting timeline makes for enraging reading, to say the least.
I even started to compile video clips of the absurdities and outrages. And the ensuing video is both a time capsule of horrors and a teleporter for any voter who might be doubting whether they are better off than they were four years ago this month.”}]] ” ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AG O”? blared Trump’s Truth Social account next Monday. Let’s take a trip again, shall we? This week, four years ago, Trump was in the throes of harmful denial as his extravagant mishandling of the COVID crisis plunged the nation into almost daily panic attacks. There were
Last Monday, Trump’s Truth Social account blasted “ARE YOU BETTER THAN YOU WERE OVER FOUR YEARS AGO?” Let’s go back in time, shall we? This week, four year ago, Trump was in a dangerous state of denial, as his extravagant mishandling the COVID crises plunged the nation almost hourly into panic attacks. There were
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