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Why I give Trump a solid "A" grade on his coronavirus response

I give Trump a solid "A" grade on his coronavirus response. I give the media an "F" grade. The media needs to realize they are suppose to represent us even Trump supporters. We’re all in this together, or are we???

Made it to the second sentence before the BS detector sounded... Why is the media supposed to represent anyone? Where does that come from?
 
Made it to the second sentence before the BS detector sounded... Why is the media supposed to represent anyone? Where does that come from?

Your “BS” detector should be recalibrated. Mine was pinging when I saw the origin of the thread......
 
Your “BS” detector should be recalibrated. Mine was pinging when I saw the origin of the thread......

I was approaching it as an opinion piece... :)
 
1. The Heritage Foundation's Lyndsey Fifield identified numerous other instances of prominent media outlets criticizing the travel ban, in many cases without issuing any kind of correction. For example, The Verge cautioned that Trump's policies "contradict advice from the World Health Organization (WHO), which said yesterday that countries should not restrict travel or trade in their response to the new virus."

2. BuzzFeed News asserted that "barring foreign travelers from China, along with making U.S. citizens self-quarantine at home ... likely violated civil rights laws, without leading to any real lowered risk of a U.S. outbreak," citing "global health law expert" Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University.

3. STAT, a health and medicine news site, reported that the travel ban was similar to calls from "conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of the president," even as "public health experts ... warn that the move could do more harm than good."

4. A week earlier, Vox confidently declared that "The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work." The article originally referred to the "Wuhan coronavirus" in its headline, before left-wing journalists and Democrats argued that terminology was racist.

Vox also tweeted on Jan. 31: "Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No." On Mar. 24, Vox deleted that tweet, writing that it "no longer reflects the current reality of the coronavirus story."

After attacking Trump'''s coronavirus-related China travel ban as xenophobic, Dems and media have changed tune | Fox News

I have bolded every one of those quotes. You know what I don't see? Democrats calling Trump xenophobic for restricting (some) flights from China. I see a bunch of people saying that it wasn't going to actually work as far as stopping the pandemic from spreading here.

You are reading narrative driven media. They have a narrative to present. But they have no evidence to present that Democrats called Trump xenophobic for the partial travel restrictions. Aren't you tired of being led around by the nose by narrative driven media?
 
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I give Trump a solid "A" grade on his coronavirus response. I give the media an "F" grade. The media needs to realize they are suppose to represent us even Trump supporters. We’re all in this together, or are we???

We are not in this together. My state is bidding against your state for medical supplies.

I give your thread an E for Effort.
 
We are not in this together. My state is bidding against your state for medical supplies.

I give your thread an E for Effort.

My state is actually probably donating their supply to your state. We are in this together.
 
I give Trump a solid "A" grade on his coronavirus response. I give the media an "F" grade. The media needs to realize they are suppose to represent us even Trump supporters. We’re all in this together, or are we???

Why Trump gets an A:

  • He has stepped away from the spotlight and given the two expert doctors a large platform to discuss the virus. Yes, Trump is not a doctor but being a doctor does not make one qualified in itself. Is Trump less qualified to speak about this, for example, compared to Rand Paul or Ben Carson? As Albert Einstein once said, “I don’t need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.”

  • Stopped flights from China and Europe early on. That showed decisive leadership

  • Tackled the problem early. Many Democrats/members of the media called Trump's policies xenophobic and hysterical. Boy, they were wrong.

  • Unlike previous presidents, he was able to work well with Congress. He negotiated with Democrats which led to a Stimulus Bill. Received praise from Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, and Ilhan Omar for his prompt response.

  • Comes across as very measured. He did not cause Americans to panic or support policies that would attack our individual civil liberties and rights. He could have easily caved and put this country on a national lockdown or something even more drastic like suspending all domestic flights or putting certain states on quarantine, which would have been illegal and unconstitutional. That could have led to chaos or riots on the street.

Bueno Trump! Mission almost accomplished! We avoided a near disaster!

"Democrat hoax"

"Everyone who wants a test can get a test"

"I'm a cheerleader for the country"

"If they don't treat you right, I don't call" (About governors)

"The cupboard was empty"

"I don't take responsibility at all"

Arguably, the worst leader in the free world. Yet here you are praising him.

I would give South Korea or Taiwan an A. How could you possibly give our response an A? Our economy is in ruins. They were far closer to China and have more Chinese traveling yet they handled it far better.
 
Insane historical revision going on by people out.

January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”

February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”

February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

February 28: “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that, right? Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa.” “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.”

March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”

March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”

March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”

March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”

March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”

March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”

March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”

March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

March 9: “This blindsided the world.”

Edit: March 9: "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.”

March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

March 13: National Emergency Declaration

March 13: “I don't take responsibility at all”

March 15: "TODAY IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. GOD BLESS EVERYONE!"

March 16: "I give myself a 10 out of 10"

March 16: “I’ve always known this is a, this is a real, this is a pandemic, I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic” source

March 17: "It snuck up on us." source

March 22: “It is absolutely critical that Americans continue to follow the federal government’s guidelines. So important about social distancing, non-essential travel, and hand-washing.”

March 23: Democratic concerns have focused on a $500 billion funding program Republicans want to create for loans and loan guarantees, with some Democrats calling it a “slush fund” that lacks any oversight because the Treasury Department would have broad discretion over who receives the money. Asked about this Monday evening, Trump responded, “I’ll be the oversight.” The vote Monday was 49 to 46, well short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the legislation for a final debate.

March 24: “THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM!”

Excellent chronology of this buffoon we have for a leader. It boggles my mind that his approval rating has not dropped to 0% by now. It really doesn't matter what he does that 42% will follow him to the grave.
 
I am not sure why doctors are getting such a platform. You would be surprised how little doctors know.

Many people are listening to what Bill Gates has to say about this subject matter. Bill Gates is not a doctor, didn't even go to medical school. What makes him an expert on disease?

If I want medical advice, I do not listen to Gates, just like Trump he is not a doctor. And I am pretty sure Dr. Fauci knows a lot of things.
 
He is taking measured steps and dealing with a difficult decision - saving lives vs saving the economy. Putting this economy into a great depression will cause more lives lost than the coronavirus. If we extend this stay-in shelter for a few more months we are going to have riots on the street, possibly have to call in the military to control riots.

People think we can just shut this economy down for 2-3 months and everything will return back to normal.


BS.

He is distracted, uninterested, and clearly focused on nothing more than skating from responsibility, finger pointing, and trying to turn these news conferences into television rallies for himself.

There is no sign that anything he is doing is measured at all. It’s usually defensive. Finally doing what the experts around him begged him to do for days and weeks.

Trump never issued a stay in order. Suggested face masks, before he exempted himself from having to wear one.

Trump has tried to ignore the crisis, blame others, avoid taking charge (leave it up to the governors and let the states compete with the Federal government for resources), and made not even a token attempt to put is on a national crisis footing (other than these briefings).

Even now, he has his noise machine primed to declare obviously premature victory (a familiar Trump trait).

You can make excuses all day long, and I know you will.

But no leader in a crisis ever, ever says, “Frankly no, I take no responsibility at all”.

It should be engraved on his headstone.
 
Excellent chronology of this buffoon we have for a leader. It boggles my mind that his approval rating has not dropped to 0% by now. It really doesn't matter what he does that 42% will follow him to the grave.

If Obama were president things would be much worse.
 
If Obama were president things would be much worse.

Oh look!!!!!

It’s the Trumpster whataboutism!!!!!! Man, this act gets old!

Almost as threadbare as Trump’s briefing act. If it gets much more ridiculous, Trump will be telling his stupid “snake” story..............(no, I wouldn’t put it past him!)
 
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He brought all his dead weight with him.

That's a laugh. The 'dead weight' is the entrenched and nearly immovable bureaucracy, where executive orders given, but not agreed with, are not carried out.

He has assembled a whole collection of bag men, yes men and wannabes around him. They’re his type of people. No one will clutter his simple television addled mind with an inconvenient fact or thought. All will harumph on demand. (We’ve watched that embarrassing spectacle at cabinet meetings).


Bellowing, hugging a convenient flag, name calling and bluster are what makes a great leader to some.

Hmm. I seem to recall posted that Trump had his faults and foibles and that they detract from his, and yet, here you are claiming that's not what I said. :roll:

BTW, I clicked your 10 worst US media failures on the Trump/Russia story just to see.

Eight of them were true (not necessarily in specific detail).

The media is absolute trash these days, absolute political propagandists who care not one whit about the truth.
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Trying to drive the same factually false narrative viral:

Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times – CNN Politics
Trump is giving people false hope of coronavirus cures. It’s all snake oil. – Washington Post

These media outlets lied about a potential therapy to treat the Wuhan coronavirus and save your life, because they are political propagandists and political activists and not journalists.

Two happened before Trump was elected, and were not linked to Trump.

I’m sure that Trump will fill two and a half hours of Fox time with nonsense and bluster again today. I don’t now if you’ll be sitting in front of your TV entranced. I won’t be.

The TV has channels, and not a single person is making you watch it. Go back to your MSNBC, or whatever propagandist outlet you watch. :shrug:
 
I'll take the ding from the mods. But you are an idiot. You spout idiotic things every day. I sometimes wonder if you do this simply to "own the libs".

Hawkeye looks at Trump like a teen girl looked at the David Cassidy posters on her wall. Googly eyed and giggly.
 
Trump is one of the Great Men....he drives himself to be the best at what ever he decides to do....he drives himself to not waste this life as so many now do.. They who spin their wheels getting nothing important done....even worse they who demand to be carried by the rest of us.

This guy is ALL IN.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
I give Trump a solid "A" grade on his coronavirus response.
I am sure he will hang it in the oval office.

He has stepped away from the spotlight and given the two expert doctors a large platform to discuss the virus. Yes, Trump is not a doctor
Yet he recommends medication.

Stopped flights from China and Europe early on.
Ignorant bull crap lie.

That showed decisive leadership
Only to morons who have no clue what is leadership.

Tackled the problem early.
More ignorant lies.

Many Democrats/members of the media called Trump's policies xenophobic and hysterical. Boy, they were wrong.
**** them it was still Trump's call and he as with everything ****ed it up.

Unlike previous presidents, he was able to work well with Congress.
Bull crap.

He negotiated with Democrats which led to a Stimulus Bill.
Its his ****ing job.

Comes across as very measured.
Bull crap. He diverges to all his stupid talking points.
 
Just look at the dead weight he has to pull all day everyday....Almost no one else in America can do what Trump does....he is one of the last of a breed....the Great Men.
Enjoy your delusion.
 
We sometimes give too much credit to doctors.
Yea, for all that knowledge.

Trump is a social scientist.
He is a ****ing moron.

He knows how to lead.
Only the degeneracy that keep on kissing his ass.

You don't have to be a mechanic to lead an automobile company. You don't have to be a cook to lead a restaurant.
But when you are a moron any an all things turn to crap as his response to the pandemic.
 
You danced right past the fact that you posted a screed of ten points, all of which were either false or irrelevant.

That'd be your opinion, which I suspect aligns up with the rest of the leftists false claims. :roll:

And you’re lecturing me about MSNBC!

And you dance right past the clear example leftist media purported falsehoods. :shrug:

As for false hope.

So, you’re one of the ones waiting for Trump’s magic bullet.

Which magic bullet was that again? I tend not to believe, nor wait for, magic bullets.

Nobody lied about anything.

la-la-la-la-la-i-cant-hear-you-this-is-me-not-listening-to-you


But who needs experts????? You’ve got Dr. Oz, Sham Hammity and Donald the carnival barker!!!!!

Where is the claim that these people are 'experts' ?

You seem to have a problem assigning people positions they've not taken, but ones you want them to take.
 
Trump is one of the Great Men....he drives himself to be the best at what ever he decides to do....he drives himself to not waste this life as so many now do.. They who spin their wheels getting nothing important done....even worse they who demand to be carried by the rest of us.

This guy is ALL IN.

He runs in circles.
 
The US avoided a near disaster IN SPITE of Trump and his terrible choices and comments.

This. The people saved this nation, not the "president." If we had listened to it, we would be in an even worse situation now.
 
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