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Had Obama been as ineffective in a medical crisis as Trump has with Covid, I would deride him too. He never did fumble. Trump butt fumbled this.
Really? 60 MILLION Americans got the H1N1 virus under Obama's "leadership". We were incredibly fortunate that bug was not as dangerous as the Chinavirus, given that 30 times more people had it.
And how exactly would/could have Obama stopped it?
I don't think any president could have stopped it. But Obama sure wouldn't have denied its virulence and fought against his own experts for so long, denying that it was a problem.
Agreed, no one could have 'stopped' it. But no other president in our nation's history would have denied we actually had a crises to confront. A bold "we shall fight them on the beaches ... we shall never surrender" type of speech would have endeared him to us. All we got from Trump was BS.
Obama handled the threat of Ebola very well, even sending US military medical personnel to west Africa to help deal with the outbreaks closer to the source (very well done), and if he had to deal with this one he would have been upfront about the dangers as always. The previous administration did, after all, have a process in place covering all of the steps necessary to confront a spreading pandemic. It didn't begin with the Obama administration but they did continue to work on it and improve it. Trump did none of that, and what Trump did eventually do he did poorly, and he lied about the dangers and the risks.
Trump said "what a fantastic job we've been doing". Fantastic indeed. He claimed there were only 15 ill when there were nearly 100, so a 600% exaggeration right there, and we were just getting started.
Now we have 130,000 dead in five months, a great national tragedy, and what does Trump say now?
Some people posting here clearly still believe Trump's original lies, and don't realize Trump himself has given up the fight, he has surrendered.
Why is everything so black and white with you? Seriously, get over it. Americans wanted and needed a competent leader who listened to experts, who didn’t talk about injecting bleach, someone who leads by example, someone who didn’t jump on any miracle drug touted by twitter or the gatewaypundit.
He didn’t need to, and still doesn’t need to, make the virus vanish. He just needed to, and needs to, act like a responsible adult, let alone a leader. But he’s treating the pandemic like an obstacle to his reelection rather than a problem that affects us all. So no, you don’t get to play the “if X were in Trump’s position” game. It’s stupid and doesn’t excuse Trump’s failures.
Trump is the sitting president and he failed.
125K plus dead with infections now rapidly rising and no vaccine in sight putting all of our public health at risk by not wearing masks when you cannot socially distance...
Really? 60 MILLION Americans got the H1N1 virus under Obama's "leadership". We were incredibly fortunate that bug was not as dangerous as the Chinavirus, given that 30 times more people had it.
actually, h1n1 murdered lots of non-americans.
estimated up to 575000 deaths worldwide during the first year.
Really? 60 MILLION Americans got the H1N1 virus under Obama's "leadership". We were incredibly fortunate that bug was not as dangerous as the Chinavirus, given that 30 times more people had it.
Yep good point, so what should President Trump do now?
BS
Those people out there holding covid parties, house parties, out there protesting with thousands of others, filling up parks for support of trans people in NY, people going into crowded bars, those people are responsible for dropping the ball. Fact.
and he was not very Presidential to have a rally either. Maybe he could try to be a good example for a change.
America: People are getting sick and hospitals are overwhelmed
Trump: Learn to live with it
Truly, this is the capstone on Trump’s monumental edifice of incompetence.
Well, like it or not, a lot of Trump supporters are still going to vote for him no matter how much worse the virus gets, assuming the virus doesn't kill them.
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