4/29/20: Knowing that 30.3 million
Americans had filed for unemployment in six weeks, it was jarring to hear Boy
Wonder Jared Kushner offer his assessment of
the situation. If you missed it – because you were trying to log
on to your state system and file for jobless relief – Kushner
said he would call the Trump administration’s handling of the virus threat “a great success story.”
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“A great success story.”
Jared Kushner
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What else have we learned in the last few days? We learned that whereas April is fast disappearing, the coronavirus is not, even though the Maestro of Misinformation, once predicted, in April, it would.
We learned this week that the U.S. economy shrank by 4.8% in the first quarter of 2020. But the Maestro told everyone he wasn’t worried one bit. Even though economists warn that second quarter damage will be devastating, the president insisted, “We’re heartened that the worst of the pain and suffering is going to be behind us [emphasis added].” Trump also said he thought the “new normal” was going to be great and as of May 1, he said federal social distancing guidelines would be lifted. “I see the new normal being what it was three months ago,” he added.
“It will go down to zero, ultimately.”
Reporters pinned Trump down. Now that the U.S. had surpassed a million cases of the coronavirus, they wondered, had he been babbling when he said on February 26 that we had only a few cases and would soon have fewer? “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” he famously said.
No, the president insisted. He wasn’t babbling. He was right!! “It will go down to zero, ultimately,” he said.
You could argue that if the entire population of the planet was wiped out by the coronavirus, we’d be down to zero, ultimately, too.
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