March 30, 2020: President Trump is "A Ratings Hit" as COVID Spreads

 

3/30/20: Remember how excited you were in June 2018, when President Trump said North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat, and you could sleep sweet dreams at night again! 

While you were watching the same chunky orange fool brag about what a great job he was doing leading us in this new time of coronavirus crisis, North Korea fired off two short-range missiles Sunday. Both landed in the sea near Japan. It was North Korea’s fourth missile test this month. 

To be clear: Kim Jong-un still has all the nuclear weaponry he had when Trump said he was no longer a threat – plus he’s had two years to build more missiles and perfect the launching systems. 

(We also have NO deal with Iran, after Trump tore up the imperfect deal that we had and replaced it with bumblebees.)

 

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THE BIG NEWS Sunday, of course, was Trump extending social distancing guidelines until the end of April – after having said just a few days ago that he hoped to have the country back up and running by Easter, April 12. The president also said if he could keep the death toll from COVID-19 down to 100,000, it would prove his administration was “doing a very good job.” 

Using that kind of math, you could argue General George Armstrong Custer did “a very good job” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

 

As it stands, Monday morning, the United States leads the world by a wide margin in confirmed cases. We have left China (where the virus erupted) in our rearview mirror. We have caught up with Italy in a race we don’t want to win, a race Trump insisted for weeks we’d never have to run. 

 

An increase of 3,079 percent in just thirteen days. 

This morning, Italy has 97,689 reported cases, to our 143,532. Italy has 10,779 deaths, so far. Trump will be doing a very good job, in his narcissistic view, if we keep our death toll to nine times what Italy is suffering. You can look at this a lot of different ways. But 100,000 dead won’t be anything close to “a very good job.” Germany has 63,929 cases and 560 deaths. South Korea, which ramped up testing from the start, has 9,661 cases and 158 deaths. On March 17, South Korea had 8,320 confirmed cases and the U.S. had 4,661. But it was only the day before that President Trump admitted that the spreading virus could become a real problem. 

In thirteen days since, South Korea has seen an increase of 16 percent in confirmed cases of COVID-19. 

The U.S., caught with it’s red, white, and blue pants around the ankles, and Trump tripping over his own sizeable belt, has seen an increase of 3,079 percent. 

Then again, for Trump, there was still good news, as he reported on Twitter yesterday. His daily news conferences were getting boffo viewership numbers. And isn’t that exactly where a leader’s focus should be!