May 8, 2020: Trump Complains because Obama Left Cupboard Bare

 

5/8/20: The blogger has been working hard on chimney repairs at his home. So far, he has not tumbled headfirst from the ladder. On the other hand, he has fallen behind in chronicling the tragicomic story of Donald J. Trump and his team of incompetent sycophants. 

Let’s just say, for now, that the president and his minions have achieved stunning new levels of incompetence 

Back to the ladder we go!

 

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APPARENTLY, Mr. Trump thinks he has been working hard, himself, and so little details may be getting away from him as he tries to do his job, and tweet with alarming frequency. 

During an interview with David Muir on ABC News, the president complains that when he took over, Obama (yes, Obama did it!) left the cupboard bare and there were no medical supplies to combat a pandemic. It’s now three years since Mr. Obama turned over the keys to the White House, and Trump took over. Like any good reporter, Muir asks, “What did you do when you became president to restock those cupboards that you say are bare?” 

(If he was a Fox News reporter, he would have asked, “Do you think all our rival networks are “Fake News? And what are we going to do about Hunter Biden?”)

 

“Well, I’ll be honest, uh, I have a lot of things going on,” Trump stammered. “We had a lot of, uh, people, that refused to allow the country to be successful. They wasted a lot of time on ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ — that turned out to be a total hoax. Then they did ‘Ukraine, Ukraine,’ and that was a total hoax. Then they impeached the president for absolutely no reason.” 

Not one word of which has to do with answering the question. If the cupboard was empty, why didn’t Trump order someone, anyone, even White House aide Ivanka, to fill it up? 

Trump did say he thought his administration had done “maybe our best work” in handling the pandemic.

 

Muir asks if he’ll be satisfied, then, if voters make their choice in November, based on his handling of the COVID threat. 

“Well, I am, and I’m not,” the president replies. “You know, it’s a very interesting thought. You know, I’ve built the greatest economy, and then it was turned off for good reason,” he says. 

Then he adds a typical dose of Trump Math. “We saved millions of lives by doing it. I think people are going to remember that.” 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (7/5/21): They might have remembered those imaginary “millions” saved if they were entirely deluded. This claim was an absurdity then, and has proved to be even more of an absurdity since. 

First, the U.S. continues to lead the world in deaths from COVID-19: 621,293 according to Worldometers. 

Brazil ranks second worst (and their president has been a virus-denier, too): 524,425 dead. 

India ranks third with 402,758 deaths. 

Russia is fourth: 138,579. 

So, no nation in the world was going to lose “millions” of people, back then, no matter how badly they botched the handling of the threat. Trump just made up that number, the way he always did. Trump Math!