A report card on the Trump administration

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    I wrote, "For over three years Trump has been promising Americans a health plan. In an interview with Fox News in July, Trump said he would be signing a "full and complete health care plan" within two weeks. In an August 3 press briefing, Trump said his health care plan would most likely be released before the end of the month. Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.

    We are still waiting!"

    In many ways Trump is a joke.

    There is a new preexisting condition out there. It is called the coronavirus, and millions of Americans have it.

    Recently Trump told us this. "Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all companies. That’s a big thing. I’ve always been very strongly in favor. We have to cover pre-existing conditions."

    In the midst of a pandemic Trump wants to abolish the law that requires insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions.

    According to the Times, the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act — a move that, if successful, would bring a permanent end to the health insurance program and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans. The Court is expected to hear the case soon after the November elections.

    Again, Trump wants the ACA abolished while the U.S. is suffering from a pandemic more than any other country on the planet.

    130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions will lose the A.C.A.’s lifesaving protections and 23 million Americans will lose their health coverage entirely.

    It hardly matters what the court will decide on the ACA.

    What matters is what our President wants to happen!

    Trump's followers likely will not react to all this. Of that, there is very little doubt. They are a quiet bunch when it comes to Trump.

    They even have a hard time explaining why they support Trump. Perhaps they don't know.

    Trump's supporters are good at throwing up distractions, though. They don't want to learn the truth, and they do their best to prevent others from learning the truth.

    These people chose our President. Will we allow that to happen again?

    Vote early!
     
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    In many ways Trump is a joke.

    Trump assumed his role as a stand-up comedian in Atlanta yesterday. He joked about being a dictator.

    He made light of fears he will not accept the result of the election if he loses to Joe Biden in November. 'Will we be president in 10 years?' he asked, before claiming he was joking.

    'You know, you can't joke,' he told supporters in Atlanta. '[The media] always cut it before the laugh so they think he's serious.' He looked very serious at the press conference yesterday.

    The crowd then chanted '12 more years!' to laughter from the President.

    So, you heard it directly from Trump. When he says mail-in ballots are a fraud perpetrated on us by the Democrats, that was all a joke.

    That's what he said. "You know, you can't joke. [The media] always cut it before the laugh so they think he's serious," as he speaks about himself in the third person.

    Trump thinks it is funny for the President of the United States to question the results of an election if he loses.

    Vote early!
     
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    In his own words Trump has admitted lying to the American people about the pandemic. In his own words Trump admits he is still lying to the American people. He says he doesn't want Americans to panic.

    Americans don't panic. We solve the crisis, proven over and over again in our history.

    Trump didn't know that.

    As the impending threat of a pandemic was descending on America in January, February, and March, Trump was telling us, “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”

    Or, the pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.”

    And, “99% of COVID-19 cases are totally harmless.”

    As a consequence, on his watch, the U.S. has 20% of the world's virus cases and 20% of the world's deaths caused by the virus. Over 209,500 Americans have died from the virus. United States Coronavirus: 7,331,020 Cases and 209,556 Deaths - Worldometer

    As a consequence of that inescapable fact, because of his false optimism and habitual fantasies, because of his inability to react for three months when the virus threatened, because he refuses to accept bad news, Trump has run the greatest economy the world has ever known into the ground. The US economy shrank by an annualized 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020. It is the biggest contraction ever, pushing the economy into a recession. Thirty million Americans are unemployed, and the American people are challenged by both a pandemic and severe recession.

    What has been Trump's response to all of this? He has sidelined his leading epidemiologists, Drs. Fauci, Birx, Redfield, and Hahn in favor of Fox News contributor, Dr. Scott Atlas, a radiologist, not an expert on epidemiology.

    Atlas's views coincide with Trump's and directly conflict with the leading experts in the field, the field of epidemics, not radiology, the latter field being inconsequential at the moment.
     
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    I wrote earlier, "As a consequence, on his watch, the U.S. has 20% of the world's virus cases and 20% of the world's deaths caused by the virus. Over 209,500 Americans have died from the virus. United States Coronavirus: 7,331,020 Cases and 209,556 Deaths - Worldometer

    "As a consequence of that inescapable fact, because of his false optimism and habitual fantasies, because of his inability to react for three months when the virus threatened, because he refuses to accept bad news, Trump has run the greatest economy the world has ever known into the ground. The US economy shrank by an annualized 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020. It is the biggest contraction ever, pushing the economy into a recession. Thirty million Americans are unemployed, and the American people are challenged by both a pandemic and severe recession."

    Trump's business philosophy can be summed up in a few words. "Anyone who pays income taxes is a sucker."

    Through their silence and acquiescence even Trump's followers know Trump is a loser, an incompetent, narcissistic, foolish President who has done a great deal of harm. He has failed on the foreign front, and the U.S. is now isolated, bereft of allies we once had. His failures on the domestic front are highlighted by a failed economy, disastrous mishandling of the pandemic, and over 209,500 dead Americans from the virus he allowed to flourish.

    It is our extraordinary bad luck that the worst President in modern American history is allowed to appoint three Supreme Court judges.
     
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    Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and again in 2017. He avoided paying any tax for ten years. Trump didn't pay income tax for 10 of 15 years before 2016 election: NYT

    No doubt many of Trump's followers paid at least ten times that in 2016, and again in 2017, but they will cheer Trump for paying so little as President.

    Of course, when Trump becomes a private citizen on January 21, he may suffer the same fate as many of his close associates -- jail time.

    And, of course, that will be okay with the Trump Cult as well. Whey one reveres someone like Trump is revered within the Cult -- for reasons that defy all logic -- then one doesn't worry about petty things like lying, breaking our laws, and sexual promiscuity.
     
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    Because of his undying friendship for Putin, because he believes Putin before believing his own intelligence agencies, because we know Putin helped Trump get elected in 2016, because Trump was heavily critical of his own FBI director for daring to suggest that Putin is helping him again in 2020, I have long believed that Putin has something on Trump. Recently, Dan Coats, who Trump fired from his DNI post for giving him bad news, suggested such a thing, but my belief goes back a couple years.

    The Times report showed that Trump is beset by hundreds of millions in personal debt that will come due within the next four years.

    Who does he owe that money to?

    Four years? That is the length of another Presidential term. Maybe Trump is more desperate than we all think. Should Trump lose the election, will the note become due?

    Or, is my imagination working overtime?
     
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    Paul Brandus writes, "Who are his creditors? What will Trump do to stave them off in coming years?

    "The reason I wonder this stems from my own history. Many years ago, in a prior life, I went to work for the U.S. government at the American embassy in Moscow. During a background check, among the many things that were investigated were my personal finances. You can’t have people with financial problems working in sensitive government jobs for the simple reason that such problems expose them to possible compromise by others.

    "Surely a man in a sensitive job, as Trump is, and is up to his neck in debt, as Trump is, who oddly seems to cozy up to men such as Vladimir Putin could never be compromised or considered any sort of security risk, right? That’s the potential danger."

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...esidents-personal-debts-coming-due-2020-09-28
     
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    Just how dumb is Trump?

    Trump on Sunday demanded Joe Biden be subjected to a drug test for the first presidential debate this week, once more suggesting without evidence that his Democratic opponent takes performance-enhancing drugs.

    Now he wants Biden to allow a third party to inspect the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters.

    Trump must always be the center of attention.

    Even if it means he needs to make himself look like an idiot.

    These are ludicrous distractions to throw Biden off course. Trump thinks he can get Biden to forget his mishandling of the pandemic which has cost over 210,000 lives and caused a serious recession. He thinks Biden will also forget Trump's tax evasion and the destructive race riots on our streets during Trump's watch that caused so much chaos.

    Trump doesn't know that Biden is a seasoned campaigner with ten times the experience the President has.

    As a result, Trump turns to childish impulses.
     
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    Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced that all restaurants and small businesses statewide can reopen and operate at full capacity.

    The governor's order also ensures that local officials are unable to direct restaurants and businesses to close or operate at less than half-capacity without specifying a reason.

    The governor also eliminated fines against people refusing to wear masks.

    Yesterday, Florida had only 738 new cases of the virus.

    Today, Florida has 3,266 new cases of the virus and counting.

    Yesterday, Florida had ten deaths caused by the virus. Today, Florida has 101 deaths caused by the virus and counting.


    United States Coronavirus: 7,397,199 Cases and 210,627 Deaths - Worldometer

    Why does the Republican governor, a major ally of President Trump, want to kill off Floridians, including school age children?

    I don't expect any answer from Trump's followers. They avoid issues like this.
     
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    We have known for quite some time that Trump, as Putin's friend, prefers the Russian version of events to American intelligence views on events. Trump proved that at Helsinki where he accepted Putin's word over our intelligence. He proved it again this past week when he expressed displeasure when his FBI director disclosed that the Russians are helping Trump again this year.

    So, it is no surprise that Trump's intel chief declassified a Russian document that attacks the Russia investigation and Clinton's 2016 campaign just in time for the debate with the election just around the corner. Of course, this is purely a distraction to take attention away from his failures with the pandemic, the resulting recession, racial violence in our cities, and Trump's tax evasion.

    CNN reports. "The top US intelligence official released information Tuesday about unverified Russian intelligence about Hillary Clinton that will likely fuel President Donald Trump's attacks on the Russia investigation and Clinton's 2016 campaign.

    "Ratcliffe declassified the summary of a Russian intelligence assessment of Clinton on Tuesday, writing that US intelligence in 2016 obtained a Russian intelligence analysis that alleged Clinton had approved a campaign plan to "stir up a scandal" against Trump by tying him to Russia and the hack of the Democratic National Committee."

    The intelligence community "does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."

    So, why make the report public? Well, we all know the answer to that one. Ratcliffe, Trump's DNI, wants to help his boss get elected.

    Under Trump, our intelligence agencies have become perverted!

    Trump's followers won't address that issue, either.
     
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    So, it is no surprise that Trump's intel chief declassified a Russian document that attacks the Russia investigation and Clinton's 2016 campaign just in time for the debate with the election just around the corner. Of course, this is purely a distraction to take attention away from his failures with the pandemic, the resulting recession, racial violence in our cities, and Trump's tax evasion.

    The report below contains some big words, but here's hoping Trump's fans will be able to comprehend the statements as best they can.

    For Immediate Release
    DHS Press Office
    Contact: 202-282-8010

    The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.


    Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security
    The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.

    The report is dated October 7, 2016.

    A lot of people forgot about that report.

    I didn't.
     
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    Last night Trump acted like a complete jerk.

    What does that mean exactly?

    Well, it means that many of Trump's followers are proud of our President's performance.

    Unless they say differently, the list would include the members of Trump's cult, a group of people who support Trump, but, as this thread attests, they totally ignore what he says and does.

    That is why it is called a cult.
     
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    Interrupting someone in a discussion is a sign of weakness and desperation. It shows that the person doing the interrupting is afraid of what the other will say or the question being asked. Just as he did last night in the Presidential debate with Biden, in press conferences, Trump is constantly interrupting reporters' questions, not allowing them to finish.

    Words matter, particularly when one is the President. When asked to denounce white supremacists groups like the KKK and the Proud Boys, Trump offered a threat, saying the Proud Boys should "standby."

    Later, after obsessing about mail-in ballots and questioning the results of the American election, Trump said ominously, “This is not going to end well.”

    Trump loves attention. He has gotten the attention of the American people, but not in a positive sense.

    Today, he and Republicans like Senator Tim Scott are trying to clean up his act.

    That cannot be done! One can't un-ring a bell. That is particularly true of Presidential statements.

    Trump did not misspeak. He meant exactly what he said. He was not joking, and he didn't mean something else. Those are the traditional mea culpas Trump Republicans have used for four years when Trump says something incomprehensibly stupid or dangerous, as in the case of last night's debate.

    Throughout the world, facemasks have saved millions of lives. Trump's epidemiology scientists, who he has sidelined, have said facemasks could save thousands of American lives during the winter months. Trump mocked Biden for wearing a facemask at political events.

    There has been no mea culpa for that one.
     
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    Trump said today he didn't know about the far-right group Proud Boys.

    Wow! The Trump White House has never heard of the violent fascist group known as the Proud Boys. Gee, this is far more serious than I thought.

    Or ...
    "Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive"

    Did Trump just jump from the frying into the fire? Is he so ignorant that he was unaware of the violent group that has done so much damage in our cities such as Portland, Seattle, and Kenosha.

    "Proud Boys – stand back and stand by," Trump said in the Presidential debate.

    The Charlotte Observer observes, "Members of the Proud Boys celebrated on social media after President Donald Trump refused to denounce them as white supremacists during Tuesday’s presidential debate.

    "The all-male far-right group is labeled “misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration” by the Anti-Defamation League, which adds the Proud Boys support white supremacist ideologies."

    Reportedly, they are standing by.
     
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    Russia-phobia was the culmination of 25 years of aggression towards Russia after the end of the cold war beginning with Clinton sabotaging the promise made to Gorbachev not to expand NATO into countries bordering Russia, imposing Neo-Liberal "reforms" that ruined the lives of many Russians, blatantly interfering in the 1996 election of Boris Yeltsin, launching a coup against Ukraine (the equivalent of Russia supporting a coup against Mexico) resulting with a government with Nazi elements, and sabotaging any attempts to have Russia and the US broker a peace agreement in Syria. When WikiLeaks exposed Clinton approving record arms sales to Saudi Arabia in exchange for giving money to the Clinton Foundation, instead of owning up to it she blamed Russia. Russia-phobia was promoted by the same neo-cons who supported the war on terror that displaced 37,000,000 people and supported the invasion of Iraq and who now support Biden, and bottom feeders like Rachel Maddow. The recently deceased Stephen Cohen, an expert on Russia was one of the few voices of sanity speaking out against the xenophobia and dangerous aggression towards Russia and he was smeared by animals in the corporate media.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/stephen-cohen-ukraine/
     
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    The Times reports, "President Trump’s refusal to condemn an extremist right-wing group in his first debate with Joseph R. Biden Jr. sent a shudder through the Republican Party at a critical moment in the 2020 campaign on Wednesday, as prominent lawmakers expressed unease about Mr. Trump’s conduct amid mounting fears that it could damage the party on Election Day.

    "It was the second time in two weeks that a collection of party leaders broke with Mr. Trump over behavior they regarded as beyond the pale. Last week, Republicans distanced themselves from Mr. Trump’s unwillingness to promise a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election.

    "This time, the subject was racist extremism and the president’s response to a demand from Mr. Biden during Tuesday night’s debate that he denounce the Proud Boys, an organization linked with white supremacy and acts of violence. Mr. Trump answered by telling the group to “stand back and stand by,” a message taken by members of the organization as a virtual endorsement.

    "On Wednesday, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, called it “unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists,” without criticizing Mr. Trump by name, while Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the president should “make it clear Proud Boys is a racist organization antithetical to American ideals.'"

    I will assume that once again Trump's followers will have nothing intelligent to say. They don't know why they support Trump.

    Force of habit?
     
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    Trump's refusal to specifically condemn white supremacist groups continues to have ramifications.

    Yesterday, Trump was asked by three different reporters to denounce white supremacist groups. Trump talked about law and order, saying something about all violent groups should stand down.

    Asked again, Trump said, " I have always denounced any form of that" He would not say white supremacist groups or be specific as in the Proud Boys, KKK, nor neo-Nazi organizations. "That" could have included Antifa and the BLM, which is probably what he intended.

    Today his press secretary said Trump said exactly what he meant to say. He did not misspeak, she said.

    "Stand back, stand by" is the new motto and rallying cry for the Proud Boys, They were enormously proud of what our President said about them.

    Thank you, Mr. President.
     
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    "Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive"

    It is America's shame that our President has had so little regard for the truth that the American people learned a long time ago they could not trust anything he says.

    How do we know Trump tested positive for the coronavirus? Trump told us in a tweet.

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    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
    9:54 PM · Oct 1, 2020

    That is it. We have not heard from the White House task force on the virus. We have not heard from epidemiology experts from the team as in the case of Drs. Fauci and Birx. We have not heard from any independent medical expert that Trump tested poswitive. We have only Trump's word on that, and his word isn't worth much.

    We have only heard from White House stooges, Trump's doctor, who will say whatever Trump wants him to say, MeEnamy, who lies as often as Trump himself, Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, and the idiot, Kudlow.

    Why would Trump want to lie about testing positive? One reason might be, he has lied so much, he no longer knows what reality is any more.

    That said, I will try to be more specific. Trump can lie all he wants, but he is not stupid, and he can read the headlines. He failed miserably during the Presidential debate. After acting like a complete jerk, there is no way Mary Wonderful, living in Suburbia, USA, would vote for the loudmouth idiot, and she will drag her husband with her. Now they are going to change the rules, insisting on decorum. Trump wants no part of decorum. He wants out of the debates before he injures himself anymore.

    Trump was supposed to appear for two political rallies in Wisconsin on Saturday. He was drawing a lot of heat. In fact, Trump got booted out of one Wisconsin town, La Crosse. Perhaps Trump didn't want to embarrass himself anymore.

    There is a strong possibility that GOP leaders told Trump Trump to cool it. Trump's speeches, like the one he gave in Duluth, were getting embarrassing. They worked great at solidifying the white supremacists and far right extremists who are part of Trump's base, but they totally turned off everyone else.

    GOP leaders may have thought keeping Trump off the campaign trail, shutting him up, could do wonders for the Trump campaign and help their own chances as well. Trump was becoming a disgrace, and that wasn't helping Republicans up for reelection.

    Tweeting that he had tested positive for the coronavirus would accomplish all of those goals.

    Trump was the host of a reality show. During that stint and during his Presidency, Trump learned to become a master of melodrama. He can't just say he tested positive. He had to make this a big production for the drama effect.

    What better way than to arrange to have Marine One fly him to Walter Reed, where he will stay for a few days to convince the doubters this was not all for show.

    Doubters like me.
     
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    Hey, I could be wrong. I remember being wrong once, about 21 years ago. It is certainly possible that, for once in his role as President, Trump actually told the truth, and he has the virus. Stranger things have happened.

    If so, it would be poetic justice. During the months of January, February, and March, Trump lied to the American people. He admitted to lying to us, thinking we would panic. He told us his fantasies about the impending threat, fought the science from epidemiology experts, lied about vaccines, discouraged FDA and CDC guidelines, and attacked the leadership of the FDA and CDC. Americans don't know who to trust, but they know it isn't Trump.

    As a consequence of that, Trump is complicit in the deaths of over 213,500 Americans, and leads a nation that has 20% of the world's virus cases and 20% of the world's deaths caused by the virus.

    As a consequence of that, Trump is complicit in the collapse of our once great economy that was built by the American people. We are still bleeding jobs and 30 million Americans are unemployed. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

    Trump was in regular contact this week with senior counselor Hope Hicks, who tested positive on Thursday afternoon. Multiple people who attended last Saturday’s event at the White House, when Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, have also tested positive. Senator Mike Lee was in attendance as was University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins. Both tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. Barrett had the virus during the summer. She has since tested negative.

    A number of others in the White House have tested positive because Trump didn't like the image of staffers wearing masks.

    The entire White House should go into quarantine, but it won't. A quarantine doesn't fit the image desired by Trump.

    In the meantime, Vice-president Pence is staying away from the White House.

    One last thing, Trump's friend, Vladimir Putin, sent his regards and best wishes.

    Taking into account what he has done, do I have any sympathy for Trump?

    Sure. I don't want him to die. Nothing to worry about there. He is too damn meant to die. Besides, it is probably just another photo op.
     
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    The question was asked. Would it be appropriate to notify our allies of Trump's condition.

    It was decided, no, it was not necessary to notify Russia, China, and North Korea at this time.
     
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    There still has not been any independent verification That Trump tested positive for the coronavirus. Nothing from the White House task force on the matter, and Drs. Fauci and Birx have not said a thing.

    Is this merely a photo op? Recalling Trump's travels to meet with North Korea's Kim, we know Trump can be very elaborate with his photo ops. He called out the National Guard when he wanted to walk across the south lawn to a church and hold up a Bible for the cameras.

    Also, what a way to change the subject away from Trump's disastrous handling of the pandemic and the resulting collapse of our once great economy. Trump is losing badly in the polls, way behind in raising funds, and way behind in campaign spending. What is to lose with an elaborate photo op to get American voters to forget about such matters?

    His story that he tested positive for the virus has done exactly that.
     
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    Ordinarily, when the President is shot or becomes ill, regardless of party, Americans rally around the President.

    That is not true of Donald Trump.

    Judging by his disapproval rating (hovering around 55%), the majority of Americans dread his return to the Oval Office. Why? Nearly every day he starts a new controversy or expands on the many controversies he has already started. Americans are weary of his habitual lies, and can no longer trust anything he says.

    Americans are weary of his complete incompetence as illustrated by the fact that the U.S. has 20% of the world's virus cases and 20% of the world's deaths caused by the virus. 214,500 Americans have died from the virus Trump originally would not take seriously.

    He is taking it seriously now.

    Or, at least that is what his stooges in the White House are saying. How bad is it? Since the only word we are hearing is either from Trump or his stooges, many are not even sure he tested positive. This could be an elaborate ruse to draw attention away from his countless failures.

    Then there is the other side of the coin -- his base. White supremacists, far right extremists, and anarchists who form a major part of his base eagerly await Trump's return to normal. They can't until he is back pissing off liberals and leftists with his uninterrupted accusations, most of it based on Trump's fantasies.

    His base delights in Trump's fantasies. How do we know that? They tell us ... constantly.

    There is little doubt. Trump is the most divisive President in modern American history, and the least popular.

    Putin chose well!
     
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    Trump has left the hospital.

    The Times reports, "President Trump, on his third day of hospitalization for the coronavirus, briefly visited well-wishers gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center during a drive-by in a sport utility vehicle with two Secret Service agents on Sunday evening, in apparent disregard of federal safety guidelines.

    "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for patients infected with the virus stipulate that health care facilities “limit transport and movement of the patient outside of the room to medically essential purposes.”

    "Secret Service officers accompanied Mr. Trump to the hospital on Friday, but that was an emergency situation; Sunday’s drive was a “last-minute” decision by the president."

    Wow! what a photo op. Trump had the attention of the entire country. No doubt he will resume campaigning quite soon.
     
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    This joyride was an incredibly stupid stunt even for Trump. He endangered the lives of others as well as his own.

    He is taking unproven medication, and there appears to be little doubt the medication is affecting his mind.

    There is one possible explanation as to why he wasn't stopped by doctors and advisors. There are uncounted numbers of people who do not want this man reelected. How better to accomplish that than by allowing him to do something incomprehensibly mindless before a nation-wide television audience.

    As this thread shows, his own followers won't support what he says and does.
     
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    CBS News has reported, "Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center just after 6:30 p.m. ET on Monday, hours after the medical team treating him cautioned that he is "not out of the woods yet." He returned to the White House shortly before 7 p.m., where he gave a thumbs up before walking inside."

    Against the advice of his doctors and his advisors, Trump wanted to go home. Where is home for the President? Temporarily, it is the White House.

    The White House has become a petri dish for the coronavirus.

    Here are the people close to Trump who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Many work in the White House. Others are close allies to Trump. One is his wife.
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      Melania Trump
      First lady
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      Hope Hicks
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      Kayleigh McEnany
      White House press secretary
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      Nicholas Luna
      Assistant to the President
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      Mike Lee (R-UT)
      US senator
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      Thom Tillis (R-NC)
      US senator
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      Ron Johnson (R-WI)
      US senator
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      Kellyanne Conway
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      Chad Gilmartin
      White House principal assistant press secretary
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      Karoline Leavitt
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      Bill Stepien
      Trump campaign manager
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      Ronna McDaniel
      RNC chairwoman
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      Chris Christie
      Former governor of New Jersey
     

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