“President” Trump and the Corona Virus
Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic
MOTHER JONES April 4, 2020
As the country was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic in March, President Donald Trump saw some of the best approval numbers of his presidency. Multiple polls showed that a small majority of Americans approved of his handling of the crisis, while his personal approval ratings ticked up slightly. For a polarizing leader who’s personal approval has never cracked 50 percent, it looked like the national urge to trust a leader in times of crisis might just benefit the president eight months from the 2020 elections. But as we enter April, those numbers have reversed course.
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Trump Mobilizes the White House to Tackle Coronavirus But Adds to the ‘Fog of War’
Reed F. Richardson
@reedfrich
This WSJ big-picture COVID-19 story on Trump is an excruciating compendium of euphemisms deployed to avoid admitting the reality that the president is a self-centered, incompetent screw-up killing Americans due to his negligence. “#exacerbateduncertainty” wsj.com/articles/trump
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From the Daily Kos staff. April 4, 2020
- Fox News host sits in silence as infectious disease specialist exposes Trump’s coronavirus failure
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New York Times continues to privilege Trump’s misinformation and lies
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Always paranoid, ‘Patriot’ militiamen push back against coronavirus social isolation measures
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New York Governor Cuomo calls coronavirus ‘great equalizer,’ but is it really?
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Trump has the gall to insinuate that doctors and nurses want more masks so they can steal them
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New Daily Kos/Civiqs poll: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of coronavirus
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Chip in $5 to help frontline organizations provide resources for the most vulnerable among us.
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Another federal judge does what ICE won’t do and orders release of more immigrants amid pandemic
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Trump says quiet part out loud: ‘You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again’
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While Trump plays president, New York’s doctors and nurses are forced to decide who lives, who dies
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The bucks, the deaths, the misery, the chaos, are 100% on Donald Trump
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Coronavirus is endangering the postal service when we need vote by mail. Congress needs to act now
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Senate Republicans have no excuse for their piss-poor coronavirus response. No excuse whatsoever
