Trump’s COVID Response Was Worse Than We Remember
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Trump’s COVID Response Was Worse Than We Remember
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-covid-response-worse-than-we-remember
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When you have right-wing news kissing his ass all the time and left wing media questioning everything he does asking if he really means it or not it’s no surprise people will forget how bad he was..
Frontline healthcare worker here who had my ass handed to me and quit after 2 years into 12 hours shifts in the gear getting treated like shit from the public. It was awful
Maybe it’s because I work in public health, but I remember all of it. All of it.
No, I still remember waking up every morning and checking the news to see what stupid shit he did the day before, and/or tweeted the night before.
Please please please please. For the love of god. I don’t care who you vote for so long as you do not let this fucking psycopath have power again.
They printed trillions of dollars for stimulus checks without paying for them, devalued the dollar, didn’t sure up the supply chain, people spent money they didn’t have creating inflation.
Blamed Biden.
Of the many, many things I can’t stand Trump for, his COVID response has me hoping he is eternally damned by history. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and had to be placed in memory care in January 2020. They locked down hard when the pandemic hit and no visitors were allowed for months. By the time we were allowed to see him again, the disease had progressed to the point he was a shell of who he formerly was. I lost so much time with him still being present because this orange piece of shit politicized a goddamn health crisis.
My in-laws were among those people who refused to listen to actual scientists and medical professionals. My father-in-law was just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s as well. Fortunately for him, the odds of another pandemic causing him to go through what my father did are low and his son will be able to be with him as he declines.
From the article:
>It now seems to be conventional wisdom that the worst errors we committed concerned massive shutdowns and school closings, along with forcing 3-year-olds to wear masks.
Fuck that allegedly “conventional wisdom.” The massive shutdowns, school closings, and wearing masks is why my family and I did not die from the coronavirus before the vaccines were developed.
Every hospital needing a vent.
Parking lot triage centers
A hospital ship parked in the NY Harbor
The fact that people don’t believe fuckin science now
Yeah we still remember
I remember he did nothing because he and Jared thought covid would only happen in blue states, and it would be good for them if people in blue states would die. Their strategy was literally to let people die for their politics.
No, its wasn’t. I remember. He totally flubbed it, embarrassed us all and hundreds of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily. He was worse than the Vietnam War.
Not worse than I rem. He was a daily vomiting idiot monkey and we all had to end our safety because of his blubbering and lack of skill.
He couldn’t simply give it to real proffesionals to take charge.
WHAT A DUCKING SHIT OF A HUMAN
It was genocide, it wasn’t even negligent homicide, it was intentional
His target was people of color and liberal cities, collateral was his supporters
Over a million people died
No, I remember the abandonment pretty well. So does anyone on the east coast which he left to rot for weeks, lying about testing kits, telling governors the feds were not responsible to help them buy vents, etc .
The Trump Administration’s response to Covid was to undermine and obstruct actual responses, while also trying to profit from it, politically and literally.
He had no plan then undermined states that chose to implement their own.
I remember it being way worse that everyone claims now. Only 1 million dead? Yeah right.
I haven’t forgotten that a million Americans died and it was his fault.
I’ll never forget the picture on *The Arizona Republic* of some clown waving an American flag with no mask on in the face of a nurse.
Just drove home the point that the idiots in the White House didn’t have a fucking clue what they were doing.
[‘That’s the one there’: A photo of a protesting nurse in Phoenix goes viral](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/04/24/how-photo-protesting-nurse-phoenix-went-viral/3023111001/)
I kept up with this list during 2020, but it feels relevant to share again:
>**[February 7](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-bob-woodward-archive-pandemics-cb579c89907b73e546459848e2b3bb67) – Interview with Bob Woodward:** “This is deadly stuff,” “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
– *[February 7](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump-changing-statements-on-coronavirus/) – <10 cases*: “He (Xi) will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone.”
– *[February 10](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-believes-coronavirus-will-vanish-with-april-temps-experts-are-skeptical-warm-weather-alone-is-enough-2020-03-12) – <10 cases*: “a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.”
– *[February 25](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-business-roundtable-new-delhi-india/) – 15 cases*: “So I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away.”
– *[February 26](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/) – 15 cases*: “You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for,”
– *[February 27](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/how-trump-shifted-his-tone-on-coronavirus-134246) – 60 cases*: “It’s going to disappear…One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
– *[February 28](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-coronavirus-democrats-new-hoax-n1145721)* – 63 cases: “The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.” (Allegedly referring to “Democrats’ concern for the virus” is a hoax, as if that explanation is any better)
– *[March 6](https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2020/03/06/trump-cdc-visit-called-off-after-virus-infection-concern/) – 319 cases, 15 deaths*: “Be calm. It will go away.”
– *[March 10](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-republican-senators-2/) – 994 cases, 30 deaths*: “We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away,”
– *[March 12](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-varadkar-ireland-bilateral-meeting-3/) – 1,631 cases, 41 deaths*: “It’s going away. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths.”
– **[March 19](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-bob-woodward-archive-pandemics-cb579c89907b73e546459848e2b3bb67), (Bob Woodward tapes)** *14,896 cases, 240 deaths*: – “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down”
– *[March 30](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/27-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html) – 168,680 cases, 4,105 deaths*: “It will go away. You know it — you know it is going away, and it will go away.”
– *[March 31](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-15/) – 193,954 cases, 5,206 deaths*: “It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that.”
– *[April 3](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/34-times-trump-said-the-coronavirus-would-go-away/2020/04/30/d2593312-9593-4ec2-aff7-72c1438fca0e_video.html) – 284,504 cases, 8,960 deaths*: “It is going to go away. It is going away.…I said it’s going away, and it is going away.”
– *[April 7](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-7-2020/) – 410,788 cases, 15,755 deaths*: “It will go away” “the cases really didn’t build up for a while.” “I think what happens is it’s going to go away. This is going to go away”.
– *[April 29](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/29/trump-coronavirus-science-denial-timeline-what-has-he-said) – 1,068,111 cases, 62,852 deaths*: “It’s gonna go. It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone. It’s going to be eradicated and – uh – it might take longer. It might be in smaller sections. It won’t be what we had”
– *[May 8](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-republican-members-congress/) – 1,326,579 cases, 80,202 deaths*: “It’s going to go away. And we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.”
– *[May 15](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vaccine-development/) – 1,517,723 cases, 91,154 deaths*: “It’ll go away at some point, It’ll go away. It may flare up and it may not flare up.”
– *[June 16](https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-says-coronavirus-fade-away-without-vaccine/) – 2,211,406 cases, 121,807 deaths*: “I always say, even without it [a vaccine], it goes away.”
– *[June 17](https://time.com/5855541/trump-coronavirus-fade-away/) – 2,237,660 cases, 122,632 deaths*: Coronavirus would “fade away”.
– *[June 23](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-turning-point-action-address-young-americans/) – 2,246,338 cases, 126,326*: “We did so well before the plague and we’re doing so well after the plague. It’s going away.”
– *[July 1](https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-disappear-cac3b50f-14f5-435a-932b-32e61f448554.html) – 2,778,452 cases, 130,985 deaths*: “We’re headed back in a very strong fashion. … And I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that’s going to sort of just disappear. I hope.”
– *[July 19](https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/893226998/president-trump-to-resume-his-daily-coronavirus-briefings) – 3,836,674 cases, 143,788 deaths*: “I will be right eventually. You know, I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again. … It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right,”
– *[August 5](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/trump-says-surging-virus-will-go-away-like-things-go-away) – 4,978,414 cases, 162,019 deaths*: “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away,”
– *[September 16](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-september-16-2020/) – 6,828,301 cases, 201,351 deaths*: “It’s going to be, it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen. But with a vaccine, I think it will go away very quickly.”
– *[October 1](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?s=20) – 7,505,449 cases, 212,661 deaths*: Trump and Melania announce they test positive for coronavirus. “We will begin quarantine immediately.”
– *[October 5](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/letters/covid-trump-health.html) – 7,683,501 cases, 215,043 deaths*: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.”
– *[October 12](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-covid-death-toll-us-tweets-today-b989378.html) – 8,037,789 cases, 220,011 deaths*: “It will run its course. Vaccines and cures are coming fast!”
– [*October 19*](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/19/us/trump-vs-biden) – *8,414,388 cases, 224,987 deaths*: “People are tired of Covid,” “People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”
– [*October 22*](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/23/donald-trump/no-fight-against-coronavirus-isnt-rounding-corner-/) – *8,665,743 cases, 228,381 deaths*: “We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away.”
After October, Trump stopped talking about COVID entirely and was consumed with his criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. The deaths reached over 450,000 by the time he left office and the country had entered arguably the worst spike of COVID, adding 80,000 deaths in the next 6 weeks.
It is not…
I remember how evil, incompetent, and destructive it was.
Uh no i remember it being really fucking bad. Its a miracle that scientists were already working on a vaccine
I still remember watching that press conference where Trump and Pence were talking about the “great private and public partnership” where they rolled out all the CEO’s who were going to solve the pandemics problems for us
If someone was purposely trying to kill as many Americans as possible things would have played out exactly the same.
“It’s a Democratic Hoax”, “It’s just scientists from around the world trying to make Don look bad”.
* So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light—and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.
— President Moron, April 23, 2020
https://www.c-span.org/video/?471458-1/president-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing
*Convicted felon Trump.
Convicted of crimes serving the express purpose of undermining the United States, just like any other traitor.
Anyone remember “If we don’t test there won’t be any cases.”
Whaddaya mean “we,” Paleface?
Hopefully we’ll have plenty of ads ready for this October to explore just how much worse.
I know political recap books are a bit dry, but I always recommend *Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History*
It really dissects the absolute clown shoes response Trump had to this catastrophe. Just incredible incompetence, scamming, ego trips, you name it. And I shudder to think how much more has been uncovered 3 years since. I cannot get over the fact his covid response wasn’t a campaign death sentence.
I remember the weeks when 5,000 people were dying from COVID.
That’s so insane, 5k in a week. We lost over a million people to the disease in a year.
I keep wondering: where are the memorials? Where are the tributes to the people who died? There are memorials for all the other major plagues. Is it because we all agree those happened, and with this one its not unanimous?
I can’t imagine it’s TOO much worse than I remember. It was… ridiculously terrible.
Well I remember him telling everyone to inject bleach and shove light bulbs up their arse so that must be pretty bad to be worse than that.
Not for me dumb ass
These motherfuckers straight up weakened our pandemic response on purpose to kill more democratic voters.
They are fucking evil. Fuck all of these sick fucks and fuck every person, evil or even just stupid, who supports them.
Nope. We remember.
He removed the pandemic task force right before the pandemic. He could have been throwing darts at a dart board and made better choices. It is like he made the worst possible choices at every turn.
My father is dead because of this Trump disaster and I hate seeing his signature on my father’s condolence letter. What a fucking historical insult. Can’t make this shit up.
A truly evil shit.
Covid shook what little faith I had in humanity in a way I don’t think that it can ever recover. I ran covid testing and in top of a brutal work schedule I learned real quick not to tell people what I do for work because lots of them would flip out like it was my fault for running the damn tests. Endless dumb fuckery from people on social media explaining with their D in high-school biology how testing was a sham or whatever bullshit cure was being suppressed.
there is a joke about long covid in this title, but I can t remember it
“It’ll be gone by Easter”
I’ll never forget COVID as a medical resident. It essentially broke me. I was a physician and had to ask permission from a charge RN to have a disposable mask to keep safe while seeing patients. There were no other masks available besides ‘reusable’ cloth masks handed out by good hearted amish folks near us that we were responsible to clean after each shift. A co resident was reprimanded for wearing a recycled n95. I have never felt so mistreated and it still affects me to this day working as an attending physician. I no longer have the resilience I once did and I will never sacrifice myself like that again.
Fucking up so bad you kill a million americans is pretty bad, yeah
The man wanted you to ingest Bleach and/or Lysol, use direct UV light, and just wait it out and it’ll be fine. He easily got people killed that carried into when Biden took over.
You can hate what Biden did to make you feel “less free,” encouraging having kids stay home and learn, promote masking and social distancing, but nobody actively died because of these things. Nobody from Biden or Fauci or everyone underneath them said a cloth mask was 100% effectively either. It was the combination of things to slow the spread around. There are people who can’t be bothered covering their own mouths during a cough or sneeze in public. It’s why Subway and Chipotle have their ingredients behind glass. All you hD to do I not be a selfish asshole but even that was too hard for people.
There was so much more than this article covers.
Kushner was assigned to study the emerging Covid situation, and he was the one that recommended that since it was mostly affecting large Blue regions like California, NYC, and other cities, the best approach would be to let it kill as many of those people as possible. He was too stupid, bloodthirsty, or both, to understand that it would move to Red regions, too.
Then the vaccine became a political issue, and Reds refused to get vaxxed, and now nearly every person who dies of Covid is an unvaxxed Republican.
Then there was the matter of the vaccine being announced soon after Election Day. Trump could have redeemed himself, and actually left something ofna decent legacy, if he had fully embraced the vaccine, and did a blitzkieg roll-out in his lame duck period.
Instead, he ignored it, partially because the vaccine had become a MAGA hot potato by then, but mostly because he became singularly obssessed with planning and launching a number of schemes to overthrow the government.
That left Biden with having to launch two emergency programs immediately upon his onauguration – an economic program, and Covid vaccine program. The economic program is normal for Democratic presidents. They’ve been cleaning up after Republican economic disasters for decades – Carter, Clinton, Obama, and now Biden), but the Vaccination program was urgent, and if successful, could contribute significantly to ending the economic crisis. Both programs were successful, and millions of Americans owe their own lives, or the lives of their loved ones and friends, to Biden’s serious committment to managing America.