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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (156758)3/20/2020 11:23:19 PM
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Fine. Although one can argue with what Trump did, let's give him full credit for the travel ban/restrictions. What did the action(s) do? It/they bought time. What did Trump do with the time he bought?

He claimed victory and went home. He downplayed the seriousness of it in public and did nothing tangible behind the scenes. He claimed the cases were at 15 going to zero. He called the Democrats warning about the seriousness of the situation a "hoax" to bring hm down. He denied entry to a cruise ship because "he liked the numbers where they are". He obsessed over the stock market, which responded by plunging. he played a lot of golf.

TL/DR; he didn't do squat. He frittered away any time he might have bought. Not only that, he made things even worse by trivializing the seriousness of the situation.

Trump's jump in a couple of polls is because people are frantic and see his minimal attempts at dealing with the situation as him being presidential. A huge problem is that his gamble that things would get better by themselves so sweeping everything under the rug would work out, didn't. Things are starting to get real bad, real quick. His mendacity and incompetence is going to catch up with him and soon. The chickens are flocking to the roost and his goose is going to be cooked very soon...

To hopelessly mix metaphors.
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