Trump’s Leadership Is Tested In Time Of Fear, Pandemic

[signalmankenneth]

What leadership?

The Trump show may be losing its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness of presidents leading in a crisis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate. It was time to gloat and settle scores.

“It was evil,” Trump said of the attempt to end his presidency. “It was corrupt. It was dirty cops. It was leakers and liars.”

It was also soon forgotten. On Feb. 6, in California, a 57-year-old woman was found dead in her home of natural causes then unknown. When her autopsy report came out, officials said her death had been the first from COVID-19 in the U.S.

The “invisible enemy” was on the move. And civil unrest over racial injustice would soon claw at the country. If that were not enough, there came a fresh round of angst over Russia, and America would ask whether Trump had the backs of troops targeted by bounty hunters in Afghanistan.

For Trump, the virus has been the most persistent of those problems. But he has not even tried to make a common health crisis the subject of national common ground and serious purpose. He has refused to wear a mask, setting off a culture war in the process as his followers took their cues from him.

Instead he spoke about preening with a mask when the cameras were off: “I had a mask on,” he said this past week. “I sort of liked the way I looked ... like the Lone Ranger.”

These are times of pain, mass death, fear and deprivation and the Trump show may be losing its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness of presidents leading in a crisis.

Bluster isn’t beating the virus; belligerence isn’t calming a restive nation.

Angry and scornful at every turn, Trump used the totems of Mount Rushmore as his backdrop to play on the country’s racial divisions, denouncing the “bad, evil people” behind protests for racial justice. He then made a steamy Fourth of July salute to America on the White House South Lawn his platform to assail “the radical left, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters,” and, for good measure, people with “absolutely no clue.”

“If he could change, he would,” said Cal Jillson, a presidential scholar at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “It’s not helping him now. It’s just nonstop. It is habitual and incurable. He is who he is.”

Over three and a half years Trump exhausted much of the country, while exhilarating some of it, with his constant brawls, invented realities, outlier ways and pop-up dramas of his own making. Into summer, one could wonder whether Trump had finally exhausted even himself.

Vainglorious always, Trump recently let down that front long enough to ponder the possibility that he could lose in November, not from the fabricated voting shenanigans he likes to warn about but simply because the country may not want him after all of this.

“Some people don’t love me,” he allowed.

“Maybe.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b612083c5f2936

[Grokmaster]

ISN' T TRUMP PRESIDING OVER THE ONGOING BLOODBTH IN OUR CITIES....IS IT?


SUPPORT VIOLENT CRIME...VOTE BIDEN/DEMOCRATS.

[Grokmaster]

COVID DEATHS WAY DOWN = WHAT MATTERS.

[ThatOwlWoman]

[Bourbon]

Trump is Temporary... we’ll have a HUGE Party next January 20th

[BartenderElite]

His whole "we wouldn't have as many cases if we didn't test so much" might actually be certifiably insane.

The worst leader for the worst time.

Voters were so careless by putting a fool like this in charge of a country as great as America. I mean, talk about disrespecting the flag.

[Sailor]

His whole "we wouldn't have as many cases if we didn't test so much" might actually be certifiably insane.

The worst leader for the worst time.

Voters were so careless by putting a fool like this in charge of a country as great as America. I mean, talk about disrespecting the flag.

Since when does a leftwinger in this country care about the flag?

[Cancel 2020.2]

What leadership?

The Trump show may be losing its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness of presidents leading in a crisis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate. It was time to gloat and settle scores.

“It was evil,” Trump said of the attempt to end his presidency. “It was corrupt. It was dirty cops. It was leakers and liars.”

It was also soon forgotten. On Feb. 6, in California, a 57-year-old woman was found dead in her home of natural causes then unknown. When her autopsy report came out, officials said her death had been the first from COVID-19 in the U.S.

The “invisible enemy” was on the move. And civil unrest over racial injustice would soon claw at the country. If that were not enough, there came a fresh round of angst over Russia, and America would ask whether Trump had the backs of troops targeted by bounty hunters in Afghanistan.

For Trump, the virus has been the most persistent of those problems. But he has not even tried to make a common health crisis the subject of national common ground and serious purpose. He has refused to wear a mask, setting off a culture war in the process as his followers took their cues from him.

Instead he spoke about preening with a mask when the cameras were off: “I had a mask on,” he said this past week. “I sort of liked the way I looked ... like the Lone Ranger.”

These are times of pain, mass death, fear and deprivation and the Trump show may be losing its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness of presidents leading in a crisis.

Bluster isn’t beating the virus; belligerence isn’t calming a restive nation.

Angry and scornful at every turn, Trump used the totems of Mount Rushmore as his backdrop to play on the country’s racial divisions, denouncing the “bad, evil people” behind protests for racial justice. He then made a steamy Fourth of July salute to America on the White House South Lawn his platform to assail “the radical left, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters,” and, for good measure, people with “absolutely no clue.”

“If he could change, he would,” said Cal Jillson, a presidential scholar at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “It’s not helping him now. It’s just nonstop. It is habitual and incurable. He is who he is.”

Over three and a half years Trump exhausted much of the country, while exhilarating some of it, with his constant brawls, invented realities, outlier ways and pop-up dramas of his own making. Into summer, one could wonder whether Trump had finally exhausted even himself.

Vainglorious always, Trump recently let down that front long enough to ponder the possibility that he could lose in November, not from the fabricated voting shenanigans he likes to warn about but simply because the country may not want him after all of this.

“Some people don’t love me,” he allowed.

“Maybe.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b612083c5f2936

It's tested EVERY day, and he passes with flying colors, EVERY day. It's SO nice to see we have an actual leader as president after the 8 LONG years wasted with absolutely NO leadership from Barry The Fairy AND Traitor Obama.

[Cancel 2020.2]

Since when does a leftwinger in this country care about the flag?

EXACTLY.

[Cancel 2020.2]

COVID DEATHS WAY DOWN = WHAT MATTERS.

Yep.

[Cancel 2020.2]

Trump is Temporary... we’ll have a HUGE Party next January 20th

HUGE post FAIL, dummy, HUGE post FAIL.

[BartenderElite]

Since when does a leftwinger in this country care about the flag?

And I'm supposed to believe that people who voted for Trump care about the military? Or at least the ones who were captured?

[Phantasmal]

And I'm supposed to believe that people who voted for Trump care about the military? Or at least the ones who were captured?

Or have a bounty on their heads.

[Sailor]

And I'm supposed to believe that people who voted for Trump care about the military? Or at least the ones who were captured?

I have no idea. After having spent a good portion of my life serving in the military, politics are really not high on the list of things they care about. More about the mission. Only civilians like to drag the military into political discussions.

[BartenderElite]

I have no idea. After having spent a good portion of my life serving in the military, politics are really not high on the list of things they care about. More about the mission. Only civilians like to drag the military into political discussions.

I have insane respect for the military & salute your service.

But don't talk to me about lefties & the flag when millions of conservatives instantly ignored Trump's indefensible remark about liking the guys who weren't captured.