Hey RANDY RAINBOW: Donald Jessica Trump Finally COVERED HIS 'FREAKIN' FACE'... Briefly (sigh)

(photo credit: the hill.com)

"President Trump wore a face mask during his visit to (a COVID-19 treatment ward in) Walter Reed hospital on Saturday, marking the first time he has done so in front of cameras." (from: thehill.com)

IF he stops*: We know two things:

1.) We #WearAMask To Protect Others and

2.) Trump Wears A Mask To Protect Himself From Others.

(*He's already stopped)

Please Enjoy: COVER YOUR FREAKIN' FACE! - Another Brilliant #RandyRainbow Song Parody https://youtu.be/6kOesPt7iBY via @YouTube

Donald J. Trump Has Been Tested And Found Wanting

Yesterday, at his disappointingly-attended inaugural campaign rally in Tulsa, OK, Trump promoted his (it-would-be-funny-in-a-Saturday-Night-Live-skit-but-it's-deadly-in-a-President) common-senseless plan to "slow the testing down" (national COVID-19 testing), because, apparently, in his Adderall-addled mind, doing so would reduce the number of COVID-19 cases.* 

(*This is the same person who, initially, refused to let a cruise ship dock in Oakland, CA, and let passengers disembark because it had been reported that some of them had COVID-19. And, Trump objected to letting those American citizens set foot on American soil and, thereby, raise the number of American COVID-19 cases. Cases which Trump has viewed and continues to view through his malignantly-narcissistic lens as "his" cases - not America's or Americans' - and, therefore, he considers them to be demerits against him).

Almost immediately afterward, Trump campaign spokespeople, his administration, Congressional Republicans and other Trump loyalists were all hurriedly backpedaling and downplaying Trump's ignorant statements. They all repeated their worn-out and broken-record explanation that: "He was just being 'tongue-in-cheek'". Those Trump-apologists are shameless and dishonest.

To date, at least 120,000 Americans (and counting) have died from COVID-19. If we continue on our current path of viral-denial, then, the number of Americans killed by COVID-19 is expected to reach 200,000 by September. So, making such remarks - even if intended to be "tongue-in-cheek" -   isn't even the slightest bit funny. It's callous, insensitive and utterly out-of-touch with the clear, present, highly-contagious and very deadly threat that the Trump administration - through their slow response, inadequate actions, and continuing inaction (not empowering the Defense Production Act to force U.S. companies to manufacture still scarce and desperately-needed PPE for front-line workers. He did it for meat-production, but refuses to do it for Personal Protective Equipment production) allowed to infiltrate and decimate so many of our fellow Americans (particularly in under-served communities of color).

In our current, collective, connected reality, the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise in many U,S. states. Despite this worrisome fact, VP Mike Pence just penned an op-ed in which he declared that there's "no second wave" of COVID-19 in America.

Well, he's absolutely right (I know. I can't believe I'm saying that, either). But, it's true. There is no second wave in America, at present. But, the reason for that is because America hasn't made it through the first wave... not yet.

And, as this May 15, 2020 article (below) proves, Trump's rally, yesterday, wasn't the first time that Trump has put his science-challenged thought processes on display and declared that, "if there was no testing, there would be no cases".

Hospitals, ICUs, and funeral-homes across the country would collectively and vociferously-refute such demonstrably-false claims.

Trump Seems To Think There’d Be No Coronavirus If There Was No Testing...

The Donald J. Trump Death Cult And It's Aftermath...

(I wrote the following blog entry exactly one week ago, as I walked my dog along empty streets framed with boarded up storefronts, the rare passerby (most wearing a mask and social-distancing, nervously). I had finished it before I'd made it back home...

Every single person/entity that voted for the utterly incompetent and unqualified Donald Trump for President in 2016...

Every single person/entity who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign...

Every single person/entity who supported Trump in any way/shape/form...

Every single member of the U.S. Representatives and every single U.S. Senator who ever turned a blind eye/acted as if they possessed deaf ears/refused to fulfill their Oath of Office ("Protect and Defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies - foreign and domestic") and/or voted to install incompetent and/or unqualified people as agency heads or as federal judges and/or voted for that $2 trillion tax break for millionaires, billionaires, and big corporations and/or voted to give away billions of dollars in "small business loans" to wealthy corporations and/or refused to vote to impeach Trump and/or refused to remove the justifiably impeached Trump from office...

Each and every single one of YOU has contributed to and/or played a part in making this ongoing, completely-avoidable, national public health and economic disaster possible.

Each and every single one of YOU has enabled and encouraged the malignantly-narcissistic, sociopathic, fantasist that is Donald J. Trump to continue to occupy the most powerful position in the country and in the entire world... even though this full-grown man continues to whine and complain about and attack those who criticize his unconscionable inaction/callous indifference/endless self-praising... as he continues take actions that only benefit his wealthy donors, big corporations, himself and his family... as he plays golf and holds campaign rallies while this far-from-"invisible" enemy continues to spread out - unabated and unmitigated - across the United States... despite the fact that Donald Trump empowered the Defense Production Act to force COVID-19-riddled meat-packing facilities to keep producing meat products... while our heroic, and  essential front-line medical and other workers continue to fulfill their job duties despite experiencing a continuing lack of desperately needed and, yet, inexcusably rare PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), which Donald J. Trump could empower the DPA to manufacture in the U.S. - right now ... YOU have all had a hand in creating the circumstances that allowed these once-avoidable and, now, excruciatingly painful (in loss of human lives) and massively damaging (economically) events to take their shocking toll on all of US.

There are, now, well over 1.5 million cases of COVID-19 and counting in the United States of America.  There are, now, at least 98,000+ and counting COVID-19-related dead Americans in the United States of America.

A mourner at a funeral home in NY took this photo of room overflowing w/ bodies.

And, ICYMI ~ ALL of this very real, human loss and pain and all of the long-term economic suffering that has/is resulted/resulting because YOU have allowed Donald Trump to continue to corruptly-occupy the Office of the President of these United States of America... ALL of the unnecessary and utterly avoidable death and destruction wrought by Donald J. Trump's abysmal response to a viral threat that the entire world saw coming in January and February... the responsiblity for all of it falls on - not only him, but - ALL of YOU, too (regardless of whether or not you accept that responsibility - it's still YOURS).

Jared Kushner By GASLIGHT: If You Smell Gas... Don't Light A Match!

President Obama at the Vietnam War. Memorial (58,000+ American casulaties)

Around April 29, 2029..."a devastating statistic emerged from the coronavirus crisis: in a matter of months, more Americans have died from the virus than in the Vietnam War." (a death toll which culminated over 20 (twenty!) years across a theatre of battle and which also resulted in anti-war protests and murdered anti-war protesters back home).

One of four unarmed Kent University student shot to death by Ohio National Guard at a Peace Rally on campus.

And, yes, we know that Trump & his administration didn't cause the pandemic...

Still, it's still common knowledge that Trump's "shambolic response to COVID-19—from ignoring the early, dire warnings, to declaring them fake news, to putting a dog-breeder (Alex Azar) in charge of the Health and Human Services task force, to listening to literally anything the first son-in-law (Jared Kushner) had to say on the matter— allowed the deadly disease to gain a foothold in the United States, where, to date, more than one million people have tested positive and more than 58,000 have died."

That was just a month ago.

May 29, 2020 Update: 

Since this article was published in Vanity Fair, an additional 40,000 Americans have been killed by this highly-contagious, still-out-of-control, and deadly virus...

 40,000+ dead more Americans (and counting) ago...

And, Donald J. Trump's most-trusted advisor, Jared Kushner (who is not an epidemiologist), called Trump's COVID-19 response 'a great success story'...

"Gaslighting": A tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a person(s) question their reality.

Gaslight, much?

Jared Kushner Declares 58,000 Dead Americans “A Great Success Story”

Absolute Unconscionable Presidential Irresponsibility

   
President Harry S. Truman: "The Buck Stops Here."

"President" Donald J. Trump: "I Don't Take Responsibility At All"... for the criminally-negligent federal response to the global COVID-19 pandemic that continues to savage America and which has already killed over 73,000 (and counting) of our fellow Americans.

Wait a minute (Cue record back-scratch)!

Is he not "The President"?  Is he not the President who wields - according to him - Absolute Power?

Wait!  "If he’s not ultimately responsible, who is?"

"Who runs the country?"*

*Answer:  Donald J. Trump is ultimately responsible.  Regardless of his cherry-picked denials.  He's the "Chief Executive" of these United States.  He's running the country.  

And, the terrifying thing is:  He's running our country just like one of his businesses.  Exactly like one of the various businesses he destroyed / ran right into the ground / ran into bankruptcy... and then, he just walked away.

Danger!  Danger Will Robinson!

This is an Emergency!

The Big Bad Wolf is in the Hen House and He's Slaughtering all of the Hens!

     
Please check out this article:

Presidential Irresponsibility In Spades

Thank You!

Photo credit: Ars Technika

"The Trump administration came into office pledging to “deconstruct the administrative state.” This manifested itself in attempting to hollow out the capacity of government. It is this mentality that led to the dismissal of a pandemic response team. It is this mentality that leads to a reliance on people such as the president’s son-in-law with no government experience to manage government response during a crisis (think back to “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job”). It is this mentality that makes responding to a crisis so much harder."

COVID-19 testing failure falls primarily on Trump administration

Remember when - a few days before the the expected peak of the COVID-19 crisis - the Trump administration was going full-steam ahead with their plans to end federal support for COVID-19 testing, and transferring the responsibility for managing and funding the sites to states?  Thankfully, the backlash was strong enough to force them to reconsider their plans.

What Is The Trump Dumpster Fire?...

What is the "Trump Dumpster Fire"?:

"The Trump administration badly undermined the effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak by getting rid of most staff tasked with identifying global health problems in China while repeatedly attempting to slash funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a new report by an environmental watchdog.

Over the past three years, the Trump administration has drastically reduced a team working in China to identify global health threats like Covid-19, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. The initiative’s 11 CDC staffers have been cut to three people, while 39 workers classed as “local employees” have been reduced to 11 people."

Trump's staff cuts have undermined Covid-19 containment efforts, watchdog finds

In 2018, Trump Disbanded the NSC Team Focused Solely on Global Health Security...

Back in May of 2018, the Trump Administration pushed out the White House official "responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic...", Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council.  Ziemer was not alone.  The global health security team overseen by him was also disbanded.

The Trump Administration called it a "reorganization".  But, none of these extremely important positions were ever re-staffed.

Around that time, "... Luciana Borio, director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the NSC (National Security Council), spoke at a symposium at Emory University to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic. That event killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people worldwide:

“The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern,” she told the audience.  “Are we ready to respond?  I fear the answer is no.”"

Not surprisingly, Director Borio was correct.

Think of the federal government as an octopus.  It has numerous tentacles (agencies/departments).  Each tentacle functions independently of the others, but all of them are working for the common good.

By removing Adm. Ziemer and disbanding his team, the Trump administration completely and abruptly amputated the tentacle that that was in charge of monitoring, identifying, responding to, and preventing the outbreak of global pandemics.

This was a National Security level team.

Disbanding it was myopic, irresponsible, and put national security and public health under immediate threat.

The global COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world, spreading across the USA, and touching virtually every American's life are the fatal fruits of the Trump Administration's labors.

Epidemiologists and other medical experts saw this situation coming.  They warned the Trump administration, repeatedly.  Their words fell on deaf ears, repeatedly.

And, just like Nero in Rome, Trump fiddled while America burned.

Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly