“ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?” Trump’s Truth Social account shouted on Monday.
Let’s go for a spin, shall we?
Four years ago this week, Trump was caught up in damaging denial as his outlandish mishandling of the COVID crisis plunged the country into near-hourly panic attacks. In the United States, about 18,000 cases and more than 260 deaths have already been reported.
Trigger a warning about this: On March 21, 2020, Trump tweeted, “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE and AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a genuine chance of being one of the biggest changes in the history of medicine,” which was false at the time. just the way it is. Right now. Two days later, 4 years ago today, on the 63rd day of the crisis, it was reported that an Arizona man had died after deliberately drinking chloroquine phosphate, an aquarium cleaner. Trump said at a news conference: “Parts of our country are being affected very slightly. “A few days later, the country he led and needs to lead reported more coronavirus cases than any other country.
These are just a few of the main nightmarish points from March 2020, 4 years ago. The president’s vanity and lack of preparedness during the first hundred days of the pandemic allowed the virus to metastasize into a full-scale public health crisis that he is now asking the electorate to forget. This era was also a display of his worst character traits in power: his use of manipulation and braggadocio, his aversion to taking on duties (“No, I don’t take on any duties,” he said in March). 13, 2020) and his magical thinking. He indulged in desperate accusations, fake science, and mixed messaging: the antithesis of smart public leadership.
By that time, Mother Jones had taken on the enormous journalistic task of meticulously cataloging, hour after hour, the missteps, miscalculations, and cruelty of Trump’s reaction to the crisis unfolding under his leadership. The resulting chronology is infuriating reading, to say the least. The least.
I also began to collect video clips of the nonsense and outrages. And the resulting video is either a time capsule of horrors or a teleporter for any voter who might wonder if they’re in a better position than they were four years ago this month.
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