Memo to Eric Trump: 90,000 Americans Didn't Die to Stop Your Dad From Holding Rallies

As of now COVID-19 has afflicted 1.5 million Americans. The death toll from this infectious disease in this country has now topped 90,000 in the space of 100 days.

But President Trump's younger son Eric would have us believe that stay at home mandate (to which his father agreed) is nothing more than a conspiracy to prevent tens of thousands of people from gathering to hear his Dad talk out of his ass for three hours. During an appearance on Saturday night with Jeannine Pirro on Fox News, he made the claim that once the election is over that COVID-19 will "magically disappear" and Democrats will call for a re-opening of the country.

First and foremost, COVID-19 isn't going to disappear - magically or otherwise - until there is either a vaccine or an effective therapeutic. Between now and November a lot more Americans are going to die of COVID-19. The 90,000 Americans who have died over the past 100 days and those who will die over the next 170 days didn't lose their lives because they are trying to stop President Trump from holding political rallies. It's much more serious than that.

Now I honestly don't think Eric Trump actually believes this shit. But a significant segment of Trump supporters certainly do. Eric Trump knows it and has no reservations in peddling such garbage if he thinks it will get his father re-elected. Whether he actually believes it matters far less than the fact that he said it.

His intervention reinforces the fact that his father bungled the COVID-19 response from the get go and he continues to make things worse. All Trump and his cronies (including his children) can do is pass the buck and blame either China or Barack Obama.

The Chinese government is worth of its share of criticism and have much to answer for where it concerns COVID-19, but it wasn't Beijing who suggested people self-medicate with hydroxychloroquine or inject themselves with disinfectant or claim anyone who wanted a test for COVID-19 could get one.

President Obama is also worthy of his share of criticism during his two terms in office. But Obama hasn't been in the White House for three years and four months. So at what point does Trump take responsibility for what has happened under his watch? Obama richly deserves to be criticized for the implementation of Obamacare, but his administration was far more effective where it concerned its response to both the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010 and the Ebola Crisis of 2014. As I have argued previously, when it comes to comparing the 90,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19 to the Obama Administration's response to swine flu and Ebola, Trump is playing a very weak hand. Mind you, I made this point a week ago. A week later another 10,000 people have died. Chances are we will reach 100,000 COVID-19 deaths by Memorial Day. I shudder to think what those numbers will be on election day in November.

But by all means keep talking Eric Trump. You have clearly inherited your father's cruelty and selfishness. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 90,000 Americans and counting. Yet to hear you talk you would think the only family to have suffered over the past three and a half months is your own.