RNC Night #1: Trump Portrayed as COVID Hero While Biden Called The Loch Ness Monster

On Friday, I pondered how the RNC would spin 176,000 plus COVID-19 deaths in the United States:

How are they going to spin the deaths of more than 175,000 Americans in six months under President Trump's watch?

Will Republicans take a page from World Wrestling Entertainment and not acknowledge its existence?

If Republicans do acknowledge COVID-19 will they refer to it as the "China virus" as Trump frequently does?

Will the RNC claim President Trump has saved millions of lives? Or will the RNC become an infomercial for hydroxycholoroquine, oleandrin or other snake oil concoction? Will masks and social distancing not only be disregarded but disparaged? What other conspiracy theories, QAnon and otherwise, will be peddled?

Well, Republicans did acknowledge the pandemic they did not lament the loss of nearly 180,000 Americans to it. To the extent it was mentioned, the GOP would have you believe that President Trump was ahead of the curve on testing, ventilators and PPE while state Governors, the media and the medical establishment had their heads in the sand. For his part, President Trump referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus" and touted the use of hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax in the White House in front of a group of handpicked front line workers (a couple of whom had COVID) not wearing masks.

While more than 5.7 million plus Americans have been afflicted with COVID-19, Republicans spent the evening trying to convince the country that Joe Biden wants MS-13 to live next door to you (Matt Gaetz), that he would eliminate the suburbs (the gun toting McCloskeys), that he would be good for Iran, ISIS and China (Nikki Haley) and that he and Kamala Harris would bring about misery with a socialist utopia (Tim Scott). If nearly 180,000 deaths and more than 40 million unemployed isn't misery then what is?

Not to be outdone, Donald Trump, Jr. saw fit to call his father's opponent "Beijing Biden" before referring to him as "The Loch Ness Monster of the swamp."

In a way, it is a fitting label because the Loch Ness Monster does not exist. It is a myth. It is fake news. Indeed, Joe Biden is no more the Loch Ness Monster than he is a socialist much less have any intention to bring in MS-13, eliminate suburbs or defund the police. 

The Loch Ness Monster might not exist, but that won't stop Trump from trying to convince voters that it swims in a basement in Delaware.