President Trump spoke for 70 minutes on the final night of the Republican National Convention. It was the longest hour and change of our longest year.
I wonder how many of the estimated 1500 people who were crammed on the South Lawn of the White House for Trump's diatribe not wearing masks will test positive for COVID-19.
I also wonder who among them will become the next Herman Cain to die at the altar of Trump amid promises of a vaccine by the end of the year, the promotion of unproven treatments (re: convalescent plasma) and false claims about the dissemination of PPE for which there remains a chronic shortage.
President Trump can boast about COVID testing all he wants, but nearly half of all tests take more than four days to obtain results wasting precious time in attaining proper care and undermining contact tracing efforts.
President Trump can make claims about a lower fatality rate all he wants, but it doesn't change the fact that this country comprises more than a fifth of the world's COVID fatalities (180,824 deaths out of 831,586 globally as of this writing). The only thing he got right was when he inadvertently misread his teleprompter to proclaim we "pioneered the fatality rate".
President Trump can brag about banning travel from China, but this applied only to foreign nationals save for residents of Hong Kong and Macao.
But what we can expect of a President who relies on UFC President Dana White to dispense medical advice. Was the MyPillow guy unavailable?
If one had the stomach to listen to Trump's entire speech you would have thought Joe Biden had been living in the White House for the past four years instead of his so-called bunker for the past four months. Trump can we argue we won't be safe in Joe Biden's America from now until November when in point of fact we aren't safe in Donald Trump's America right now.
President Trump cannot crush the virus if he is not prepared to stop its spread at his current address.
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