President Trump stumbled through reading a Coronavirus speech on live TV sounding like a nervous third grader doing a book review assignment in front of class. Unsteady and Unsure.
He managed to congratulate himself and scapegoat China and Europe.Called the virus “foreign.”
There were numerous errors of fact that had to be fixed by the White House in the following hours as market futures tumbled and people questioned the logic on one hand and lack of substance on the other: An illogical travel ban (one that Europe was not told was coming) that excludes the UK which has its own virus problem, for instance. Imagine watching that while waiting to board a plane to Europe.
How do you get so much wrong about your policy in a pre-written and edited speech?
No word of stepped-up testing or intelligent moves, either.
That can’t be explained except the speech was written by two inexperienced 30-somethings, son-in-law Jared Kushner (also guiding Trump’s re-election efforts) and anti-immigrant Stephen Miller. That’s the best Trump has to work with, both in way over their heads.
Question: Why didn’t they tape it, review it snd edit it to make Trump look less stupid instead of a series of “What he really meant” statements into the night?
For Trump who was calling the pandemic a hoax days earlier, it might have been a wake-up call from reality. Or maybe just another episode in the continuing side show that is his presidency.
The markets — down 20 percent from February highs — aren’t asking for stimulation Trump keeps trying to dredge up with his one trick pony solution for everything — tax cuts.
Unlike Trump, Markets understand this is a health crisis. Supply chains and workers and customers — from tourists to restaurant patrons — will be effected because of the Health Crisis. That’s what has to be met and dealt with.
The health crisis was not directly or intelligently discussed in Trump’s disaster of a speech.
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