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$\"\"$ <\/a>Today, President Donald Trump finally admitted that the U.S. likely will suffer 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from this coronavirus pandemic that the whole world is undergoing. He said if we have only 100,000 deaths from it, his administration will have done \u201ca very good job.\u201d And he extended the federal guideline of people practicing social distancing to April 30. Thus, he also abandoned his desire of seeing churches packed out on Easter Sunday, April 12, as if he was trying to give Christians the coronavirus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Now he calls that \u201caspirational,\u201d but it was Dr. Anthony Fauci who said that in an effort to cover for Trump.<\/p>\n

So, at least President Trump did the right thing, today, about the virus. Nevertheless, his press conference about it was another disaster as he ripped journalists who calmly asked him legitimate questions about his change of mind on these things. After all, only weeks ago he had dismissed the virus as nothing and that it would soon be gone, \u201clike a miracle.\u201d As I recently posted, the FAKE PRESIDENT<\/a> wrongly bashes the media as FAKE NEWS.<\/p>\n

And then there are the governors. Trump has been feuding with some of them\u2013Democrats Cuomo of New York, Inslee of Washinton State, and Whitmer of Michigan. They were only asking the federal government for help, supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) for their doctors and nurses, such as face masks, and ventilators for the hospitals to keep critically-ill people alive who have the virus.<\/p>\n

On top of that, Trump regularly brags about what a good job he is doing when he fact he has been doing a pretty sorry job. And this week, he told Vice President Mike Pence, who Trump made head of a coronavirus task force, if it was him he would avoid phoning and therefore talking to at least two state governors\u2013Washington State\u2019s Governor Inslee and Michigan\u2019s Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Trump revealed that he specifically told Pence, \u201cDon\u2019t call the woman in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Trump tweeted against Whitmer, with his usual teenage bully persona, putting the word \u201cHalf\u201d between her first name and last name. That suggests he was calling her a \u201chalfwit.\u201d The halfwit is Donald Trump, not Gretchen Whitmer. He said she was \u201cway in over her head\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t have a clue.\u201d On the contrary, she\u2019s a cool lady. As for Trump, he\u2019s dumber than a stick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whitmer then tweeted to Trump in response with humor, \u201cHi, my name is Gretchen Whitmer, and that governor is me. I\u2019ve asked repeatedly and respectfully for help. We need it. No more political attacks, just PPEs, ventilators, N95 masks, test kits. You said you stand with Michigan \u2014 prove it.\u201d Trump has for weeks dropped the ball about both masks and ventilators, saying Cuomo didn\u2019t need the 30,000 ventilators he was asking for.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, eventually there is going to be a day of reckoning for Trump dropping the ball about this virus. Read this brief, yet informative, article about this in the Guardian today entitled, \u201c The missing six weeks: How Trump failed the biggest test of his life<\/a>.\u201d Trump\u2019s reluctance to act quickly in response to this hideous coronavirus, as South Korea did, will sadly result in many Americans losing their lives. It is Donald Trump who is way over his head about this virus, and I believe history will document it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"