Well he tried to get places to open up before Easter and got all kinds of grief. I just don’t think he really had the power to do much. And whatever he was for, the blue states would be against. Remember when he said he thought states should lock down, the governors said he couldn’t make them. Then when he wanted to ease up and start reopening, they said they weren’t going to because it wasn’t safe. He had no real enforcement power for whatever he thought should be done on the state level. At least not any he was willing to use, like Biden with Medicare and HHS and federal contractors for the vax mandates.
I share your frustration. Not that he’s blameless but I feel like it was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of scenario 😕 At the time he got so much pushback for wanting to reopen. Maybe he should’ve just plowed ahead and done what he could to force reopening (not sure that would have worked anyway, if the governors simply refused to reopen), but I am not sure that that wouldn’t have backfired either 😕 But the should’ve would’ves don’t really help us now, do they 😕 What’s done is done, unfortunately.
Trump’s a businessman. In business, when you’re confronted by a problem outside your experience, you consult/hire people who are proven/widely considered to be experts. You don’t build your own IT or security systems - you get experts in. Trump was well aware that virology & epidemiology were way outside his experience. Unfortunately, the obvious “expert” to consult was the (filthy) individual who’d been “managing” public health forever. Yes can imagine Fauci telling him “Mr President, follow my expert advice or millions of Americans will DIE”.
Trump’s instincts were right: there must be treatments (there were); the ‘cure’ (lockdown) can’t be worse than the illness. But again, he had “experts” warning darkly of mass fatalities.
He has opposed injection mandates, which is good. He should - of course - admit he was manipulated to get the mRNA to market. And he should admit their toxicity. Given his personality, he probably won’t. That’s clearly a FLAW - but as long as he continues to support bodily autonomy & certainly if he exits the WHO, he deserves support!
I blame the governors for that. They had the power to decide and mostly decided to harm small businesses and freedom.
Yeah but Trump gave them cover.
But don't get me wrong I'm all in on Trump
Well he tried to get places to open up before Easter and got all kinds of grief. I just don’t think he really had the power to do much. And whatever he was for, the blue states would be against. Remember when he said he thought states should lock down, the governors said he couldn’t make them. Then when he wanted to ease up and start reopening, they said they weren’t going to because it wasn’t safe. He had no real enforcement power for whatever he thought should be done on the state level. At least not any he was willing to use, like Biden with Medicare and HHS and federal contractors for the vax mandates.
We're 94% on the same page. good enough for me...:)
no seriously, the inflection point (and what i'm blaming him for) was the day the 15 days was extended for another 30.
arrgh...thar sheeee blows!
I share your frustration. Not that he’s blameless but I feel like it was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of scenario 😕 At the time he got so much pushback for wanting to reopen. Maybe he should’ve just plowed ahead and done what he could to force reopening (not sure that would have worked anyway, if the governors simply refused to reopen), but I am not sure that that wouldn’t have backfired either 😕 But the should’ve would’ves don’t really help us now, do they 😕 What’s done is done, unfortunately.
Trump’s a businessman. In business, when you’re confronted by a problem outside your experience, you consult/hire people who are proven/widely considered to be experts. You don’t build your own IT or security systems - you get experts in. Trump was well aware that virology & epidemiology were way outside his experience. Unfortunately, the obvious “expert” to consult was the (filthy) individual who’d been “managing” public health forever. Yes can imagine Fauci telling him “Mr President, follow my expert advice or millions of Americans will DIE”.
Trump’s instincts were right: there must be treatments (there were); the ‘cure’ (lockdown) can’t be worse than the illness. But again, he had “experts” warning darkly of mass fatalities.
He has opposed injection mandates, which is good. He should - of course - admit he was manipulated to get the mRNA to market. And he should admit their toxicity. Given his personality, he probably won’t. That’s clearly a FLAW - but as long as he continues to support bodily autonomy & certainly if he exits the WHO, he deserves support!