King Donald of USA is calling himself "a wartime president”

[bodysong]

King Donald the Goon, who dodged the Vietnam draft, now pretentiously
calls himself a “wartime president”.

March 21, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/donald-trump-boris-johnson-coronavirus

 

[KeithD]

Seems natural. Various Democrats begged him to put the nation on wartime footing.

What he doesn't seem to get is that he's the enemy of the nation in this war.

 

[bodysong]

What is the Defense Production Act, and why isn’t President Trump invoking it?

March 19, 2020

Saturday, when asked why his administration hadn’t spent weeks
or months trying to build up a supply of medical equipment despite
knowing ahead of time coronavirus posed a serious threat, Trump
blamed past presidents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/19/defense-production-act-trump-coronavirus/

Trump Invokes Defense Production Act to Get Medical Supplies to Hospitals!

Did Donald the Goon invoke the Defense Production Act ?

Trump Resists Pressure to Use Wartime Law to Mobilize Industry
in Virus Response

March 20, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-supplies.html

Yesterday, President Trump said he was invoking the Defense Production Act,
then turned around and said he wasn't planning to use it.

The President should exercise these powers now. We need more ventilators,
protective equipment, and critical supplies. We need action, not words.

— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 19, 2020

 

[bodysong]

Trump failed to wage a war on coronavirus in January
Our chance to prepare was wasted

Trump- "Promise the losers something. It does not have to be real."

Trump dodged another responsibility and passed the buck to FEMA
(FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor sent out to face the wolves, with no prep.)

March 19, 2020

"FEMA now leads federal coordination on behalf of the Department
of Health and Human Services," a spokesperson said, "and the White House
Task Force who are leading the whole-of-government response to the
coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/8179...us-needs?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=politics

Did Trump send Peter Gaynor out to the press and media, to dodge
questions, and lie ?

The White House held a coronavirus updates briefing on Saturday
The "Great Entertainer" caused the Press and Media to laugh
(laughing past the graveyard)

The question being asked was when doctors and nurses
“can expect to actually receive” the N95 masks that the
task force has reported are now available by the millions
thanks to regulatory changes.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch...ill-get-to-hospitals-at-coronavirus-briefing/

Real People on the Front Lines against coronavirus VS Trump's loyalists and cronies

Trump and Mike Pence lie to the nation, again

"...the wealthiest nation in the world is leaving its caregivers unprotected
in this crisis because it did not plan for it and wasted precious weeks
before responding"

March 21, 2020

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is now leading the response effort,
with one group specifically dedicated to supplies

"...even under prodding from Trump, other officials could not say when
the masks will reach hospitals."

What is real ?
A mirror operation of Trump's war against immigrants seeking asylum-
The situation is used to distribute money to supporters that reciprocate
with sizable campaign donations, and volunteers that support the campaign.
A show piece, for the one example to be pointed at, otherwise, no monet spent,
no help sent, no energy expended.

Reality- Sources needed in dire circumstances are getting raided-
Ordinary people attempt to supply what is needed. It is not sufficient.

Pence Saturday called on businesses with masks and N95 respirators
in their storage rooms to “load ‘em up and drive them to your local hospital.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...c36702-6b88-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

Where are the FEMA supplies ?

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Asked for an updated number of ventilators, Trump says a ventilator is
a "very complex machine," marvels at how many are needed, says
"so many companies" are making them "right now," and defers to Pence.

6 hours ago

King Donald the Goon, has a reputation for not paying for anything.
The Orange Goon stiffs his suppliers, and tells them their materials
are not good enough. He gets sued, and walks away, because lawyers.

Are manufacturing companies reluctant to get in bed with Trump the liar ?

 

[bodysong]

Trump administration scrambles to offer guidance on what to do
if hospitals run out of basic supplies for coronavirus

March 21, 2020 at 6:28 PM EDT

The behind-the-scenes scramble over supplies is at odds with the increasingly
reassuring posture the coronavirus task force has adopted when it briefs the
media and public each day. On Friday, Vice President Pence, the task force’s
leader, emphasized efforts to find supplies for hospitals and their workers.

"...ventilators are crucial because hospitals need specially trained workers
to operate them. “Not any nurse can do it or any respiratory therapist.
You need critical-care nurses with vent management experience.”
- Lauren Sauer, director of operations for the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response

(seeking to poach medical students that have not graduated, yet.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...c36702-6b88-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

 

[cheesehead2]

Trump administration scrambles to offer guidance on what to do
if hospitals run out of basic supplies for coronavirus

March 21, 2020 at 6:28 PM EDT

The behind-the-scenes scramble over supplies is at odds with the increasingly
reassuring posture the coronavirus task force has adopted when it briefs the
media and public each day. On Friday, Vice President Pence, the task force’s
leader, emphasized efforts to find supplies for hospitals and their workers.

"...ventilators are crucial because hospitals need specially trained workers
to operate them. “Not any nurse can do it or any respiratory therapist.
You need critical-care nurses with vent management experience.”
- Lauren Sauer, director of operations for the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response

(seeking to poach medical students that have not graduated, yet.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...c36702-6b88-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

Girls she lost

 

[Crownvic]

King Donald the Goon, who dodged the Vietnam draft, now pretentiously
calls himself a “wartime president”.

March 21, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/donald-trump-boris-johnson-coronavirus

President “fire starter”....

 

[phrodeau]

Trump administration scrambles to offer guidance on what to do
if hospitals run out of basic supplies for coronavirus

March 21, 2020 at 6:28 PM EDT

The behind-the-scenes scramble over supplies is at odds with the increasingly
reassuring posture the coronavirus task force has adopted when it briefs the
media and public each day. On Friday, Vice President Pence, the task force’s
leader, emphasized efforts to find supplies for hospitals and their workers.

"...ventilators are crucial because hospitals need specially trained workers
to operate them. “Not any nurse can do it or any respiratory therapist.
You need critical-care nurses with vent management experience.”
- Lauren Sauer, director of operations for the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response

(seeking to poach medical students that have not graduated, yet.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...c36702-6b88-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

Uncle Sam needs Rosie the Respirator.

 

[bodysong]

Potemkin Pandemic President 2020 and His Vultures will be fine.

They have money, power, position, connections, property, protection,
and America's Potemkin President will do everything in his power to
keep it that way. After all, what will benefit them, will eventually find
its way to him and his.

In the meantime, there are scapegoats to attack-
The people that Potemkin President shrugged off his responsibilities
and duties onto, now find themselves faulted and blamed by him.

Potemkin President's favourite state, the official home state

March 22, 2020

On March 11, Florida requested a cache of emergency supplies
from the federal government to protect its medical workers
against the novel coronavirus.

Three days later, the state got everything it wanted.

Florida, a state of 21 million, got all 180,000 N95 masks it wanted.

Florida, which has regular experience with hurricanes, isn’t waiting
on the sidelines, despite having received its entire wishlist.

On Monday, the state’s Division of Emergency Management made
a second request, saying that it was still not sufficiently prepared
to handle the looming pandemic; it asked for 2 million N95 masks,
500,000 gloves, 500,000 gowns and 250,000 coveralls. The division
also asked for thousands of ventilators and hospital beds, as well
five mobile intensive care units.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/fl...quested-while-other-states-did-not-heres-why/

The Washington Post ✓
Twitter › washingtonpost

Treasury’s power over $500 billion loan program becomes key
sticking point in coronavirus aid bill

43 minutes ago

March 22, 2020

As the crisis spreads, the Senate was moving forward with a rare
Sunday procedural vote despite a breakdown in negotiations between
Democrats and Republicans on a third coronavirus aid package.
Among the points of contention: funding for hospitals and conditions
on the billions of dollars that would flow to impacted corporations.
The Senate wants to pass the bill containing both broad economic
stimulus measures and direct help for American families as early
as Monday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/22/state-leaders-trump-administration-mask-shipments-141884

Pelosi’s outlook for a deal wasn’t any better as she left the hour-long
meeting, declaring plans for the House to introduce its own bill. Pelosi
said the two sides were “still talking” but made clear that the Monday
timeframe to pass something is McConnell’s self-imposed deadline,
not hers.

“It’s on the Senate side because that’s their deadline for a vote,”
Pelosi said about the Monday deadline. “We'll be introducing our
own bill and hopefully it will be compatible.”

Despite saying the House would move ahead on its own,
Pelosi also continued to engage in bipartisan negotiations
on the Senate bill Sunday afternoon, according to a source.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/22/pelosi-coronavirus-relief-package-142261

 

[bodysong]

Today, America was not spared another session of King Donald the Goon's
blather. He does not know anything essential about the coronavirus crisis -
and he does not care, unless it has a direct impact on him.

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Trump repeats his lie that the Republican Party is "fully backing pre-existing
conditions." The party has pushed bills to weaken the protections, is now
trying to eradicate the entire ACA without putting forward a replacement
plan.

3 hours ago

Noted that his administration supports a lawsuit to eradicate the Affordable
Care Act, and asked if he'd reconsider given that people are losing jobs/need
health care, Trump says what they're doing is working to "get rid of the bad
health care and put in a great health care."

3 hours ago

March 22, 2020

I thank journalists and reporters that cover these sessions-because a
gem of an evasion occured today.

A reporter asked Trump directly, if he had dumped stocks- Trump evaded.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/mar/22/us-coronavirus-latest-trump-cuomo-updates-live

 

[hogjack]

Various Democrats begged him to put the nation on wartime footing.

Though that didn't happen it would not be surprising to see Sen. Chuck Schumer going full rubber outfit to beg for another session of soul-freeing humiliation.

He's known to frequent certain "specialty" shops in the DC area.

 

[bodysong]

Malcolm Nance ✓
Twitter › MalcolmNance

#HolyFuck! WE ARE IN DANGER:

Trump press conference emphasizes that we are 8 days in a 15 day
isolation period where he is proposing to send the country back
to work. He has removed Dr Fauci from the briefing.
They think we are done with the crisis except in “hot spots”!

1 hour ago

 

[Ziggins]

Perpetual war is typical for empires in decline.

 

[bodysong]

Robert Maguire ✓
Twitter › RobertMaguire_

Trump takes up time at the coronavirus press briefing to
ask a breathtakingly stupid question of Dr Birx, solely
aimed at insulting the reporters who are there trying
to get information to the public

1 hour ago

Trump is currently putting Dr. Birx on the spot to talk about
about whether the media who hates him will ever be allowed
to sit next to one another in the briefing room again.

Before coronavirus, his White House had gone more than a year
without holding regular press briefings.

1 hour ago

Americans should never have to ask if the president's sudden interest
in re-opening the country, against the advice of his medical advisors,
is because six of his top seven revenue-producing clubs and hotels
are shut down

(link) washingtonpost

1 hour ago

Before, the briefing room had been full of lots of “angry people who don’t like me”, Trump said, referring to the White House press corps. And the room used to be “full to the brim”, people almost sitting on each other’s laps, Trump said. “Will we ever have that again, or ... it will look like this forever?”

He turned to attorney general Bill Barr, who was standing behind him, after he asked the question, and Barr chuckled, suggesting he thought this was a funny joke.

Birx dodged answering at first, but Trump asked it again: once the immediate crisis of coronavirus is over, will it be all right for the White House press room to be overflowing with journalists once again?

“I don’t know,” Birx said, saying that the briefing room at the moment looked like clinics around the world where people were taking preventive measures against the spread of tuberculosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ases?page=with:block-5e793d7f8f08cc9a81947100

Trump signals he won’t abide by doctors on coronavirus

March 23, 2020

“What the president has asked to do is to assemble all the data and give him our best medical recommendation based on all the data,” Birx said. “That’s what he’s asked us to do.”

Birx was asked about Trump’s claim that he thought the doctors “were okay with it.” Birx declined to directly respond.

When Birx was pressed on whether she’d be okay with reopening the economy after the current 15-day period ends a week from now, she said, “I don’t like to — I will never speculate on data. I will have to see the data to really understand.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...signals-he-wont-abide-by-doctors-coronavirus/

 

[bodysong]

Trump Won’t Order Vital Coronavirus Supplies Because Corporate CEOs Asked Him Not To

Vanity Fair · 8 hours ago

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/donald-trump-defense-production-act

Trump Refused to Order Coronavirus Supplies Because Big Business Complained

New York Magazine

11 hours ago

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...irus-trump-respirators-masks-ventilators.html

New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

From Times Square to the World Trade Center, New York City’s most
popular places have become ghost towns

27 minutes ago

Big Business Lobbied Trump Not to Order Coronavirus Supplies

12 hours ago

President Trump's reluctance to use the Defense Production Act to order
more respirators and ventilators for the coronavirus epidemic

Patent Wars, Lawyers, and Greedy Arseholes

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-war-ii-style-production-173037941.html

Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer

The GOP's corporate slush fund currently allows for the White House
to withhold the names of businesses that receive bailout cash, leading
to concerns that Trump could inject money into his own businesses
suffering from the shutdown

11 minutes ago

Big Business Lobbied Trump Not to Order Coronavirus Supplies

(link)

New York Magazine

28 minutes ago

Wonkette

Trump Gets In Bidding War With States For Face Masks. That's It, That's The Headline.

- Liz Dye

Mar 20, 2020

Just when you think they can't possibly find a new way to fuck it all up,
the Trump administration goes and outbids state governments on sales
of face masks and sterile gowns for hospital personnel dealing with
the coronavirus pandemic. Oh, we wish we were kidding! But, nope.

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-gets-in-bidding-war-with-states-for-face-masks-thats-it-thats-the-hed

Hobby Lobby Orders Stores To Stay Open, Citing HR Memo From Jesus Christ

He said, “be sure to keep selling macrame supplies. David Green, CEO
of the crafting behemoth Hobby Lobby, has always run his business
according to strict Christian principles. That’s why he sued the federal
government to overturn the ACA’s contraceptive mandate, because
what’s the purpose of religious freedom if you can’t use it to stop
your employees getting birth control?

So naturally, the CEO consulted the man upstairs on how best to deal
with the coronavirus pandemic.

March 23, 2020

- Elizabeth Dye
- Katherine Loanzon

https://abovethelaw.com/2020/03/hob...o-stay-open-citing-hr-memo-from-jesus-christ/

 

[SandraSxy]

He is a cockwomble.

 

[bodysong]

The Trump War on The Poors, Unions, Women, Minorities, Immigrants,
and Nature, continues, despite the threat of coronavirus deaths

Almost every Thursday, the Trump alliance uses legislation to chew
away at The People's safety nets

March 23, 2020

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
Rahm Emanuel

Trump administration and its Senate allies exploiting a public-health
crisis to push through a long-standing, to advance pet causes:

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is attempting to use the crisis
to get rid of the Dodd-Frank protections enacted after the financial
collapse in 2008.

The Justice Department wants to allow people to be detained indefinitely
without charges or trial.

The administration used the coronavirus not just to evacuate
7,300 Peace Corps volunteers but to fire them.

Trump’s team used the surgeon general’s public-health pronouncement
to deny due process to asylum seekers.

The administration also cited the crisis in trying to make it easier
for federal workers not to have union dues withheld from their
paychecks, the New York Times reported.

Senate Republicans, working with the White House, are attempting to
push through a stimulus measure that offers a bonanza to corporations.
It gives $50 billion to the airline industry without preventing layoffs.
It expands corporate tax cuts. It gives Mnuchin a $500 billion blank
check to hand out to businesses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-with-no-empathy-exploits-coronavirus-crisis/

In his coronavirus press conference on Monday, President Trump said
that Americans could trust him to oversee a $500 billion slush fund

"I’ll Be the Oversight"
- Donald Trump

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-on-usd500-billion-slush-fund-ill-be-the-oversight.html

 

[dp4shelly]

He is a war time president.

He is calling himself that because there is a war going on. Check it out.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

He is calling himself that because there is a war going on. Check it out.

What are you smoking?

 

[KeithD]

Well, we know about Donald Trump and wars. It suddenly brings up pain in his foot. He's pretty much staying in character for this war--he's AWOL and helping the enemy.

 

[VeraBad]

He meant whoretime president.

Republicans just assumed he meant wartime president like Jefferson Davis, president of the slave based Confederacy.

 

[bodysong]

Trump Suggests States Need to Bribe Him With Praise
to Get Federal Assistance for COVID-19

March 24, 2020

Trump said the quiet part out loud-
about how he views his relationship with states. “It’s a two-way street,”
he said. “They have to treat us well, also."

"They can’t say, ‘Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.'”

In other words, if governors want the federal government to help them
combat the coronavirus, they’re going to need to “be nice” to the
president first.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-suggests-states-bribe-him-201242384.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...rus-federal-assistance-new-york-cuomo-972467/

 

[KeithD]

I think hitting him with the 25th Amendment is a better idea.

 

[bodysong]

Democratic group begins run of tough ad on Trump's coronavirus fumbling

March 24, 2020

While the nation is gripped by coronavirus-
the 2020 election is still happening and has taken on, if anything,
heightened importance. While there’s going to be a lot of pearl-clutching
about it, for example this Wall Street Journal story, impeached president
Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis is and will continue to be a major
issue in the campaign.

To that end, on Tuesday Super PAC Priorities USA started an ad campaign
in key 2020 states Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

It shows a timeline and rapidly growing chart of confirmed U.S. cases,
through March 22, behind a backdrop of Trump quotes.
Like “the coronavirus [...] this is their new hoax,” and
“We have it totally under control” and
“It’s one person coming in from China,”
and “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,”
and “People are surprised that I understand it.”
The ad ends with the most damning quote of all:
“No, I don’t take responsibility at all.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...n-of-tough-ad-on-Trump-s-coronavirus-fumbling

Priorities USA begins $6 million blitz of anti-Trump coronavirus ads

One of the Democratic Party's main 2020 super PACs is attacking
President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak
with new TV ads airing in four key swing states.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/24/democratic-super-pac-anti-trump-coronavirus-ads-146267

Lawyers for official pro-Trump super PAC 'formally demand' TV stations
stop airing anti-Trump ad

Trump's America First Policies, INC a super PAC, does not like the sight
of Trump's coronavirus gaffes on film

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/la...demand-tv-stations-stop-airing-anti-trump-ad/

 

[bodysong]

Trump Campaign Threatens to Sue Networks For Airing Ad
on Trump's Coronavirus Response

(bodysong comment- is it within the realm of possibility that
FUX TV refused to air the Anti-Trump ad, because they were
given a heads-up by the Trump/FUX TV alliance, and avoided
the chance that FUX TV might get sued ? Trump appoints some
FUX TV employees to work for his communications department
so often, there is a revolving door.)

Donald Trump’s Campaign Slaps TV Stations With Cease And Desist
Letter To Try To Halt Ad Attacking His Coronavirus Response

https://deadline.com/2020/03/coronavirus-donald-trump-prioritiesusa-action-1202892924/

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s official Super PAC, America First Action,
tried to get TV stations in key battleground states to stop airing an anti-Trump ad

President Trump’s official campaign stepped in to do what his Super PAC could not.

Attorneys for the Donald J. Trump for President campaign sent a Cease and
Desist letter to those TV stations demanding they stop airing the anti-Trump
ad.

Not only did they make that demand, but they threatened that the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), which the President controls in that
he appoints its commissioners, could pull their broadcast licenses if they
did not comply.

The letter reads in part: “your station has an obligation to cease and desist
from airing [the ad] immediately to comply with FCC licensing requirements,
to serve the public interest, and to avoid costly and time-consuming litigation.”

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/re...ould-pull-their-licenses-over-coronavirus-ad/