See You in The Sunday Comics Page

[bodysong]

See You in The Sunday Comics Page, not the Editorial Page

Trump Loyalist cartoons are starting to become hilarious

The New York Times ✓
Twitter › nytimes

President Biden said he would bar Donald Trump from receiving
the intelligence briefings traditionally conducted for former presidents,
saying he could not be trusted because of his “erratic behavior.”

(link)

2 hours ago

Lighter wallets, after Trump Loyalists decide that they are entitled to enter the
chamber with their guns.

 

[bodysong]

Fox News chyron on day after Inauguration: "BIDEN'S DISASTROUS FIRST WEEK"

(Daily Beast made horse's arses out of themselves - Before Trump, diplomatic existed,
and the DB admits it, after they splash.)

Sen. Marco Rubio on Biden cabinet picks:
"Went to Ivy League schools, have strong resumes, attend all the right conferences,
and will be polite and orderly caretakers of America's decline."....

Frank Bruni on Rubio: "A little man, at least by the yardstick of integrity,
which is the only endowment that matters."....

Joe Scarborough on Sen. Lindsey Graham:
(Lindsey) "Wants us to forget [that the people] who beat a cop to death were inspired
by Donald Trump to do so. Ted Cruz wants us to forget because he led the sedition
along with Josh Hawley. You know what these people are? These are Trump terrorists.
Call them by their name."....

Rep. Matt Gaetz: "Liz Cheney is just yet another in a long line of America Last
politicians."....

Sen. Mitt Romney on Trump support for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene:
"Lies of a feather flock together."....

Sen. Ted Cruz on U.S. rejoining Paris Climate Agreement: "
President Biden indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens
of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh."....

AOC on Sen. Josh Hawley:
"You're not 'muzzled,' Hawley. You're just deeply unpopular, and aided insurrection

William Saletan:
"What Trump brought to the United States is ruthless, relentless, denialist propaganda
at a scale we used to see only in dictatorships.".

...Newt Gingrich on Biden and Dems:
"Believe if they could exterminate the Republicans, that would be one way
to get unity."....

Spike Lee on Trump:
"Will go down in history with the likes of Hitler."

....House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Trump:
"It was evident all along what a disgrace he was."

....Stephen Colbert:
"Not impeaching Trump because he is out of office is like setting Jeffrey Dahmer free
because he is full."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/

 

[bodysong]

Presiderp Donald, trolling the media and press ?

(Daring the press and media to report it, and print it-
" I dare you. My MAGA fanatics will scream "fake news.")

The problem with Trump’s Revolutionary War airports isn’t the airports

July 5, 2019

"In June of 1775,” he said, reading from a teleprompter, “the Continental Congress
created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and
New York and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief.

“The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge,” he continued,
“found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis
of Yorktown. Our army manned the [unclear]. It rammed the ramparts. It took over
the airports. It did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’
red glare, it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner
waved defiant.”

- Presiderp Donald

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...mps-revolutionary-war-airports-isnt-airports/

“The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,”
then-press secretary Sean Spicer insisted.

Trump himself tried to imply that there was some secret meaning to be uncovered.

In keeping with Trump's general refusal to admit mistakes. It raises a key question,
though:

Does Trump do the same thing in private conversations with other world leaders,
doubling-down on mistakes in lieu of admitting that he'd made one?

How far does his reflexive self-defense extend?

Trump claiming that Revolutionary War soldiers were dispatched to lock down airfields
is the sort of gaffe that we've seen from other elected officials in the past.

His refusal to admit even simple mistakes like this, though? That's pretty new.

- Philip Bump

 

[bodysong]

The Justice Department has abandoned an arguably unprecedented
lawsuit seeking to confiscate the proceeds of a book written by an
aide to former First Lady Melania Trump.

Government lawyers filed a notice with a federal judge Monday saying they are
voluntarily dismissing the suit filed last October against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff,
who served as a volunteer adviser to Mrs. Trump and came out last year with a
tell-all book, "Melania and Me."

The move was one of the first by the Biden administration to throw in the towel
on litigation initiated by the Trump administration.

While the Justice Department has a long history of successful legal action against
CIA agents and others who go public with national security secrets, cases outside
that arena are few, typically involving law enforcement personnel who leak sensitive
information related to pending investigations.

Many former White House aides have published memoirs, without legal repercussions
There is no known case of an adviser to the First Lady facing legal consequences
for divulging information learned at the White House.

The suit against Winston Wolkoff alleged that by publishing the book she breached
her "fiduciary duty" and a nondisclosure agreement she signed with a White House
contracting officer in August 2017.

The one-page court filing dismissing the case provided no explanation for the
department's retreat.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/justice-department-melania-trump-book-467688

 

[bodysong]

Trump defense:

— His attorneys argue that Trump, even if convicted and barred from office,
would challenge the results in court should he run again.

— Trump’s attorneys refute Democrats’ assertion that the ex-president allowed the riot
to continue, arguing that he was “horrified” and sought to act immediately to stop the
violence. This could up the pressure on the managers to call witnesses from the
White House who could testify otherwise.

— And, true to form, the brief cites discredited The Gateway Pundit to suggest rioters
were actually anti-Trump forces. As our colleagues noted in their story, law enforcement
has contested this debunked conspiracy theory. So have Hill Republicans, including
Trump ally House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm

 

[bodysong]

DCist ✓
Twitter › DCist

Morning Roundup:
There’s more snow on the way for the region this week.
Plus, Maryland lawmakers push to repeal police protections,
the Trump Hotel is hiking up prices for March 4,
and more news.

(link)

47 minutes ago

 

[bodysong]

It didn’t take long for observers to point out Schoen’s ugly, implied threat
to the Senate, his contradictory claim that the second Trump impeachment
was both rushed and too slow.

His hypocritical attack on the House Democrats for using a “movie”-like video
as evidence — just minutes before doing the same himself.

Did Schoen just threaten that there could be a second civil war if Trump is convicted?

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) February 9, 2021

"They want to put you through a 16 hour presentation, over two days,
focusing on this as if it were some side of blood sport …
this is a process fueled irresponsibly by base hatred" —
David Schoen is angry

pic

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

How dare the House managers show edited footage of the attack on the Capitol
Schoen bellows before showing, as a defense exhibit, a movie with a score.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 9, 2021

Schoen is about an inch away from calling on people to overrun the Senate again

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 9, 2021

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trum...eatens-senate-with-allusion-to-the-civil-war/

 

[bodysong]

Sell that on TV!

Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) this week appeared
to double down after calling the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a "hoax."

Shirkey first made the claim at a Hillsdale County Republican Party dinner last week.

“That wasn't Trump's people. That's been a hoax from day one. That was all prearranged,"
Shirkey said. “It was arranged by somebody who was funding it. … It was all staged."

During a session on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Shirkey could be heard speaking
to Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist (D) on an open microphone.

"The temperature is hot," Gilchrist can be heard saying.

"I frankly don't take back any of the points I was trying to make," Shirkey explains.
"I take back some of the words I chose."

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-shirkey-jan-6-hoax/

Trump Loyalists try to sell the idea, that I should not believe the lies that my very own eyes
and ears are telling me.

Trump's fuckers had identifying tags during the attack and the ransacking of the Capitol
building.

Are Trump Loyalists trying to tell us that it, perhaps, was not Antifa ?

 

[bodysong]

There it goes-

He walked it back- (Trumpie move)

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Michigan’s Senate majority leader has apologized -
for saying it’s a “hoax” that Trump supporters did the Capitol attack.
His explanation: “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with
an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them.”

(link to senatormikeshirkey )

9 hours ago

Next, he will deny he ever said such a thing, at all.

(After he was caught repeating the same statement
on TV info-tainment network for American Nazi Trumpies)

 

[bodysong]

Absurd level

Ted Cruz yelping because someone said something mean about him-

Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) read aloud some of Tanden's tweets, including her criticism
of Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas
and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"I’m concerned that your personal attacks about specific senators will make it more
difficult for you to work with them," Portman said. "Just to mention a few of the thousands
of negative public statements, you wrote that Susan Collins is the worst, that Tom Cotton
is a fraud, that vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz. You called leader McConnell:
Moscow Mitch and Voldemort, and on and on.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/neera-tanden-confirmation-remarks-467833


The next moment, Senator Ted Cruz ignores the testimony of Trump's victims,
because he is busy tweeting about breast milk. Yes, eight hours, ago, Cruz is taking
shots at trans people and their sensitivity.

WTF ?

Orwellian: The words “breast milk” are now forbidden.
Because science.

(link)

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 10, 2021

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-c...t-off-trumps-teat-you-could-do-your-damn-job/

 

[bodysong]

Counterpoint
Twitter › newcounterpoint

(graphic - political cartoon:
Joe Biden and the GOP elephant are on a dock
Joe Biden flings a life preserver to a person that is about to drown
The person that is in distress is wearing a blue hat with a white cross on it.
Flailing, and churning the water, their wet shirt seems to be a faded red colour.
The GOP elephant flings something to person in distress - a Dr. Seuss book.)


“The Republican Party is utterly bereft of policy ideas [but] ...they do, however,
have plenty of vacuous, manufactured controversies to stir up the base.”
- @Nick_Anderson_ for Counterpoint.com in yesterday's edition.

20 minutes ago

March 10, 2021

Tim Ryan berates GOP over labor bill:
‘Stop talking about Dr. Seuss and start working with us’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/10/tim-ryan-republicans-seuss-video/

 

[bodysong]

After a week, Republicans are still yapping about Dr. Seuss

March 3, 2021
Washington Post
- Jennifer Rubin

Fox TV spent all day on Tuesday (March 2, 2021)— and it really was all day —
bemoaning Dr. Seuss books taken out of circulation for racist imagery.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/03/why-republicans-are-screeching-about-dr-seuss/

They (Republicans) are performers for right-wing media, not legislators or problem-solvers.

Their outrage-of-the-day focus fits that mind-set and indeed gets them play time on
right-wing outlets. Those outlets in turn incentivize Republicans to generate more
content for the media.

There is a bargain of sorts: Right-wing media won’t cover bad news for Republicans;
Republicans come on their shows to keep the outrage and the ratings high.

Republicans would have little to talk about if not for these concocted non-issues,
given that they have lost the White House and Senate and no longer claim support
for obstructionism (even among Republicans).

- Jennifer Rubin

bodysong comment -

There is a time and place for everything.

Democrats demand a standard of excellence, because there are some actions and words
that cannot be tolerated. Democrats made their choice, of upholding standards in their ranks.
Truth is the truth.

Not so very long, ago, Republicans had their own standard of excellence. There were actions
and words, that they could not tolerate. Trump entered the picture, and suddenly all of their
speeches about decency became ashes in their mouths. The slide down the slippery slope
began at the cash level. Grifting and theft of money was easily forgiven in the Republican
community. Sexual scandal was not. That changed, because Trump.

Truth never had a strong point in the Republican community. Truth was given a
merry-go-round carousel ride on the spin machine, that made everyone dizzy.

Real journalists never lost sight of the truth - with so much grifted and stolen cash,
Republicans could afford to hijack the truth, and sell spin stories in truth's place.

The infamous words of Kellyanne Conway:"Alternative facts"
- January 22, 2017

If Trump could have forced his will on the nation, he would have burned
the real Constitution to embers and ash.

 

[bodysong]

FFS!

If their Precious Trump had been half as competent as Joe Biden,
Trump Loyalists would have applauded until their hands separated
from their wrists, and hung down by their torn tendons and ligaments.

Was there ever anything from the Trump administration that did not have a seamy side ?
Nothing went untouched by Trump fuckery. Everything undermined by corruption and theft.

Quote:

The Biden administration has taken two major steps that helped hasten vaccine production in the near term.

Even before Biden was inaugurated, his aides determined that by invoking the Korean
War-era Defense Production Act, the federal government could help Pfizer obtain the
heavy machinery it needed to expand its plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The Trump administration had repeatedly invoked that law, but its order for Pfizer only
covered single-use supplies like plastic liners, not durable factory equipment.

/end quote

Operation Warp Speed, a Trump administration Potemkin facade, hiding a vault of lies.

The New York Times is negotiating the tightrope between two warring factions-
the newspaper is fully aware of how divided our country is, at the moment

Pro-Trump and Pro-Biden

Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help

"Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for
surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick
up the pace of production."

Nov 13, 2020

"Trump took no questions Friday from reporters. He hasn’t answered questions
since before Election Day."

240,000 Americans are dead from coronavirus.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/...se-rose-garden

Operation Warp Speed was just another Trump administration Potemkin facade -
Trump made deals, so that he got kickback campaign cash, and his "friends" are now
becoming extremely wealthy from the fear, pain, and misery of millions.

As a matter of the course of four years, Trump lied about everything -

No, Pfizer’s apparent vaccine success is not a function of Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’

November 9, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...on-warp-speed/

 

[bodysong]

One lasting influence from Trump on Republicans -

Trump lied constantly, non-stop, for four years.

"Look at me! I lie about everything."

"Just lie! It works, believe me!"

(Even his "business associates, "patrons and customers, were puzzled by Trump's
compulsion to tell lies to them, about minor, inconsequential things.)

Trump taught his supporters to lie.

Reflection in a Fun-House Mirror: Trump's Nation of Liars, and Selfish Entitled Arseholes

How is this for a Trump-like lie ?

After Joe Biden's bill passed, this is what Mitch McConnell had to say -

The People do not need the money.

- Mitch McConnell

Fuck no, Mitch McConnell the billionaire does not need a stimulus check.

"All the signs are that we are on our way out of this. "

"And this is vastly more expensive than should’ve been approved at this juncture."

“Borrowing from our grandkids to do socialism for rich people is a terrible way to get
help to families who actually need it,” McConnell said...

(Hypocrite Mitch McConnel assisted in providing trillions in tax breaks to wealthy patrons.)

...of an effort to boost the checks from $600 to $2,000, which is supported by President
Donald Trump. “Washington Democrats took President Trump’s suggestion and skewed
it so the checks would benefit even more high-earning households.”

- Mitch McConnell

Judy Woodruff to Mitch McConnell:

The bill President Biden signed today, you have said it's the worst piece of legislation
you have seen pass in your time in the Senate. And yet it helps working-class Americans
There is support in it for the unemployed. There is support for health care workers and
for schools. And the polls are showing 70 percent of Americans like it.

Why are they wrong?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/s...elief-election-reform-and-the-filibuster-rule

Yes, Mitch McConnell lied to Judy Woodruff.

He played a pretend game of ommision-his complete ignorance of how bad things are,
after a year of his failure to order the funds to be released a number of times. Then he cries
that the money is already there, and Joe Biden is demanding the very same amount.
But, he omits the fact that the funds are locked up, and Joe Biden cannot use the excess funds
for the purposes that he has in mind - Like Saving America

The Trump Loyalists in office held onto the funds, until they had proof that the nation's vote
was not in Trump's favor.

Say good-by to your good health, your job, your condo, your children,
your spouse, your pets, your car, and finally your right to vote, because
Trump and Mitch McConnell do not think that you are deserving of help.

And say good-bye to your rights to having a small family business-
That is robbing a corporation of an opportunity to have a new subsidiary !
Mitch McConnel's friends do not like that.


The People cried out for help -

Trump Loyalists pissed on people's heads, and told them it was raining.
The poors are undeserving, in Trump Loyalist eyes.

Checks delayed- Trump wants his signature on them-

The Last Mercy Money Payment from Trump's Treasury, loaded with Trump- related Fuckery

April 15, 2020

The unprecedented decision, finalized late Monday, means that when recipients open the
$1,200 paper checks the IRS is scheduled to begin sending to 70 million Americans in
coming days, “President Donald J. Trump” will appear on the left side of the payment.

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

Sorry, Trump's goons and gremlins have stolen your check, via the internet!

Fuck off, poors!

 

[bodysong]

oh, fuck yeah, Trump taught Ted Cruz to lie

Tho' Cruz had plenty of practice, after he left Canada.

 

[LLCox]

trump never was a, "President" just an egotistical huckster.

 

[bodysong]

Trump's Gold-plated 757 Sits Idle On Tarmac, Rusting Away

Crooks and Liars 9 hours ago

Crooks and Liars ✓
Twitter › crooksandliars

Experts are said to be "baffled" why the plane is being left on the tarmac,
exposed to the elements and in decay.
#Trump #747

@MrScarce

9 hours ago

Glory days of Trump's gold-plated 757 seem far away as plane sits idle at a sleepy airport

- Kate Bennett
- Pete Muntean
- CNN

Trump's personal Boeing 757 sits idle on an airport ramp in Orange County, New York
about 60 miles north of Manhattan.

One engine is missing parts. The other is shrink-wrapped in plastic. The cost
to fix and get it flyable could reach well into the high six-figures...

"Fixing one of those engines would easily cost six figures."

Flight records accessed by CNN show the 757 hasn't been flown at all since
Inauguration Day, when Trump's use of Air Force One ended, leaving him
to less showy modes of transport.

The choice to leave it outside at a northeastern airport, exposed to the elements,
has baffled aviation experts who spoke with CNN.

Snow, rain, and moisture can lead to metal corrosion of the airframe and the engines --
hard to detect, and, in severe cases, catastrophic.

Trump's 1997 Cessna 750 Citation X (just eight seats) - the plane Trump flew
on when he made his first post-presidency trip back to Manhattan earlier this
month.

Trump's 757 was almost twenty years old when he bought it.
A plane past its prime with decaying mechanics and exorbitant storage fees.

The cost to fly a Boeing 757 is about $15,000 to $18,000 per hour...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/trump-757-repairs-gold-plated-glory-days/index.html

An aircraft charter broker tells CNN the smaller Trump plane would cost
about $5,000 per hour to fly.

 

[bodysong]

The Lunacy party is under the big GOP tent

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

This is quite the in-depth investigation from @davidbix
about whether professional wrestler Stan Lane is Lauren
Boebert's biological father

(link - melmagazine)

9 hours ago

33 paragrahs, and proofs of evidence

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lauren-boebert-stan-lane-paternity-dispute

The Strange Saga of Lauren Boebert’s Pro Wrestler Paternity Case

However, there was no father listed in either Boebert’s Orlando Sentinel birth announcement
or her birth certificate, and no record exists for such a divorce in Seminole County Court’s
online system, which goes back well into the 1980s and shows no hits for divorce cases
involving “Shawn Roberts.” (There were also no hits for “Shawn Bentz” or “Shawna Bentz,”
as well as no relevant hits for “Shawna Roberts.”) A September 2020 Colorado Sun article
by Nancy Lofholm, meanwhile, says that “Boebert has glossed over any mention of a father.”
(Though the next line of the article notes that various police reports showed Boebert’s
birthdate as being either December 15, 1986, or December 19, 1986, her birth certificate,
other paternity lawsuit documentation and her newspaper birth.)

 

[bodysong]

In case, you might have missed this-

March 18, 2021

San Antonio Wax Museum Forced to Move Trump Figure Into Storage
Because People Won’t Stop Punching It

According to the San Antonio Express-News, the Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks
on Alamo Plaza has removed their faux-Trump from publicly viewable areas
because visitors are “pummeling him.”

“We’ve always had trouble with the presidential section because no matter what
president it was — [George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Trump] — they’ve all
had people beat them,” said Stewart. “The ears were torn off Obama six times.
And then Bush’s nose was punched in.

https://www.mediaite.com/weird/san-...wont-stop-punching-it/?utm_source=mostpopular

 

[KeithD]

In case, you might have missed this-

March 18, 2021

San Antonio Wax Museum Forced to Move Trump Figure Into Storage
Because People Won’t Stop Punching It

According to the San Antonio Express-News, the Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks
on Alamo Plaza has removed their faux-Trump from publicly viewable areas
because visitors are “pummeling him.”

“We’ve always had trouble with the presidential section because no matter what
president it was — [George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Trump] — they’ve all
had people beat them,” said Stewart. “The ears were torn off Obama six times.
And then Bush’s nose was punched in.

https://www.mediaite.com/weird/san-...wont-stop-punching-it/?utm_source=mostpopular

So, it's not all that specific to Trump. It's a bipartisan activity.

 

[bodysong]

Sidney Powell's 'Defense' — 'Who Would Believe Anything I Said?'

(Trump could use a defense like this.)

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/03/sidney-powells-defense-who-would-believe

Sidney Powell's Defamation Defense: Nobody In Their Right Mind Would Believe
My Election Fraud Claims

Vanity Fair

 

[bodysong]

Do not read this, if you are eating food...

Early Addition: The Shrimp-In-The-Cereal Saga Got Even Better (I.E. Worse)

https://gothamist.com/news/early-addition-shrimp-cereal-saga-got-even-better-ie-worse

 

[bodysong]

New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

Things are really beginning to devolve in the Cinnamon Toast Crunch–shrimp saga

1 hour ago

(?)

 

[bodysong]

Saturday's Invasion

March 29, 2021

Trump asks wedding party: 'Do you miss me yet?'

https://www.mediaite.com/news/do-yo...wedding-reception-uses-toast-to-rag-on-biden/

Wonkette
Twitter › Wonkette

Trump Stumbles Into Wedding, Gives Incoherent Toast To Himself —
by @RobynElyse

(link)

52 minutes ago

March 29, 2021

"You know, Donald Trump is bad at most things, but one thing he does deserve credit
for is always being able to perfectly recreate the incredibly awkward feeling of being
stuck in a conversation with a person you didn't realize was that drunk when you first
started talking to them."

- Wonkette

March 12, 2021

Trump has the feeling that the public's memory of him is fading.

Joe Biden has the podium, the seal, and Trump has no twitter.

“I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19
(often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine,
that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’
for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all.
I hope everyone remembers!

Feb 28, 2021

Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando, Fla.

'Do you miss me yet?'

 

[bodysong]

March 12, 2021

In a statement distributed Wednesday by his “communications team,” Trump said
the following: “I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19
(often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t
be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting
it at all. I hope everyone remembers!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...40a492-836e-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html

We remember the half-million Americans dead; we remember the superspreader events,
the mega-rallies and the White House gatherings hosted by the then-president;
we remember his disregard of his own health experts and his mockery of masks.
We remember the White House press briefing when Trump said the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s recommendation to wear a mask was “voluntary.
I don’t think I’m going to be doing it."

- Kathleen Parker