Expect to hear this excuse from the Orange Blob soon.

[kairos12]

Remember after 9/11 Con-man-deliza Rice said no one could have expected anyone to fly airplanes into buildings.

Chump and his followers will use the "nobody could have predicted" canard.

The Chinese were the buildings that were hit. We had a month.

[lame54]

1. They built an entire hospital in that time

[customerserviceguy]

4. By the time

we saw the stories on that, this disease was already on the move.

[uponit7771]

10. China reported genetic sequence to produce test for WHO on Jan 12. Plenty enough time for a ...

... competent admin that didn't fire the Pandemic Response Team to react.

Just heard on MSNBC Trumps CDC tried to produce their own test outside of WHO that were faulty and that's one of the reasons we're behind on testing.

[customerserviceguy]

11. Then it looks like

Trump might get some blame for this that he cannot deflect elsewhere. Maybe that's why Pence is in charge, to be the scapegoat. Still, few doubt that if he did shoot a man on 5th Avenue that his supporters would let him get away with it.

[uponit7771]

12. 👍

[Wounded Bear]

2. Tom Clancy did it in one of his books IIRC...

back in the 90's.

Trump is reactive, he doesn't prepare for anything.

[Hoyt]

3. "Who Knew?" Voters should have predicted this junk in 2016.

[Caliman73]

5. That one is in the quiver.

He uses that one regularly.

"Who knew healthcare was so complicated?" - Umm EVERYONE except you because you are stupid.

That one is one of his "go to" phrases. "No one knew that viruses spread so quickly and easily. No one could have predicted that." Except that everyone who has ever gotten a cold or the flu understands it.

He is an idiot and a liar.

[kairos12]

6. Other go to phrase. "We'll see what happens."

[Caliman73]

7. Yes.

That one typically signals that he doesn't have an idea of what to do, or that he plans to do something shady. I would love to play poker with Trump. I would clean him out. He has so many tells that he could be figured out in 2 minutes.

[GulfCoast66]

8. I'm waiting to hear how much worse it would had he kept Obama's pandemic response team.

Will tell us they were totally inept.

I can just hear Biden or Bernie asking in a debate “President trump, you inherited a pandemic response team but got rid of it. Now xxxxxx number of Americans are dead. What was your plan?”

[uponit7771]

9. Except for Red Don fired the pandemic response team years ago so someone could tell