National Emergency? - Makes one wonder

[packman]

We have 4 living ex-presidents, did Trump even bother to consult them in any way about this C-19 stuff?

[33taw]

1. Probably not. But he did contact Joe Biden.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Why would he? He and his advisors say he is the smartest president the the US has had

[The Magistrate]

3. According To The Cheap Thug With His Hairspray Crown, Sir

All of them bungled the job. Why consult them on how the mess they made of the country should be put right by the one man who alone can do it? The guy whose ratings are number one on Facebook!


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[tulipsandroses]

4. Why? He knows more about everything than anyone

He knows more than the generals, He knows more than economic experts - remember trade wars were going to be easy. And now he knows more than the scientists and doctors.

[Maeve]

5. No, no he doesn't talk to them

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/22/trump-coronavirus-past-presidents-143131

President Donald Trump said Sunday that as he tackles the current national crisis, he doesn’t want to “bother” his predecessors and doesn’t think he’s “going to learn much” from them.

In response to a reporter’s question on whether he would reach out to any former presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter), Trump implied that wasn’t in the cards.

“I think we're doing an incredible job. So I don't want to disturb them, bother them,” he said at the White House coronavirus task force briefing. “I don't think I'm going to learn much and, you know, I guess you could say that there's probably a natural inclination not to call.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trumps-cold-war-with-the-former-presidents

Former presidents used to help each other in times of crisis. Trump has made that impossible. He has not spoken with Obama or Clinton since his inauguration more than three years ago (aside from a brief hello and goodbye to Obama during George H.W. Bush’s funeral in December 2018). In fact, the only substantive conversation he and Obama have had was during the customary visit Trump made to the Oval Office two days after he won the 2016 election. He has been criticizing him ever since. “I didn’t like the job that he and Biden did,” Trump said at a Fox News Town Hall in March. “I didn’t like the position they put us in.” Seeking to justify his administration’s bungled response to the novel-coronavirus outbreak in America, he attacked Obama, tweeting that his handling of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem…” Contrast that with John F. Kennedy, who called on all three of his living predecessors to ask for their help during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A year and a half earlier, after the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy had reached out to the man he’d just defeated, Richard Nixon, and to his Republican predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower. He knew he could not afford to be too proud to ask for help. “No one knows how rough this job is until after he has been in it a few months,” Kennedy confessed to Eisenhower.

[hlthe2b]

6. He openly stated he HAD NOT and WOULD NOT.

[2naSalit]

7. Nope. He only takes his own advice.

He said so himself.