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Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/25/can-we-stop-pretending-trump-is-fit-be-president/?fbclid=IwAR3lm9n8f4h8T762iRv3IzR8QOaDdQYyi-7GV2Qv8PuHkf2tbSFIgvOst_cBy Paul Waldman
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. . . With the death toll from covid-19 about to top 100,000, Trump has offered almost nothing in the way of tributes to the dead, sympathy for their families, or acknowledgement of our national mourning. By all accounts he is barely bothering to manage his administrations response to the pandemic, preferring to focus on cheerleading for an economic recovery he says is on its way, even as he feeds conspiracy theories about the death toll being inflated. This weekend, he went golfing.
In a Twitter spasm on Saturday and Sunday, Trump retweeted mockery of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abramss weight and House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-Calif.) looks, along with a tweet calling Hillary Clinton a skank.
Eager to start a new culture war flare-up, he urged churches to open and gather parishioners in a room to breathe the same air, threatening that he would override governors whose shutdown orders still forbade such gatherings. The president has no such power.
He all but accused talk show host Joe Scarborough of murdering a young woman who died in 2001 in the then-congressmans district office, bringing untold torture to her family from the conspiracy theorists who will respond to his accusation.
He has repeatedly insisted that the upcoming election is being rigged because states run by both Republicans and Democrats are making it easier to vote by mail, seeking to delegitimize a vote that has yet to occur, despite the substantial evidence that mail voting advantages neither party.
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Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president? (Original Post)
swag
May 2020
OP
I never thought he WAS fit or qualified or tempermentally right for it.
greatauntoftriplets
May 2020
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)1. I never thought he WAS fit or qualified or tempermentally right for it.
grumpyduck
(6,199 posts)2. He's singing to the choir.
The people who need to read that piece (and many like it) are precisely the ones who will not.
cayugafalls
(5,631 posts)3. We've just been waiting for the media to catch up.
As soon as the media starts calling him a Liar and Fake President CONSISTENTLY, I'll believe they have changed, until then...