Trump will be right back to the same know nothing nonstop lies today. The fact he wasn’t as blustery yesterday doesn’t change his failures or his nonstop lies.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 23, 2020

Trump inherited a strong and stable economy. Trump wrecked it with his failed trade war that pushed nation into recession and then wrecked it entirely with his failed covid19 response.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 23, 2020

Every fucking time that Trump goes out for a few minutes and doesn’t completely embarrass himself with some perverse routine, pundits declare that he’s finally acting presidential.

Does acting presidential include nonsensical lies that are easily fact-checked about absolutely everything?

Does it include punting on a pandemic response that has killed 230,000+ Americans officially or 300,000 excess deaths? Trump thinks this is a success? Trump tried dragging Obama when there were a handful of ebola cases in the US. He tried dragging Obama and biden for under 20,000 H1N1 deaths over 2 years. Trump’s done 10x worse in less than half the time. Trump’s solution is wishful thinking and that vaccines will save the day - even though the timeline for the vaccines is still off in the future, and it’ll be the end of next year before there’s enough vaccine to go around to everyone who needs it.

In the meantime, Trump still refuses to mandate masks and Trump has politicized the issue to the point where GOP states are leading the spike in cases, and the states he touted as success stories for reopening faster and without precautions are now leading the nation in cases: Texas and Florida.

NY and NJ were in the very first wave when we had the least amount of information about how to deal with the pandemic and when everything was in short supply. Trump made no effort to help, and actively interfered in the process to make it difficult for states to obtain needed materials. The death tolls in those states is shockingly high, but what’s worse is that all the states that had time and space to make preparations and to promote mask and social distancing ignored those lessons and the outcome is that those states are seeing the bulk of cases and deaths now.

In terms of cases per million residents, NY and NJ now rank 23 and 25 overall. Tops is ND and SD.

In terms of deaths per million though, NY and NJ are top 2 (again, they were the first wave).

Trump has wrecked the economy precisely because he refuses to contain the pandemic. Had he done an average job as compared to every other OECD country, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in, and Trump would probably be cruising to a reelection win. Instead, he’s done gone and fucked it all to hell and takes zero responsibility for any of it.