Even Republicans are worried the Trump administration isn’t ready for a coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., which the CDC says is inevitable
as the two struggle to hammer out a trade deal. More recently, the government overruled the CDC’s advice and put 14 Americans infected with the coronavirus on a plane back to the U.S. with others who were not infected. Trump was, but the fact that he didn’t know about it is more evidence of how ill-equipped the administration is to handle an outbreak.
Trump’s only recourse is to keep insisting everything is fine. During the same Tuesday-morning press conference in which he said he believes the coronavirus will simply “go away,” the president claimed the administration was “very close” to creating a vaccine. But around the same time, Sen. Lamar Alexander that it will take “a year or 18 months” to develop a vaccine.
Driving the president’s insistence that the coronavirus is no bid deal is his fear of panic surrounding an outbreak causing the markets — and his chances at winning reelection — to dip. He implied as much in his “Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” tweet Tuesday morning.
The White House has denied the administration’s actions have been motivated by anything other the well-being of the American people, but judging by Trump’s comments Tuesday — as well as how he’s handled pretty much every other crisis the administration has faced — the president is far more concerned with PR than the Americans who will suffer because of his incompetence. Unless the coronavirus simply “goes away” as the president believes it will, the result could be disaster.
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