Posted on 03/20/2020 4:09:58 AM PDT by Magnatron
To fight the coronavirus, President Donald Trump is adopting the audacity of false hope.
For the past two days, Trump has said he is dispensing "game changer" breakthroughs on treatments and a wartime-style effort to mass produce medical supplies that appear as rays of light amid America's darkening battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
His eagerness for remedies no doubt reflects a sincere desire to deliver Americans from the nightmare of lockdowns, fear for loved ones and atmosphere of national trauma.
But it is also becoming clear that the President's rhetoric is part of an emerging political strategy. He can't hold the campaign rallies that are his political lifeblood any more -- so he's just moved them into the White House briefing room.
Big footing Vice President Mike Pence's sober, informative task force briefings, Trump exaggerates facts, bashes China, blames the Obama administration, lauds his once soaring economy and baits reporters while shoveling any blame away from himself.
As the pandemic spreads like quicksilver across the US and questions mount about the federal government's response amid chronic shortages in hospitals, the White House seems to be trying to get everyone to look the other way.
It's holding out the promise of hope and optimism to shift attention from the reality of alarming rises in infections, a building economic crisis, a shortage of ventilators, the federal government's botched coronavirus testing roll-out, and revelations that doctors were told to use bandanas as masks.
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This is a disgusting -- continually disgusting -- view from a disgusting -- continually disgusting -- media outlet.
Why would anyone attempt to provide hope to a people in dark times, particularly a leader? To CNN, it's better that we are hopeless, and be told that we are so.
How does this network stay on the air?
Then ask the mod to pull the thread.
Don’t worry I wouldn’t patronize cnn for anything anymore
what a disgusting group of clowns, America hating hypocrites it has become
Yep. It’s called leadership.
I’m not surprised CNN doesn’t recognize it.
The viral version of “without evidence.”
CNN. What a miserable group of individuals.
I call it Winning!
Maudlin is watching Cuomo’s stream of unconsciousness. Boring.
Hit report abuse and request it be pulled.I did. This is fear mongering at a whole new level.
We don’t call it the Communist News Network for nothing!
If WuFlu is such a plague, how come no enemdiots have dropped dead from it?
Evidently the writer never heard of Franklin “Happy days are hear again” Delano Roosevelt.
We want someone to point out that no matter how bad things suck now, we will get through it. Roosevelt, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, and now Trump all conveyed that message in some way, shape or form. It’s what we demand of leaders in a crisis.
The writer is an idiot at best or willfully blind at worst.
“here” not “hear” d’oh!
Puke fest day and night.
Trying to dissuade you from having hope so chance of panic is enhanced. Problem with CNN is they have lost credibility, at least among rational people. At the same time, Pres. Trump has gained credibility, including from a large number who initially didn’t trust him.
Saying one thing at his daily news briefing and then having other members of his administration immediately contradicting what he just said is not providing hope. I've said for a while the Administration has to speak with one voice. If Trump wants to be it then his administration has to support him better and not constantly go out there and say that Trump was wrong.
Can’t wait for those airport contracts to expire and the CNN viewership falls to zero.
wtf is wrong with those people
Obama also owns the rights to the letter SSSSS.
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