Could things get any worse? Of course they can. And of course, they are. Let’s start with the pandemic . Current figures: Since the first reported deaths in early March more than 190,000 Americans have died. It is predicted that as many as 400,000 will have died by New Year’s Day.
Trump revealed that he knew all about the dangers of Covid-19 earlier in the year, but he downplayed it because he claims he didn’t want people to panic. He pretended that it was a hoax, even though he knew people would die. He didn’t care. “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” A real leader would have been able to avoid a panic by telling the truth, wearing a mask, and asking that we follow his lead. No panic. No deaths. Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward, brought down Richard Nixon, “Thousands and thousands and thousands of people died" because Trump is "putting his own re-election before the safety, health, and well-being of the people of the United States. We've never had a president who's done anything like this before," Bernstein said.
Woodward has Trump’s words on tape. Trump agreed to 18 interviews with Woodward, and Woodward captured the essence of a man without a soul, without a heart, a man who can’t differentiate between truth and fiction. a man who cares about nothing but himself. Woodward has promised to release more of the tapes, more damning information about a man without a heart.
The week began as badly as it finished.
The beginning. Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic, had this to say: “President Trump refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 was because he did not want to get his hair wet and felt it wasn’t important to honor those buried there, saying the cemetery was “filled with losers.” Goldberg also reports that on the same trip, Trump called U.S. marines who died in the World War I battle at Belleau Wood “suckers.”
The Washington Post and even FOX news backed up this story, claiming that although the sources preferred to remain anonymous for fear of Trump’s expected derisive tweets, they were unimpeachable. So we now have a man who is worse than indifferent to the deaths for which he is responsible and derides those who died for the country. “I don’t get it,” Trump said to General Kelley, standing by Kelley’s son’s grave at Arlington Cemetery, “What was in it for him?”
And here, in sunny CA, we’re reliving our own Apocalypse, the horrendous fires throughout the state that have left our air the worst on the planet, kept us housebound, killed dozens, and continue unabated.
My mantra now is “This, too, will pass.” It’s really all that’s left.
