You mention covid. His mismanagement, incompetence and lying (he is on tape to Bob Woodward saying how much more serious and deadly covid was than he was telling the public) is in the public record. Remember how it would go away with warm weather? Remember about taking disinfectant to kill covid? The U.S. has 4% of the world's population but had 20% of the world's deaths due to covid under Trump's watch. As I said, may the Reagan-wing of the Republican party come back. By the way, I voted for Reagan, twice, supported John Kasich in 2016, and on THIS site, I advocated for Chris Christie hoping to vote for him this year.
True. My goodness, just look back at all Trump's comments praising China and their dictator. He was talking about how smart he was with COVID, and how well Xi was handling COVID, and how it wasn't going to be a problem and they had it all under control. These were public comments. All total lies. China and Xi were lying and are still lying. But Trump was praising them and lying to the American people too.
And - yes- we know from Woodward's book and Trump's own comments to him that he knew it was more serious. But he was still kissing China's backside and praising them when he knew it likely came from there and China had covered it up for awhile.
And his own Republican House and Senate members covered for him for praising China.
It's fruit-cake level crazy stuff.
All politicans lie. Trump knows his supporters don't care if he lies. As he said, he could shoot someone on the street and they wouldn't care.
That's a hell of a lot of power that someone knows they have when they can lie and even kill someone and supporters won't care at all. I think that is why Trump is the way he is- he knows the folks around him- and his supporters give him no guardrails.
Imagine if you had a boss at your company that knew no one at the company cared if the boss lied to them. I would imagine most people would be scared of what that boss might do. But the boss knows he's been empowered to do whatever he wants and no one will ever care.
I mean, Trump had women at his rallies- grandmothers- most of them clearly women in their 50's and 60's with kids or grandkids at home- while they wore shirts out in public to a political rally saying they were ok with Donald Trump- a politician- grabbing them by their genitalia.
Imagine how depraved you have to be to wear a shirt like that in public? These are some of the same people accusing teachers of grooming children to "be gay" by having a book in their classroom that mentions some children might have 2 moms or 2 dads and we should understand the idea that their families- fellow classmates in some cases- might have families that look different to some people.