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Trump, who spent weeks downplaying the risk posed by the virus before recently taking a more aggressive approach, continued his shift in tone as he compared the government’s posture to a military operation.

“It’s a war,” Trump said of the effort to combat the pandemic. He likened himself to a “wartime president.”

There is no new Trump - George Conway

If you think you’ve been hearing a different President Trump this week — more accepting of the reality of the coronavirus pandemic — don’t be fooled. The new Trump is the same as the old Trump. He can’t help it. He’s incapable of taking responsibility for his role in this crisis — and thus incapable of leading us out of it.

After weeks of denial and deflection, a seemingly chastened Trump on Monday conceded that the virus was, in fact, “not under control,” and was, indeed, “a very bad one.” What caused the switch in tone? Who knows? Perhaps it was the largest one-day point drop in the Dow Jones in history on Monday. Perhaps it was a study the White House received saying that 2.2 million Americans could die. Perhaps it was that Trump’s beloved Mar-a-Lago is getting a coronavirus-necessitated deep cleaning.

But the sudden shift can’t conceal the fact that Trump has shown himself to be wholly inept at dealing with the pandemic. It doesn’t change the fact that he puts himself first, always. It doesn’t alter the fact that, as he once told top aides, he thinks of “each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals.” It doesn’t dissolve Trump’s compulsion to lie, even when truth would serve him best. It doesn’t diminish his incompetence, ignorance or propensity for administrative chaos...

and there would be no comorbidity guaranteed!

Calling the coronavirus, the "China virus" is just hurtful, unnecessary, divisive and destructive.

Trump just can't help himself, even during this global Pandemic crises, he has to create hate and division. He just can't function without an enemy to point to in hate. Calling the coronavirus, the "China virus" is just hurtful, unnecessary, divisive and destructive.

China reports no new cases, we could learn from them, but no, our President has to do his hate routine, to deflect from his horrible job in dealing with the Pandemic in the beginning by calling a leftist hoax.

Facts First: From January until last week, Trump consistently minimized the risk the coronavirus posed to the country. He claimed to have the virus under "control," that the number of US cases would go "down, not up," that the virus might "disappear" through a "miracle" or something of the sort, that the virus might well vanish by April with the warmer weather, that the media and Democrats were overhyping the situation, and that "this is their new hoax," leaving it unclear whether he was calling the virus itself a hoax. (He later said he was talking about Democrats' coronavirus-related criticism, not the virus.)

Calling the coronavirus, the "China virus" is just hurtful, unnecessary, divisive and destructive.

AIDS was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill off African Americans and gays

He only listens to conspiracy theories that involve apes in Ganymede and other similar nonsense.

There was another example in the briefing Thursday morning. Trump raised the drug chloroquine, an anti-malarial that some doctors are optimistic can be used to treat covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

“This has been used in different forms, a very powerful drug in different forms, and it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results,” Trump said. “We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. That's where the FDA has been so great. They've gone through the approval process. It's been approved. And they did it. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states."

Good news — but not accurate news.

“It’s already approved, as the president said, for the treatment of malaria, as well as an arthritis condition,” FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn said a few minutes later. “That’s a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at as to whether an expanded-use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients.”

In other words, this could be useful, but it hasn’t yet been approved for treatment of covid-19 broadly, despite Trump’s claim.

Again, this pattern — great news followed by more sober revelations — has played out repeatedly since Trump’s prime time speech from the Oval Office last Wednesday.

Well, we all remember the US-virus.