Donald Trump sickens me daily. He’s been doing so since the moment he declared his presidential candidacy.

Today provided yet another example of the president’s hideous petulance.

He said that if governors — the men and women who are fighting against the coronavirus pandemic — aren’t nice to him that he isn’t going to call them and offer words of support, encouragement or to update them on the federal response.

He mentioned Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Jay Inslee of Washington. If they don’t support him, he won’t support them.

Tit for tat, right? Oh, did I mention that Whitmer and Inslee are Democrats? That they happen to speak critically of the federal government’s strategy — such as it is — in dealing with the pandemic.

This man is a profoundly incompetent boob who has no plan for anything. He cannot be trusted to tell Americans the truth about the peril they are facing with this virus. He continues to spew happy talk when he should be sounding an alarm.

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One quick personal note: I heard tonight from a dear friend who is married to a physician in West Texas. She is at the breaking point. She is the office manager for her husband’s medical practice. Her writes that her husband “puts on his full face shield respirator and I don my n95 mask to see patients that probably voted for the man that lies to everyone nonstop.” 

And this guy, the president, wants everyone to talk nicely to and about him before he’ll do the job he was elected to do.

Despicable.