Yes, Mr. POTUS, they are worth ‘time and effort’

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Donald John “Braggart in Chief” Trump has declared that the daily “briefings” that take place to tell Americans what’s happening with the coronavirus pandemic are no longer “worth the time and effort.”

So he’s thinking about backing out of them.

Allow me this rebuttal.

These rants certainly would be worth the “time and effort” if the president of the United States would refrain from mindless bragging about what a “fantastic job” he says he is doing to fight the viral infection.

They would be worth the time and effort if he would simply open event with some sort of preview of what is to come and then step aside to let the experts speak to the nation. I would even settle on hearing from Vice President Mike Pence — chairman of the White House pandemic task force — but only if he would forgo the slathering, blathering brown-nosing he throws at Trump’s back side.

These events would be worth the time and effort if they delivered anything of value to us. Instead we have received daily doses of brickbat-tossing, of self-congratulations and outright lies. Virtually all of what I have just described has come from Donald Trump.

None of what I have offered in this rhetorical wish list is going to happen for as long as Donald Trump is president. He cannot deliver the kind of compassion and empathy that tragedies such as this demand of our head of state. Nor can he stand aside while actual experts deliver the hard facts about what we’re facing. Moreover, he cannot take the time needed to study the impact of this pandemic on rank-and-file Americans.

This individual, who boasts of knowing the “best words” and of surrounding himself with the “best people” simply is not wired to lead a nation in distress. He doesn’t possess a single strand of compassion nor does he empathize at any level with the suffering that is under way out here, even in the middle of Trump Country.

So, here we are. A president who could have offered something of value at actual “briefings” aimed at educating and consoling a nation of frightened citizens is left to say that those events are not worth the “time and effort.”

Donald Trump continues to fail a nation he was elected to lead.

One thought on “Yes, Mr. POTUS, they are worth ‘time and effort’”

  1. A step in turning a Democracy into a Dictatorship is to shut down communications between the leader(s) and the people. Remember when Donald T. shut down the Daily News Briefings from the Press Room?

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