Donald Trump must’ve been lying again when he said he wouldn’t deliver any more White House “briefings,” saying they aren’t worth his “time and effort.”
So what does the president do today? He canceled the planned session in the Rose Garden to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, then he stood before us — yet again! — to deliver another rant.
I have to say it, but it’s so patently obvious to me. The folks whose time is being wasted are those Americans who wait for something constructive, informative and useful to come from the president of the United States.
So, with that I will conclude that it doesn’t matter one tiny bit to me whether these events are worth Donald Trump’s “time and effort.” What ought to matter most is that they aren’t worth American citizens’ time to hear what he says or the effort it takes for us to make sense of any of it.
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.
It’s official. I am going to ignore Donald Trump’s blathering incoherent rants whenever he calls these White House “briefings.”
If only he would do the right thing — which is impossible on its face, given the ego and pathological narcissism that afflicts this individualĀ — and stay away from these White House spectacles. He won’t. He cannot. He feels it’s his right to stand in front of the nation and walk us down some blind alley as it regards the coronavirus pandemic.
He is pushing for an Easter reopening of the nation. He just cannot stand the thought of the nation plunging into recession. He keeps laying blame on the media for allegedly hyping the pandemic as a way to cast aspersions on his re-election effort.
I happen to have as much right to turn the TV to another channel as he does to lie to our faces.
So ā¦ I will do exactly that.
Someone needs to let me know when he turns the microphone over to the real experts — the doctors, the national security team, the scientists. Until he does so, I’m out.
