{"id":41824,"date":"2020-03-22T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41824"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:10:08","slug":"step-aside-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41824","title":{"rendered":"Step aside, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is far from all I want regarding the coronavirus pandemic crisis, but it’s up there \u2026 near the top of my wish list.<\/p>\n

I want Donald John Trump to stop talking to us about what the national response team is doing to fight this conflict.<\/p>\n

I want the president of the United States to hand the microphone over to the experts he has enlisted to do the heavy lifting, to wage the fight. You see, the president cannot — or will<\/em> not — deliver a truthful assessment of where we stand, where we are going and how we intend to accomplish this important mission.<\/p>\n

Trump stands before the world at those briefings and manages to mangle the message. He tells us testing equipment is available, when it isn’t; he berates the media, which are trying to report to the public what the government is trying to do; he talks about vaccines being nearly available, then gets contradicted by medical experts who tell us that they are far from being deployed.<\/p>\n

If the president would merely stand down, step aside and let the pros talk to the nation, many millions of us just might feel more secure in our self-quarantined conditions.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is unable to lead.<\/p>\n\n

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This is far from all I want regarding the coronavirus pandemic crisis, but it’s up there \u2026 near the top of my wish list. I want Donald John Trump to stop talking to us about what the national response team is doing to fight this conflict. I want the president of the United States to … Continue reading Step aside, Mr. POTUS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[9236,1424,9261],"class_list":["post-41824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41825,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions\/41825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}