During his dark and foreboding inauguration speech on January 20, 2017, Trump made the following statement.
“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
He must have forgotten another promise he never intended to keep. As of yesterday 100,000 Americans infected by Covid-19 lost their battles for life. More than 1,500,000 cases of the pandemic have been reported in the U.S. Our nation leads the world in both statistics.
In November of 2019 the President’s Daily Brief warned of a possible worldwide healthcare disaster. Trump probably refused to read the report; he hates to read with an attention span of about two minutes. In January the number of cases in China was spreading quickly; Trump ignored the warnings of our nation’s infectious disease experts. He said “it will go away,” and later, “we are very prepared for this.” Obviously, “we” were not.
It was the second week of March when cases in the U.S. were beginning to multiply that he admitted the coronavirus was in America.
A recent report claims than if Trump had taken action just one-week sooner, half of the lives lost could have been saved. Because millions of Americans chose to vote for the least qualified, least intelligent man in the world on November 8, 2016, “a day which will live in infamy,” “carnage” is the only word which describes the orange buffoon’s failure.
Trump wants everything ‘done today;’ he has no patience or wisdom. Although he has only been involved in the events related to the coronavirus for two months, he wants every business in America open again, and now. His hasty decisions have harmed our nation and the damage will not be repaired for years to come. The orange buffoon is not concerned about the enormous loss of life now or in the future, which is greater than the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined, he is determined to ensure the wealthy maintain their profit margins.
The truth is that the one percent could never receive another dollar of income and retain their lifestyles for several hundred years. When Trump took office in 2017, there were 563 billionaires in the U.S. Today there are 623. In America there were 11 million, millionaires in 2017. Today there are 18.6 million. The average working man’s wages have either stagnated or been reduced since 2008.
Let’s promise each other that on November 3rd we will rectify America’s biggest mistake. Remove Trump and his failed party from Washington and take our country back. It belongs to ‘we the people,’ not them.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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