During 2020—the last year of the first Trump administration and the worst year of COVID—President Donald Trump offered 11 different steps for defeating COVID-19.
Nine of those steps have been revealed. Here are the last two:
11. Learn to Live With It: According to a July 3 story by NBC News: “Eager to move forward and reopen the economy amid a recession and a looming presidential election, the White House is now pushing acceptance. ‘The virus is with us, but we need to live with it.’”
12. Victory Over Coronavirus:“ “Advisor to the President” and First Daughter Ivanka Trump wrote: “Over the past four years, President Trump’s policies and investments in science and technology ensure that America stands ready to solve America’s most pressing problems and that our workforce is prepared for tomorrow’s innovations.”
Ivanka Trump has absolutely no scientific or technology background.
And Trump’s fellow Republicans proved just as anti-science and anti-education as himself.
Donald Trump
In March, 2020, as COVID-19 raged unchecked throughout the country, an NBC News poll found that that only 30% of Republicans said they would actually listen to the advice of doctors to stay away from large, crowded areas to avoid Coronavirus.
By 2026, 23% of Republicans expressed confidence in higher education, while 50% of Democrats did.
Peter Baker. the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, appeared on the July 31 episode of Washington Week. Offering his own commentary on Republicans’ attempt to shame and destroy Anthony Fauci, he said:
“I think they’re making an awful lot out of, you know, what would be pretty normal in those early days when we did not know a lot, right? Scientists were of multiple opinions about the origin of it, they were of multiple opinions about how it was transmitted, and there were multiple opinions about what the best course of action was….
Anthony Fauci speaking to the White House press corps
“It’s not just that he was wrong, it’s that he is evil, and that he….should go to jail. I mean, he’s literally compared to Hitler and Mengele. This isn’t a scientist who just got things wrong, and maybe he did get something wrong. This, in this case, in Rand Paul’s world, it’s good and evil.”
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On July 26, 1946, Chief United States Counsel Robert H. Jackson delivered his closing remarks against the major Nazi defendants for war crimes at Nuremberg. He might as well have been speaking about Donald Trump and his cheerleading—and misleading—chorus on Coronavirus:
“Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique. [Adolf] Hitler, in Mein Kampf, advocated mendacity as a policy. {Foreign Minister Joachim] Von Ribbentrop admits the use of the ‘diplomatic lie.’
“….Nor is the lie direct the only means of falsehood. They all speak with a Nazi double talk with which to deceive the unwary….’Final solution’ of the Jewish problem was a phrase which meant extermination. ‘Special treatment’ of prisoners of war meant killing. ‘Protective custody’ meant concentration camp.
Robert H. Jackson
“Besides outright false statements and double talk, there are also other circumventions of truth in the nature of fantastic explanations and absurd professions.
“[Rabid anti-Semite Julius] Streicher has solemnly maintained that…his reason for destroying synagogues…was only because they were architecturally offensive….
“This was the philosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue their habits of a lifetime in this dock?
“It is against such a background that these defendants now ask this Tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planning, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs.”
Citing William Shakespeare’s play about the murderous Richard 111, Jackson concluded:
“They stand before the record of this trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you: ‘Say I slew them not.’ And the Queen replied, ‘Then say they were not slain. But dead they are…’
“If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.”
If Americans find Donald Trump blameless for refusing to take decisive action against the Coronavirus threat, they might as well say there was no plague, there were no thousands of dead Americans, there was no dereliction of Presidential responsibility.
It remains the mission of Right-wing Republicans like Senator Rand Paul to ignore Donald Trump’s unforgivable responsibility for the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans. Even worse, they seek to blame heroes like Anthony Fauci, who, fighting an unprecedented enemy, sought to save lives.
The advent of COVID-19 was the 21st century’s version of the Black Death. No one could agree on its origins, how it was transmitted, or the best ways to prevent or cure it. But at least there were doctors who desperately tried to find answers to these questions.
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In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Medical, Politics, Social commentary on August 28, 2026 at 12:07 amDuring 2020—the last year of the first Trump administration and the worst year of COVID—President Donald Trump offered 11 different steps for defeating COVID-19.
Nine of those steps have been revealed. Here are the last two:
11. Learn to Live With It: According to a July 3 story by NBC News: “Eager to move forward and reopen the economy amid a recession and a looming presidential election, the White House is now pushing acceptance. ‘The virus is with us, but we need to live with it.’”
12. Victory Over Coronavirus:“ “Advisor to the President” and First Daughter Ivanka Trump wrote: “Over the past four years, President Trump’s policies and investments in science and technology ensure that America stands ready to solve America’s most pressing problems and that our workforce is prepared for tomorrow’s innovations.”
Ivanka Trump has absolutely no scientific or technology background.
And Trump’s fellow Republicans proved just as anti-science and anti-education as himself.
Donald Trump
In March, 2020, as COVID-19 raged unchecked throughout the country, an NBC News poll found that that only 30% of Republicans said they would actually listen to the advice of doctors to stay away from large, crowded areas to avoid Coronavirus.
By 2026, 23% of Republicans expressed confidence in higher education, while 50% of Democrats did.
Peter Baker. the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, appeared on the July 31 episode of Washington Week. Offering his own commentary on Republicans’ attempt to shame and destroy Anthony Fauci, he said:
“I think they’re making an awful lot out of, you know, what would be pretty normal in those early days when we did not know a lot, right? Scientists were of multiple opinions about the origin of it, they were of multiple opinions about how it was transmitted, and there were multiple opinions about what the best course of action was….
Anthony Fauci speaking to the White House press corps
“It’s not just that he was wrong, it’s that he is evil, and that he….should go to jail. I mean, he’s literally compared to Hitler and Mengele. This isn’t a scientist who just got things wrong, and maybe he did get something wrong. This, in this case, in Rand Paul’s world, it’s good and evil.”
* * * * * * * * * *
On July 26, 1946, Chief United States Counsel Robert H. Jackson delivered his closing remarks against the major Nazi defendants for war crimes at Nuremberg. He might as well have been speaking about Donald Trump and his cheerleading—and misleading—chorus on Coronavirus:
“Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique. [Adolf] Hitler, in Mein Kampf, advocated mendacity as a policy. {Foreign Minister Joachim] Von Ribbentrop admits the use of the ‘diplomatic lie.’
“….Nor is the lie direct the only means of falsehood. They all speak with a Nazi double talk with which to deceive the unwary….’Final solution’ of the Jewish problem was a phrase which meant extermination. ‘Special treatment’ of prisoners of war meant killing. ‘Protective custody’ meant concentration camp.
Robert H. Jackson
“Besides outright false statements and double talk, there are also other circumventions of truth in the nature of fantastic explanations and absurd professions.
“[Rabid anti-Semite Julius] Streicher has solemnly maintained that…his reason for destroying synagogues…was only because they were architecturally offensive….
“This was the philosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue their habits of a lifetime in this dock?
“It is against such a background that these defendants now ask this Tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planning, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs.”
Citing William Shakespeare’s play about the murderous Richard 111, Jackson concluded:
“They stand before the record of this trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you: ‘Say I slew them not.’ And the Queen replied, ‘Then say they were not slain. But dead they are…’
“If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.”
If Americans find Donald Trump blameless for refusing to take decisive action against the Coronavirus threat, they might as well say there was no plague, there were no thousands of dead Americans, there was no dereliction of Presidential responsibility.
It remains the mission of Right-wing Republicans like Senator Rand Paul to ignore Donald Trump’s unforgivable responsibility for the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans. Even worse, they seek to blame heroes like Anthony Fauci, who, fighting an unprecedented enemy, sought to save lives.
The advent of COVID-19 was the 21st century’s version of the Black Death. No one could agree on its origins, how it was transmitted, or the best ways to prevent or cure it. But at least there were doctors who desperately tried to find answers to these questions.
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