Is it a good idea for Trump to tout "game-changers?"

Mar 20, 2020, 9:36 AM

This is just a personal observation, but one thing I've long noticed is that idiot leaders tend to get exposed in times of crisis. People lose patience with leaders who don't know what they're doing, and it's always been in the midst of crisis when rational, sober, serious leaders tend to rise to the fore.

Trump didn't start this crisis off particularly well. He spent months denying the seriousness of COVID-19 - amplified by the echo chamber at Fox News - though now, confronted with the prospects of a collapsing economy and potentially hundreds of thousands (or more!) dead, has (to his belated credit) abruptly pivoted, and embraced the crisis with both hands. The problem is, we're also behind the curve in terms of preparation and Trump now seems to be trying spin the potential of "game-changing" medications that could knock this bug down in a few short weeks.

I'm not sure that's wise. This bug looks like it's going to be a lot more of a protracted siege than any kind of quick fix and the pandemic could well extend into the fall...or even longer. And the longer this goes on, the less patience people are likely to have with Trump's ever-shifting narratives and questionable relationship with truth and fact. He can't spin, right now...he has to crisis manage with cold dispassion.

Trump's popularity rate has remained largely fixed at around 42% pretty much his entire presidency, and seemingly nothing - not impeachment, not Russia, not mistresses, not tax returns, not anything - has changed that, but this crisis is something that could and without question will finally move the needle.

If he's to move that needle upwards, Trump's going to have to be positive, constant, sober, unifying, and above all else, competent. Prior to COVID-19 he maintained the support he did have largely on the strength of the economy; now that the economy's gone, if he's to get through this it's going to have to be on the strength of his actual leadership.

Can he?

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Well, golly gee, shame on me for asking what the "political ramifications" of this crisis are likely to be...on a politics and religion board.

Trump's got a definite opportunity here. If he successfully leads America through this crisis, a whole lot is going to be forgiven and he'll get that five-per-cent-or-so (or a lot more!) of that swing vote he needs to win re-election.

If he fumbles it - and repeatedly promising what he can't deliver and then moving the goalposts is almost certainly not going to cut it, not on this - then he won't, and he'll get crushed, and it really is probably that simple.

I myself am genuinely curious how things are going to go. I mean, I personally think Trump's a narcissistic populist fool and that's going to get more exposed the deeper into the soup America gets, but I'm also willing to admit Trump might just be crazy like a, well, fox, and might somehow Forest Gump his way through this, too. He's been remarkably adept at surviving stuff in the past.

I am making no predictions, myself. I've personally learned the future tends to make fools of us all, one way or another, so I've kinda given up trying to predict tomorrow with any certitude.

Is it a good idea for Trump to tout "game-changers?"

I am working feverishly to find...

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this is not a political problem***

Uh,

Trump is an idiot

Looks like all your hard work paid off.

lol***

I was thinking honest wasn't a top priority in that post.***

Re: Uh,

What other ones?

Trump and his minions still view this as a public relations

Re: Trump and his minions still view this as a public relations

Re: Trump and his minions still view this as a public relations

Unfortunately, Trump's eye has been on re-election and

You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you right square...***

Trump has lied over 18,000 times in a little over 3 years.

You're just jealous that he two lies ahead of you.***

I am sure people who you agree with have the answers***

Ugh...more impeachments coming

welp, youve been wrong about everything else, why not this?***

Rex Tillerson’s assessment seems to be accurate. Since ...

you don't like trump i never knew til now***

Re: Is it a good idea for Trump to tout "game-changers?"

Re: Is it a good idea for Trump to tout "game-changers?"

Your proposed option..? Something is better than nothing.

The MDM jumps on every new tweet like a cat chasing...

every press conference has a speaker congratulating

Maybe Trump is allowing them to help determine what...

Fauci is the only credible actor in this. He disappeared

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