There’s a school of thought Stateside that all Joe Biden need do to win in 2020, is light Donald Trump’s fuse and step well back. Some political observers think Joe might not even need to do that. That master of ‘cool’, the 44th President Barack Obama has given some advice to his former Vice-President. Keep speeches, interviews and tweets short and sweet. Calmness will win the day.
Due to his 77-years, Joe is libel to a few verbal slips and some mind wandering moments that send his advisers into a tale-spin. Recently he gaffed that 125 million Americans had died from COVID19, when he meant to say 125,000. Compare that to the everyday carnage of Trump’s Presidency, with screws visibly loosening and daily temper tantrums indicating implosion is always imminent.
So, the word on Pennsylvania Avenue is for Joe to keep his cool, drink plenty of water and avoid any more mistakes, that make him look decrepit. The fact that the Coronavirus has claimed 125,000 American lives is really hurting The Orange Bully in the polls. Down by 8 points, Donald is desperate for Joe to make another mistake so he can label him, ‘Senile Joe’. Just as he labelled Hillary ‘Crooked’ in 2016.
Getting that to stick, while getting a 10 to 12-point swing is another matter. COVID19 is currently surging in Trump strongholds like Texas, Arizona and Florida. Eight of Donald’s campaign workers have now tested positive for the Coronavirus, after the President insisted they push forward to yet another rally. Of course, Donald continued to Tweet inappropriately, this time with one of his supporters yelling ‘White Power’ at the camera.
Meanwhile in Trump World, madness was about to ramp up. In Mississippi, legislators belatedly replaced the state flag, which contained the Confederate ‘Stars and Bars’ a White Supremacy symbol, 155 years after the Civil War ended. Another whistleblowing book hit Amazon, describing Donald as stubbornly ill-informed and in love with dictators. Topping that, his niece, a psychologist, published a book entitled, ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.’ Ouch!
You know Donald Trump is in trouble when the institution that put him in the White House, Fox News calls him out on misinformation. Usually quick to do his own publicity, alerting his army of 55 million Twitter followers that he’ll be making a guest appearance, Donald was strangely silent about his appearance on ‘Fox News Sunday’. With good reason, as it was an unmitigated PR disaster.
Challenged, corrected, fact-checked and harassed into actually answering the questions, Donald was completely taken aback. He appeared as if a deer dazzled in the headlights. Flustered, confused and baffled, Trump floundered about failing to substantiate anything he was saying. On COVID19, he said the U.S. had tested more and had a lower mortality rate than any other country. Which of course is wishful thinking.
Donald’s total lack of knowledge on the subject of COVID19 was exposed for all to see. Even saying that some Coronavirus cases were nothing more ‘sniffles’, Donald returned to his familiar finger-pointing rhetoric, describing COVID19 as the ‘Chinese virus’, that would eventually disappear. Pressed on America’s shocking death toll, Donald shrugged ‘It is what it is’.
The interviewer then pointed out that two recent polls showed he was lagging behind Joe Biden. Trump came back with ‘FAKE POLLS’. Cornered Donald went on the offensive saying Joe was ‘not competent to be president’ and ‘doesn’t even know he’s alive’. Scarily when pressed as to whether he’d abide by the results of the election, should he lose, Trump smiled and said ‘Look, I'll have to see.’ President Dick Tator?
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