As I’m sure you’re well aware by this point, the United States is suffering from a severe lack of testing as this coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on with no real end in sight. And according to a new report from the New York Times, Trump may have just said the quiet part loud when it comes to why.
Spoiler alert — it’s every bit as selfish and self-serving as you’d expect from the likes of Donald Trump.
Experts across the nation have repeatedly warned that the Trump administration’s plan to reopen the United States economy cannot be safely executed until mass coronavirus testing and contact tracing is available from coast to coast. However, Trump has made his reluctance to do so strikingly clear over the past several weeks and according to the Times has once again admitted that his unwillingness to test large numbers of people stems from simply not wanting to know the true numbers, lest they damage his image in advance of the election.
“In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad,” Trump reportedly stated yesterday.
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This isn’t the first time Trump has made an admission along this vein. Back in March, before the massive blowup of the virus in the US, when the severity of the issue was just beginning to become clear, Donald was clearly reluctant to allow passengers from an infected cruise ship to disembark in the US, so as not to raise the country’s overall number of cases.
“I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are,” Trump said of the cruise ships back in March. “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault. And it wasn’t the fault of the people on the ship either, okay? It wasn’t their fault either and they’re mostly Americans. So, I can live either way with it. I’d rather have them stay on, personally.”
At the time, the United States only had around 200 confirmed cases of the deadly virus. Since then, our numbers have skyrocketed exponentially, with a startling 1.26 million confirmed cases and nearly 75,000 deaths — and those numbers are with a severe last of testing.
It seems Trump knows that should true numbers in this country ever be reflected, his goose is cooked. Well done.
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