He was asked
“During these first 100 days,” he asked, “what has surprised you the most about this office? Enchanted you the most from serving in this office? Humbled you the most? And troubled you the most?”
“Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?â€
“You definitely have some impressive accomplishments….And more than a lot of presidents who manage to get reelected. My question is, is it enough?â€
Oh, wait, those are the kinds of questions asked of Obama, softball after softball
A writer with the leftwing New York Magazine asked President Donald Trump at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on Monday if he deserves to be re-elected given the fact that more Americans have died from the virus than did in the Vietnam war.
According to the National Archives, 58,220 Americans died fighting in the Vietnam War. The number of deaths from coronavirus as of April 25 was 52,459, according to the Statista website.Â
Olivia Nuzzi asked Trump, “If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be re-elected?â€
“Yes we’ve lost a lot of people, but if you look at what original projections were — 2.2 million — we’re probably heading to 60,000, 70,000 — far too many — one person is too many for this,†Trump responded.Â
“I think we’ve made a lot of really good decisions,†Trump said. “The big decision was closing the border or doing the ban.â€
Nothing partisan or unhinged about that question, right? I don’t remember anyone asking Obama about the record number of people who dropped out of the jobs market out of frustration, do you? Or anything about doubling the debt, more than any president before him. Or why he allowed guns to get in the hands of gang members and jihadis who then used them to wound and kill kids and adults, and two U.S. federal agents. Or why he allowed the IRS to target conservative groups. And so much more.
As Erielle Davidson tweeted “Wow. What a terrible question. Does a president “deserve†reelection based on the number of deaths produced by a global pandemic? Our media is broken.”
It is a global pandemic. Will Nuzzi ask Cuomo and de Blasio the same question?
Trump gave a good answer, though, instead of battling her. Those original projections are what caused nations to panic, for cities around the world to panic, for U.S. states and counties to panic. Especially in light of what was happening in Italy. Might we have seen those millions without social distancing and lockdown? Who knows.
