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The Only Panic Donald Trump Was Worried About.
He wasn’t at all worried about the reaction of the broader American public.
Since the news broke that the President had been entirely aware of the severity of the coronavirus as far back as early February and still actively downplayed it to the American public, I’ve been doing my best to process this news and the underlying reasons behind no just his own, but his administration’s reasons for doing so. As we all know, both in the original interview with Bob Woodward and in the aftermath of the revelations that he knew, Donald Trump has insisted that they did not tell the American people because they did not want to incite panic. But considering the totality of his actions and what we know about the President, it arguably could not be more clear that while he was certainly concerned about panic, it wasn’t the panic of the American people.
If the President as concerned about panic at all, it was only about how that panic would affect the stock portfolios of the rich.
Considering the amount of stress and trauma that the American people have been dealing with through no fault of their own over the past six months, I can’t shake the feeling that we have become desensitized to just how brutal our government has continuously proven itself to be. I’d like to think that if…
