Column: If Trump alone can fix our coronavirus crisis, then why the hell hasn't he? (via latimesopinion)
In 2016, as Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he said the “system” was broken. “I alone can fix it,” he darkly proclaimed.Now that we’re facing a problem that he alone reallyThe mighty blowhard in the Oval Office has once again revealed himself to care more about the stock market, his flagging company businesses and his own reelection than the health of the American people..
And though he has declared himself a “wartime president,” he has yet to act like one. He waited until Friday to invoke the Defense Production Act, and still only in a limited way, saying he will use it to ensure General Motors begins making and prioritizes production of much-needed ventilators.
So instead of being able to make a grand announcement about the joint venture days ago, the president on Thursday“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” Trump . “You know, you go into major hospitals, sometimes they’ll have two ventilators. And now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’”By Friday morning, it seemed, Trump realized the predicted ventilator shortage was not a hoax. He angrily tweeted insults at GM and its CEO Mary Barra for seeming to backtrack on the number of ventilators the company predicted it could turn out, warning that he might have to invoke the Defense Production Act, but not immediately doing it..
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