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By John Wojcik
Donald Trump’s March 19 press conference on the coronavirus crisis sweeping the country provided the world with yet another display of his massive failure as a president.
It was a rambling diatribe that gave the press almost no information about critical issues.
Just one example of his failure had to do with the availability of the protective equipment needed by our health care workers. The Trump and Pence answer was that these things are being produced, but no assurances were given as to how and when they would reach hospitals.
Outrageously, the Surgeon General went to the podium and presented nothing specific, except general praise for Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis. Earlier, Trump’s CDC told our health care workers that it was ok to re-use old face masks and that they could always tie bandanas around their faces.
On the question of respirators, which will be needed to keep tens of thousands of sick Americans breathing and which need to be manufactured on a mass scale, the president incredibly insisted that the nation’s governors should be doing this. “They always did this,” Trump said, “and now they are running to the federal government and asking us to do it.” A sorrier and sadder comparison to presidents who, in the past, led the nation through various crises could not possibly have been imagined.
He lied yesterday about sending two naval ships to the rescue. It turns out that both those ships are in maintenance and will not be ready for a long time yet. That announcement, like most of his press conferences, was simply another nice-sounding but false pronouncement....
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