DrDealgood
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Covid was supposed to be a blessing for him.
Late October last year there were talks about us hitting a recession in 2020. This would've threatened Obama's job growth Trump was riding on. The Dems were still trying to impeach him too. Covid gave Trump an excuse for a decline economy, a distraction from impeachment and a chance to be a hero during a global crisis.
This carrot was too fukking stupid to play along
Actually it's worse than that, and now that he'll be gone in January I can pleasurably read his niece Mary's book and get the picture of why.
It's not just stupidity. It's that he's a Dunning-Krueger case and a major personality disorder if not an outright psycho. To actually DO anything proactive about it never even occurred to him. The stories are out now about what a clueless jerk he was and is - making the Republican Party even more of a zombie shell than they were before:
‘This f---ing virus’: Inside Donald Trump’s 2020 undoing
“Sir, regardless, this is coming. It’s the only thing that could take down your presidency,” Parscale told the president.
Trump snapped.
“This fukking virus,” Trump asked dismissively, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange, “what does it have to do with me getting reelected?”