A Year Ago Today, Trump Said COVID Would "All Work Out Well"

[babylonsister]

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2021/01/a-year-ago-today-trump-said-covid-would-all-work-out-well/

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A Year Ago Today, Trump Said COVID Would “All Work Out Well”
Ramenda Cyrus


One year ago, on the same day that the CDC announced a test for COVID-19 and a day after Wuhan had gone into lockdown, Donald Trump tweeted the following:

China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!

The relevant context for this tweet isn’t just the disease that would soon become a pandemic. Trump had struck a trade deal with China just days before, and this tweet was part of the political effort to maintain an air of sunny relations with a country that only four months earlier he’d called “threat to the world,” a country he would be demonizing again by spring.

It will all work out well. The English language is not yet evolved enough to accurately describe what Trump managed to do on Twitter during his presidency. He loved walking the line between lying and misleading, between sincerity and insincerity, the bullshitter-in-chief who sometimes seemed to bullshit himself most of all. This case was no different. His optimism was unfounded, unrealistic, and ultimately self-serving, and that was clear even then, when we had no idea how the coronavirus would unfold. Can optimism be a lie? Trump had derailed at least one early call on the topic by asking about vapes, making it wholly obvious that he had not dedicated enough thought to the issue of COVID-19 to even guess about the ultimate state of things. A year and more than 420,000 U.S. deaths later, it is clear that he was blind, confident, and remorseless about leading America straight to hell.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. Yeah it, "All Work Out Well!

We've had more deaths than we suffered in WWII.

And Velveeta Voldemort wonders why he lost.

[Laelth]

2. Trump told Woodward that he was "playing it down."

Trump was actively LYING to the American people about the immense danger that Trump KNEW the virus posed. He says he didn’t want to create a panic. If so, that’s poor judgment because a good panic that would spur us to an immediate, comprehensive, national response was warranted. Instead, Trump “played down” the threat, and we were left unwarned and unprepared.

-Laelth

[Walleye]

4. He told Dr. Fauci and Birx to lie as well. Unforgivable

[Walleye]

3. The dealmaker who is so susceptible to flattery, he got his pockets picked every time. And ours in t

[Initech]

5. 15 cases down to zero.

Yeah right.