As you know all too well, the key to Donald Trump’s success is his utter obliviousness and lack of self awareness. That is what enables his unique brand of spontaneous, idiodic hypocrisy and rancor, that plays out as some kind of back handed charisma, a sort of outrage that is so outrageous it comes across as sincere. And that is the key trait that all the other Trump wanna bees seek to emulate. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, and others, we’re talking about you.
But while we’ve all seen countless examples of this purely Trumpian trait time and time again, today’s contribution is a classic. This is a moment all its own. Trump actually took out after doctors and COVID advisors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx and called them “self promoters.” Well, I guess if anybody would be the expert on self promotion, it would be him. The Hill:
“Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned,” Trump said in a statement Monday. “They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk.”
Trump also mocked Fauci for his wayward first pitch at the Washington Nationals game last year and labeled him the “king of ‘flip-flops,'” citing his changing guidance as experts learned more about the pandemic.
Trump saved his sharpest criticisms for Birx, who has in recent weeks given interviews in which she has expressed regret for how she handled her role as head of the White House coronavirus task force.
“Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left,” Trump said, claiming that Fauci would talk badly about her behind her back.
“The States who followed her lead, like California, had worse outcomes on Covid, and ruined the lives of countless children because they couldn’t go to school, ruined many businesses, and an untold number of Americans who were killed by the lockdowns themselves,” Trump added. “Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice.”
The former president also swiped at Birx for traveling for Thanksgiving to see her family despite emphasizing guidance to avoid nonessential travel. Trump delivered the criticism despite traveling frequently for campaign events throughout the pandemic, including holding a host of largely maskless rallies in the weeks leading up to the election.
I give it up to Fauci, he stood his ground and ended up having to hire security guards for himself and his family because of it. As to Birx, I wrote her off as any kind of a credible human being the day she praised Trump’s scientific insights based on his business acumen — he possesses neither, let alone in a quantity to be noted or praised. This was shortly after Mike Pence found her and showed her the ropes and instructed her on how one sells one soul. She listened to Pence and now she has gone the way of Pence. If that epic moment has slipped your mind, here it is.
It’s well documented that friends were always pleading, “Come on, Donald, put down that copy of the New England Journal of Medicine and come play golf with us,” but the president wouldn’t stop studying the latest data. https://t.co/I39FJojegK
— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) March 29, 2021
Liars go to a certain tier of Hell, is there one for pathetic panderers like this? Or, do they end up with the flatterers, up to their necks in caa caa? Or, maybe, since this is the Age of Trump, Satan will create an 11th Circle, ya spose?
Open letter to Former Guy:
Hey former guy, I was witness to the history and remember it in detail. You are the one trying to re-write history!
Donnie, you’re the one who’s been trying to rewrite history for the last four years, and you’re still failing at it. STFU and start losing weight so you’ll fit into that orange jumpsuit.
The only way for the Orange Monster to lose weight is for him to take an industrial strength laxative! But if he did that, he would disappear, cause all he is is a huge pile of sh*t! (with all due apologies to sh*t!) And the Orange Monster’s cronies have been trying to re-write history too, and failing badly at it!
Birx messed up. She kissed the Donald’s pattotie. She needs to retire.
As for Dr Tony Fauci. He’s the greatest human on earth ?.
The man has no self awareness at all. How did he even get to be a primate?
Jaba the hut in golf pants.
Hey, now. Jabba was smart enough to know when he was being played. He let Leia do her little cosplay to free Han only to capture her (and put her in lady-slave garments that fostered the fantasies of millions of heterosexual young men for at least the next decade). Then, he was able to capture Luke.
Donald Trump couldn’t have managed either situation. He couldn’t have even outwitted Jabba’s little pet (that monkey-lizard thing).