Iran Press/ America: Donald Trump puts his own interests above the well-being of the country and limits the Coronavirus response by his addictions to adulation and political gain, USA Today reported.
More than anything, we are where we are now because Trump prioritized his own interests above the well-being of the United States. And our response will always be limited by his addictions to adulation and political gain, the daily said.
The article added: "Small groups of protesters egged on by the president, along with governors in redder states, are eager to reopen America — as if you can turn off a pandemic by inviting people back into Hooters. But if Republicans actually want to get Americans back to work, what they have to do is simple: Get rid of Donald Trump now."
The article continued:
We’ll never know what 2020 would have looked like if the most powerful man on earth hadn’t spent the beginning of this year echoing Chinese government propaganda and downplaying the threat of COVID-19.
In seeming hopes of cultivating the trade deal he so desperately wanted and preserving the stock market gains he was relying on for reelection, Trump on Feb. 10 was still spreading Chinese President Xi Jinping's fiction the heat could kill off the virus. The next day, Trump attacked his own Federal Reserve chair for warning about the potential economic impact of the novel coronavirus. And later that month he raged at his own expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for saying that a COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was likely and could lead to a “disruption to everyday life.”
The stock market, shocked by the sudden break in a happy talk from the administration, lost nearly 2,000 points in two days. And instead of heeding the CDC warning, which echoed reports that had been in Trump’s intelligence briefings for weeks, the president and his advisers engaged in a 'cover-up' for five days at the key moment of this crisis.
Two epidemiologists estimated that 90% of U.S. deaths in the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic might have been prevented if social distancing policies had gone into effect March 2, instead of March 16.
When he could have been taking action that might have saved tens of thousands of lives, Trump was busy tweeting, holding rallies, golfing, partying at Mar-A-Lago, and silencing the CDC.
The American public, however, has demonstrated the patience and foresight our president and the protesters lack.
Polls have found wide support for preventive measures such as social distancing and staying at home. In an ABC News/Ipsos poll, for instance, 86% called them responsible policies. Remarkably, about 80% said that if these restrictions were lifted tomorrow, they would be unlikely to go out into public places where people assemble.
Despite the economic hurt slamming the most vulnerable today, the horror of dying alone on a ventilator has been far more convincing than Trump’s sick tweets encouraging his fans to liberate their states.
Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Iceland, and Germany have already moved to reopen their economies, aided by strategic and effective testing. Trump, however, has taken almost every opportunity to make this crisis worse.
As long as Trump is punishing their enemies and propping up the stock market, his agenda is still the Republican agenda. That's why we can't imagine the party turning against him.
But you can only fool the Dow Jones for so long, as this president learned in late February. The horror of tens of millions out of work and the U.S. death toll heading toward six figures by summer is likely only to get worse, especially if Americans are forced back to work.
Health systems in some areas have struggled to cope with an influx of patients, and in some cases, sufferers have been treated on stretchers in hospital corridors.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned there remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow.
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