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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 09:35 PM Mar 2020

Donald Trump's Old Ebola Tweets Reveal His Incompetence on Coronavirus

Donald Trump's Old Ebola Tweets Reveal His Incompetence on Coronavirus
By Michael Harriot
Mar 18th, 2020, 10:30am

Trump’s old tweets prove he’s a hypocritical idiot.

That’s it. That’s the lede.

What?

OK. After writing this article comparing Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis with his previous statements, The Root’s Managing Editor Genetta Adams just informed me this lede is not enough. All I can think of is an old joke about a young black airplane pilot flying his first commercial flight out of Mississippi. (Or maybe it was Alabama. Or America.)

As he greeted the passengers on the flight, he could hear the whispers from the passengers worried because they had never seen a black pilot. To calm their racist fears, he got on the intercom and assured them that he had flown thousands of flights after graduating first in his class from the best flight school in the world. Still, the uneasy passengers never relaxed. Then, halfway through the trip, the plane encountered a storm.

“Oh Lord, save us from this nigger pilot!” the passengers scream.

The black pilot gets back on the intercom and tells the people not to worry, he’s smart and capable. Just as he finishes his calming speech, the plane encounters more turbulence.

“Oh Lord, save us from this nigger pilot!” they cry out again, in unison.

Even though he is insulted, the pilot lands the plane safely and without a hitch, much to the relief of the passengers and the embarrassment of the all-white crew. The passengers explain that their outbursts were due to anxiety and had nothing to do with the color of the pilot’s skin. Even the all-white crew tries to insist that the passengers aren’t racist.

Before the next flight out of Mississippi, the pilot is informed that there’s going to be another storm, so he gets an idea.

He gives one of his white male flight attendants his uniform. The flight attendant, dressed as a pilot, greets each passenger as they board the plane while the pilot is in the cockpit ready to take off. Of course, they encounter the storm again. As the pilot guides the plane through the turbulence, the passengers panic again. As the inclement weather jostled the travelers through the air, the crew members ran to the cockpit to gloat.

“See?” they said smugly. “The passengers would have panicked regardless of your skin color. Why do you have to make everything about race.”

“I can’t really hear anything,” the pilot replied, barely able to hold on to the steering wheel. (Plane’s have steering wheels, right?) “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m kinda busy here trying not to crash this motherfucker.”

To prove their point, the all-white crew decided to turn on the two-way intercom so the pilot could hear the passengers. Just before he exited the turbulence, the cockpit’s speakers blasted the frantic prayers of the entire plane. The black pilot was the only one who noticed the passengers’ prayers were slightly different.

“Oh Lord,” they screamed in unison. “Save us from this storm!”

Anyway, here’s what Trump has previously said about Barack Obama, leadership, science, medicine and shouldering responsibility during a crisis.


On Vacations

Since the first COVID-19 death was reported on Jan. 11, 2020, Trump has held nine rallies, visited Mar-a-Lago five times and played at least seven rounds of golf. Let’s see what he has previously said about that kind of behavior.










Mishandling It From the Start
One of the sparks that caused the spread of the coronavirus was the Trump administration disregarding the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and allowing infected patients to travel on commercial flights, the Washington Post reports. He further overruled the CDC’s advice warning seniors not to fly.

I’m sure he has never said anything about that.













Politicizing a Crisis
After more than two months of inaction, Trump held his first press conference on Feb. 29, 2020. He immediately criticized Democrats and the press for politicizing a national crisis. Surely, Trump wouldn’t even think of criticizing out great nation’s leadership during a catastrophe. It would be downright un-American.

Oh wait...look what I found.







Let’s look at what he said in 2014, as the Obama administration faced the Ebola crisis:










Trusting the Science
Trump claims to have a “natural instinct for science.” Well, let’s look at what he previously regarded science and research, including what he said during global outbreaks.













Hiring the ‘Best People’
Way back in 2017, officials warned that the U.S. was ill-prepared for a global pandemic after reducing funding to the CDC and dismissing the National Security Council’s infectious disease experts.

He put noted not-scientist Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus crisis after criticizing the Obama administration for having the CDC and its Ebola experts consult with national security experts.










Taking Responsibility
Trump famously said the coronavirus crisis was not his “responsibility at all” because it was an unavoidable situation that no one could have expected.

I’m sure he didn’t blame Obama for the same kind of problems.










See how easy it is to criticize the pilot when you’re sitting in the back seat?

O, Lord, save us from this idiot president...

And this storm.

https://www.theroot.com/donald-trumps-old-ebola-tweets-reveal-his-incompetence-1842383794
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Donald Trump's Old Ebola Tweets Reveal His Incompetence on Coronavirus (Original Post) dustyscamp Mar 2020 OP
Not that what he said wasn't bad, but all I can focus on is how much more readable his tweets were. GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #1
Yeah, you are right about that. It's much more readable dustyscamp Mar 2020 #2
Can I answer that one? SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #4
Christ, He's ALWAYS been an asshole. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #3
So weird his old tweets have better grammar, higher vocabulary scrabblequeen40 Mar 2020 #5

dustyscamp

(2,221 posts)
2. Yeah, you are right about that. It's much more readable
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 10:21 PM
Mar 2020

I think the way he tweets now is just another way for him to get attention. People will notice the misspelled words and missing letters even more now that he is the President. Presidents are suppose to be intelligent. I kind of also think that these misspelled words and missing letters in his tweets could be some sort of secret code for his followers to decipher, but that could be too much for Trump and co

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
4. Can I answer that one?
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 12:12 PM
Mar 2020

One of the many books to come out over the past few years explained his history with Twitter.
Said he could barely use a phone to make calls, and had no idea how to text, so he would dictate to an aide and have them post the tweets, meaning they would clean up his garbled language and make sure there were no misspellings.
Once he got on the campaign trail, and his media supporters started praising his mastery of this new means of campaign communication, he became enraged when aides would alter his nonsense to make it readable.
So, he had someone show him how to type his own tweets (he had a built in advantage most people don’t with those tiny little fingers) and the rest, as they say, is beautiful, perfect history.

scrabblequeen40

(334 posts)
5. So weird his old tweets have better grammar, higher vocabulary
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 05:48 PM
Mar 2020

that the shit that he releases today.

Some people say they were written by different people...

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