Trump sent supporters a signed stock market chart from this afternoon, screenshots of TV coverage of the stock market, and a message saying, “From opening of press conference, biggest day in stock market history!” From @jamiegangel: https://t.co/IYX6vZOu8O— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 14, 2020
Trump wanted to demonstrate that he could so open his mouth and not spook the markets after a disastrous show the other night. That he's smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb. And for a shining moment, the Dow figures rose. Rose! It's just after the final bell that everything got really weird and people started to realize we never left TrumpWorld. There were signs.
Like the way Trump takes no responsibility for anything, ever.
"No, I don't take responsibility at all": Trump on his botched coronavirus response https://t.co/5RxVrjFgxx— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 14, 2020
See, that's it, right there. That's the pull-quote for his entire Administration. He doesn't take any responsibility at all. It'll show up in his obits. It may very well be the Trump Doctrine.
Also, it turns out he more or less invented a website that will be "very quickly done, unlike others of the past" that is being worked on by Google, except what the entire fuck. Dr. Debbie Birx held up a flowchart of the process of the website that might could be eventually a thing, which looked like she had one poster-board and just remembered it was science fair day. (Or rather some WH staffer made her Vanna White that shit.)
There was so much handshaking going on, too. Which is not recommended by the CDC, especially when it seems like Trump has just been basically wandering through a miasma of infected people the last couple of weeks. Mar-a-Lago should pretty much be considered a hotspot, right now. We're up to about four known COVID-19 positives. And Trump is still gonna, like, function there this weekend.
That's some pretty wild stuff. Also wild--Trump still doesn't really seem to want people to actually get tested for Coronavirus, because it still would look really bad. For him. He doesn't get it.
Which is not to say I think this has anything to do with what the stock market likes (it isn't my metric or priority), but I find it amazing that, considering people are sick/dying/could go out of work/lose loved ones, he's crowing about the stock market rise as an indicator of his ratings. Because he pulled off a successful spot. And he distracted from the fact that we are way beyond containment of the corona outbreak here (because I think West Virginia* is the only state not reporting a patient, and that does not mean they haven't got one) and our strategy for mitigation and ramping up to have equipment available for treatment of the most sick among us is still sketchy, because we've lost so much time to people having to stop and get out of the clown car, and kiss Trump's ass to keep things going.
None of this looks good, and it's because it isn't. I'm sure you've heard this from me before.
UPDATE: I'm not trying to bust on WV or anything, but they closed schools without any tested cases. The only state that has no cases, but they did close schools. I will take no further comments on what's up with that. These folks know that testing or not, they likely do have cases, and it's better to take action before you are just reacting to an out of control thing. I love you WV! You are doing it right!. Because what are the actual odds they really haven't a case? It's not great.
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