Donald Trump is a very smart man. Some people (namely, Donald Trump) have gone so far as to call him a “stable genius.”
Yet even this modern-day Einstein, who some people (namely, Donald Trump) keep telling us graduated at the top of his class at Wharton, was ambushed by the coronavirus.
The man who said recently he “should have been a doctor” due to his natural ability for science and because his “genius uncle” taught at MIT, now finds himself surrounded by a vicious virus that has attacked the country, and the world.
That such a brilliant leader, who some people (namely, Donald Trump) have praised for his “great and unmatched wisdom,” should find himself in such a difficult position is sobering.
As Trump said on Fox & Friends a little over one week ago, “Nobody could have predicted something like this.”
After all, the man is a da Vinci, not a Nostradamus!
Yet some critics are attacking Trump for his botched response to combating the virus once it hit the U.S. They say things might not have been so complicated if he just paid closer attention to the people around him.
They point to Trump’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, who warned him in January the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death.
They mention that U.S. Intelligence agencies, both in January and February, warned Trump of the nature and scope of the virus, and China’s apparent downplaying of its severity, as well as the potential need for the government to take measures to contain it.
They even bring up Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, who warned in early 2017 that a “surprise outbreak” would occur during Trump’s time in office, and that more needed to be done to prepare for a pandemic.
What Trump’s critics fail to understand, however, is that Donald Trump, who some people say has the “highest IQ” (namely, Donald Trump), has a plan for stopping the spread of the deadly virus. And someday, in his abundant wisdom, he will tell it to the American people.
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All he had to do was READ memos, daily briefing reports and LISTEN to scientific evidence. But hey, he’s a genius who knows better than everyone. Our mistake.
Can we mere “common folk” question, or understand, the actions of a genius?
Donald Trump is a born leader, he’s just in the wrong country. He’s needs to find a nation that’s looking for a new dictator. There he can be right about everything.
Anyone (especially Hillary Clinton) could have responded better to a pandemic than Mr. Trump has been able to. Let’s face it, his skill set is reality TV and vulture capitalism. Obviously we make a huge mistake when we ignore a candidate’s ability to look several moves ahead and their desire to serve the public. You really don’t need a chief executive that doesn’t understand that things like healthcare and pandemics are complicated.
That’s O.K. he wasn’t very good at running casinos, charities or airlines or selling wine, steaks, magazines or menswear either.