Ha ha!
Incredible that he still doesn't realise the situation he's in.
Oh, he gets the situation. Play it up for his audience. He's treating the briefings like a campaign rally. He'll spread misinformation and brag about himself for as long as he can.
And as things get worse, he'll just keep blaming others (his tweets constantly reference "FAKE NEWS"). Trust in experts and the media isn't high among his base, so he'll get pretty far with his current strategy of spewing harmful nonsense.
Still seems small scale but already some misinformation on Dr. Fauci as well from right-wing groups:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fauci-becomes-target-of-pro-trump-disinformation-op"Groups point to a flattering email Fauci sent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2013 as well as Democratic resistance to Trump’s stated plan to prematurely end social distancing measures by Easter."
The thing is, Gnurglan, you apply logic and reason in your thinking, but a disturbing number of Americans do not. And that's why Trump can do as he pleases.
There's no need for him to truly grasp the gravity of the situation, because he has literally failed upwards his entire life and has consistently been rewarded for it. So the coronavirus is just another small issue for him.
See:
-Failed casinos
-Failed airline purchase
-Failed university
-Failed steaks? (WTF)
Guy was born on third base, ended up backwards on second base (but thinking he hit a double), and came around to score anyway on someone else's hit and thinks he hit a home run.
He was never a businessman. Businessmen don't qualify to be presidents anyway, but even if people are of the belief that successful businesspeople should run the country, Trump was not a success. No true successful businessmen brag about the appearance of their casinos while it's an operational mess. No successful CEO of a public company acts like a tyrant (have to answer to shareholders but Trump never had to). No true successful businessmen brag about themselves on Howard Stern and star in cringy commercials. Actual successful businesspeople keep in the background as they build their wealth. And they certainly don't consistently fail at selling casinos and steaks to Americans.
Guy is an entertainer turned president who thinks he's a brilliant businessperson and politician.
Absolutely terrifying.
And actions for the response to Coronavirus are often the opposite of what needs to be done. As soon as he called it a "Democratic Hoax" or that "15 cases would be 0" or that "anyone can get a test" or that we have a cure, we know the opposite to be true, because whenever Trump has been responsible for anything, he's failed.
And here he is in the White House as arguably the most powerful person in the world. He won't change his 70 years of behavior because he's never been punished for his failures. Rather rewarded handsomely. Most recently by the American people.
