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From the beginning of the Trump presidency, it always seemed as if every day brought the possibility that His Excellence would sink to new lows. And he never failed to live down to those expectations.
The lows came in many shapes and forms, whether in the form of insensitivity, bigotry or xenophobia. Lows arrived in terms of an inability to understand the basic principles of civics, to place blame anywhere but at his door, and to demean all forms of truth-telling, labelling anything that might reflect negatively on him as fake news.
It’s hard to understand the Donald’s desire to stand on the podium, reading updates by rote and attempting to answer questions daily during the COVID-19 pandemic, other than that he believes it gives him the opportunity to demonstrate his greatness at a time of crisis. Or perhaps the shameless one believes it’s too good an opportunity for him to get great ratings for his great performance.
Although the bar has been set so ridiculously low, the Trumpster has now set a new standard for pure stupidity. Having always believed that there must be easy ways of making the virus go away, and constantly looking for a quick fix, at yesterday’s press conference Trump jumped on a set of tentative findings: 1) in the lab, bleach or isopropyl alcohol tend to kill the virus in respiratory fluids; and 2) the virus doesn’t do well in certain forms of ultraviolet light.
You or I might listen to this and momentarily wish, “Wouldn’t life be simple if you could drink some Lysol or Chlorox, and that would do the trick.”
You or I might listen to this and momentarily wish that we could somehow inject ultraviolet light inside the body, and that people would be cured.
But you and I–and anyone with an IQ of more than 40—would quickly realize that this is just a pipe dream, that things just don’t work that way. Anyone with half a brain would realize that injecting or ingesting Lysol is something only a fool would do, that it would likely kill you pretty quickly. People with just a modicum of intelligence would recognize this as little more than a fool’s wish. And, by the way, if we ever thought that this were at all possible, we might try out the idea very quietly and privately on someone who wouldn’t laugh out loud and think too badly of us for acting the fool.
Ah, but the President of these United States states isn’t that smart. Nor does he have any intellectual modesty, nor does he have any form of self-censoring device. “The disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, “ he opined so all the world could hear his brilliance. “Suppose we hit the body with a tremendous ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” he blathered on in front an audience in disbelief.
I admire poor Dr. Birx, listening to this nonsense, for her ability to restrain herself from grabbing him by the neck and choking the poor bastard. Or perhaps she thought of recommending to him that it was such a brilliant idea that he might show how effective it was by downing a pint of Lysol himself.
Liar, check. Egotist, check. Racist, check. Narcissist, check.
Not that it’s exactly news, but to these accurate descriptors we can now add, in all caps and in neon lights: IDIOT and FOOL.
