{"id":2551,"date":"2020-04-17T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:38:14","slug":"trumps-video-of-coronavirus-actions-accidentally-reveals-how-he-mishandled-things-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s video of coronavirus actions accidentally reveals how he mishandled things in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A campaign-style video President Donald Trump is promoting in an attempt to rewrite the history of his coronavirus<\/a> response accidentally reveals the truth \u2014 that he didn\u2019t really do much during a crucial period in February and early March when the virus was spreading undetected in America, besides downplaying the threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video, which premiered during Monday\u2019s unhinged White House coronavirus task force briefing<\/a> and was then posted to Trump\u2019s Twitter account<\/a>, features a timeline of what the video refers to as the president\u2019s \u201cDECISIVE ACTION\u201d during that period. But the list of Trump\u2019s anti-coronavirus actions is far shorter than it might appear as it ticks by your screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one thing, Trump had little to do with a number of the \u201cactions\u201d highlighted in the timeline. For another, the video includes a number of developments that are really nothing to brag about, such as the first US case being reported on January 20 and the CDC testing debacle<\/a> that put the US behind the curve compared to other countries that have more successfully handled the coronavirus. And it skips right from early February to March, thereby revealing Trump didn\u2019t do much during a period in which proactive measures could\u2019ve been taken, saving lives”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“instead of being focused on the coronavirus during that India trip, upon his February 26 return, Trump reportedly<\/a> chastised a number of government officials over the CDC\u2019s February 25 warning that the virus might cause \u201csevere\u201d disruption to American life \u2014 not because he thought the analysis was inaccurate, but because it hurt the stock market.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/14\/21220474\/trump-coronavirus-video-white-house-briefing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A campaign-style video President Donald Trump is promoting in an attempt to rewrite the history of his coronavirus response accidentally reveals the truth \u2014 that he didn\u2019t really do much during a crucial period in February and early March when the virus was spreading undetected in America, besides downplaying the threat.
\nThe video, which premiered during Monday\u2019s unhinged White House coronavirus task force briefing and was then posted to Trump\u2019s Twitter account, features a timeline of what the video refers to as the president\u2019s \u201cDECISIVE ACTION\u201d during that period. But the list of Trump\u2019s anti-coronavirus actions is far shorter than it might appear as it ticks by your screen.<\/p>\n

For one thing, Trump had little to do with a number of the \u201cactions\u201d highlighted in the timeline. For another, the video includes a number of developments that are really nothing to brag about, such as the first US case being reported on January 20 and the CDC testing debacle that put the US behind the curve compared to other countries that have more successfully handled the coronavirus. And it skips right from early February to March, thereby revealing Trump didn\u2019t do much during a period in which proactive measures could\u2019ve been taken, saving lives”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“instead of being focused on the coronavirus during that India trip, upon his February 26 return, Trump reportedly chastised a number of government officials over the CDC\u2019s February 25 warning that the virus might cause \u201csevere\u201d disruption to American life \u2014 not because he thought the analysis was inaccurate, but because it hurt the stock market.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,170],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}