The Meltdown

In their Sunday magazine supplement, the London-based Financial Times will publish an article (link here) that provides a postmortem into the early disastrous days of Donald Trump's incompetent mismanagement of the burgeoning coronavirus crisis. The piece is titled "Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown" with the secondary title of "What went wrong in the President’s first real crisis — and what does it mean for the US?"

This one paragraph has already garnered considerable press coverage:

Trump's son-in-law "'Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it,' says a Trump confidant who speaks to the President frequently. 'That advice worked far more powerfully on him than what the scientists were saying. He thinks they always exaggerate.'"

In a nutshell, that captures why Trump is so wholly unqualified to serve in any elected office, let alone the American President. He thinks about himself and his reelection chances first and foremost, not the good and health of the American people. And he thinks about money and profits before human lives.

November 3 cannot come soon enough. This man must be gone on January 20.