John Bolton's interview with Martha Raddatz on Sunday got 6.2 million viewers — about 100 times more people than Benedict Donald had at his sad little Tulsa rally the night before.
Schadenfreude aside, however, the Tulsa event was not only sad but alarming. Trump boasted that he'd told officials to slow the testing for coronavirus down. The crowd roared. Because they don't understand basic stuff like this, many of them could soon be dead.
And now, Trump is doubling down, tweet after tweet. This morning it was, "With smaller testing we would show fewer cases." Yes, Skippy — but the cases would still be there. Look at the hospitalizations, look at the death rates, look at the obits in the local paper.
Or click and look here. See, we have a lot of people: 330,959,930. But with 29,027,198 tests, per capita, we're not doing so hot. (Speaking of "hot," didn't someone once say that the virus would go away in the summer?) We're also not ramping up testing because the federal government has basically abandoned a national effort to combat the virus, leaving it to a patchwork approach by the states.
So we're not seeing spikes in the virus because we're aggressively testing. It's because mostly Republican-run Sunbelt states are opening too soon, and without strong, responsible leadership (see "Cuomo, Andrew"), the people in those states are flouting CDC guidelines.
As one of the tweeps we follow observed, this is more than Trump being hypocritical. It's like he's gaslighting himself. We cats HISS.
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