Things Trump Touches Are Dying, Literally

Rick Wilson: “It was inevitable that Trump would face a crisis immune to tweets or stupid memes or insulting nicknames. The damage he does to everyone and everything around him has become an iron law of American politics, an invariable and inevitable process. Still, I didn’t think it extended to everyone in the country; that it would produce actual bodies stacked like cordwood in a preventable, slow-rolling pandemic. When I wrote Everything Trump Touches Dies, I didn’t mean it literally.”

“Donald Trump seems intent on proving me wrong.”

“Trump’s handling of the Coronavirus has veered between tragicomic and insidious in the past weeks. Disturbingly – and even now, it’s disturbing — all while still leaving him seemingly unmoved by the brutal realities facing us in the coming months. He’s made a few pro-forma nods to the deaths to date and to come, but expressed no genuine human sympathy for either the dead or the army of heroic doctors, nurses, EMTs in viral war zones in almost every hospital in the nation.”

“Nothing changes him. Nothing moves him unless it gives him adulation, money, or an erection.”