Susan Glasser watched Donald Trump’s nine-minute address to the nation on the coronavirus pandemic from a year ago.
“In the awful hindsight created by the deaths of more than five hundred thousand Americans, it’s a true horror to again hear Trump promising the country that ‘the virus will not have a chance against us,’ and insisting, ‘I will never hesitate to take the necessary steps to protect the lives, health, and safety of the American people.’ Watching this risible B.S. a year later, it seemed to me that even Trump had had a hard time believing his own bluster. When he read off the teleprompter that he was ‘confident’ of victory over the pandemic, he appeared to be gasping for air.”
“The whole speech, in fact, had the feel of a hostage video. Trump seemed like a politician who knew he was in big, big trouble that he might not get out of… From today’s vantage point, it seems disastrous.”
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