By now every person on Earth who has an internet connection, a TV or a cell phone knows that COVID-19 infected President Donald J. Trump departed Walter Reed Military Hospital Sunday night at 6:30 PM, just in time for the network evening news programs. This departure was clearly intended to be a stunt for both a photo op as he did a pass by his supporters outside the gates of the facility before coming back to his waiting helicopter.
Upon his return to the White House, he ceremoniously went up the stairs to the Truman Balcony*, with a film crew Standing By, ala, the Proud Boys, the balcony staged with four flags, and he ceremoniously stood between the flags and took his COVID-infected mask off, and gave his best Mussolini face, and went inside to film campaign commercials. He put one up on a tweet minutes later sending the false message that COVID-19 is no big deal, and could be easily defeated. This on the day when the United States death toll for COVID-19 exceeded 210.000 American souls.
Of course everyone knows that he exposed the film crew, White House Staff, the helicopter crew, the Secret Service security detail and his medical team to his active COVID-19 infection at a time during the course of the disease when he was highly infectious. This is the very definition of Towering Irresponsibility, towering arrogance, towering incompetence, towering indifference to life and the health of millions of Americans, and towering negligence of his duty to his Oath of Office and responsibilities to the American People.
The president has made the White House a festering COVID-19 hot spot that has infected his staff, visitors to the White House with the Rose Garden Super Spreader Event, which has now extended to family members of visitors, three US Senators, the White House Press Secretary and her staff and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is hospitalized due to obesity and severe asthma co-morbidities. Just two minutes ago, I see a breaking news bulletin from the New York Times that informs:
General Mark Milley and almost the entirety of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are quarantining after Admiral Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, tested positive for coronavirus.
So, this president who flaunts every commonsense COVID-19 precaution, promulgated by his CDC, NIH and FDA staff, known to be the best in the world in dealing with infectious pandemics, has turned his residence, which houses the nerve center for the greatest nation on Earth, has been turned into a smoldering pile of infection that is unsafe for any person who enters it, including the president’s wife, who was also infected at one or the other Trump Super Spreader events.
Mr. Trump’s Towering Irresponsibility, incompetence, indifference, depravity, Dereliction of Duty and unwillingness to work for the benefit of the people of the United States of America clearly disqualifies his right to remain in office as the President of the United States of America for four more days, let alone four more years. It is time for America to show Donald J. Trump the door so the White House can be properly fumigated, and those ghastly, tacky, gold curtains can be removed and burned, never to be displayed in the White House again. Ever.
*Revision 1 — H/T to Union Jok who informed me that the location is not the Truman Balcony, as I heard reported on TV. The Truman Balcony is on the second floor.