The ’toon accurately reflects Trump’s perverse dishonesty.
Obama inherited an economic collapse still in freefall from Dubya Bush, and turned it around, tripling the capital investment market and reducing the then-record deficits he inherited by two thirds.
As for not being prepared for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), it was Obama who successfully saved us from the 2009 H1N1 resurgence of the previous 1918 pandemic (popularly known as the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the Swine Flu in 2009), Ebola and Zika, with no interruptions to the economy, and created the very successful Pandemic Response Unit.
It was Trump who, in his petty jealousy, closed the Pandemic Response Unit in 2018 because it had been created by Obama, and then when he was briefed last December on COVID-19, ignored the warnings, failed to connect the dots (like Bush in advance of 9/11 in 2001), and instead of taking early, aggressive action that could have saved lives and the economy, now we are in a state of economic collapse like what we got from Hoover and Bush and people are dying and survivors are in panic.
The ’toon accurately reflects Trump’s perverse dishonesty.
Obama inherited an economic collapse still in freefall from Dubya Bush, and turned it around, tripling the capital investment market and reducing the then-record deficits he inherited by two thirds.
As for not being prepared for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), it was Obama who successfully saved us from the 2009 H1N1 resurgence of the previous 1918 pandemic (popularly known as the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the Swine Flu in 2009), Ebola and Zika, with no interruptions to the economy, and created the very successful Pandemic Response Unit.
It was Trump who, in his petty jealousy, closed the Pandemic Response Unit in 2018 because it had been created by Obama, and then when he was briefed last December on COVID-19, ignored the warnings, failed to connect the dots (like Bush in advance of 9/11 in 2001), and instead of taking early, aggressive action that could have saved lives and the economy, now we are in a state of economic collapse like what we got from Hoover and Bush and people are dying and survivors are in panic.