Donald Trump is always on the lookout for an enemy to rally his base against as he postures about his own supposed toughness. Even Trump can’t quite claim a virus is out to get him personally, so he needs other enemies. Today, the World Health Organization took the top spot, as Trump announced “We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs.”
That decision comes as Trump has also sidelined the White House pandemic task force, for whatever use it ever was. Not that public health was ever his primary consideration, but this may be a new low even for Trump.
● Trump is digging in on his anti-mask crusade.
● The Trump administration is endangering public health in order to suck up to evangelicals, watering down the CDC’s reopening guidelines for churches in some very specific, very dangerous ways.
● Every worker on one Tennessee farm has tested positive for coronavirus. It’s not the only farm with a major outbreak, either.
● American billionaires have added $434 billion to their wealth since COVID-19 began. A few of them have raked in tens of billions of additional dollars.
● Predictably enough, Trump is exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push his border wall.