A few months ago, at one of those press conferences Trump held daily until he couldn’t refill his adderall because he probably doubled a few doses, or else was just to fatigued or on edge to do much…

It was all so typical. He never takes responsibility for anything.

Let me repeat:

He never takes responsibility for anything.

What he has gladly done is deflect, dodge and lie with a bold face. Lies that should stagger everyone’s minds, but which seem to be forgotten all too quickly. That’s almost like a strategy if you think about it. Lie so many times that people ignore it. Bury them with bullshit, and they can’t find their way through the pile to get to fresh air; by which I mean, the truth.

That’s months ago. Remember it? I do. Others, not so much. Why did we not have anything in place to fight a virus?

True, we had measures. We had equipment. They just weren’t enough. And you know why?

Trump did away with a pandemic response unit and told a reporter who asked if it was a mistake “That’s a nasty question.”

He said the coronavirus was something “…nobody could have seen coming.”

That’s a lie. As far back as the 109th Congress in 2005-2006, in Senate Bill 1821, a number of warnings by experts were cited, including Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who was thus quoted: “This is a very ominous situation for the globe … the most important threat we are facing now.” This, in regards to avian flu, (SARS).

That quote was from 21 February, 2005. On 23 February, the Asian regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Shigera Omi, said this: “We at WHO believe that the world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic,” this also in respect to Avian flu.

This congressional session contained Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Dick Cheney was Speaker of the House and George W. Bush was president.

Obama was not president then. Trump can’t blame anyone else for tearing down everything Obama did, just as he continues to fruitlessly claim that Obama spied on his campaign (it never happened). George Bush was president, and this study was clearly embedded in the legislation. There were no riders in the final draft as far as I can see, but anyone who has tracked legislative documentation knows that there are often times when a final bill, to be voted on, isn’t at all what it began as, and may be difficult to follow up on.

The point here is that with a Republican majority in Congress and a Republican president, the subject was clearly viewed as a threat, a scenario not of if, but when.

I’ll skip the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, but feel free to tap the link and refresh your memory. That was a scary thing, but we learned from it. As a novel (new) influenza A virus, it was difficult to defend against and it was a badass, killing as if it were a mad hunter on a spree. We learned from it but still, this wasn’t exactly the avian flu the experts feared so much. That, they knew, was yet to come.

When Trump cut the budget for the CDC, it was unreasonable and reckless. He disbanded the unit for pandemic response of the Obama administration in 2018. Talking heads and editorials pointed out that Trump was obviously on a mission to reverse or obliterate everything Obama had done. Since then, he’s proven them correct. And he wants to continue until his mission is fulfilled.

This vendetta goes way back. For whatever reason, Trump decided to claim that Obama was an illegitimate president because he wasn’t born in the United States. There are tweets going back to Obama’s presidency that prove he not only did this, but criticized everything Obama did, especially when he played golf. He was brutal, as we have come to see this ourselves in frightening years with him as president, with his callousness toward children and families, his surpassing of Obama’s time at golf, his horrible foreign policy and his gross incompetence.

There was bad blood between Trump and Obama, but Trump was the instigator and Obama the better man. If anything stood out as a deepening of Trump’s hatred, it could have been this.

At one point The Donald appeared to chuckle and he gave a little wave, but otherwise you could tell he was seething. Obama had his audience in stitches. These dinners were funny. Even George Bush was funny in his own remarks during his two terms, and believe it or not, he has a wonderful self-deprecating sense of humor. Obama made the press correspondence dinners must-see events. Donald Trump didn’t attend the first one after taking over, and there’ve not been any since. He has a thin skin, does not enjoy any words even in jest against him. He takes everything extremely, seriously, personal. Worse, he never forgets anything he sees as a slight or an insult. He refined his ability to exact revenge decades ago and he’s often bragged about it.

The level of outrage he had following Obama’s remarks can merely be guessed, but one thing was always clear: it was considerable.

So now we have a president who crippled our nation’s ability to quickly respond to a pandemic. He did it. But he takes no responsibly for it and he blames it on Obama. He appeals, in so doing, to the prejudices of his voter base. Those who hated Obama, simply because of his skin color, those who deafened themselves to any and every good thing he accomplished.

First of all he said he didn’t take responsibility. He said he inherited an antiquated system and it worked very well before but wasn’t built (for COVID-19). Then he said no one was to blame. Then, of course, he said, ask the last administration about (the H1N1) pandemic, ask them how they did with that.

Wait. I thought he said the old “system” worked very well. Well which was it?

His lies continued but soon turned to the delusional.

And holy shit, people did try this ludicrous suggestion. There are no concrete numbers, but there were almost immediate calls to poison control centers routed through 911.

But Trump had plausible deniability because he said, “I don’t know, I’m not a doctor.” God forbid he’s ever held accountable for anything he says or does.

Then, Trump turned absolutely, positively, bat shit crazy and promoted the sick ideas of medical treatments that used alien DNA and that astral projection by men raping women caused gynecological issues, along with the semen of demons. Oh, my. God.

But it didn’t end there.

He cut funding for COVID-19 testing, demanded that all schools open as scheduled, and caused new outbreaks in some schools and universities.

That’s one university in the many we have, and it’s terrible. Where we stand right now is 5.97 million confirmed cases, 183, 870 deaths in the United States. I point out that this pair of numbers cannot be accurate, as undetected and undiagnosed cases continue to be unknown and not part of the statistics. The actual number of each must be higher.

Trump is impervious to these numbers. He has not the capacity for empathy. For sympathy toward anyone other than himself. While lamenting a poll, he said, “I guess people don’t love me.”

It was his hideous parents who never loved him, and he’s been chasing that love ever since, even though it is too late for him. He does not respond to the love from another. That’s why he’s on his third marriage. He cannot understand what it is any more than he can feel it for others.

It created a monster. His father strictly tutored him to be strong, to not allow a woman to interfere in his business, to be a ruthless and unflinching thief and double-crosser. He is also, by his own words, a sexual predator with no respect whatsoever for women. It is an understatement to call him a monster.

Questions of his mental health are valid. He has kept children in cages. This article failed to generate the outrage I’d have expected from Americans. Recently it was revealed that Trump officials voted to pull kids from their families to “save democracy.” That’s the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit I’ve ever heard. Since when did children ever threaten a government? It ended up traumatizing both parents and children. And still, not all children have been accounted for. Where the hell are they? Were they trafficked? Sold?

He keeps lying.

He keeps deflecting.

He is all about himself.

And he will never change.

No matter what bullshit he writes or says, it will always be about the great job he’s done.

About Democrats always on a witch hunt.

About how he wants his face on Mount Rushmore.

About how no president in history has done as much for black Americans.

It is galling. It won’t stop. It won’t ever stop even if he loses the election. He will continue no matter what. It is the song that doesn’t end…