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American Psycho

The lives of you and your loved ones mean absolutely nothing to our Used-Car-Salesman-in-Chief

Richard Hine
Jun 20, 2020
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In a new Twitter video, Mr. Incompetent is now telling the family members of the more than 100,000 Americans who have already died unnecessarily of COVID-19—and the tens of thousands he still intends to slaughter at the altar of Wall Street—that “we'll never forget those incredible people but they will not have died in vain.”

Apparently, in Trump’s mind, “helping me win re-election” is synonymous with “not dying in vain.”

Trump’s tone-deaf new video dropped the night before his “Coronapalooza” rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where tens of thousands of poorly educateds will be forced to sign a waiver promising not to sue Trump if they catch the deadly and highly contagious coronavirus while crammed into an indoor arena with thousands of other people desperate to stroke Trump’s very weak and very fragile ego.

Suing people is something Trump thinks about a lot. In 2017, he suggested people should sue a journalist whose report caused a temporary 350-point drop in the stock market. In 2020, the millions who have lost money, jobs, or loved ones after being told that the “Carona Hoax Germ Flu” was nothing to worry about have, of course, a long list of people they could sue, starting with Individual Number One himself and his partner-in-lies, aka “Client Number Three,” Sean Hannity.

Trump’s total lack of empathy has long caused many to declare him a “sociopath” (as “Art of the Deal” ghostwriter Tony Schwartz began doing in 2016) and not “fit for office” (as John Bolton tells ABC News’s Martha Raddatz in an interview set to air Sunday night). In The New York Times bestseller “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” 37 mental health professionals led by psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee wrote about the existential threat deranged Donald posed to America and the world. And recently the whole world has seen that Trump’s physical and mental impairments are clearly getting worse.

But is it fair to call him a “psycho”?

In March, pre-lockdown, in an article entitled “American Idiot,”I began compiling a running list of the dumbest things Trump has said about the coronavirus. Back then, it was clear that Trump’s stupidity and his inability to process new information, combined with his own narcissism and his ongoing “fake news” schtick, was destined to make America’s experience with the coronavirus much, much worse than it needed to be. A little more than three months later, it is now also clear that Trump’s lies and political maneuvers—combined with his delayed implementation of social distancing recommendations and his ongoing disdain for mask wearing—have created a US death toll that’s 10 times higher than it needed to be. 121,000 are already dead (equal to 367 deaths per million population). The number could double in just a few more months. For comparison, as of today, fewer than three hundred people have died in South Korea (5 per million population), and fewer than 10,000 in Germany (107 per million population).

The New York Times has been writing obituaries for some of “Those We’ve Lost” in an ongoing series, some of whom I’ve featured in a Twitter thread:

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Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28: “Ms. Blackhorse... was among the #NavajoNation’s youngest and most prominent pandemic victims, and her death stunned many among her people.” #RIP
nytimes.comValentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28She nurtured political aspirations while raising her 1-year-old daughter. Then she tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The next day she was dead.
5:12 AM ∙ May 4, 2020
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Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, Beloved Brooklyn Teacher, Dies at 54: "For scores of children and parents, being assigned to Sandra Santos-Vizcaino’s third-grade classroom at Public School 9 in Brooklyn felt like winning the lottery..."
nytimes.comSandra Santos-Vizcaino, Beloved Brooklyn Teacher, Dies at 54The longtime educator is believed to be the first public-school teacher in New York City, the nation’s largest school district, to die of the coronavirus.
5:38 PM ∙ May 4, 2020
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Israel Sauz, Gas-Station Worker and New Father, Dies at 22: He graduated from high school in Tulsa, Okla., four years ago. He worked at QuikTrip and his son was born a month ago. Then he died of the coronavirus. #RIP #ThoseWeveLost
nytimes.comIsrael Sauz, Gas-Station Worker and New Father, Dies at 22He graduated from high school in Tulsa, Okla., four years ago. He worked at QuikTrip and his son was born a month ago. Then he died of the coronavirus.
6:19 PM ∙ May 12, 2020
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Laneeka Barksdale, a Detroit ballroom dancing star, died in a Detroit hospital at 47 from complications of the coronavirus. Three sons and a daughter must face #MothersDay without her. #RIP #ThoseWeveLost
nytimes.comLaneeka Barksdale, 47, a Detroit Ballroom Dancing Star, Is DeadShe was known for the glide and other challenging steps in a scene that has been hit hard by the coronavirus.
7:25 PM ∙ May 10, 2020
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Jerzy Glowczewski, Last of the Polish WWII Fighter Pilots, Dies at 97: "He fled Warsaw when the Nazis invaded, flew 100 combat missions, and made a life as an architect in Poland, Egypt and the United States. He died of the coronavirus in New York." #RIP
nytimes.comJerzy Glowczewski, Polish Pilot in a Spitfire, Dies at 97He fled Warsaw when the Nazis invaded, flew 100 combat missions, and made a life as an architect in Poland, Egypt and the United States. He died of the coronavirus in New York.
10:09 PM ∙ May 16, 2020
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As the pandemic continues, it’s easy to become immune to the ongoing human cost. (Meanwhile, Republicans somehow made “Benghazi” trend on Twitter again today, while continuing to shrug at a death toll equivalent to hundreds of new Benghazis every day.) As Stalin supposedly said, “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

It may be that politicians and the media are now in the “statistics” phase of COVID-19—more focused on new cases, hospitalizations, and rolling averages than the tragic loss of each individual life—but when Dear Leader tells all those whose loved ones died because he failed to protect them that their deaths during “this interesting period of time” were not in vain, he sounds more like a cult leader or a terrorist mastermind than a President.

He’s not simply being an American Idiot.

He’s being an American Psycho.


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