Until this weekend I was under a false impression.
I kept thinking that any suggestion that Trump had done a decent job with COVID-19 was a terrible joke. That anyone who was saying so, wasn't just whistling through a graveyard, but laughing, singing, high-fiving, dancing, and rolling in the mud of a graveyard. Trump seemed to be saying and doing outrageous, stupid, suicidal things, and the rising death toll was proving it. But Memorial Day is a time for reflection, and I finally understand. What Trump has been saying, since the first COVID-19 infection — saying in word and deed, to anyone with ears to hear and eyes to see — is that we’re BETTER than this. We’re America! Numero Uno, Greatest of the Greatest, Top of the Top.
100,000? Impressive, but why did we force Trump to work so hard to get there?
This president never rests on his laurels, and now he’s urging us to follow his example. He’s calling upon the best and the brightest to reach for the stars. He understands that it's not just about raw numbers -- it's about ALL of it -- per capita mortality, per capita infections, per capita spread! He will not abide being number two to anyone, no way, no how! And why is he so sure we’ll rise to the challenge again? Because he knows, even if some have forgotten, that in DONALD TRUMP'S America, we can do ANYTHING!
MASKS? Trump doesn't wear one; why should you?
Patriots died to protect our right to assembly. Is it too much to ask that we die too?
So on this most American of weekends, let us stand shoulder to shoulder with our president. Let us pack tightly into our places of worship, congregate at our beaches, hug each other at our barbecues, and show the world our unexampled commitment to breathing on each other at pool parties! We're a proud, proud people. No one tells us what to do — not where to go, nor how to dress, nor how to eat, nor who to breathe on — certainly not whether to breathe at all. Our greatest days lie ahead and Donald Trump is doing all he can to drag us -- kicking and screaming, whining and complaining -- toward the biggest numbers and the biggest projections. Isn’t it time we all did our parts as well?