Trump’s closing argument: COVID’s not that big of a deal

Last night Tim Miller wrote that the 90 seconds Trump spent on the White House balcony, first removing his mask, then saluting while he gasped for breath, and then apparently entering the building *without his mask on* presumably still contagious with COVID was the weirdest 90 seconds in the history of the presidency. I d argue that the clip below, which he shot in the moments afterward, is even weirder. Any other politician would have seized on his infection as an opportunity to gain sympathy and signal that he feels the country s pain in a uniquely physical, personal way. Instead Trump s strongman instincts have led him to position himself as someone who heroically and deliberately accepted the risk of infection in order to show leadership ( I knew there s danger to it, but I had to do it ) instead of having half-assed his way into an outbreak at the White House through sheer negligence, if not recklessness. Trump having embraced the covid-is-a-distraction perspective of the halfass floomers with new messianic zeal instead of his old, smug trolling is a new level of Hell from 2020, wrote Peter Spiliakos.

via hotair.com

Oh hell.