March 20, 2020
The Trump administration and Donald Trump himself have waged a war on science since day one. Trump’s motto is “Make America Great Again.” It should be “Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts.” It started with the denial of climate change. While California and Australia burned, Trump denied what his own scientists and Defense Department were saying. He dismissed the scientists, and weaponized the EPA to roll back environmental regulations. Budgets and personnel at the NIH and NASA have been cut. Then he cut the department responsible for planning for and managing a pandemic. Studies showed we were ill-prepared, and they were accurate.
Now we have a President, who ignored what his experts were saying about the pandemic that was coming. Scientists didn’t say that the pandemic would go away miraculously in April. Doctors didn’t say that the number of cases would go to zero. Trump wants to overrule his experts, and send Americans back to work and in harms way. He is making the cynical calculation about how much a life is worth. Marco Rubio infamously claimed that the earth was only 6,000 years old. Trump might as well say that the earth is flat.
The Spin Doctor 