The COVID Diaries – 23 14th April
If the display that the world was treated to in a White House briefing yesterday had come from a stroppy toddler, then we could all have left it to their parents to give the little child a dressing down after the event. The problem was that this wasn’t a toddler, but the President of the United States who cannot cope with the fact that the coronavirus crisis is demonstrating his complete failure to provide the leadership and statesmanship that we expect from the leader of the Western world.
The president boasted about his own record and angrily dismissed negative press coverage of his ongoing failures. This was on the day when the USA virus death toll passed 23,000. Unemployment claims have rocketed past 15 million, and more and more Americans are becoming dependent on food banks.
But the President only seems interest in himself. In the middle of this catastrophic crisis, he is more interested in his own image and his re-election campaign. He appears to be unable to grasp the scale of the crisis, and as hundreds of thousands of people have died all around the world he talks only about himself.