One bad day demonstrates how Trump is reaping what he's sown
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, July 30, 2020, will likely prove to be a significant and consequential day in Donald Trump’s presidency.
It was a day when we learned the U.S. economy suffered a historic decline during the second quarter.
It was a day when we learned that former presidential candidate Herman Cain — who had attended Trump’s Tulsa rally without wearing a mask — died of the coronavirus.
It was a day when Trump tweeted that maybe the Nov. 3 election should be delayed.
It was a day when Trump was the only living president or ex-president who didn’t deliver remarks or words of condolence at John Lewis’ funeral, and when Barack Obama made a full-throated defense of voting rights.
And it was a day when, just hours later, Trump delivered a news conference filled with falsehoods about the coronavirus. (“Young people are almost immune to this disease,” he said.)
What’s been remarkable about Trump’s summer so far is how so many of his actions, declarations and tweets have all backfired on him.
That trip to St. John’s Church to hold up the Bible? A public-relations disaster.
The economic re-openings in the South and West? They led to new spikes in the coronavirus.
That Tulsa rally? A surge in infections was likely linked to the event.
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