Trump is, remember, a man who said before the pandemic , "George Washington would have had a hard time beating me." In many cases, the good things that have happened during the Trump years depended on momentum created by his predecessors. Trump's bizarre practice of simply declaring success when failure surrounds him reached a new crescendo as he accepted his party's nomination. To hear Trump tell it, he is the hero in this story and the virus will soon be behind us. As Americans died, often at a rate of more than 1,000 per day, Trump diverted attention to quack cures and unreliable speculations.

Source: CNN September 09, 2020 00:33 UTC