The Con of Certainty

     So, the guy who thinks windmills (or wind turbines, as they're correctly known) cause cancer delivered a speech last night entirely written by Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, the two top Jewish trustees in the 4th Reich, to have a friendly fireside chat about coronavirus.
     In it, Don "Quixote" Trump mentioned the "foreign virus", which was pure Stephen Miller, a travel ban on all European countries except for Great Britain (which, strictly coincidentally, hosts several of his golf properties) and essentially nothing else. If Fox "News" carried the speech, as they surely did, one would have seen a near-historic plummeting of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in real time. By the time Don was done tilting at the Coronavirus windmill, it had lost yet another 1000 points.
     Then, as usual, the administration, per 1984, had to walk back virtually everything the "president" said when they noted the Dow Jones Industrial Average didn't react as favorably as it was expected to. International airports were thrown in turmoil over a travel ban that was, as far as anyone knew, still extralegal.
     Trump appeared to be listening to the sirens audible only in his Adderall-addled, double-woven head. The address was delivered mere minutes after Trump had huddled all day with, as one can expect given his priorities, banking and financial leaders. Upon this rock of pragmatism was his church, and sermon, built. Virtually every one of those men with whom Trump had huddled must have woken up today with the crimson imprints of their palms and fingers firmly tattooed on their jiggling, well-fed faces on account of all the face palms they'd given themselves as they heard the speech.
     The "foreign virus" he'd mentioned early on in his mercifully brief address was a masterstroke of paranoid, isolationist right wingnuttery, as if a belated travel ban on all but a few European countries would keep out a virus that's long since invaded America's shores to the point where, just before Trump's sermon on the mount, made the NBA suspend the rest of the season after two Utah Jazz players were diagnosed with the virus.
     This is because, being the ultimate right wing stiff prick, Donald Trump cannot bring himself to admit that his initial response to the coronavirus pandemic was, to put it charitably, deeply flawed. But as usual, he immediately painted himself into a corner for no rational reason whatsoever and now is trying, and failing spectacularly, to leap over the paint. Because the aforementioned paranoid, isolationist right wing asshole who thought historically lower immigration rates of Mexicans at the southern border constituted a national emergency refuses to declare one now that we have one because it would contradict his blase reaction to the pandemic.

     It's Sharpiegate all over again.
     When Trump had ignorantly stated, using outdated data, that Alabama was going to get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, the NOAA had no choice but to put itself into the uncomfortable position of contradicting the "president". Then, for the next five consecutive days without fail, rather than merely saying that he'd misspoken or was wrong, Trump then double, tripled and quadrupled down on his insistence that Alabama was going to get hit by Dorian. The nadir of this ridiculous and infantile display of stubbornness that one, until now, only saw in toddlers was Trump having a press conference in which the cone of uncertainty had been artificially extended to include a small piece of southern Alabama.
     Rather than #Sharpiegate, it should've been christened "the con of certainty."
     Coronavirus is merely the latest example of Delusional Donnie rejecting actual reality and substituting his own. During one of his coronavirus press conferences, two of his experts said the outbreak would spread before it receded then Trump took the mic and said the exact opposite because who needs experts when you have a sizable gut?
     This isn't a matter of clashing opinions over an unknown danger. This is no time for opinions but for facts. And Donald Trump is rejecting in real time, on live national television, the factual basis providing the foundation of the advice of what few experts remain in this shitshow of an administration.
     If all that doesn't prove that Donald Trump, the de facto leader of the free world, isn't living in a delusional world that's like something out of a right wing version of Walter Mitty, then nothing will.