Trump's pandemic response Archives

Over Half of Republicans Think Pandemic Is Exaggerated

March 29, 2021 Buck Banks

60%

A new Pew Research poll finds the 60% of Republicans think the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed 550,000 Americans so far — has been made a bigger deal than it really is.

Hundreds of Thousands of COVID-19 Deaths in U.S. Could Have Been Prevented

March 26, 2021 Buck Banks

240,000

New research shows U.S. COVID-19 fatalities “could have stayed under 300,000, versus a death toll of 540,000 and rising, if by last May the country had adopted widespread mask, social distancing, and testing protocols while awaiting a vaccine,” Reuters reports.

How QAnon Anti-Vaxxers Are Dealing with Trump’s Vaccine Endorsement

March 19, 2021 Buck Banks

QAnon supporter: “I just listened to it again and I have to agree it doesn’t really sound like him. Whoever it was was very good at imitating him though.”

— Newsweek: “With Trump contradicting QAnon theories that the vaccine is dangerous and the coronavirus is a hoax, many of its supporters came up with ways to cope with the latest cognitive dissonance, including suggesting it was not actually Trump speaking to Fox.”

Donald Trump, Pro-Vaxxer

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

Trump got his own jab in secret,
After a year of downplaying COVID.
Now he says it’s “great,”
But it’s too little too late,
And some anti-vaxx Trumpers might not live to regret it.

Trump FINALLY Recommends COVID Vaccination

March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

“I would recommend it. And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works.”

— “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated to help fight the Covid pandemic, engaging on the issue after months of relative silence,” Politico reports.

Republican Men Least Likely to Get Vaccinated

March 12, 2021 Buck Banks

49%

Of all the subgroups surveyed in the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll asking whether they would get the vaccine when it becomes available to them, Republican men were the least likely, with 49% of them saying they wouldn’t. By contrast, only 6% of Democratic men said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.

CPAC — The Insurrection After Party

March 1, 2021 Buck Banks

“There was no introspection down in Orlando; no sense that conservatives needed to look an the mirror and ask themselves hard questions about violence, sedition, white supremacy, or cults of personality. … Less than two months after the insurrection at the Capitol, the event was scarcely mentioned. Even after the deaths of a half million Americans during the pandemic, there was no sense that the GOP needed to re-think its values. … In fact, there was remarkably little focus on policy at all — it was all culture war all the time. And, of course, Trump.”

— Charlie Sykes

A Half-Million Americans Are Dead from COVID-19

February 22, 2021 Buck Banks

500,000

New York Times: “Roughly one year since the first known death by the coronavirus in the United States, an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people. … No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic. More Americans have perished from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.”

WVa. Gov: It’s No Time for Fiscal Conservatism

February 2, 2021 Buck Banks

“We can’t hold back … Trying to be per se fiscally responsible at this point in time with what we’ve got going on in this country. If we actually throw away some money right now, so what?”

— West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), calling for a big stimulus package in a CNN interview.

Trump Team Lost 20 Million Vaccine Doses

February 1, 2021 Buck Banks

20 million

“Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guidelines,” Politico reports. “After a week on the job, Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort.”

60%

A new Pew Research poll finds the 60% of Republicans think the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed 550,000 Americans so far — has been made a bigger deal than it really is.

240,000

New research shows U.S. COVID-19 fatalities “could have stayed under 300,000, versus a death toll of 540,000 and rising, if by last May the country had adopted widespread mask, social distancing, and testing protocols while awaiting a vaccine,” Reuters reports.

QAnon supporter: “I just listened to it again and I have to agree it doesn’t really sound like him. Whoever it was was very good at imitating him though.”

— Newsweek: “With Trump contradicting QAnon theories that the vaccine is dangerous and the coronavirus is a hoax, many of its supporters came up with ways to cope with the latest cognitive dissonance, including suggesting it was not actually Trump speaking to Fox.”

— “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated to help fight the Covid pandemic, engaging on the issue after months of relative silence,” Politico reports.

49%

Of all the subgroups surveyed in the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll asking whether they would get the vaccine when it becomes available to them, Republican men were the least likely, with 49% of them saying they wouldn’t. By contrast, only 6% of Democratic men said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.

— Charlie Sykes

500,000

“We can’t hold back … Trying to be per se fiscally responsible at this point in time with what we’ve got going on in this country. If we actually throw away some money right now, so what?”

— West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), calling for a big stimulus package in a CNN interview.

20 million

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Former President Trump released a statement on the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

“Now, Wacky Bill Cassidy can’t walk down the street in Louisiana, a State I won by almost 20 points. He could not even be elected dog catcher today, the great people curse him.”

— Conservative radio host Dennis Prager announced that he has Covid-19 while he ranted against vaccines.

“This should be a 100 percent, straight-up referendum on Biden. Instead, you have Trump the narcissist trying to inject himself into what should be a glide path for Republicans to an incredibly successful election, by making it all about him.”

— Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), quoted by the New York Times, on the 2022 midterm elections.

“We’re not going to win a gubernatorial seat overnight. Can we win things that are within reach, which is an assembly seat. … I honestly don’t know. I don’t think so, but I want to be wrong.”

– Ray Perz, vice chairman of the Yolo Count GOP, assessing the state of affairs for his party in California at the CAL GOP Convention on Sept. 24, 2021.

Numerati

49%

13

38%

44% to 53%

8.2%

“The wealthiest 400 families in the United States are paying an average income tax rate of just 8.2%, according to a new analysis from the Biden administration,” CBS News reports.