Posted on 03/15/2020 8:07:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Friday, President Donald Trump officially called a national emergency to deal with the ongoing threat of the coronavirus. This is the latest in a series of escalating steps that have been taken to deal with the ongoing crisis.
At his extensive news conference on Friday, the president made a serious of announcements, including the expansion of test kits by 50,000 by the early part of the week. He included presentations by major business leaders and his coronavirus task force. All the positive action spurred the largest point gain in history for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, surging 9.4% or 1,981 points on Friday.
In addition, the president declared Sunday March 15 to be a National Day of Prayer. He tweeted, “We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these.” Of course, he is exactly right for our nation has prospered throughout our history because Americans have repeatedly asked for Divine intervention. This is the perfect time to ask for the best solution to this crisis, help from Almighty God.
While the president has been acting aggressively at a national level, governors across the country are taking bold actions in their respective states. Sporting events, business conferences, schools and other large gatherings of 250 people or more have been either canceled or postponed.
Our country is undoubtedly facing a major health crisis as the coronavirus has spread across the country. As of today, 2,499 Americans have contracted the disease and, sadly, 55 people have died. It will undoubtedly continue to spread for several more weeks or even a few months before the numbers start to decline.
The president is facing a significant health challenge to our nation. It could be the worst pandemic we have encountered since the devastating Spanish Flu of 1918 which infected about 30 million Americans, killing approximately 600,000 people.
In times of crisis, a nation needs to rally behind their leader. For our country, during this coronavirus outbreak, our nation should show solidarity with President Trump and his administration. He deserves our support for he has been taking bold and courageous action.
In late January, he made a brave decision to stop air travel from China and later expanded it to include South Korea, Italy and Iran. On Friday, starting at midnight, all flights into our country from 26 nations in Europe were stopped as well. This will be expanded to the United Kingdom and Ireland on Monday.
With every decision, his actions have been heavily criticized by Democrats and the media, which usually work in tandem. Not only has the president been accused of “partisan” or “misguided” policies, but, also unhealthy nationalism and racism.
When the president labeled the coronavirus as “foreign,” CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta claimed that it “is going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia.” As usual, Acosta is plain wrong in his biased analysis. It is not “xenophobia,” but truth in labeling as the virus did originate in China.
By enacting the aggressive travel bans, the president is just fulfilling a policy he promoted in the 2016 election. He promised to put “America First” in everything he did as president. It is especially important during a health crisis, for President Trump to put the lives of our citizens first.
Unfortunately, this week, Democrats have used their media platform to blast President Trump. In his media statement on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called the president a “pathological liar,” as well as “a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot.” In addition, Sanders claimed the president was running a “corrupt administration” and believes he is “above the law.”
The following day, former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, used his media opportunity to disparage the president’s response to the coronavirus as a “colossal” failure that is infected with “xenophobia.” These types of hyperbolic criticisms were never leveled at President Barack Obama during the H1N1 epidemic of 2009 or at any other point in his administration.
While his Democratic opponents have been engaged in name calling, President Trump has been showing leadership and calling for unity. He has given a national address to the public and participated in regular press briefings on the federal government’s response to this crisis.
He is not engaging in partisan politics during this time of national emergency. On Friday night, he indicated his support for a bi-partisan coronavirus relief package that will include emergency paid sick leave and free testing. It should be passed by the U.S. Senate on Monday and the president will quickly sign it into law.
This follows the president’s support for an initial package of $8.3 billion in emergency coronavirus spending. Throughout the crisis, the president has repeatedly implored Democrats to work with him on economic packages, including a massive payroll tax cut and other financial relief, to spur growth during this emergency.
In World War II, the nation rallied behind FDR and the unity helped our country defeat two very dangerous enemies, the Nazis and the Japanese. After 9/11, the nation rallied behind President George W. Bush as his administration responded to the terrorist attack.
In this case, it is even more important for our country to put politics aside for several weeks and speak with one voice in dealing with this health challenge. President Trump is the leader of the entire nation and we need him to succeed in fighting this dangerous enemy. All Americans, Democrats and Republicans, should support his efforts today. There will be time for politics later.
Interesting “blue” photo. Just me or is it saying trump is taking over the blue?
Good luck with that. Democrats are communists dedicated to destroying freedom.
Give PDJTs approval rating among republicans and many independents, it will hard to rally to him. We’re already there!
ABSOLUTELY! HOORAY Chief. Thank you, sir.
I don’t see any specific suggestions, rallying-wise, in this article.
If the author means we should follow the health guidelines of our local departments and, if necessary/possible, assist our neighbors, then yeah.
I have noticed something. The media and Dems have driven this panic. At first it was just fear and anticipation. The President responded and a relative calm ensued.
The media and Dems responded by turning up the panic. They responded by starting the cancellations and closures. The blue states particularly leading the way.
Again, the President and his team responded. Relative calm, but less than before ensued.
The media and left responded by upping the panic to factor three. Closures and cancellations became the new PC thing to do. If you were not canceling, you were not cool. The market crashed anew and the panic ended up swamping the grocery stores, etc. The president and his team responded. The panic was tamped down and the markets responded positively.
Now, this weekend, what do we see? The media and left hitting the full speed panic button. Now they are closing stores. They have upped it to closing things for the remainder. Largely, the culprits are NeverTrump Republicans and Democrats governors. The closings have been extended to ski slopes. Yes, outdoor activities.
What a coincidence?!? The more that is done to bring order the more the media is saying “oh yeah, we will show you who controls you!! We will create more panic!!! You will not have calm!!””
I for one am sick of this!! What is next will be that we can’t even go outdoors. Soon, we will all be under house arrest and the media and left will have achieved their wildest dreams.
Anyone else waking up to this?
I’ve read it written here before, but time after time, the Rats show that they will take every important opportunity to descend to a new low. Now they’re allied with a deadly virus.
“...the president made a serious of announcements...
Seriesly??????
Does anyone ever proofread?????
X-country skiing should be okay if you don’t use any lifts.
Not to defend Obama, but H1N1 was not politicize. Trump gets high points for early, quick action. But testing and CDC is total failure. Not his fault but on his watch, so he rightfully or wrongly gets blamed. His continued dismissiveness, even in his own interaction with people, being dragged kicking and screaming to be tested. Those are on Trump. He now needs to catch up with the American people, who sure more concern and preparation then he has personally demonstrated. There is a needed balance between fear and concern, dismissiveness simply avoid that interaction, leaving it up to everybody to act on their own.
The left would trade 10 million innocent lives to get rid of Trump. They are completely insane.
I don’t think any President in the history of America has been more rallied around ..especially if you count all of his Rallies. :)
“I’ve read it written here before, but time after time, the Rats show that they will take every important opportunity to descend to a new low. Now they’re allied with a deadly virus.”
Yes, they have. Expect more. It will never end until they (or us) are gone. For those who read history, we experienced the same around 1930, 1860 and 1776 and for about 10 or so years leading up to those times. Let’s see. What’s common? Oh, they are all about 70 to 80 years apart. WOW, that’s a normal life span (not average but normal). Read the book The Fourth Turning http://bit.ly/2U1kbiY and learn more — much more.
IC Clearly
It snowed this weekend. I told my neighbor, an avid skier, that theirs still some good skiing days ahead. That’s when he told me about the closures. I was dumbfounded. “I used to wear gloves on the lifts” I responded. “It’s outside!”
Well, there’s FDR. But that, of course, was in different times. He had fireside chats instead of rallies, so you couldn’t “see” the rallying. And people were stepping up to the war in droves (a form of rallying I suppose). I wonder if we could do that now.
The right President at the right time. We are very lucky.
“The right President at the right time. We are very lucky.”
Yes, BUT, I think none of this would have happened if Trump wasn’t president.
Either we wouldn’t have had Corona, or, more likely, it would have been treated like the flu under Obama and been allowed to burn out more or less on it’s own
Yes indeed
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