Question:
Do Republicans actually believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job managing the coronavirus pandemic?
Elliot
2020-07-14 22:42:52 UTC
Do Republicans actually believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job managing the coronavirus pandemic?
192 answers:
marsel_duchamp
2020-07-17 13:53:43 UTC
They are the  only ones.  And not even all of them.
Matt
2020-07-17 04:38:29 UTC
Consider that Trump was putting travel bans from China while democrats were calling him a racist for doing it, and Nancy Pelosi was having a party in Chinatown!



He decided to put the travel ban in place even while the so-called "experts" were advising him not to do it! 
2020-07-16 22:42:49 UTC
An effective vaccine will be available within 3 months

America builds and exports ventilators to the rest of the world

He built a 2,800-bed temporary hospital in NYC in less than 2 weeks

He signed a $2.4 Trillion Covid Relief bill in March
u_bin_called
2020-07-16 19:30:47 UTC
all I know is that California has been running 100% under the policies of our democratic governor.....who praised Trump for his support and responsiveness...
Richard
2020-07-16 19:02:41 UTC
The success of the Trump movement is comparable to how a cult works.  He is seen by gullible people as some type of messiah or infallible leader who will deliver them into a better future, free from foreigners, pesky minorities, science, and the need to think critically.  



Professional GOP members of Congress don't want to lose their jobs, so they pander to this group and they pretend that Trump is a wise and perfect leader.  Most (not all) GOP leaders are actually intelligent enough to realize that he is a huckster and incompetent - but they don't seem to have any ethical compass.  So, they play to the white working class and bumpkins because they are now the key components of the Republican Party.



Democrats would do the same thing if they had a goof like Trump in the White House.
L.A. H
2020-07-15 21:06:02 UTC
Recently,  some Republicans have broken off from the herd. There are some (like Romney) who are conservative,  but also can't blindly follow Trump into the abyss. Not every Republican is on the far right. Many are closer to the middle as are some Democrats. And would rather reach across the aisle and work together for the betterment of the country. 
2020-07-15 19:52:51 UTC
President Trump is the best President ever 
2020-07-15 17:14:26 UTC
I don't believe it's President Trump's job to "manage the coronavirus pandemic".  He may, within his Constitutionally LIMITED authorities, assist state and local authorities in their work.
Starrysky
2020-07-15 03:42:24 UTC
Party faithful believe almost anything their king tRump tells them.  Perhaps even the Cluck Woolery tweet that was retweeted by the orange clown.

However, even the staunchest supporters like Senators Collins, Grassley, and Grahame are starting to waver from the exposure of crap being thrown at them every day.

Latest is cutting the CDC out of the chain of information about the virus--all reports from hospitals and testing are supposed to go directly to Wasteland, DC.

And after more than 200 colleges and universities have joined in a lawsuit to stop tRump administration from booting out foreign students, there is a backing off from that.

Just another fascinating day in the death spiral of our nation being flushed down the sewer of politics.
thomas f
2020-07-14 22:54:43 UTC
Only time will tell. 

According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the median age for a USA COVID-19 death is 75 years of age, with 42% being nursing home residents. 

The median age for a USA death from any cause is 79 years. I don't see a huge difference.

What is your proposal for managing the COVID-19 pandemic? 
?
2020-07-21 16:12:04 UTC
Yes, And they will believe it until the day they die of the pandemic. You can't fix stupid.
2020-07-18 22:16:35 UTC
Considering every single thing imaginable is against him including a virus he has refused to wear a mask for it’s an achievement he’s still alive. The longer a non-mask wearing 74 year old, sleep deprived, overweight man living off of Mc Donald’s and cola while touring mass gatherings across the country can survive, the more creditable his wild claims become.   
2020-07-18 06:57:43 UTC
Yes we think he is doing a great job and he is going to continue to do so for another term.
Rational Humanist
2020-07-18 01:52:44 UTC
They either think he is doing a terrible job or they think itis a hoax 
2020-07-17 18:45:40 UTC
Do Democrats actually believe forgetful Joe Biden going to win the 2020 election and do a better job
2020-07-17 15:12:26 UTC
Absolutely yes.  We know he is...
James
2020-07-17 04:46:54 UTC
You will see on the result
sirjester099
2020-07-16 18:20:56 UTC
Better chances than not, Trump will be out come January 20, 2021!
Jeancommunicates
2020-07-16 13:44:02 UTC
Can anyone, but the people, manage the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Socrates
2020-07-16 08:17:31 UTC
Questions like this are becoming cowardly! And they will continue to be until the cowards START explaining just WHAT Trump should have done differently. This when Trump implemented restrictions on travel from China in January. Liberals called him "racist" for doing so. They were the ones who still hadn't got a grasp of the danger presented by the Chinese coronavirus yet, not Trump. More travel restrictions from other regions as well as other actions were implemented soon after. Trump has been ahead of the game from the beginning. 
?
2020-07-16 01:03:38 UTC
OMG, here we go again.  To the OP, I would ask:

How do you legislate your way out of a global pandemic?
FlyInTheOintment
2020-07-15 22:29:44 UTC
I understand that what's left of Trump's base are low educated white men and women. But even someone with a 5th grade education understands Dead. If they don't now, they most likely will by November when 225k is the expected number. Some however refuse to believe their own eyes and ears and those are your truly Con-tarded folks who you could only describe as idiots. We have all met an idiot, there is little you can do to change stupid, and why bother trying.  Just because they are idiots doesn't mean they are bad people. I have some friends that are idiots. My uncle, who think Elvis is in hiding and is a Trump fanatic is and idiot but I still love him. You just have to live with these idiots, but we have to hope that we outnumber them so they can never again elect and Idiot like we have now. Free College tuition for residents to go to their state Universities is a start. 
darkvelvetrain
2020-07-15 21:45:33 UTC
You mean leaving decisions in the hands of the states rather than seizing dictatorial power like so many European leaders?  Well, if you insist, I guess we could write to him and suggest that he follow suit.
Kathie
2020-07-15 20:54:13 UTC
There is a rapidly growing number of principled patriotic American Republicans who have been distancing themselves from Trump, Elliot.  I recommend the GOP PAC website "Lincoln Project" anti-Trump ads set up by Kellyanne Conway's attorney husband George Conway, Republican strategist Rick Wilson (author of "Everything Trump Touches Dies" 2019), and Steve Schmidt, the former head of Senator John McCain's presidential bid. Another anti-Trump team is a large group of U.S. military war veterans whose ad is hard-hitting and ends with the word TRAITOR on Trump's rarely worn face mask because Trump refused to read the multiple Presidential Daily Briefings (PDBs) from our nation's 17-agency intelligence community about (a) the early warnings for a possible pandemic in 12/2019; and (b) Putin-ordered bounties paid to the Taliban in Afghanistan for U.S. soldiers' lives.  One good thing about the UTTER CRIMINALITY and INCOMPETENCE of Trump is that he is so very bad he is uniting us against him.  



We, the people, need to pressure our mainstream media to stop behaving like "permissive parents" for this ugly kompromat (Russian MAFIA owned) incompetent fool Trump---stop with all the FALSE EQUIVALENCY reporting and start focusing on telling the whole truth---not brat-boy thin-skinned lifts-wearing short-man (5'10" pretending to be taller) Trump's distortions, obstructions, outright lies.  



I hope some of the borderline Trump people pay closer attention to a few facts: (a) There has been NO TRUMP BUDGET in place from 1/20/2017 through to 2020, even though braggart brat Trump kept taking credit for the final FISCAL YEAR budget of Barack Obama that was extended by the Congressional GOP (Speaker Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell) with CRs rather than passing any GOP budget of their own. (b) The 2017 rushed attempt to submit a Trump/Koch budget by December 2017 (Trump's first year in our White House) DIED IN THE SENATE because Trump tried to ATTACK WAR VETERANS by eliminating the IU (Individual Unemployability) rating for all wounded warriors over age 65 (myself included). This IU rating is needed in order to CLAIM VA BENEFITS, so bone-spurs draft-dodger lifts-wearing Donald Trump was willing (even EAGER) to throw our nation's war heroes in their 70s, 80s, and 90s into immediate poverty---telling them they could "just go on Social Security".  We veterans lobbied against this travesty Trump budget bill---and we won: Both John McCain and my state's Claire McCaskill (D-MO) assured me "That budget is dead on arrival [in the Senate].  



If the Republicans take time to DO THE RESEARCH and ignore Trump's lie-based rhetoric, no patriotic Republican would be backing this criminally negligent genocidal illiterate and incompetent egomaniacal fool.  
L
2020-07-15 19:06:06 UTC
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The Democrats are just using the COVID-19 as an excuse to threaten and scare people.  The virus is over - it has been for months.  You really have to take a step back and see the 'big picture'.....  An evil ex-KGB man is controlling and paying for all this B.S. going on today..........George Soros.  He wants to be King of the World and will do what ever it takes to make it happen.  
2020-07-15 15:35:40 UTC
And what? 🤔 You really think Hillary would be doing anything better much less Biden?

Truth is you and your leftist media pals covered for Obama how great he was during ebola and h1n1 so spare me if President Trump is doing such a bad job. 
2020-07-15 14:49:05 UTC
Not precisely.  They are finally putting distance between themselves and him.
?
2020-07-15 08:02:28 UTC
Politics on both sides have become much more army-loyal like in the last couple of years, helped along with a media who's abandoned any concept of truthful reporting for whatever propaganda fits their side.  As such, you have a siege mentality where people aren't able to be truthful because that's just weaponry for the "other side".





In truth no, but I'll also point out that back in March, the Democrats, the left, & WHO, all condemned Trump for closing borders, claiming it was bigoted racism.  Why he abandoned that initial tough stance I have no idea.





Here's another question.  Do Democrats actually believe that dementia Biden is in any way competent to lead a country?  Or are they secretly thinking that it's their turn to show that they can put an idiot in charge?
?
2020-07-15 04:47:31 UTC
Trump is not responsible for your immune system.
Joseph B
2020-07-15 03:46:53 UTC
No, they believe he is white and male, and most of all, not Hillary, and that is all that matters to them.  When they say "make America great again," what they mean is that they want to go back to a time when white men ran the show, wives obeyed their husbands, and blacks "knew their place."  That is why they support Trump.
?
2020-07-18 01:20:50 UTC
ARE you stupid? good Lord these kids are like rocks.
No Chance Without Jesus
2020-07-17 21:41:03 UTC
The States are managing the corono viruses...and the blue states suck at it
Const. King
2020-07-17 18:55:06 UTC
Trump is doing as good of a job as could be expected because nobody knew anything about this disease.  Guaranteed Pelosi or the democrats could have done any better.
2020-07-17 05:03:59 UTC
They're on his side of the fence...so yeah...obvious to me



wait..who's Donald Trump?
2020-07-17 01:36:32 UTC
Some of them are finally coming to the realization Donald Trump is a professional con artist and that the presidency hasn't changed that.

In his position, it is now having deadly consequences.

Not to mention this so-called economic miracle has been made on the back of $3 trillion deficits that will be around way after Trump. Any fool can inflate the numbers by printing money.
2020-07-16 21:52:37 UTC
No.   But they still think he's better for the country than Biden.
Wundt
2020-07-16 16:21:48 UTC
The Trump supporters' mentality is "He didn't say that. And if he did, he didn't mean that. And if he did, you didn't understand it. And if you did, it's not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse!"  Their view of the pandemic response is much the same, "He is doing a great job.  If you criticize his performance, you are lying.  If you aren't lying, others did much worse and it doesn't matter because the pandemic is a hoax."
?
2020-07-16 11:04:08 UTC
I very much dought it my friend.
Steel Rain
2020-07-15 23:59:07 UTC
This is all hands on deck everyone must do their part.
Andrew S
2020-07-15 22:47:53 UTC
How do democrats believe Obo didn't tear the country apart?
?
2020-07-15 20:51:09 UTC
Between the lying Communistic China Regimen and the WHO not doing their job, I think any president would be mislead, one way or another.



Remember, in the beginning of this covid mess, the facts changed left and right, time and time again, over and over again.



With that knowledge unfolding before our very eyes, it would take an idiot not to take this pandemic seriously. If the refrigeration trucks parked in NY, full of thousands of dead covid corpses did not knock some sense into people, then that is their stupidity. 



Using Trump or ANYONE else, other than the Communistic China Regimen and the WHO, as a scapegoat is a joke. 



And, by the way, I am not a huge Trump fan, but I did vote for him because I despise Hillary. I will vote for Trump again because I do not want to live in a socialistic democrat society. 
Zack
2020-07-15 20:29:28 UTC
A TRUE Republican doesn't. Many true Republicans who voted for him in 2016 are voting for Biden because they hate how Trump in handling the pandemic.



Trump WORSHIPERS believe that Trump is doing a good job handling the pandemic. Trump worshipers are not true Republicans.
Mr. Wizard
2020-07-15 19:57:31 UTC
President Trump is making the best decision options available involving COVID-19 management on the per individual U.S. State basis; he's letting the Democrat BLUE states handle matters THEIR way. 



And we're seeing the germaphobic INCOMPETENCE pour out from the BLUE States!!!Even the pro-LIBERAL "news" TV, radio and print media are having a difficult time hiding the fact that the highest COVID-19 spikes are in BLUE states.And those unlucky citizens in those BLUE states are getting a real hard look at SOCIALIST life that WILL spread nation-wide, IF Biden wins in November....... 
2020-07-15 17:46:26 UTC
I don't believe it's President Trump's job to "manage the coronavirus pandemic".  He may, within his Constitutionally LIMITED authorities, assist state and local authorities in their work.
2020-07-15 14:40:28 UTC
Because 60 million didn't die like they did during the H1N1 outbreak  under Obama's watch.
nappa
2020-07-15 09:04:50 UTC
No one knew how this would turn out, he is doing as well as any one would have except obama who would have stopped testing and went to play golf.
2020-07-15 08:19:10 UTC
He really isn't. Us wouldn't be first
?
2020-07-15 05:07:22 UTC
REAL Republicans don't  (and no, I'm not a Republican), but the people who have co-opted "Republican" do.  (They used to be called "right-wing whackos.")
2020-07-15 04:05:13 UTC
Unfortunately this pandemic isn't going to get any better. I think it's going to get much worse.



I am not from the USA, and in my country I heard of more outbreaks. It seems like a lot of people have a death wish!



There is no way that Trump can manage the coronavirus. The coronavirus is in many countries, and it's just getting worse.



There are people who just don't give a damn about living, and the coronavirus too.



I already lost count of the large crowds that I have seen online. People who are infected are mixing with people who are not infected, so you do the f**king math which apparently Trump doesn't know how to do on his own.



Trump thinks, or believes it's going to go away. He doesn't have a f**king clue what he is talking about.



Why was there is large crowd of people at Walt Disney?



I think Walt Disney is located in Florida, USA.



"The Walt Disney World Resort, also called Walt Disney World and Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in the United States, near the cities of Orlando and Kissimmee."



OMG....Why is Trump not doing anything about the large crowd gatherings in the USA???



Yes, I did see a picture of it online!!!
?
2020-07-14 23:09:45 UTC
Trump is doing what the experts have advised him to do.  If you don't like the management blame them.
Ron Akia
2020-07-18 18:40:38 UTC
Being realistic, we're dealing with a new disease that has never presented itself before and are fighting an unknown issue. If Hillary had been elected in 2016, I doubt if things would be any better. We can't blame Trump, if anything we can blame those who fight his every move.
matt m-h
2020-07-18 12:33:41 UTC
I believe he is doing the best that he can.  In two weeks on the pandemic taking effect and massive amounts of people getting furloughed, he and his administration passed the CARES Act, allowing people to get extra money in their unemployment compensation and extending the amount of time that people can stay on unemployment due to their furloughed status.  That has been my saving grace and what has allowed me - someone who was furloughed and is still furloughed at the time of this writing - to keep my head above water financially.  He is also working hard to restore the jobs that have been lost by the pandemic.  Leave the man alone, for pity's sake.
L J
2020-07-17 23:15:28 UTC
unfortunately, yes
2020-07-17 15:54:14 UTC
It's the same with either party. If their leader sucks, it's because the other side is preventing them from doing a good job. So yeah, they think he's doing well.
donnie
2020-07-17 10:32:41 UTC
I absolutely think he is doing good. The testing is giving false positives and are total frauds this is why he wants to limit testing. Opening up is important for our economy as well as will save lives. If our economy collapses we won’t be able to have good healthcare as well as millions in third world counties can and probably will starve. The numbers are up in CASES but NOT DEATH 
2020-07-17 05:26:25 UTC
Of course he

Isn’t doing it well otherwise why won’t infection spike up
?
2020-07-17 03:00:22 UTC
yes better than the democrats , ohh lets help out the blackman , shame more of them are criminals.
The Devil
2020-07-17 02:41:00 UTC
No, but they want to win elections even if it KILLS them.
2020-07-16 16:11:52 UTC
Donald Trump is the best president ever

the sun literally shines out of his backside

and you are not worthy to even say his name

and CHINA virus is FAKE FAKE FAKE



.. OR MAYBE NOT !
2020-07-16 11:37:09 UTC
none believe that you and hitlery would do any better, If Trump is killing you, why do you have time to waste here, seriously...Trump and his Russians have had 3 whole years to kill you, yet you look fatter than ever...
?
2020-07-16 04:03:52 UTC
Even if they don't, I think they would rather pretend he's doing a good job than admit that he's failed from the get go.
ArgBarFan
2020-07-16 02:03:09 UTC
I believe at least most of them don't believe that, but they just won't admit it, and won't put him down, even though they know deep down inside of them that he has been a horrible president. 
Zach
2020-07-15 22:31:31 UTC
We have the most cases because we've done the most testing. We've tested 45 million people and found about 2 million cases thanks to Trump but you treat it like a bad thing and give Trump no credit like the ingrate you are. 



Meanwhile Obama did next to no testing on H1N1 so we found next to no cases of it and you've kissed his a$$ ever since
HAPPY PUPPY!
2020-07-15 16:58:50 UTC
Fearing Political Peril, Republicans Edge Away From Trump on Pandemic Response

Moderate Republicans in competitive districts are navigating a careful balance in addressing the coronavirus crisis, eager to put some distance between themselves and a president whose response has been criticized.WASHINGTON — Every evening from his kitchen table in southwestern Michigan, Representative Fred Upton, a moderate Republican running for his 18th term in office, posts a coronavirus dispatch for his constituents, highlighting his own efforts to respond to the crisis and the news from Washington, often with cameos from Democrats.Absent from his Facebook updates are any mentions of President Trump, whose response to the pandemic has raised questions that threaten to drag down Republicans’ electoral prospects this fall, or of the president’s provocative news briefings, which have become a forum for partisan attacks on Democrats and dubious claims about the virus.“You have to sort of thread the needle,” Mr. Upton said in an interview, explaining how he has tried to navigate Mr. Trump’s performance during the crisis. “I’ve been careful. I said, ‘Let’s look to the future,’ versus ‘Why didn’t we do this a few months ago?’ I’m not interested in pointing the finger of blame. I want to correct the issues.”It is a tricky task for lawmakers like Mr. Upton in centrist districts throughout the country, who understand that their re-election prospects — and any hope their party might have of taking back the House of Representatives — could rise or fall based on how they address the pandemic. Already considered a politically endangered species before the novel coronavirus began ravaging the United States, these moderates are now working to counter the risk that their electoral fates could become tied to Mr. Trump’s response at a time when the independent voters whose support they need are increasingly unhappy with his performance.

The president’s combative news conferences, which his own political advisers have counseled him to curtail, have made the challenge all the steeper.



“It does make it difficult at times,” Representative John Katko, Republican of New York, said in an interview. He said he hoped his constituents would evaluate him not based on Mr. Trump’s record, but on his own.



“I’m hanging on — not hanging on, flourishing — in a district I should probably not have as a Republican,” said Mr. Katko, one of only two House Republicans running for re-election in a district Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Voters “are going to judge me on what I did or did not do, and that’s all I can ask.”



In an attempt to ensure their contests become referendums on their own responses to the virus, rather than the president’s, vulnerable House Republicans are instead brandishing their own independent streaks, playing up their work with Democrats, doubling down on constituent service and hosting town-hall-style events — avoiding mention of Mr. Trump whenever possible.



It is an approach that looks familiar to former Representative Carlos Curbelo, Republican of Florida, who tried to distance himself from Mr. Trump on immigration and other issues in 2018 as he fought to hang onto his seat in a diverse South Florida district, but was swept out in a midterm debacle that handed Democrats control of the House.



“The president continues to be reckless in the context of the Covid-19 crisis,” Mr. Curbelo said in an interview. “You could see a similar dynamic where a lot of Republicans in competitive districts will just break with him in an effort to protect their own candidacies.”



Many of his former colleagues in competitive districts had hoped the severity of the crisis would give them a platform to highlight their own responses, Mr. Curbelo said. But as Mr. Trump’s nightly briefings “became more about the president and his personality” than about the disease, he added, “Republicans have perceived a peril in that development, and certainly some of the recent polling validates that.”



Moderate Republicans are doing what they can to shift the dynamic. In virtual town-hall-style meetings conducted by telephone from his central New York district, Mr. Katko has stressed the importance of bipartisanship, saying his constituents are “sick of the nastiness” in Washington.



Mr. Katko teamed up recently with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, for one such call, in which he broke with one of his own party’s leaders, rejecting a proposal by the top Senate Republican to allow states to go bankrupt rather than provide a federal lifeline.



“I’m going to continue to work across the aisle,” Mr. Katko told voters, pointing to his relationship with Ms. Gillibrand. “I totally disagree with what Mitch McConnell said — that’s a great example.”



In southeastern Pennsylvania, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, another Republican whose heavily suburban district went to Ms. Clinton in 2016, has been doing his best to avoid answering for Mr. Trump’s comments as well.



Asked last month by local reporters about the president’s early remarks minimizing the coronavirus and comparing it to the flu, Mr. Fitzpatrick demurred.



“You’ll have to ask him why he made those comments,” Mr. Fitzpatrick said. “I really do believe that everybody’s doing their best right now.”



And calling in to a radio show in Michigan, Mr. Upton hedged when asked if he agreed with the president’s optimism about reopening the economy. “As much as the president wants to open things up — and we all do — I think you’re going to have to let the virus really determine where things are at the end of the day,” he said. “We know that we are not there yet.”



In some ways, the dilemma these centrist Republicans are facing is the same one they have had to navigate since Mr. Trump was elected, as they have repeatedly been called upon to answer for his more provocative statements and actions. But the pandemic has sharply raised the stakes as their constituents bear the brunt of its dire consequences.



At home in their districts, lawmakers have largely been able to avoid direct questions about the president’s handling of the crisis, instead fielding an onslaught of requests from constituents and reporters for basic information about when relief will reach them.



“People are going to make a judgment here: Who do they want to give the responsibility of governing to, given what has just occurred?” said David Winston, a Republican pollster who works with the House Republican Conference. “Did you try to do the right thing? People want to know how their elected representatives are trying to solve this.”



That has translated into a new raft of bipartisan legislation from moderate lawmakers up for re-election intended to confront the pandemic. In announcing a bill he introduced with Representative Stephanie Murphy, Democrat of Florida, to create a Sept. 11-style commission to examine the government’s response to the virus after the pandemic subsides, Mr. Katko sought to assure voters it was apolitical.



“I just honestly think that this may be an opportunity, this covid crisis, to show people that bipartisanship works,” he said. “We’re going to be struggling for a while. And I think as we struggle as a country, the last thing people want to hear is partisan crap.”



Mr. Katko’s bill would delay the formation of the review commission until 2021, meaning it would not begin investigating until after the election.



After Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would create a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, Mr. Fitzpatrick, who faces a primary challenge from the right, criticized the move as inappropriate, calling for unity.



“We all remember 9/11 and how incredibly united our country was,” he said. “Nobody was questioning anybody else’s decisions. There was a time and a place to do that down the road.”



From his porch in St. Joseph, Mich., Mr. Upton unveiled a plan that aims to modernize the nation’s health care system to prepare for future pandemics. His nightly Facebook dispatches have drawn responses that offer a glimpse of the political balance he is struggling to strike.



“Not giving the President Trump administration any credit are you Fred,” Jerry Litke commented on a recent post that omitted any mention of Mr. Trump.



But Patricia Resetar had a complaint of her own about the same dispatch, demanding that Mr. Upton answer for the administration’s failure to deploy broad testing throughout the country.



“Where is all the testing?” she wrote. “Where is it, and why aren’t you holding this administration accountable?”



Mr. Upton said in an interview that he was “not afraid to give the president credit on a variety of issues” or to “be against him when I think he’s wrong.” In his purple district, which went for President Barack Obama in 2012 but Mr. Trump in 2016, voters “don’t always identify as Republican or Democrat; they want you to do your job,” he said. “If people voted straight party line, I would have lost in the ’90s.”



Just outside Syracuse, N.Y., Gary Dixon, a retired salesman who supports Mr. Katko, said he appreciated that the congressman was “staying in his lane” in responding to the pandemic. Though he voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and said he was most likely to support him in November over former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Dixon also said he worried that an association with the president had the potential to damage other Republican candidates.



“It’s a tightrope,” he said of the challenge that Mr. Katko and his fellow moderates face. “You’ve got to be on that wire where you’re trying to stay in the middle, but I don’t think his middle position will alienate the true Republicans.”
?
2020-07-15 15:38:50 UTC
Why wouldn't they? He said he's doing a good job. What other information would they consider? Not sure why you would expect them to go against anything he says. Most have believed everything thus far. Why would they stop now? 

You would have to ask an independent or maybe people from other countries to give an honest opinion on his pandemic performance or the people in this country that have been most impacted. Facts have always have been and always will be interpreted differently by different people if at all. 

Also a good job by some peoples standards is not by others. I bet most of the corporations that received bailout money think he's doing a wonderful job. Most of his constituents with businesses that received money before the small businesses of America think he's doing a good job. People that have lost family, jobs, businesses, health and are not getting the help they need, probably don't feel the same way.
?
2020-07-15 12:32:13 UTC
Some people still think that it's a hoax. And Trump DID say that the number would go down to zero. The truly gullible ones will still be voting for Trump in a few months.
East
2020-07-15 09:50:54 UTC
Anyone blinded by loyalty can overlook any flaws.  So yes, some Republicans who are blind actually think that Trump is doing a good job.  The only way to think that he is is to be blind to the terrible job that he's doing.

But look how Obama's rabid supporters proclaimed him to be the Messiah (e.g., Barbara Walters, who said that).  Idiocy appears on both sides of the aisle, although the Trump supporters seem particularly odious these days.
?
2020-07-15 09:24:49 UTC
And your asserting that Dems can manage the virus? 

You forget or don't know that the virus cannot be managed. Why don't you blame Trump for not being able to manage a tsunami while your at it.



Even scientist don't fully know much about it and are finding out new things about it, while taking back what they said prior.
Alex
2020-07-15 06:09:26 UTC
Perfect. He deflected attention by stepping up criticism and restrictions on China,  and the coronavirus "mirably disappeared" as he said
2020-07-14 22:45:27 UTC
Sadly many of them are braindead enough to believe that.
Eisbär
2020-07-18 20:24:03 UTC
Yea, after Democrats would put us on lock down forever, and then send us stimulus checks indefinitely. This would be paid for by tax dollars from all the workers no longer working, right?
Aaron
2020-07-18 18:21:24 UTC
Folks only see what they want to see. I try to discuss and be guided by the issues not a commitment to the right or left or to a specific politician. 
2020-07-18 12:54:20 UTC
YES I DO!!!!!!!!!! I am tired of the Libtards and the media that always bashes Trump! Yet the Democrats are promoting hate and violence like the BLM crap and more. TRUMP 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GEORGE
2020-07-18 11:48:45 UTC
YES, Pelosi and Fauci are evil
?
2020-07-18 08:55:42 UTC
Some do. But they also believe in the Easter Bunny. 
Arian
2020-07-18 06:23:48 UTC
Of course not, even if they do i can literally announce that they are wrong.

What do you expect an idiot would say?presumably injecting disinfectant into our blood roughly in order to eliminate the virus among our cells.

Duh c'mon what on earth, every one had realized his identity a long long time ago. Maybe even some of them consisting me obtained the thought of dysfunctional presidency from previous election. Could we please make a deal? I think the only thing we've got in common is the conflict which we are both in against Trump.
2020-07-18 00:01:54 UTC
He is doing as good a job as anyone else.  It is the commie dems in many cities that are dragging things down.. all for politics!
righteousjohnson
2020-07-17 20:50:18 UTC
Yes. The high body counts are all coming from Democratic strongholds.  The bluer the state, the bluer the patients. Like sheep in a slaughterhouse.
?
2020-07-17 15:37:29 UTC
Democrat leftist are doing a good job at scaring people of the so called "pandemic",  democrats hope that the pandemic will get worse so that the economy will go down to make trump look bad.
2020-07-16 22:40:13 UTC
No, of course not. Nobody could really be THAT stupid. But they might pretend that they think he is doing a good job, they have a hard time with admitting mistakes.
2020-07-16 15:56:16 UTC
No we don’t I’ve changed my mind about him I’m voting for Biden tbh.
2020-07-16 15:22:25 UTC
Yes they do.  So do Michelle Obama and his husband
Obi Wan Knievel
2020-07-16 14:51:59 UTC
I don't think they'd go so far as to call his performance good, because that would really be stretching it.  Most of them just hope the question is never asked, and if pressed they give a really vague not-too-disapproving statement.



I gotta tell you though, there are a lot of things the Prez doesn't control.  Trump can do a lot of things, but he can't actually make people stay 2m (6ft) apart out in public.  He can't make people wear masks to protect others.  He can't make people stay home unless it's necessary to go out.  Even if he wrote a bunch of presidential orders and got them passed into law, he couldn't possibly have them enforced.  That's up to each individual American, and they have nobody to blame than themselves for not doing it.



I don't feel like looking it up, but a buddy at work showed me a vid taken by a boat captain at Niagara Falls last weekend.  It showed the Canadian side, with everyone standing far apart and making room for each other, then the camera swung to the American side where people were crammed together like sardines in a can.  And some Americans are still wondering why their country is the global epicenter of this virus.  Or maybe it's just easier to blame it on a politician, I don't know for sure.
Vela
2020-07-16 14:17:33 UTC
Yes. Because that's what right wing/ Trump media tells them to believe. They are indoctrinated fools. They are what's wrong with America
2020-07-16 13:00:53 UTC
the ignorant ones do.
?
2020-07-16 12:44:40 UTC
subject of the inquiry "DO"

DO (verb)  to cause or preform an action  , the precise nature of which is often unspecified

ACTUALLY (adverb)

1- as the truth , fact of a situation a reality

2- used to emphasize a statement that a person said is surprising

BELIEVE (verb)

1-accept ( something)  as true to feel SURE ( certain -conviction)  of the truth of *

2- hold ( something ) as an OPINION , think ( thoughts ) or suppose  *



based  on documentation of multiple  surveys and polls  people  IDENTIFYING as ( google polls )

" Republican "  have expressed their  Belief  OPINION , thoughts  conviction that  Donald Trump  is DO - ing  a GOOD  job "managing " the covid  19 pandemic was 39 % per PEW  survey  June 2020  this may be related to the human  trait of CREDULITY 

*

note the use and definition of managing



MANAGING * (adjective)  having EXECUTIVE or supervisory  control or authority   thank you for the question
2020-07-16 03:32:42 UTC
In the first 10 days, Trump began work on a vaccine, created a test and submitted it to FDA, declared a public health emergency, established the coronavirus incident management system, activated the CDC emergency operations center, formed the Coronavirus Task Force, made multiple requests to China to travel there to study the virus and banned travel from China 

That’s just in the first 10 days.
2020-07-15 21:32:30 UTC
The covid19 pandemic is a hoax. 
?
2020-07-15 14:26:16 UTC
Yes, now a new vaccine is in testing
Mack
2020-07-14 22:43:34 UTC
They also agree that he is a stable genius.   Case closed.
2020-08-12 04:41:24 UTC
Andrew Cuomo & De Blasio could've shut down & closed their state & city borders as soon as POTUS declared state of emergency, drafting guidelines to slow the spread & offered to federally quarantine New York & prevent it from spreading to the rest of 49 states. The European strain of COVID-19 proves to be more contagious than the Wuhan strain with their genetic sequence distant from each other. Could the European strain mutated from MERS? MERS was more deadly than SARS.



The current Administration has done more COVID-19 testing any country in the world, manufactured more ventilators & PPE in a short amount of time. The Administration were working behind the scenes of the (D)s impeachment fiasco drawing up plans in early January if things got worst in Wuhan & spread out of Wuhan after CDC scientists were sent in Dec. 2019, but China refused help while (D)s defy & resist the Administration's mitigation guidelines. Travel restriction from & to China was declared before there was a confirmed case in the US. Andrew Cuomo didn't quarantine every international flight & sea vessels coming into New York when travel restrictions were announced in late January turning NY into an epicenter. In the west coast all passengers & crews of princess cruises that dock were quarantined, even if they've been quarantined abroad just as all passengers & crews of a Boeing 747 from China were quarantine. Cuomo tried to pull a fast one on the incumbent with the 40,000 Ventilators he was planning on hoarding stored in a NY warehouse to control the supply lines. Cuomo pushed back on Statewide Federal Quarantine & ordered Nursing homes to accept COVID-19+ patients where more than 1/2 of the mortality statistic comes from. Having worked closely with the Administration to keep the spread at a minimal & flatten the curve, the west coast governors are getting carried away with the shutdowns threatening to make it permanent, until vaccination that could partially work 50/50, like flu vaccines, are readily available for obvious political reason expressing to let their megalomaniac tendencies loose. N. Dakota, Georgia, & Florida are much better in keeping things balanced as Red states prefers a targeted shutdown approach to minimize the spread.



De Blasio & (D) Health experts from Feb. to Mar. 15 were making tweets & speeches in small rallies against travel bans, social distancing & shutdowns. 02/02/20 NYC Health Commissioner Oxirus Barbot said, "There's NO REASON NOT" to take the subway, bus, go to restaurant, miss the annual Lunar parade or avoid any neighborhood because of coronavirus. 0302/20 De Blasio encouraged New Yorkers to go on with their lives & get out on town despite Coronavirus. 02/03/20 New York Times: "There is no reason why it is not safe to travel to China, The travel ban is unjust". Prior to 03/15/20 when all partisan (D) news media anchors along with Doctor Fauci & other (lib) experts stated that Influenza should be looked at more than Wuhan Flu with Dr. Fauci assuring the public not to be alarmed on NEWSMAX aired in 01/21/20 & again emphasized the danger was miniscule in 02/17/20. In April, Dr. Fauci reverses his don't wear mask advice, only healthcare workers, questioned by many as it spreads from simply talking. CDC found COVID projection model was over estimated, Fauci mused 1 year quarantine late March, then mid May say the country needs to open as shutdown has grave irreputable consequences.



The Whole World Failed at Keeping COVID-19 out of their countries. CDC, NIH, HHS, & WHO all Failed, as governor Cuomo argued. Doctor Fauci & CDC Scientists have been operating as they have since Obama's Administration & this pandemic proved that the bureaucracy they had in place then could not handle SARS-COV-2 spreading at this magnitude. Thus, a Task Force requiring Defense Dept. & Private Sector involvement was crucial. WHO should've taken the role of an International Pandemic Response Agency mobilized as soon as there's a large outbreak of an unknown disease infecting humans in a city to quarantine & study. WHO was late to gather Data & sound the Alarm for every country in the world to brace it self from a pandemic the world connected by travel & transport where every day life requires social interactions in close proximity was not prepared for.



No One could've known about an "unknown" disease to infect humans that transmit from human to human simply by talking from people who weren't even showing signs of illness at the beginning stages & into a pandemic. A respiratory disease like COVID-19 can't really be contained absent of data on how fast & easily it spreads by 85% of infected people who never got ill or hospitalized (14.5%-14.95% are recovering) experiencing symptoms of a common cold for which the lightly infected & doctors overlooked it as just a cold, until an alarming number of hospitalized infected patients overwhelming the hospitals & 1/20 were dying weekly which prompted a Chinese doctor to look through a microscope ruling out the Africanized swine flu happening at the same time across China that started 3 months earlier. China took extraordinary measure when it was apparent how contagious the virus was, but it was too late as initially they focused on quarantining feverish people having acute symptoms which allowed the virus to spread out of Wuhan to the world through foreign tourist, diplomats & business travelers showing no signs of infection.



Anti Trump zealots will push the 2009 Swine Flu response as fast & effective when 2009 H1N1 swine flu was just slightly different from the 1918 original H1N1 Spanish flu. It was weaker than the original 1918. Not much alarming concern came into light because it wasn't entirely new. Thousands of deaths are anticipated from H#N# variants annually since 1918. There were 4 pandemic flus before 2009 & vaccines for H#N# variants were and are being develop year after year.



The government under Trump began working on a vaccine BEFORE the first case in the US. Obama 6 days AFTER.

Trump had a test ready to go three days after the first case. Obama 13 days.



Trump declared coronavirus a public health emergency 9 days later. Obama 15 days.



Trump declared a national emergency 53 days later. Obama 204 days later.



Trump was warning everyone about the coronavirus 15 days after the first case. No warning from Obama at that point.

The country hit 1m cases of H1N1 71 days after the first case. On the 78th day there were 367,000 cases of corona in the US .

The first vaccines started getting tested 56 days later under Trump. It was 98 days for Obama.

Obama also used up all of the N95 masks & ventilators from the previous administration and didn't replace them.

Obama would have allowed every major city in each state to become an epicenter & spreader through every entertainment arena & every mode of transportation because travel bans are 'racist'.

Obama Admin gave funding to Wuhan Virology Lab to study bat corona virus.



COVID-19 is a new Viral disease infecting humans where 85% of the infected people who either didn't become ill or just got mildly ill experiences symptoms similar to a common cold enabled COVID-19 to easily and quickly spreads as those infected think they only have a cold (There are 4 harmless corona viruses that causes the common cold).  No one knew a thing about the new COVID-19 virus, until at risk people started dying in great numbers prompting the expediency to study & record data. 14.95% seriously to critically ill are recovering from COVID-19. Without drugs or vaccine to combat it. It might be on the road of being as fatal as the 1918 Influenza or Spanish Flu (500 million infection 50 million death toll out of 1.8 Billion world population) which is very unlikely. COVID-19 can attempt to kill 50 million people only because there are 8 billion people in the world today, 4 1/2 times more than a 100 years ago. 1918 Influenza didn't care whether you're young, old, sick, or healthy while COVID-19 mostly victimizes the old & the sickly.



Unlike Ebola, 99% lethal in mortality, is transmitted by eating rare to medium well Gorilla or any African primate/monkey bush meat or primate/monkey saliva, blood, urine from a bite attack or spat, sprinkled or sprayed onto an open wound, eye, mouth, anus or birth canal similar with HIV transmission. It took 3 1/2 decades of study & data to put a 1%-5% dent recovery from a 100% mortality rate without a vaccine, yet to be developed & procured knowledge in preparation to prevention & containment long before Obama came into the picture. In terms of contagiousness COVID-19 is far more contagious than Ebola as transmission is through air droplets inhaled or touched from a surface having contaminated hand touching orifices on the face.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MKnmbJPNAw



Once in a hundred years there's a pandemic that mankind can't prevent or control anytime. Micro plastic, Trans Fat, Hard Narcotics, Tobacco, THC Vaping, Weed, Sugars, & MSG (Ajinomoto) are somehow weakening our immunity from Single Cell Bacterial Viruses that's been mutating for billions of years of evolution. Viral outbreak seems to pop up where large flocks, herds, & communities are densely packed. Every living thing (Animal, Plant, Fungi) on the planet has some sort of disease for billions of years. As mankind converts 85% of the planet's forest cover for human use: cultivation, roads, & development: entertainment, settlement, warehouse, airports... diseases have nowhere to go but where humans are to survive.
?
2020-07-18 06:13:57 UTC
Many Republicans don't believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job in this COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Walt Bernard
2020-07-18 05:15:19 UTC
Yes, and the final general election results will prove it.
Vickie
2020-07-18 04:48:33 UTC
I really don’t believe he has done a very good job. 
?
2020-07-18 03:03:36 UTC
Yes. What else is he supposed to do aside from enforcing jail for not wearing a mask? 
dominick
2020-07-18 03:00:33 UTC
We believe to blame china. In the past this would unify us. But the Marxists are using this to divide. China spread this to 189 countries is as simple as that. Dems would love to destroy the economy they do it every time they have power.
MICHEAL
2020-07-18 01:28:11 UTC
no better or worse then the the dummy crates would
Vega The Spaniard
2020-07-17 15:39:50 UTC
If they do they are misguided, and have their own prospects in jeopardy. My opinion is jump the Trump ship and fend for yourself, your state and your country
?
2020-07-17 00:44:03 UTC
Who is he?  Where is he?  Haven't heard of him for so long... In trumper bunker?
Care411
2020-07-16 11:29:14 UTC
Yes, they genuinely do.  They would absolutely eat their own  sh*t if trump said he did.  It is really strange.  It is scary to think we work with people like this, send our kids to schools they do or they are our neighbors.  It is how politics work though.  Democrats fought as violently and ignorantly to sponsor Obama (Drone war is one example).....





I get it though the question was about Trump and people who support him.  Yes they do believe it.  Where they do not believe it (a large percent of them replied).... They will do their best to blame or belittle others - "X would have been worse".





Trump supporters..... If they are your friends, family, co-workers, bosses or random people you know really should not be trusted. They should be avoided. Clearly they are not able to think for themselves.  Being viewed as an obedient party liner is what their focus is.  Anyone who disagrees with them (even children) is considered their enemy in their eyes.





We really need to stop supporting the Trump supporter.  Long after Trump dies of natural causes the ignorant people who supported him will still be alive - they are the problem.  (I don't just believe this; it is true)....  So I know its true that trump supporters would allow their sister to sh*t in their mouth then eat it if Trump told them to.
2020-07-16 09:45:46 UTC
Yes. They're f*c**ng morons.
2020-07-16 04:05:26 UTC
Nobody does. .........
Ranchmom1
2020-07-15 21:10:46 UTC
2 million deaths were projected.



We have less than 150,000, and we don't know how many of those actually died *of* Covid versus died *with* Covid. Total chance of death from Covid is less than 1%.
2020-07-15 21:00:00 UTC
Yes  , Do   you think He can  somehow  lasso  a  virus ? 
JYAG
2020-07-15 16:31:57 UTC
I don't know.  Maybe?
Geary
2020-07-15 14:54:22 UTC
Trump did wjat he could early in stopping travel into the US from Chin then other countries> After getting depleted medical supplies needed to handle pandemic, it was up to Governors for each state to govern their own policies in regard to federal guidlines. Just like Trump could not interfere with each states handling of the riots without the governors asking for help.Look to your own state wuflu deaths and then ask your governor!
Tom S
2020-07-15 11:44:42 UTC
They will believe what he tells them to believe.
Coop 366
2020-07-15 02:22:44 UTC
The Trumpettes only believe what their tin god (the Donald) tells them.
2020-07-15 01:55:14 UTC
Name one governor that's complaining
mustagme
2020-07-14 22:50:06 UTC
He is doing a fantastic job. This whole thing is a hoax designed to harm our economy. 



It is long past time to get our kids back into school, and adults back to work. 
2020-07-17 21:31:03 UTC
They don't know their *** from their elbow.
2020-07-17 18:33:08 UTC
Depends on who you ask.
?
2020-07-17 17:55:34 UTC
He is more of a spectator
Jackolantern
2020-07-17 12:21:10 UTC
The GOP isn't commenting. Their lips are too swollen from biting their lips every time Trump speaks! If you will notice, hardly any Republican in office agrees with anything the president says. They just skirt around him and make their own assessments.
formeng
2020-07-17 00:21:27 UTC
One of the things that people need to learn is that one-size does not fit all for any group of people. No doubt, some Republicans think Trump is doing a good job and others think he isn't. The fact to bear in mind is that even the experts disagree on the best trajectory to follow on such issues as opening certain businesses and sending kids back to school. The average Republican or Democrat has nowhere near the necessary scientific capability to properly assess that issue, and that, believe it or not, most likely includes you.
2020-07-16 21:43:43 UTC
They don't, but the point is that they are SO stupid, they think that repeating it is going to convince *themselves*, and perhaps even alter reality.
Joshua
2020-07-16 18:59:03 UTC
We will never know. Donald Trump set the standard. 
Weasel McWeasel
2020-07-16 13:00:37 UTC
Of course not,  but they would LITERALLY rather die than criticize  DER FURHER! 
?
2020-07-16 10:36:59 UTC
Trump is the best there has ever been, however the government is making the cv19 sound way worst than it actually is. My mother went to get tested, after a 3 hour wait we left, she never got checked three days later they called and said she tested positive.... I do not believe half even a third of the number they are saying is true. I am sure there are people who have tested positive, but there are also some which are fake! Support trump and get rid of this government! 
W.T. Door
2020-07-16 07:34:46 UTC
Yes, because he IS doing a good job with managing the response to the CCP virus.
DS M
2020-07-16 06:03:37 UTC
Given how long it took racist Dems to recognize the coronavirus was an actual problem, yes.  



For example, just like Biden didn't know it was raining, it took Biden 2 months to reverse his decision and hire a lawyer to advise him about a medical condition.
nicks name
2020-07-16 01:09:13 UTC
No we dont its getting out of control
2020-07-15 20:17:45 UTC
YES HE IS VERY SMART....HOPE HE WINS AGAIN!!!!!
koalatcomics
2020-07-15 19:58:30 UTC
lmfao...rofl...fofl...seroiusly asshat?  YOUR president brought us lying about benghazi fast and furious solyndra and the unaffordable care act and your worried about trump.  the stench of snowflake hypocrisy is  overwhelming.
2020-07-15 17:50:46 UTC
About 1 out of 3 Americans think he is doing a great job handling the CoronaVirus. I reckon almost all of them must be Republicans. That means some Republicans think he is not doing a good job. Some Republican politicians are skipping the Republican National Convention because they are scared of being infected.
Kaz
2020-07-15 13:10:16 UTC
Yes.               
2020-07-15 09:19:51 UTC
Given that people have died in droves in other countries, it's not exactly fair to pin it down on a President. This is a new virus and it takes time to figure it out
2020-07-15 08:47:41 UTC
Trump has no control over what mitigation strategies states do or do not enact.     Governors have made it very clear they will instigate their own policies.   
2020-07-14 22:59:33 UTC
No, they don't. But most of them won't admit it.
?
2020-07-14 22:48:30 UTC
No. They just can’t admit that he’s botched it because doing so would mean that blue team wins Internet for the day.
Dr.Pepper
2020-07-18 12:22:43 UTC
Yes they do. they are completely under the spell.
2020-07-17 21:14:14 UTC
Yes we do.  We also believe that Michelle Obama is a transgender
2020-07-17 20:30:13 UTC
Better than any democrat, at least obama didn't have to fight viruses ALONE  or have people encouraging their spread like democrats did back in february of 2020 
?
2020-07-17 18:35:00 UTC
Donald trump is good job this hard time great leader 
Glen W
2020-07-17 17:27:22 UTC
Sure, those would be the same ones who think he's a good businessman.
LAN
2020-07-17 15:54:40 UTC
Yes.   That's why all the idiot Democrats that keep second guessing him are going against what they originally claimed.
socal92007
2020-07-17 15:53:49 UTC
Do I actually believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job managing the coronavirus pandemic - Absolutely, NOT!!!
Pache
2020-07-16 19:27:44 UTC
Yes, because he is.  He's the best president we've had since Reagan. 
?
2020-07-16 19:07:07 UTC
You are using republicans as an all encompassing statement, assuming blindly that being a republican and a trump supporter are synonymous. They are not.
Edna
2020-07-16 15:45:32 UTC
Neither Donald Trump nor any other President can "manage" the outbreak of a contagious illness. A President can't treat it and he can't stop its spread. Only doctors and public health officials know how to "manage" an illness. .
adam
2020-07-15 22:17:12 UTC
Yes I think he’s doing a great job.
?
2020-07-15 16:08:32 UTC
He has done far better then any other world leader. 
DK439
2020-07-15 15:29:44 UTC
No one is doing a good job! Gov. Nuisance is screwing up big time in California and Gov. Abbott is overwhelmed in Texas.
sparrow
2020-07-15 13:34:37 UTC
Yeah. He's doing as good as anyone could. He can't wave a magic wand and

fix everything. We would not be any better off if Hillary were president.

Maybe she'd lock things down even more, and take away the states individual

rights to decide for themselves how they want to handle it.

Then even more people would suffer from financial ruin and no food on their tables.

Yes. I actually believe that.



He would like to stop those protest crowds from gathering together and destroying things, but the state leadership will not allow it.
Justin
2020-07-15 12:38:10 UTC
I would imagine you are comparing the death tolls to nations in Europe and Asia while failing to appreciate that they must face the same demon at some point if they hope to ever recover their destroyed economies. China was having their worst economic year in seven decades BEFORE the pandemic hit. Europeans are 'waiting it out' using socialist resources and their economies were already in shambles too.



President Trump started from scratch constructing a new medical infrastructure designed to directly address the REALITY of pandemics with help from his private industry colleagues. He accomplished it in months, not years. This infrastructure is what SHOULD have been built under Obama while 13,000 Americans were dying from swine flu. To someone who believes that only government bureaucracy can create new infrastructure, the task seemed too daunting and expensive to Obama, who also saw the expense as a threat to Obama Care.



Trump's response has actually kept us at the lowest predicted tier of American deaths for the first wave, (100,000, 240,000), with a low 4.5% mortality, (compare that to UK with a nearly 16% mortality rate). He did this WHILE reigniting the spectacular economy his policies had given us before the pandemic, (which, I should also point out, is what has been sustaining us through it).



If you want to know the actual truth, it helps to simply shut off the Press reporting and think for yourself. That is also what our President has done. If he had followed their nonsense and the W.H.O. models, we would be totally screwed right now. They initially advised us to treat this pandemic like swine flu. That is why the President made the international statement of leaving them behind until they break out of the same 'bureaucratic' spell and return to common sense and rational self-reflection. 



Whether you realize it or not, America is leading the world on this again. It just isn't obvious at the moment, since we are once again paying the greatest costs on the world's behalf, facing down the monster directly and learning to tame it, while they cower and wait to see what happens next.  
2020-07-15 10:11:19 UTC
Close enough for government work. 

Obama did many things badly, for my taste.

Trump does many things goodly, so to speak.

Why would I change my mind, even if I thought Trump did handle the pandemic poorly. Lol!
SumDude
2020-07-15 08:42:18 UTC
THE STATES have actually been in charge for months now. THEY CHOSE to accept or not accept (follow) Trump's ideas. Trump cannot impose his will on the people. {P S - this country is damned if we do, damned if we don't ... on issues like opening up the economy (or not), opening up schools (or not), telling people to stay home until they go crazy, etc.}
?
2020-07-15 08:09:41 UTC
Trump wanted to tell foreign students to stay home, if they're doing online classes.  This would prevent the virus from spreading.  Democrats oppose the idea.  Why?
Sunday Crone
2020-07-15 03:22:46 UTC
So the  surveys say.
Judy and Charlie
2020-07-14 23:04:27 UTC
Hell yes they do!

And they deserve everything they get from him!
2020-07-19 13:38:06 UTC
I think they do . I think his hair hypnotized them all !! 
?
2020-07-18 09:45:03 UTC
Of course not, Those republican are just like those 99% of people in this world who are stupid and follower. So they just go with the flown with what ever their leader does. There need to be more smart people and go opposite of the flown in this world.
2020-07-17 18:18:02 UTC
Yes, conservatives are really delusional.
2020-07-17 11:49:08 UTC
Yes, awesome job!
.....GodsGrandPlanGreber
2020-07-17 02:20:17 UTC
People can't "manage" illness, all they can do is try to defend against it, which is what the President is doing, and doing well.

 Unless you're a russian communist troll, you would have to agree.
Canines
2020-07-16 22:44:28 UTC
The Demotards and Liberals just want to find any fault in whatever President Trump does. So, even if only one person died because from the Chinese Oriental virus, President Trump would still have to shoulder the blame. 



The US responded quickly considering that Dr Fauci said in January that there was no danger to the US from the coronavirus. That the US people were safe. When asked if cruise ships were safe, he said yes. President Trump was relying on Dr Fauci and Dr Fauci f*cked up, and now President Trump is taking the heat. 



But, truth be told, President Trump isn't responsible for wrapping every US sh*tizen in a condom so they don't get infected. People are responsible for their own safety. If they choose to walk around unmasked, hit the bars and restaurants, or take part in an anti-white demonstration surrounded by thousands upon thousands of pro-black dipsh*ts, then they shouldn't be surprised if they get infected. 



President Trump's response has been as good as any other country's response, given that this is uncharted territory, an unprecedented event that shut down the world, not just the US--the world. There's only a handful of world leaders who are being given the responsibility of stopping the coronavirus in its tracks. That's not gonna happen. 



What amazes me more than anything else is how many US sh*tizens blame President Trump, and not the Chinese President for this pandemic. It's mind-blowing that the Chinese President who allowed this coronavirus to get out all over the world, that has so far killed more black people in the last few months than dirty white cops have in 20 years, has destroyed more black businesses and put more black people out of work and struggling to survive, and put more black people in hospitals all over the US, and still hasn't been cursed upon like President Trump. I don't see black protesters burning Chinese restaurants because of the coronavirus. 



Blame President Trump all you want. In a few months, you'll get your wish and that senile b*stard whack job "The Black Messiah" Joe Biden will be your elected president. Then the US will be renamed the United Blacks States of New Africa. And, every white citizen will have to pay for their ancestors and forefathers' crime of being white, and fork over billions upon billions to past, present, and future black people of this country. Senile Joe will want every non-black to bow and salute black people when we see them in public. That b*stard Biden will blow up Mount Rushmore and replace the heads of those slave owners and racists with the greatest blacks who ever lived: 



- R. Kelly...Peeing on a some teen

- O.J. Simpson...Slicing some white girl and Jewish guy

- Wayne Williams...Burying black kids in the yard

- LaWanda Page...As Aunt Esther making her scowl 



Black people of the United Black States of New Africa, your messiah is near and waiting to lead you to the promise land. Senile B*astard Joe Biden is planning on renaming the 50 states to famous black athletes, singers, and actors of the past. Maybe one day I'll get to live in the great state of Leon Spinks, Biz Markie or  Bushwick Bill. 
2020-07-16 22:33:13 UTC
Before there was any known case in the USA, Trump offered to have CDC scientist to go to china and assess the problem and they were denied. WHO was telling the world that there is no human to human transmission. When things were getting worst in Wuhan in January, Trump implements a travel ban (while being impeached) that was criticized as xenophobic with Dems MDs and politicians stating on air that the decission to ban travel is xenophobic, and the danger from the coronavirus was miniscule up until COVID-19 task force recommended 15 day shut downs. Taiwan and Sweden never shut down as they knew the spread will happen no matter what. Doctors and Nurses have gotten infected and died despite wearing medical gowns, mask, and face shields. When Trump offered to Cuomo for the Federal Gov. to Quarantine New York, Cuomo repused. Cuomo waited a couple of weeks before shutting down schools and waited another two weeks before shutting down the subways and sanitizing the subways. Cuomo ordered COVID-19 patients to be admitted to nursing homes. Healthcare workers and visitors help spread the virus in throughout New York. Cuommo didn't keep New Yorkers from leaving New York, now the rest of America are being affected by what could've been stopped in New York. New York still have the Highest death Numbers out of all States. Cuomo oblivious to accountability blames WHO, CDC, HHS, NIH for failing to respond as the pandemic response team that Obama supposed to have created, but has been around for more than half a century.



Trump got the private sector involve with CDC and Defense Dept. to Form the COVID-19 Task Force cause it was obvious that Obama's so called pandemic response team just couldn't handle a very infectious disease of this magnitude, in fact the world is having a very difficult time with it except Sweden and Taiwan who aren't panicking about it. Denmark, Netherlands, and Vietnam re-opened their schools as data have shown that it's extremely rare for children to get infected, die of COVID and transmit COVID-19 no spike in COVID-19 cases. 166 of children under 15 have died of the Flu and only 30 children under 15 have died of COVID-19. Trump got the motor companies and Honeywell to produce millions of PPE's and 50-100,000 Ventilators in just a couple of months with the extras sent to countries in need of ventilators.



The USA is only Number 8th in the world in death rates that could've been lower, if it hadn't been for Cuomo who could've stopped it from spreading to other states. Trump is doing a good job with what the law & the constitution allow him to do, but without restriction from the Constitution Trump would not have allowed Cuomo and Anti-Trump views media to be so incompetent and partisan with COVID-19 as Cuomo gets praises and Trump get vitriolic criticism.
Puddin
2020-07-16 21:48:07 UTC
Amazingly they due. They are so deluded. I dont even bother to argue with them.
2020-07-16 04:53:10 UTC
Donald Trump doesn't make people sick. People make themselves sick.
?
2020-07-15 23:57:43 UTC
Yes, he is doing as good a job as any President could. Yet he gets the blame for something the governors and mayors have way more control of. 
Troy
2020-07-15 23:37:50 UTC
he is doing really good work. I would say he should improve his relationship with the media. But remember, the day after the election all the left including many in the media said to "RESIST" everything and anything he will do or say. Is reasonable that MSNBC or CNN has never seen or heard Trump do one single good thing or even one single neutral thing.
1Netzari
2020-07-15 22:41:43 UTC
As good a job as can be expected by anyone who's not a messiah.
Free At Last
2020-07-15 22:03:46 UTC
NO! They ALL realize that he's doing a terrible job with everything he does. They just can't admit that they were wrong to vote for him, so they have to go down with the ship. Bon Voyage republicans!!! glug glug glug.....
The Rightwing Conservative
2020-07-15 21:22:26 UTC
Trump is doing an excellent job in handling the pandemic, unlike Obama who botched the Ebola outbreak and allowed 2 Americans to die.
GiGi
2020-07-15 16:25:00 UTC
The idea that the Federal Government is supposed to manage things like this is the problem with the Democrats.
☆ Modern Messiah™ ☆ †`°º·¤.¸✲
2020-07-15 14:02:07 UTC
Even Donald Trump is boring already,  at lease he is promoting people not to wear mask so that many will go to heaven and the science will not think how to start WWIII.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmO8h9GJtfA&fbclid=IwAR2Q7sdrSkGt575plpJ6sWiSJe1tuDOtVHiiQtt2ABEGoU_izMAxn0Px3C8
2020-07-15 08:10:07 UTC
NOBODY is doing a good job managing that damned thing.  Not the conservatives and certainly not your precious brain dead liberals.  How about you?  Do you actually believe Democrats with their masks and lock downs (except rioters, of course) and church closings and harassing people for being outside their homes are actually doing good?
?
2020-07-15 04:34:16 UTC
I'm not sure, to be honest.  No matter what he has done in the past, they have defended him, because most people don't like to admit that they were wrong.  But how do you argue with reality?  Millions of cases, more than 100,000 dead.
2020-07-15 03:24:10 UTC
"White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking"



The US handled Coronavirus like school shootings. Ignored it and prayed it would go away. And that’s why every country is doing better then us in both. They listen to smart people.



"Trump aides are working to balance his need for adoring crowds against the plague conditions he did so much to unleash. The imperatives of satiating his megalomania are bumping up against the consequences of his depravity and incompetence." Washington Post, Greg Sargent



"I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not." Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, this week after attending a so-called 'COVID party.' ABC



Good ******* golly. Whoever decided to tuck Ivanka's soiled panties in that face mask really deserves a pay raise. With that being said, how many people gotta die before we stop grading this ************ on a curve? Aiden Wolfe



The Ebola death toll for Obama was 2. The GOP was furious. The COVID death toll for Trump? 134,000. No GOP fury. Lavish praise for Trump. Craven assholes.



A recent online poll puts Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey dead last on approval ratings of U.S. governors' COVID-19 response. He's the only governor to earn a lower approval rating than President Trump on the issue. NPR



After lobbying, the Catholic Church received $1.4 billion in coronavirus aid. Boston Globe



Republicans: We must protect Fetuses, which do not have a conscience yet, even if the mother will die. Also Republicans: We must send our children into closed rooms filled with likely Covid patients and not obey the CDC guidelines



“He'll withhold ventilators or steal supplies from states that have not groveled sufficiently. What Donald thinks is justified retaliation is, in this context, mass murder."
?
2020-07-14 22:50:33 UTC
THERE IS NO "VIRUS" AND NO "PANDEMIC"....
Steven
2020-07-18 12:35:21 UTC
Yes, they would not cross their boss
GEORGE B
2020-07-18 04:15:14 UTC
Certainly a lot better that the mayor of NYC who put virus infected people into nursing homes among the elderly who were most susceptible to being infected.
?
2020-07-18 01:27:02 UTC
He’s doing a great job!!! It’s the Democrats that are interfering with his efforts!!!!!
?
2020-07-17 22:18:25 UTC
Yeah, and many Republicans believe COVID is a hoax put on by the Democrats to undermine the Trump presidency. Utter lunacy
2020-07-17 20:11:28 UTC
Republicans believe the world is flat and that mole people live inside it. I'd be worried if those people didn't believe Trump was a genus.
2020-07-17 17:33:49 UTC
..............I hope not 
Robert
2020-07-17 12:52:16 UTC
I think with the available information he has reacted well during most of the pandemic.  You have to remember that even the San Francisco queen (not him-Nancy Pelosi) and all the dems were saying to go out to restaurants and not worry about the virus in the beginning.  He was quick to mobilize industry to get ventilators when the shortage was discovered, and with changing information he has made changes. I think part of his message to get the economy moving might have been sloppy...give people the idea that masks are bad, might have been harmful.  All and all, he is responded to the needs.  He has not communicated as effectively as he should.  The economy HAS to reopen.  We can't afford not to work.  Period.  It must be done as safely as possible, but it must be done.  Now here is the real question...would anyone else have handled it better?   Think about the dems responses along the way, from the anger at his banning Chinese from entering the nation, to blaming him for every shortage that every state governor was really responsible for.  If you take it all apart and consider the available information at the time, he did as well or better than the other team would have, I believe.
?
2020-07-17 08:14:26 UTC
our countries economy has been destroyed, Trump is surely to blame
Skookum
2020-07-17 07:08:10 UTC
Maybe they don't realize how bad it actually is compared to other countries.  Today new cases in the USA were 154 times higher than in Canada.  (USA has only 9 times the population.)  

New covid cases today

437 in Canada vs 67,404 in US
RICK
2020-07-17 01:29:38 UTC
Do Republicans  actually think?
?
2020-07-16 19:29:17 UTC
They dont care. Just say it and be done with it. Nothing anyone says to the contrary will move them. God Almighty cant move them. Well some are growing a spine but there are still some that are probably terminal so it doesnt mean anything to them anyway. Trump is sick and not well.
MissBabyangel
2020-07-16 12:11:12 UTC
im a registered Democrat . i really think Covid19 wouldnt exist if Trump wasnt in the whitehouse he really seemed to have pi**ed off china * its GERM WARFARE ! 
2020-07-16 10:34:36 UTC
Trump doesn't control everything in America I know you liberals think he does . So Stop blaming  him for everything 😠 Why don't you ask how how well did Gov Cuomo  did in handling the coronavirus in NYC ?  Because he has blood on his hands check out what he did 
2020-07-15 23:54:53 UTC
The State Governors are making the COVID19 Mandates for their States.  What does this chain of custody, have to do with Trump.  TRUMP 2020
2020-07-15 22:21:40 UTC
They would believe him if he said up was down, black was white, and night was day. He doesn't have supporters, he has worshippers.
?
2020-07-15 17:05:28 UTC
Well, some of the deluded ones may. As for the rest of us folks, he gets an 'F'.  (He couldn't find someone else to take this test for him.)
2020-07-15 15:19:05 UTC
its all perspective 
2020-07-15 04:27:41 UTC
It's not the president, it's the PEOPLE!  Are the people doing a good job?  Not good enough.  Covid is going up again! 

July 15, 2020
?
2020-07-15 04:20:41 UTC
He’s doing what he thinks is right time will be the final judge.
?
2020-07-15 00:46:20 UTC
What is he supposed to do? The federal government can't stop people from moving around
guy
2020-07-16 22:17:58 UTC
yes yes i yes i know yes yes i konw
Matthew
2020-07-15 22:14:01 UTC
Donald Trump's is not doing better or worse than anybody! This question is political muddling because you can't manage an unmanageable disease Trump has done the best that can be done to keep food and jobs from complete shutdown and if your still alive and living inside a house you can't complain Trump takes advice on twitter! What constructive advice have you offered? Go like I have gone and suggest something


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