Trump skips G20 pandemic event to visit golf club as virus ravages US
By: Lauren Aratani - The Guardian
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Donald Trump skipped the G20 summit's "Pandemic Preparedness" event to visit one of his golf clubs on the same day that a record 198,500 new Covid-19 infections were reported in a 24-hour period in the United States.
The summit, attended by world leaders from across the globe, is being held virtually this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 250,000 Americans - by far the largest total in the world.
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Trump's apparent disinterest in the summit started earlier on Saturday when he started tweeting about the election results after the scheduled start time of the summit at 8am ET. By 10am, Trump was leaving the White House to go to his golf course outside of Washington DC, according to CNN.
The event featured remarks from leaders, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, and was focused on the "coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic and improved global pandemic preparedness", according to its description.
Before he left the White House to go to the golf course, Trump implied to leaders that he will be working with them in the future, a reference to the losing fight he has put up against the results of the presidential election.
"I look forward to working with you again for a long time," he told leaders, according to audio obtained by the Observer.
Since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election 7 November, leaders from around the world have congratulated Biden, including Macron; the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson; and the Canadian president, Justin Trudeau, acknowledging his victory even while Trump has refused to.
According to a tally kept by CNN, Trump has visited one of his golf clubs on 303 occasions during his four years as president. During his 2016 campaign for the White House Trump regularly attacked his predecessor Barack Obama for hitting the links too often and insisted that he would have little time to play golf himself as president as he would be working too hard.
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Donald Trump does not give a fuck.
About anything.
Except his own pleasure.
So he plays golf while other countries meet to determine best practices.
Donald Trump does not give a fuck.
Seems like something they could have been doing back in January. Guess none of them give a fuck.
That was March, not January. A certain orange man is often blamed for not taking action in January. Guess that standard only applies to him.
Also, it doesn't appear that the March event accomplished much as new cases are spiking all over the world.
I'll well aware it was March. If you took the time to see who attended, Trump was there. If orange man is blamed for not taking action in January it's not part of the article.
If that is your stance then that would say that Trump didn't accomplish in March either.
Cheers.
You're missing my larger points.
First, I don't much care who met - or when or where. What matters is results, right? Do you see any? I sure don't.
Second, and by way of comparison, we have politicians and media constantly blaming Trump for not preventing all this tragedy way back in January (and yet the tragedy spreads all over the world, so it can't be just his fault). But, why is it horrible that Trump didn't have this fixed in January, but the wise leaders of the rest of the world didn't bother to meet until March? No outrage for the delay? (it's considered a delay if we're talking about Trump). Basically, what do people really think about the issue vs. who do they want attack for political reasons?
Third, we're supposed to believe that the responsible thing is to attend a meeting on global response now? In November? When this madness has been raging for 10 or 11 months already? And when we have vaccines just about ready to distribute? What do they think they are going to accomplish at this late hour? I have a hard time believing that Trump is missing much.
Anyway, Trump has clearly checked the F out. He doesn't talk to anybody and it doesn't look like he will be attending summits either. He has important pouting to do.
I'm not sure who you are addressing with your comments. None of your points is anything that I brought up or discussed.
I'll agree with that. He actually checked the fuck out months ago regarding COVID. He is much too busy filing lawsuits and losing them to actually pay any attention to things that really affect the US public. Well, golf seems to still be important to him.
... and of course... there's no possibility whatsoever of America taking the lead in a worldwide crisis...
We'll leave that to China.
No.
We have politicians and media constantly blaming Trump for first lying about the importance of the pandemic... and then doing next to nothing to encourage the people to engage best practices to limit the pandemic.
We have politicians and media constantly blaming Trump for America having behaved disastrously, with more than a quarter-million dead, and thousands more dying every day.
... but you can see nothing...
Really? You see them leading something? I see them - at most - taking care of their own.
Correct. Instead of doing something productive themselves. One of the dumber conspiracy theories out there is this notion that Trump had special secret information no one else had, kept it to himself, and that somehow is the reason for all the sickness and death in the ensuing 11 months.
A transcontinental project like the Silk Road is beneficial to all participants. It would not exist if China wasn't leading (and pushing) it.
The American equivalent is... nonexistent.
I'll expect an apology for truncating and debasing my words.
that got a vote up
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If he would have joined the ''pandemic response'' portion he would have been the ''Biggest Loser in the Room''...
Instead, Bunker Boy ran to the golf course.
"I look forward to working with you again for a long time," he told leaders
I understand he has a job lined up as a caddie.
Speaking of China....where would we be if the repressive, corrupt, and uncaring communist Chinese "government authorities" had NOT silenced, shamed, and punished Dr. Li Wenliang and other medical professionals, who determined a new virus was spreading in the Wuhan area. Perhaps it could have been confined to that local area. But it's easier to blame "Orange Man"
That's the whole thing, isn't it. China bears no responsibility for anything. Zero. And none of these G20 countries has failed anywhere along the line. Every last case of infection and death on Planet Earth is the fault of one Donald J. Trump.
Was it the "China Virus" that forced trump to lie, downplay and ignore the covid virus too?
Don't forget, trump knew on Feb. 5th that it was much more deadly than the flu, it was highly contagious yet he STILL did nothing but lie and golf. That China's fault?
Typical deflection. Blame Trump. Ignore the suggestion that anyone else in the entire world might bear the kind of responsibility you want to put on Trump.
He's the POTUS.
Of England? Of Brazil? Of India? Of France? How much responsibility do you think he has?
Oh that's right, trump takes no responsibility....unless it's something good, then he did it.
Like he is now taking credit for the huge spike in the Stock Market. Too bad the spike is only due to Biden finally being officially declared the rightful President-Elect.
It is just one more of Trump's lies, as he can't see himself as a failure of any kind. Good things that happen are always his doings, and the things that are not so good are always someone else's fault. So of course, Trump sees the 30,000 spike in the Stock Market due to him and his being a "genius".
You keep doing the same deflection. Do you eve realize it, I wonder?
I was referring to trumps response to covid in the USA, where he is the POTUS. Sorry for confusing you.
Yes, I understand, but look at this seed. The story is about a global response to a global problem. However, critics of Trump want to ignore that the problem is global and act like the pandemic is a uniquely American crisis perpetuated by the unique incompetence of Trump. But that perspective cannot logically endure when we are reminded that this disease has reached every inhabited place on Earth in spite of a full spectrum of responses.
Even extremely isolated locations like New Zealand get new cases every day - even if it's only one or two. Why?
Other, less isolated, more populous countries that we assume have better policies than the US - like Germany (because after all, Merkel and Trump don't get along, right?) - are getting tens of thousands of new cases every day. In fact, just in the last month, Germany's new cases are spiking and setting records far beyond anything they had yet seen. Over 23,000 in one day on November 20. The most they had seen before that was 6,200 in one day back in March.
So is Merkel incompetent? Does she not care about people? With Trump, we say the answer is "yes." Why not with other world leaders?
This is how a pandemic gets politicized.
Trump pays taxes in China.
Trump has a bank account in China that he tried to keep hidden.
Trump has used Chinese steel in all of his construction projects going back 30 years.
Trump has most of his clothing made in China, including his retarded fucking maga hats and campaign flags.
Ivanka has 18 Chinese patents in the last 4 years.
She has her clothing line manufactured in China.
Don Trump Jr. was selling green cards in China for 500k each right after trump took office.
That's the problem with electing an asshole and a liar. No matter what anyone else has done, trump has probably done it a lot more.
nicely done
It amuses me that any Trump supporter can criticize China for using government agencies to silence opposition and manipulate the media. Trump has called for arbitrary arrest, and for investigation of political adversaries. Trump has fired whistle-blowers for informing the public.
Trump is a Xi wannabe.
Not a legitimate comparison. Are you an apologist for the Chi-commies?
What is a Chi-commie?
Trump is a dictator wannabe period, no matter who it may resemble. And I can only guess that he wanted so badly to be re-elected so that he could pursue his dream of being a dictator of America. Only one thing wrong with that idea......he would have had to fight not only our military, but, the majority of the American people. Even his assorted armed militias around the country would not be a match for the mixed heritages of the American people who have lived through hell before and would not let America fall to an sick minded A-hole like Trump.
I'd like to believe you're right... but I'm not sure...