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Watching the astonishing display of hubris and bald-faced lying fouling the air at today’s White House briefing, I now realize we are beset by not one plague, but two—the coronavirus and the plague of having an incomprehensibly inane and dishonest administrator in charge of so much of our welfare and destiny. Mitch McConnell and his co-conspirators in congress will forever wear the stain of condemnation for their unforgiveable crime in not removing this creeping virulence from the position from which he projects his poison in his continuing campaign to imperil our lives, livelihoods and way of life.

If you want the truth, every time trump blames someone, simply replace the words “them” with “me,” and every time he tries to take credit for something, do likewise. The terms “loose screw,” “dingbat” and “idiot” no longer cut it when it comes to this man. An entirely new lexicon needs to be devised to account for his words and deeds because the ones in use currently are woefully insufficient. Same for the words and deeds of his supporters in congress.

The coronavirus, horrible as it is, will hopefully lose its grip on the people of the world when a vaccine is finally developed and becomes available to everyone. But the effects of the trump plague, unfortunately, will endure for decades if not longer.

Trump says he is “moving along well” toward reopening the country. My picture of what that would look like differs considerably from his. To me, “moving along well” would better describe a picture of trump “moving along well” to a jail cell where he would be confined, without ability to project his voice beyond the confines of his immediate surroundings, for an “unprecedented” length of time.

Tim Konrad