The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Convention
Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-malign-fantasy-of-donald-trumps-convention
The problem, of course, is that America as we know it is currently in the midst of a mess not of Biden’s making but of Trump’s. Suffice it to say that, by the time Trump’s speech was over and the red, white, and blue fireworks spelling out “2020” had been set off over the National Mall, late Thursday night, more than three thousand seven hundred Americans had died of the coronavirus since the start of the Convention—more than perished on 9/11—and a hundred and eighty thousand Americans total had succumbed to the disease, a disease that Trump repeatedly denied was even a threat. His botched handling of the pandemic was the very reason that his Convention was taking place on the White House lawn in the first place.