Good evening. With more than 136,000 dead in this country due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president of the United States today stepped into the rose garden and tried to turn into a political rally he can no longer do because of the pandemic. For the better part of an hour he railed against china, democrats and joe biden, lashed out at climate accords and Energy Saving air conditioners, statue vandals and on and on the president at times seemed like he was reading a list. At other moments, he seemed to free associate. He talked about bombers under his command and said hope we dont have to use them and boasted of things he did three years ago with the wall, undocumented immigrants and old applause lines but no applause, only silence. Because this wasnt some stadium packed full after supporters that came to cheer and jeer and bask in the glow of this artificially tan man. It was not closeed to anything one would expect or accept of a president but that shouldnt surprise us he chose t
Could live forever, on the strength of his moral power alone. He lived along enough in his remarkable life to see a lot. Well have more on congressman lewiss life and legacy tonight. We begin, though, with the president , who still fails to lead on coronavirus, and fails to accept his responsibility for its spread. Even as the virus reaches right into the oval office. National security adviser Robert Obrien testing positive. Said to be showing what are described as mild symptoms. No doubt, causing concern among all the senior foreign officials he met with, unmasked, not socially distanced on a recent trip to europe. Or the secret service agents, reporters, and staffers accompanying him. The president barely mentioned obrien today. He didnt mention todays news from espn that 13 players and coaches from miamis marlins have also tested positive for the virus. Or that the Minnesota Vikings control officer has also tested positive. The president also had nothing to say about google, giving
Met with unmasked not socially distanced on a recent trip to europe or staffers and reporters accompanying him. The president barely mentioned ocho bri obryan today and didnt mention the 13 players and coaches on Major League Baseball Miami Marlins tested positive for the Minnesota Vikings Infection Control officer also tested positive. Let that sink in for a moment. The Infection Control officer. The president had nothing to say about google giving employees the option to work from home until june of next year or that his friend and staunch supporter hermann cane that attended the rally in tulsa is hospitalized for three weeks and is still in the hospital now on oxygen. Nor, most of all, did this selfor tdained wartime preside say we as a country are about to endure the 150,000th covid death. None of these real world items cross the president s lips or mind. Instead today on a trip to North Carolina he repeated the same familiar lines from a word he inhabits and has from the beginning
Theyre approaching those reopenings in different ways. Georgia has been the most impressive, as we know. Last friday they opened service industries, like bowling alleys and gyms. Then they allowed people to dine in at a restaurant and go to a Movie Theater. Lets see where this state is with the coronavirus. Youve got over 24,000 confirmed cases, and then we have 990 deaths, very likely will go over 1,000. It was on march 25th where he issued the Program Healthy at home. That was their shelter in place. That was over a week before the state of georgia implemented its program of shutting down. And right now if you take a look at what theyve got planned for reopening, as of monday, a gradual restart and reopening of the health care industry, not the retail industry. In other words, you can go visit your doctor, you can have minor procedures done, you can also go to the dentist, the chiropractor, and you can go to the optometrist. But its all focused medically there. Now you take a look at
Preserving life. A virtual ceremony was held online so that those who survived the war might also survive this. Contrasting science as well in how the commander in chief chose to conduct himself in this moment as a selfdescribed wartime president. Today at fort mchenry in maryland reading prepared remarks he sounded like any other president on any other memorial day. As one nation we mourn alongside every Single Family that has lost loved ones, including the families of our great veterans. Together we will vanquish the virus and america will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights. Well, that was at 5 past 12 00 in maryland. At 2 23 in twitter, the president called congressman and lam an american fraud. Over the weekend in tweets and retweets he mocked the looks of the weight of three prominent women, other remarks that dont bear repeating. He continued to push the baseless Conspiracy Theory about someone who worked for Joe Scarborough and he played golf, the same thing h