I do not claim that Trump exists on the same space/time continuum that the rest of us live on. I just have no proof. However, we do have evidence that his grasp of time is not that of the rest of us.
He did tell us in his July 4, 2019 speech, after all, that,
“The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown.
Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.”
Linear time is obviously of no consideration to him.
It would be understandable, although not all that acceptable, for the president of the United States to make errors when it comes to small mistakes about the distant past, but when that history is just a few months old, it gets a little frightening, especially when he presents that mistake as an irrefutable truth.
He relies on blaming Obama for anything he does that people might question, but rewriting a history that is fresh and easily checked just doesn’t cut it.
At his daily reality show briefings he has the need to denounce President Obama for his handling of the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic in 2009.
On Monday he declared,
“The other administration, they didn’t even know — it was like they didn’t even know it was here.”
But on April 26, 2009, less than two weeks after the first US cases of H1N1 were confirmed, Obama declared a public health emergency.
On April 28, 2019 Obama requested $1.5 billion to address H1N1, and his Food and Drug Administration approved the CDC’s test which the CDC began distributing domestically three days later.
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Obviously, in spite of Trump’s claim, the “other administration” did notice H1N1 and addressed it.
He also claimed again that Obama had left him with an old, obsolete test saying,
“Initially speaking, the tests were old, obsolete, and not really prepared.”
Corona virus is a recently discovered virus.
It was first presented to the Trump administration in December 2019, and obviously presented as a serious threat in January as events have shown that after a briefing on it to members of the senate some of them sold stocks in anticipation of its effects on the stock market with at least one purchasing stocks that would most likely increase in value because of it.
Trump’s CDC, not Obama’s, created its own test for the corona virus, turning down tests offered by the World Health Organization that were used in countries that have shown a quick response was effective.
This happened in January 2020 with the CDC announcing on February 5 that it would ship those tests to public health labs around the US.
Within days, on February 12, because of a flaw in one of its components, the CDC admitted the tests were not working, and then began manufacturing new tests on February 28.
Obama had left office in January 2017, three years before these “not really prepared” tests.
Corona virus was identified two plus years later and after Trump had disbanded the pandemic response team Obama had put in place after the H1N1 epidemic.
It would appear that just as with Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, Donald J. Trump is “unstuck in time”.
The difference is that Billy was aware enough of the facts of history to recognize that.
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