A Facebook Post of Mine

Would any other president have put his name on official government literature in this way?  This comes dangerously close to being taxpayer-funded campaign advertising.

In 2018, Trump disbanded the White House’s pandemic-response team and ignored a 69-page pandemic plan by the National Security Council. This year, when the coronavirus crisis broke, he downplayed the contagiousness of the disease and its harmfulness. When he finally started to act, it was because of the havoc the disease was playing on the stock market, and running on a strong economy was the centerpiece of his re-election campaign. He began holding regular press briefings on the disease, but he often said counterfactual things and had to be corrected by the experts. Then, he refused to help deliver much-needed aid to some states and said that help for them would need to be a “two-way street.” Then, against all knowledgeable advice, he talked about ending self-quarantines on Easter. 

Now, he has the audacity to put his name on a series of “guidelines” mailed to the public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as though his name carried an air of authority on the subject. I’m surprised that one of his guidelines isn’t “invest in the stock market.”