Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal is vacationing in Bizarroworld where the drugs and the cocktails are obviously free:
No national leader plans to be in a position like this—not Roosevelt, Lincoln or Churchill. Mr. Trump will emerge from this crisis either as just another president or a president who led his entire country through a great battle.
There are some other options aren’t there? In which he is remembered as the most incompetent leader in world history? As the dumbest president ever who refused to listen to the vast number of experts who warned him to prepare for a global pandemic? As the world’s greatest narcissist who only cared about his own political and financial fortune while thousands of dead bodies piled up around him? As the most delusional head of government in history who went before the people and tried to sell them snake oil cures and happy talk instead of the truth in the middle of a catastrophic public health crisis?
I suspect all of those options are more likely than Trump being “just another” or a “Great President.” In fact, there really is no question. He’s already all of those things.
Some will say, from experience, that asking Mr. Trump to rise to presidential greatness is quixotic. He’ll never adjust no matter the circumstance. And yes, on Tuesday he was in a cat fight over ventilators with New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo.
Ironically, Mr. Trump’s path to presidential greatness may begin by doing something small but desired by virtually all Americans: Separate himself from the pettiness of our politics.
Ironically? Oh my God. Her really is in Bizarroworld.
He goes before the public every day and claims the Democrats and the press are trying to destroy him with “fake news.” He says they are pumping up the crisis to undermine him. Despite saying over and over again that he has nearly unfettered power under Article II of the constitution he is refusing to use the power he does have to efficiently marshall industry to coordinate and distribute the medical supplies necessary he is pretending that it’s all going great even as people are dying for lack of them.
The idea that he has the capability of changing is ridiculous. He is failing on every level. He has always failed on every level.
Here’s a Wall Street Journal Bizarroworld vacation video: