President Donald Trump speaks during a
coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Saturday, April 4, 2020, in
Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Well, It's a Start
President Trump turned Monday night on its head, teasing
a promise that a good many of us have been hoping for in some form or another.
After listening to idiot Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media
repeatedly say that he wasn’t or isn’t taking the coronavirus threat seriously
enough, the president used the threat of the crisis to make a big move on
immigration.
The
president tweeted that he would be issuing an executive order
“temporarily suspending immigration into the United States.”
There had been no mention of anything of the sort during
the president’s daily coronavirus briefing earlier on Monday, which made his
tweet all the more melodramatic.
It’s going to be fun watching the media pivot or swirl now
that Trump has thrown them this curveball. This is another one of those times
where those of us who enjoy watching the president play the media think he
might be playing some sort of five-dimensional chess with them.
We’ll probably see a lot more like this response from Politico:
The announcement stood in contrast to Trump's recent
messages of cautious optimism about the country soon reemerging from weeks of
lockdowns designed to contain the virus. The president has repeatedly tried to
downplay the severity of the outbreak since its arrival in the country, and his
push to reopen the economy has put him at odds with some of the nation‘s
governors and, at times, his top health experts.
It is almost impossible to overstate just how awful the
media has been these past few weeks. I probably shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
Since November of 2016, every time I think the media has reached its
professional nadir, a “hold our beer moment” quickly ensues. There is virtually
nothing that President Trump can do during this crisis that will allow them to
offer him any praise. He could start curing people himself and members of the
press corps would complain that he was taking attention away from medical
professionals.
Everyone in the media seems to be struggling with the
very common notion of “cautious optimism,” which is what the president is
preaching. There are places in the country that are going to be able to re-open
and go back to work before others, there’s no call for blanket gloom and doom.
Of course, the longer we’re miserable, the more likely that drooling moron Joe
Biden has a chance of getting elected president, so it’s easy to figure out why
they’re rooting for that.
Cautious optimism is balance. Balance is calm. Calm is
good in difficult times.
I’d love us all to get back to work as quickly as
possible.
Still, I wouldn’t mind if this executive order lingers
awhile.
