In a life filled with uncertainty, there are a few things we can always count on. One, that death spares no one. Two, that Jared and Ivanka will find a way to profit off of their government positions while maintaining they sacrificed everything to join the administration. And three, that when backed into a corner thanks to his own incompetence, greed, or history of undiagnosed traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump will find a way to pin the blame on Barack Obama, even if the issue is, like, the DVR not recording Hannity or orange streaks on the White House bath towels because he was too impatient to let the self-tanner dry. (Previous, real-life examples have included blaming Obama for: the temperature in the Oval Office; his decision to rehire Mike Flynn, who Obama fired and warned him about; anti-Trump protests; and building a non-existent wall.)

Not surprisingly, today Trump managed to finger the 44th president of the United States for...the botched coronavirus response. Speaking to reporters alongside Mike Jesus will sort this out Pence one week after his big press conference on the matter, Trump claimed that the insane lack of testing of Americans presenting symptoms of the deadly disease is actually the fault of a guy who left office more than three years ago. The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what were doing, and we undid that decision a few days ago so that the testing can take place at a much more accurate and rapid fashion, Trump said, before giving himself kudos for supposedly righting the supposed wrong. That was a decision we disagreed with. I dont think we would have made it, but for some reason it was made. But weve undone that decision.

Only, as critics were quick to point out, it was the Trump administration that wiped out the National Security Councils global health security unit created to counter pandemics, as well as its counterpart within the Department of Homeland Security. And appointed a paranoid pharma executive to run the Department of Health and Human Services, who reportedly failed to coordinate an effective response due to distrust of his own aides and a desire not to offend the president. And told officials not to do or say anything re: the virus that would spook the markets, including, apparently, telling the truth or devising a plan of action that doesnt sound like it was drawn up by Don Jr. and Eric from their super secret clubhouse with the NO GIRLS ALLOWED sign.

To be fair, when he wasnt blaming everything on Obama. Trump spent Wednesdaya day in which the U.S. coronavirus death count reached 11 people with at least 149 known cases nationallytotally focused on protecting Americans and taking the situation unusually seriously, by which I mean he devoted the morning and early afternoon to attacking Mike Bloomberg.

Clearly theres nothing to be concerned about with this guy on the case.

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Trump Waited a Whole Week Before Blaming the Coronavirus on Obama - Vanity Fair