Trump Finds His Footing On Coronavirus, Despite the Democrats
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | March 13, 2020
After rattling the country with his implausible bravura and rather embarrassing statements at his press conference last week, where he astounded the scientific community with the depth of his epidemiological knowledge, President Trump is now turning the corner on the coronavirus crisis.
His original performance was a bit like President Obama’s in 2014 when — after having tacitly encouraged the rise of ISIS with his petulant withdrawal from Iraq and having announced that he would intensify targeted bombing and increase training and advisory services to the defeated Iraqis — he declared, “This is American statesmanship at its finest.†It wasn’t. American presidents ought to leave those judgments to historians, in any event.
We need only imagine what the effect would have been if Franklin Roosevelt had concluded his “Great Arsenal of Democracy†Speech (1940), or John F. Kennedy his Cuba Missile Crisis address (1962), or Ronald Reagan his “Evil Empire†(1983) or “Tear Down This Wall†(1987) addresses with such a vigorous self-administered pat on the back.
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