“We’re constantly reminded, even five months after he left office, that Trump’s response to the pandemic was somehow much worse and much crazier than we even knew at the time. Every day we keep hearing new details about his time in office thanks to what seems like a never-ending parade of tell-all books scheduled for publication, each filled with more damning new details about just how much of a sociopath he was.
The forthcoming book Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History, by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, two reporters at the Washington Post, which revealed that early in the pandemic, Trump suggested sending infected Americans stuck on cruise ships to Guantánamo Bay. ‘Don’t we have an island that we own?’ he asked the White House Situation Room in February 2020. ‘What about Guantánamo?’
Only Trump would refer to Guantánamo Bay as an island that we own. It’s such a reminder that he will always first and foremost be a real estate guy. It would’ve been hilarious watching Trump try to rebrand Guantánamo as a fun place for people to spend a week. [As Trump] ‘Welcome to Guantán-a-lago Spa & Resort, make sure you check out the bay, I’m sure it is full of pigs!’
Also, was there like a fantasy football draft, but for the stories each staffer got to tell for their books? [As a member of Trump’s staff] – ‘I can’t decide between the time he wanted to send cruise ship passengers to Gitmo, or the time he asked if he could legally send Seal Team 6 to rough up Lorne Michaels.’” —Seth Meyers
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night
of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
