Trump Tweets and Fiddles While Cities Burn and Citizens Die

What a week this has been in the history of the United States! Deaths from COVID-19 under Trump's watch, enhanced by his delaying any meaningful action to contain spread of the virus for a month and a half, surpass 100,000. At the same time, protests in cities around the nation erupt in fires, looting, and mass violence as one fuse too many ignites the longstanding, never-resolved issue of institutional racism, with the pent-up anger exploding into the open like a contagion. All the while, presidential leadership in virtually non-existent. Trump chooses to tweet that HIS free speech rights are being violated when his statements are being fact-checked and labeled as being non-factual. He further attempts to divert attention from the destructive rage of the civil violence and the tragic loss of life through the continued spread of the deadly virus by holding a terse news conference in which he announces two totally nonproductive actions, cancelling US involvement in the World Health Organization, and abandoning US support for Hong Kong's separate system rights with China, leaving Hong Kong at the full mercy of China with our de facto acceptance. If this is what Trump considers "Making America Great Again", he probably considers Nero one of Rome's great leaders, having been found fiddling while Rome burned. And this is undoubtedly Trump at his best, at least the best we can expect of him! The United States must do better, and will have the chance to regain some degree of integrity, dignity, competence, and respect in November. To not succeed in this endeavor is not an option!