Donald Trump has completely berserk meltdown as coronavirus closes in on him

| 6:00 pm EDT July 4, 2020
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Now that Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle has tested positive for coronavirus, and there’s a good chance Donald Trump Jr has caught it as well, we were wondering if Donald Trump might finally sober up and start taking the crisis seriously. After all, the coronavirus is now hitting his family as it closes in on him.

But publicly at least, Donald Trump is going the other direction. On Saturday afternoon he tweeted this utterly berserk meltdown: “Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News. In a certain way, our tremendous Testing success gives the Fake News Media all they want, CASES. In the meantime, Deaths and the all important Mortality Rate goes down. You don’t hear about that from the Fake News, and you never will. Anybody need any Ventilators???”

We’re not even sure where to start with this. The only reason the death toll hasn’t exploded yet is that it’s a lagging indicator; the grim reality is that on average it takes people weeks to die after they catch the coronavirus. Donald Trump’s sarcastic remark about ventilators is particularly absurd when you consider that Trump’s age and poor health mean he’s far more likely than the average person to end up needing a ventilator if he catches the virus.

The bottom line is that as the coronavirus crisis gets worse, and hurts Donald Trump’s 2020 prospects even more, he’s merely becoming more of a deranged jerk about it. We’re not rooting for anyone to catch this awful virus. But if Trump’s own son gets sick with it, will that finally force him to acknowledge reality? Probably not.