Read my post, it’s the healthcare stupid.

Read my post, it’s the healthcare stupid.

Don’t you love a bad mashup of two overworked phrases from past politicians, except it seriously applies.

President Trump spent the day with executives from the various Wall Street banks, while VP Pence gets to play an attempt at the good guy working on the administration’s response to what is now called a pandemic.

Propping up Wall Street should not be the goal, basically this is the equivalent of the overly insecure schoolgirl putting on too much makeup to make herself feel better.

Americans need a more overall response that addresses many issues. Dealing with those will take much of the fear out of the markets and hence getting the result Trump really wants and that is the market back on an upward swing before the election.

If Americans know they can get healthcare, not lose out on paychecks, can protect their parents and grandparents, and a host of other items already discussed in the news and media then this will pass for the markets.

Yet, if people start watching their parents and grandparents die without access to care, or because the people around them were sick and no one was tested, or for any cause related to the Coronavirus then the market will be mean nothing to Trump’s Presidency. And as per the stories I have been reading Trump is so far removed from this reality that this is probably going to be what happens.

And for worse case scenarios imagine watching your parents die while laid off and you have no income and no healthcare. The anger towards Trump will be astronomically higher than the feel good moments of his political rallies.

Let’s hope someone in the White House is strong enough to actually sit the President down and get him to realize if he wants this to be about him he needs to make it about everyone else.

Yet here we are piecemealing reactions, some events are closed and cancelled, some go on, some schools are closed some aren’t, different cities have different levels of preparedness. And add in all the conspiracy theories passing along fake or incorrect information, 20 plus years of Fox Entertainment News wearing people’s trust down to the bone, yet these are the Trump supporters, distrust of “liberal media” and not just by Fox viewers, science discounted, our government giving conflicting information with Trump contradicting the healthcare experts up until now, how can the average American sort all this madness out. Can we get a clue from him?

And the very people that Trump needs to vote for him in November may be dying in droves if worse case scenarios play out.

So who has the cajones to tell Trump the truth, after three years of building a yes man team I doubt there is anyone left. I saw an article Trump will be addressing the nation, however, I didn’t see what time so hopefully by sometime this evening this blog’s premise will be laughable because if not, damn if we do, damn if we don’t because the forecasts on how much this is going to spread is not funny.

And yes I know this is not ground breaking news, but we are at a tipping point and I am bookmarking this moment by this post to see if Trump turns around his attitude and makes real changes or the meeting I heard he was having today with Wall Street will be the moment when his Presidency begins its downward spiral.

I would say hate to kick a good man when he is down, but I never thought Trump was a good man. Hopefully he can change because the country needs him to change.

Wash your hands, folks