Obama says White House response to coronavirus has been 'absolute chaotic disaster'

By artappraiser on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 4:04am |

Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering critique of the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis, describing it as "an absolute chaotic disaster" during a private call Friday night with people who worked for him in the White House and across his administration.

The searing comments, confirmed to CNN by three former Obama administration officials on the call, offered the starkest assessment yet from the former president [....]

In a 30-minute conversation with members of the Obama Alumni Association, the former president said the response to the coronavirus outbreak served as a critical reminder for why strong government leadership is needed during a global crisis. The call was intended to encourage former Obama staffers to become more engaged in Biden's presidential campaign

"This election that's coming up -- on every level -- is so important because what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party," Obama said. "What we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy -- that has become a stronger impulse in American life."

The comments were first reported by Yahoo News, which obtained an audio recording of the call.[....]

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/politics/obama-trump-coronavirus-response-flynn-case/index.html

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note he mentioned Flynn:

The White House did not respond to Obama's comments on the Department of Justice's decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn.

Weighing in on the case during the call, Obama said Attorney General William Barr's decision to drop the criminal case against Flynn suggested "the rule of law was at risk" in the United States. Before taking office, Obama warned Trump about Flynn and raised questions about his conduct with Russia.

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 4:05am

Listening to this leaked recording of Barry the Stutterer trying to rally his feckless minions reminds me of Humpty Dumpty. All the Kings horses and all the Kings men couldn't put Barry together again.

by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 2:57pm

How did you have empty cupboards three and a half years BEFORE the novel virus? Novel means "New," which means this virus didn't exist. You were handed a 69 page pandemic response plan. One that stopped ebola and H1N1. You wiped your fat ass with it. Empty cupboards? On you, Bro. https://t.co/FfSnHgDqYc
— Christopher Titus (@TitusNation) May 10, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 4:00pm

.@realDonaldTrump has sent 115(!) tweets/RTs today: https://t.co/3r4ATjbcTf

There’s nary a word in any of them about (1) the 80,000 Americans who’ve died from #COVID19; (2) what it means that senior WH staffers are testing positive; or (3) how he plans to ameliorate the crisis.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 11:22pm

"Exhausted by the theater of hyperbole."

by moat on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 4:04pm

Time for a commercial break:

by moat on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 5:10pm

Admin warning - contribute something besides snide ad hominem propaganda or I start deleting.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 5:31pm

Do you mean things like this?

"This KillMe McInanity wouldn't hold up for a Chiffon commercial."?

Asking for a friend

by Jeff (not verified) on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 11:46am

I am encouraged the White House gave the cherished position of press secretary to a newbie intern, especially a woman of non-color. It's important that people with no discernible job skills or talents see that life is not a deadend, that they can parley their looks or connections and/or crass calculated willingness to say any absurd and/or criminal thing expected of them. And just as Biden's stutter or Bush's famed malapropisms didn't hold them back, Trump's inability to read has obviously inspired this new acolyte to put away her shame at being nervous, halting, tripping over read or spoken word, and vibrantly insincere presentation style to bring her gifts to the White House press pool podium (I'm sure she doesn't want to say that one 3x fast). Welcome to the Jungle, now officially known as Fantasyland. It's a Small World after all. And we are all the smaller for being part of it. Can I say I miss Sarah? I mean, you could have crafted a Netflix series around her. This KillMe McInanity wouldn't hold up for a Chiffon commercial.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds a Briefing: https://youtu.be/c2D2tst-skI

Rather than ad hominem, this is satire over a talentless hack posted way above her skillset in a crucial media communications position. So your friend can fuck off.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 12:06pm

I think that what's truly amazing about her is that she's the best little opportunist around, could probably run circles around boss Trump for lack of any values at all:Kayleigh McEnany called Trump comment 'racist,' 'hateful' and 'not the American way' in 2015. She's likely to blow old tired Kellyanne out of the water, send her off to the glue factory. And if Trump fires her: whoa, watch out.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 12:37pm

For Anonymous (not verified):

I like how he thinks his keyboard warriors are too stupid to know what “Madison Avenue” means. https://t.co/LKJbHoVleu
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 11:56pm

On the bright side

Two senior administration officials said there were no plans to keep Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence apart because of a concern that they both could be incapacitated by Covid-19.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/politics/white-house-coronavirus-trump.html

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 4:17pm

This is stunning to watch: 60 Minutes details a "political disinformation campaign" that went from Matt Gaetz to Tucker Carlson to OAN to Trump and killed one of the most important virology programs in the world. No "both sides" here. https://t.co/imy2GYl1YN
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) May 10, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 2:43am

I am encouraged the White House gave the cherished position of press secretary to a newbie intern, especially a woman of non-color. It's important that people with no discernible job skills or talents see that life is not a deadend, that they can parley their looks or connections and/or crass calculated willingness to say any absurd and/or criminal thing expected of them. And just as Biden's stutter or Bush's famed malapropisms didn't hold them back, Trump's inability to read has obviously inspired this new acolyte to put away her shame at being nervous, halting, tripping over read or spoken word, and vibrantly insincere presentation style to bring her gifts to the White House press pool podium (I'm sure she doesn't want to say that one 3x fast). Welcome to the Jungle, now officially known as Fantasyland. It's a Small World after all. And we are all the smaller for being part of it. Can I say I miss Sarah? I mean, you could have crafted a Netflix series around her. This KillMe McInanity wouldn't hold up for a Chiffon commercial.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds a Briefing: https://youtu.be/c2D2tst-skI

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 3:16am

The retards-in-chief - still contagious after all these years

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5eb88c1ec5b6bb4495e4788d

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 3:45am

Azar: Meatpackers live dirty

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/alex-azar-coronvirus-meat...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 7:27am

Seems clears as a bell to me now, Rosen has it correct. "The plan" is to endlessly "flood the zone with shit", Bannon style, to distract and confuse and troll for outraged liberal response on other topics, make it so many deaths a day fade into the background:

I can answer that. https://t.co/QLXEE0vBuP pic.twitter.com/AxveoVm97I
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 9:56am

and that's what Anonymous (not verified) upthread on Sun, 05/10/2020 - 2:57pm was here to do. We had the correct response-ridicule and/or return to topic. He doesn't spend a lot of time here probably because there's many more targets to visit a day with larger and more fruitful audiences. Just comes and dutifully drops some of the shit, hoping if you spread it around enough that the snowflakes will be distracted onto other topics and long arguments about those. It's the noise to signal ratio thing. Creating noise is what he wants to do. Outraged snowflakes are just extra fun on top if you can get them.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:02am

The Anymouse could be any one of the comment makers over at Briebart busy having a big touch down dance party over this move by Barr.

Note the frisson of arousal that passes through their crowd at the expectation of violent retribution. Our mouse is careful to remove that part before he pastes his stuff here.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 11:19am

this is an important added point by Rosen:

For the manufacture of confusion, "I have lots of questions" only starts the engines. https://t.co/CTjlLU5YcJ
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:06am

It's all part of a plan:

Biden not shying away from the Trump/Obama contrast. https://t.co/tBnd65Sub8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 11, 2020

Edit to add after following that lead up; I see Matt Rogers (a Dem political operative) retweeted this following that:

Trump thinks running against Obama’s legacy is more of his famous super genius. https://t.co/f5ZFHtBy9b
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 11, 2020

and yet another from a young editor @ FastCompany:

Credit where credit is due: This is a legit very good ad. https://t.co/c5dR1Rdj6z
— Morgan Clendaniel (@MClendaniel) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 1:46pm

Apparently, as Claire sez, the Drumpf just held a press conference that was their fight-back plan

Honestly, would anyone be surprised if large Trump campaign banners start showing up at WH press briefings?
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) May 11, 2020

This is what I have seen so far, some hints that it was like "mission accomplished"

"We have met the moment. And we have prevailed."
Pres. Trump, speaking at Rose Garden news conference just now.
— Peter Nicholas (@PeterAtlantic) May 11, 2020

Same energy pic.twitter.com/Cght3luLSO
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 11, 2020

and from across the pond, that it was a hilariously good show:

I want to say thank you to President Trump. Your latest live broadcast from Washington has given me the best laugh I’ve had for weeks! Thank you Donald!
— WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) May 11, 2020

and

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 4:52pm

Oy, bet the campaign operatives are just thrilled. NOT.

"you know, Obamagate. I don't know cause I actually haven't read all the shit I retweeted yesterday, but you know. terrible bad stuff, whatever it was"

Asked what crime he is accusing Obama of committing, Trump says, "Obamagate!" "Some terrible things happened." "And you'll be seeing what's going on." "You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:03pm

Maggie Haberman:

The president calls on @kaitlancollins, then he abruptly tries calling on someone else as she gets to the microphone. He won't let her ask the question, turns and leaves.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 11, 2020

Does it remind you more or less of the Giuliani blue room at this point? https://t.co/iSQvEzWAZK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 11, 2020

Here's video clip of the Obama crime nonsense:

.@PhilipRucker: "What crime exactly are you accusing President OBAMA of committing...?"

TRUMP: "Obamagate … some terrible things happened … You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers…” pic.twitter.com/33n3oj2OIp
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 11, 2020

I wanna know what happened to Hillary, is she chopped liver now?

I suspect he's seen the Biden ad after freaking out about the Lincoln Project ad and the Obama leaked voice message and is totally losing it? Yesterday seemed like frantic effort to just find anything on Obama that seemed "bad" and retweeting it, without even understanding much of anything except that Obama supposedly been proved "bad" somehow?

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:20pm

good way to put it:

The president is scared of Kaitlan Collins. https://t.co/0gM5tA4fdQ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 5:28pm

I am not good at horse races but it sounds like he was surprised that the Flynn absolution had so little effect upon the perception of those events.

That telling moment when you start believing your own bullshit.

EDIT:

The question I wish was asked is:

"You have suggested that the rates of death are inflated for political purposes. But the reason why it is even a topic of discussion is that there are not enough tests to test dead people. What are your thoughts?"

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 6:17pm

seems like that to me, too, now that I've watched it, he's really in a deluded state, thinking that this would be yuge the whole country up in arms and that coronavirus is a nothing nobody except blue states cares about any more. The manic tweeting was evidence of that. So now it's probably gonna be more paranoid victimhood about the media all being against him. Bet Jared (wearing a face mask!) et. al. have their hands full manipulating him right now.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 6:28pm

more Maggie & Paul:

Context was definitely different, and Rafael was mostly a ploy for Giuliani to end the briefings. https://t.co/4Rng0IHCeU
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 11, 2020

This is the second time he’s done it? https://t.co/MwCaHRauUE
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 11, 2020

She didn't dwell on it though, she's moved on to tweeting lots of other topics. I think because she knows when he gets like this, he's really not in charge of anything? (Just goes and sits and stews watching teevee--time out with the teevee after temper tantrum.)

The thing is, it seemed to me that the White House/eternal campaign branch, they were really playing this up as a big press conference. And he screwed it up, he's rattled and delusional.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 6:35pm

Well, I think the guy is a corpse upon a horse. So, not able to respond creatively to new challenges.

Now that the actor has died, it puts a special burden upon the support system.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 7:03pm

Mutable Joe's read on it (he comments on Boris Johnson, too, just differently):

the brave and powerful look of a man reluctantly waiting outside the H&M dressing rooms for his mother to finish until he is allowed to get a donut pic.twitter.com/E6sJ6jegZs
— joe (@mutablejoe) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 7:34pm

Steve Schmidt hammers away with a Lincoln Project counter to Trump this evening:

Thanks for having me @AriMelber on @Msnbc . https://t.co/nRlkigvRZm
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 7:16pm

“‘The numbers are fucking terrible,’ another former West Wing official said. ‘There’s massive anxiety in the GOP that he’s gonna take them all down with him.’” https://t.co/bCtKHGlQNH
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:01pm

Bingo!

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:05pm

Why is "Blames pandemic on other entity not marked off?"

This bingo game must be rigged.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:18pm

You are the clever one. Now off the island. First rule about Fake News is we don't talk about Fake News.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 12:58am

Obama Unworried About Trump Accusing Him of Crime Because Bill Barr Does Not Prosecute Criminals

“At first, I have to admit I was a little rattled,” Obama said.

By Andy Borowitz, May 11, 7:07 P.M.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:20pm

Lincoln Project cracks the code: Trump's real fear is GOP defections @ProjectLincoln @RonSteslow @NHJennifer @TheRickWilson @SteveSchmidtSES @gtconway3d @jwgop @reedgalen https://t.co/ePEPmmd2RL
— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) May 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:28pm

I am not sure about this interpretation. The thing about the Lincoln Project is not about defections but a wholesale effort to use their skills to get rid of this guy. They are bringing down their own party. It needs a better description than defections.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:48pm

Agree, but thought it interesting enough to post.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:56pm

Of course. It is germane.

Just sounding off.

by moat on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:59pm

Definitive proof of the theory that he is upset about losing Republicans:

But you lost by more than 3,000,000 votes. You know that, right?? https://t.co/wlCKV4SwN6
— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) May 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 9:50am

Whew, good thing he's not running against anyone closely associated with the Obama administration https://t.co/h7xRYP2dwF
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 8:33pm

Pretty sure if they allowed 3rd terms Biden'd be out of luck.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/12/2020 - 1:00am

Obama tweets "Vote." after Trump tweets "OBAMAGATE!"

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/497835-obama-tweets-vote-after-trump-promotes-obamagate

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 6:41pm

Micro-aggression.

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 8:27pm

Lol.

Trump Tells Sen. Graham to Demand Obama’s Testimony on ‘the Biggest Political Crime’ of All Time: ‘Just Do It’ https://t.co/3a86cO6KBD pic.twitter.com/HfpK8aCRm2
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) May 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 8:24pm

I see Graham still has somewhat of a grasp on reality, apparently.

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 11:45pm

Obama retweeted Vox story, re: "better policy decisions":

Despite all the time that’s been lost, we can still make real progress against the virus, protect people from the economic fallout, and more safely approach something closer to normal if we start making better policy decisions now.https://t.co/pfokyI8GiB
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 4:43am

The absurd cynicism of ‘Obamagate’ by Washington Post Editorial Board, May 16

IN THE 2016 presidential race, then-candidate Donald Trump often deflected questions about his shortcomings by hyping those of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The point was to make his behavior seem no more abhorrent than his rival’s.

Mr. Trump is trying the same tactic against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, latching onto a new diversion: “Obamagate.” This one is totally untethered from reality, despite the credulous or cynical efforts of senior Republicans and conservative media to advance it.

Mr. Trump’s precise allegation is hazy. But the apparent accusation is that, following Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory, Obama officials plotted to ensnare the incoming Trump administration in a Russia scandal [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 2:32pm

BREAKING Obama does fullout public attack in online streaming commencement speech, not beating around the bush anymore:

“More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” @BarackObama said in an address streamed online. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” https://t.co/XCafAV8ZLs
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) May 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 4:02pm

Hardly all out.

Obama was attacked and had 5 investigations over many years for 4 dead in Benghazi. All out would be saying "we wouldn't have 89,000 dead, some precious lives those listening may have known, if the White House had not spent 2 months ignoring red flag intelligence reports while framing the crisis as a partisan hoax, having campaign rallies, and threatening those dedicated government workers raising alarms about preparedness."

by NCD on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 4:41pm

oh I just meant he went allout public rather than having criticism put out by leakers. And it has become a tradition that a retired president does not publicly criticize a sitting president, he's breaking that.

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 6:51pm

Here is Kayleigh's talking points in response:

Two different realities : President @BarackObama criticizes the government handling of the virus during a video commencement address today and President Trump’s @PressSec Kayleigh McEnany provided her response to @NBCNews. pic.twitter.com/cCPFI6e7a1
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) May 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/16/2020 - 6:49pm

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

submitted by artappraiser 1 year ago

"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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