21% of the world's deaths from #COVID19 have occurred in the world's richest, most technologically advanced country, home to just 4% of the world's population.
The whole world sees this as a total, absolute, incontrovertible failure.
Trump wants you to think it's a success.
#COVID19 is a deadly, contagious airborne disease, but it's transmission is largely preventable using face masks & physical distancing, cheap solutions that have enabled even the poorest countries in the world to #StopTheSpread.
But are still too complicated for Trump to grasp.
Instead of focusing on bring college football back, Trump should start treating #COVID19 like the World Cup.
Team USA has been put in a Group with Japan (12 deaths per 1M pop.), Cameroon (16 deaths/M pop.) and Germany (113 deaths/M pop.).
We got eliminated. (611 deaths/M pop.).
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🧵You'll probably hear more from the mainstream media about tonight's Trump Palm Beach fundraiser than you will about March's blockbuster drop report and the 15.2M jobs created under Biden?
But what do we actually know about the aging billionaires so willing to fund fascism?
Co-chairing tonight's fundraiser is 82-year-old sex predator Steve Wynn, aka "the right's Harvey Weinstein"
Sex predator Wynn was dumped as @GOP finance chair in 2018 & booted from Las Vegas
Wynn also worked secretly as a foreign agent for China
Oil tycoon Harold Hamm, 78, turned away from Trump following his 2020 election defeat.
He wrote that in Trump's 1st term: "I saw the president become more and more distracted as he was almost overrun by many people who were only interested in taking."
But now he's back.
Former Marvel chief executive Isaac Perlmutter, 81, was one of Trump's biggest givers in 2020.
He was fired by Disney in 2023.
In 2024, the fascist-friendly Israeli-American became the first big donor to the Right for America Super PAC.
🧵Trump has done so many shitty things in his life that it's easy to forget what an unrelenting asshole he has always been.
A complete list would have a running time longer than #Oppenheimer.
But here are 22 things everyone should know about Trump in <2 minutes.
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22 Things to Know About Trump:
1. He stole from kids with cancer.
2. He took his nephew's seriously ill son off the family health plan.
3. He operated a fake university that cheated seniors and war widows out of their life savings
22 Things to Know About Trump (cont'd.):
4. He used to pose as a PR guy called "John Miller" or "John Barron" and telephone tabloid journalists trying to plant fake stories, such as the lie that "Trump" was being pursued romantically by stars like Madonna and Kim Basinger.
Stole from kids with cancer. Took his nephew's seriously ill son off the family health plan. Operated a fake university that cheated seniors and war widows out of their life savings.....
(2/x)
... Telephoned tabloid journalists claiming to be a fictional PR person to plant numerous fake stories, including the false claim that he was being pursued romantically by Madonna and Kim Basinger....
(3/x)
... Snitched on fellow celebrities to avoid being charged for his personal participation in a tax avoidance scheme at Bulgari's 5th Avenue store.
In case you're wondering why the Trump Crash of 2020 gave us the worst GDP decline ever recorded, the fact that the Trump tax cuts were "Reaganomics on steroids" is a big part of the answer.