President Trump is cowering in the White House since the election was called for Joe Biden on Saturday, too emotionally fragile to acknowledge the resounding loss the voters of the country have dealt him. Apart from putting in an appearance to honor veterans Wednesday, the Commander in Chief has been hunkered down on his presidential sofa, watching TV, firing off tweets alleging widespread voter fraud without evidence, and calling allies desperately seeking some sort of deus ex machina that will somehow turn the election around.
The President has said nothing about the escalating coronavirus pandemic, that hit a new daily infection record of 145,000 cases in a single day yesterday, has surged to more than 10 million cases in the United States and taken the lives of 240,000 Americans. Vice President Mike Pence, the nominal head of the Coronavirus Task Force, has not addressed the explosion of cases and the White House has failed to make all the reports of the task force available to the public.
Meanwhile, the president continues to shriek “fraud” on Twitter with no evidence just as he did when he accused Ted Cruz of fraud in the 2016 Iowa Caucus, and when he claimed that 3-5 million illegal immigrants voted in general election of 2016, and when he claimed Barack Obama’s birth certificate was a fake. Because that’s what he does. He lies. He is a liar. Or as much of the media like to say, he “falsely claims” things. Over and over and over.