Remember that it’s a feature of the Trump regime that other opportunism will operate in the background such as his attempts to personally profit from vaccine production. Remember lower Fed rates (now at 0%) also help his personal debt load.

He now is defaulting to nativism and xenophobia.

As we begin to self-isolate the nation, The Trump economy continues to crash with a number of measures being put in place, Ever data- conscious, Trump tries to shift responsibilities to the states. Trump has rated himself a “10” which is much like the box-office performance of that movie. The worse cases are peak case numbers of 500,000-700,000 to keep the health system from crashing

Pres Trump changed his entire tone during today's WH briefing on coronavirus. He was somber. He said U.S. & world had no control over it. He said U.S. might see a recession.



Now, just 4 hrs later, he is back to leaning on cultural wars & calling coronavirus the "Chinese virus." https://t.co/LIvosx1oyH — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 16, 2020

The Dow fell ~3,000 points Monday, the largest one-day point drop of all time.



The reverberations of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt within every economic sector — from investors to small businesses to low-wage workers.



Here’s @jillonmoney https://t.co/W5mCK4rjoC pic.twitter.com/pw8iOXpHGT — CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 16, 2020

The Dow fell 12.94% today.



The worst day in 1929 was a decline of 12.82%. — Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 16, 2020

The Dow has evidently decided that time is not linear and reset itself to January 2017 pic.twitter.com/wqEaVjCWt7 — G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 16, 2020

The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2020

The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/LTn26gvlOl — Jack Ma (@JackMa) March 16, 2020

In presser, Trump says “we have a problem that a month ago nobody ever thought about.”



Trump was first briefed about coronavirus threat almost exactly two months ago today. pic.twitter.com/Im2Dee72TY — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 16, 2020

I count 16 people here. https://t.co/f57Clh0AEn — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 16, 2020

Just had a very good tele-conference with Nation’s Governors. Went very well. Cuomo of New York has to “do more”. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2020

We know the next step. Trump will tell Cuomo that if the NY AG stops investigating him, he will get NY more ventilators and send in the Army Corps to build hospital capacity. — Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 16, 2020