Red States Get Flooded With Supplies, Blue States Get a Trickle

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By now it’s pretty clear that President Donald Trump and his family of grifters are trying to financially gain from the coronavirus pandemic. Princeling Jarod Kushner has directed coronavirus testing to a company owned by his brother.

As I’ve written in a previous article, Trump has a financial stake in a company that manufactures the generic version of hydroxychloroquine. Trump has touted the drug as a silver bullet for COVID-19. However, an April 12 New York Times article stated Brazil shut down testing because the drug caused some subjects to develop irregular heartbeats.

A March 20 ProPublica article pointed out that Florida received all the supplies it requested within three days. However, New Jersey only received 6 percent and Oregon received 10 percent. Lynda Pond, president of the Oregon Nurses Association, described her state’s supply as a “drop in the bucket.”

However, it’s now clear that he’s trying to politicize the coronavirus in the most cynical and callous way. Governors have publicly battled with the president over the lack of medical supplies.

Governors on the frontline

One of the prominent governors in this situation is New York’s Andrew Cuomo who’s frustrated at the lack of ventilators. He needed thousands, and Trump sent him a few hundred. Trump later accused medical workers of hoarding equipment. Cuomo eventually received additional ventilators courtesy of Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

However, several news reports stated medical workers have died on the job. News stories have also reported medical workers resorting to using trash bags and sports equipment to protect themselves!

Medical workers complain about lack of supplies.

However, red states, such as Florida, are facing the complete opposite situation. They’re getting all the supplies they want. A March 20 ProPublica article pointed out that Florida received all the supplies it requested within three days. However, New Jersey only received 6 percent and Oregon received 10 percent.

Lynda Pond, president of the Oregon Nurses Association, described her state’s supply as a “drop in the bucket.”

Trump is playing favorites

This is deliberate. Trump is rewarding red states because he wants to secure victory in November. He thinks if he is seen as a benevolent leader who came to the rescue during the coronavirus crisis, it will improve his election chances which have been shaken by his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I also have confirmation of this from a source with ties to the Trump White House. He said Trump is gathering business leaders at the White House because he wants them to start making medical equipment. Of course, this will be great for their businesses, because nobody pays as regularly as Uncle Sam. My source also stated red states are being favored over blue states.

Projection and Narcissism

At this stage, we shouldn’t be surprised by this level of cynicism and greed. Yale-trained psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee, and several other mental health professionals, have described Trump as a “narcissist.”

“As one of the nation’s top researchers of narcissistic disorders, Dr. John Zinner assessed that Trump’s sense of worth is ‘entirely dependent on admiration from others… To cope with the resultant hollow and empty feelings [from criticism] he reacts with what is referred to as narcissistic rage,’” said Lee in a DC Reports article published in January. Lee says Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis could amount to criminal behavior.

As Lee stated, all Trump cares about is enhancing his reputation. Further proof of this is seen by Trump continuing to brag about his TV ratings as more than 23,000 lie dead because of COVID-19! During his exponentially ridiculous press conferences, he has never commiserated with the victims or lauded brave medical workers who risk their lives daily trying to keep people alive. (He actually smeared them.)

However, another psychological trait explains Trump’s behavior. He also practices projection, a habit where you accuse others of doing what you secretly want to do.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi also pointed this out during a January interview on ABC’s “This Week.”

“I don’t like to spend too much time on his crazy tweets, because everything he says is a projection,” said Pelosi. “When he calls someone crazy, he knows that he is. Everything he says you can just translate it back to who he is.”

So when Trump accused Democrats of trying to politicize the coronavirus crisis he was really talking about himself.