Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by Ididntdothis on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:03PM
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”It's not unique to the current administration. Most presidents have done this. ”
I couldn’t imagine any of the presidents of the last decades to stand up and openly contradict his experts on something like this. Maybe behind the scenes but not in the open. He doesn’t seem to understand that he can only lose doing this.
Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by reaperducer on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:56PM
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I couldn’t imagine any of the presidents of the last decades to stand up and openly contradict his experts on something like this.
Read my comment again. I didn't say that being contradictory was common. I said judging performance by the stock market is common.
Because he judges how well he does his job on the performance of the stock market. He speaks to sooth the jitters of Wall Street.
It's not unique to the current administration. Most presidents have done this. It was even a recurring theme in the TV series West Wing.