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Is This What Happens When You Don’t Really Have A President?
Everything we are seeing reflects a complete failure in leadership
The plainest example of this in a way, comes as the result of Trump’s insistence on pushing ahead with a meeting of top world leaders, which he was scheduled to host in June. We all know why the President wanted to do it: to make things look like they were getting back to normal in regard to the economy.
But the idea that world leaders would be eager and willing to jet in person to the country that’s counted the most COVID-19 deaths, and sit with a President who flaunts even his own guidance on safety (and also has a history of lambasting them in public at meetings such as these), seemed far fetched to us. But then, to our surprise, his top economic advisor (who’s not an economist, and spent most of his career as a de facto public relations person for Wall Street), said an in-person meeting was a go.
Except it’s not. They won’t come. A spokesperson for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel telling Politico:
“Considering the overall pandemic situation, she cannot agree…to a journey to Washington”.
But what made the President think there was any chance they’d have played along and come? Well, it’s hard to say “no” to the world’s most…
