The Weekly List

This week, for the first time, Trump publicly  floated the idea of delaying the November election, drawing swift  condemnation from Democrats and a mild rebuke from Republican  leadership. The co-founder of conservative Federalist Society said in an  op-ed that Trump should be removed if he tries to follow through.  Undeterred, Trump spent the week continuing to sow doubt...

This week, as the coronavirus raged out of  control, passing 4 million U.S. cases and 145,000 deaths, Trump  resurrected his daily coronavirus briefings — by himself, with no health  officials. He also sought to divert attention to Portland, Oregon,  where alarming images of unmarked federal law enforcement were seen  shoving and tear-gassing growing crowds of Black Lives...

This week, as the coronavirus raged out of  control in many states, Trump sought to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci,  with several members of the regime publicly attacking Fauci’s  credibility. Reporting indicated Trump had lost interest in the  pandemic, with an adviser telling the Post ,  Trump’s “not really working this anymore. He doesn’t want to be  distracted by it”...

This week, the pandemic continued to worsen,  with many states seeing new highs and the death toll starting to rise.  By week’s end, the U.S. registered an unthinkable nearly 70,000 new  daily coronavirus cases. Amid the surge, issues that plagued the April  wave of cases in New York and elsewhere, like shortages of PPE and  testing, reappeared, making it clear the federal...

This week the coronavirus spread further out of  control, topping 50,000 daily cases for three consecutive days — more  than 10,000 higher than the early peak in April. Trump continued to  largely ignore the pandemic, refuse to wear a mask, and make the most  trusted source of information, Dr. Anthony Fauci, less accessible,  leading to confusion in the patchwork of state...

This week started with a humiliating return to  the campaign trail for Trump, as a mere 6,200 supporters showed up for  his rally in Tulsa, after the campaign bragged more than one million had  registered. Trump’s poll numbers continue to sag amid his mishandling  of the pandemic and racial justice protests. Instead of rising to the  challenge, Trump reverted to drumming u...

This week grave polling results revealed a  downtrodden country feeling the impact of concurrent and intersecting  crises, as national pride fell to its lowest level in two decades, while  just 20% were satisfied with the direction of the country. Trump  received poor marks for his handling of the coronavirus and for dividing  the country amid social unrest. The coronaviru...

This week Trump seemed to fade into the  background, unsure of how to respond to a triple set of crises that  gripped the nation: continuing social unrest, a second wave of  coronavirus, and the stock market plunging with the economy officially  entering a recession. Trump spent most of the week locked up in the  White House, behind the layers of fencing he had constructed...

This week, in a scene reminiscent of a crackdown  in an authoritarian regime, U.S. troops stationed in our nation’s  capital at Trump’s behest fired tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful  protestors to disperse them as Trump delivered a “law and order” speech  from the White House Rose Garden. The sounds of protestors screaming and  shots being fired could be heard in th...

This was one of the darkest weeks since I  started the list. The week began with Trump spinning conspiracy theories  to distract from the country reaching the grim milestone of losing  100,000 Americans to the coronavirus, and ended with our country  literally burning in the flames of our racial divide, with Trump  throwing kerosene on the flames. Susan Glasser, a writer f...

This week, Trump fully transitioned from leader  to salesman, leaving the states to fend for themselves, while he  promoted a “transition to greatness.” After a week when two White House  employees tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump made the remarkable  claim he has been taking hydroxychloroquine prophylactically — leading  public health experts to sound the alarms...

This week Trump tried out a new, more positive  approach as the death toll passed 80,000 and more than 36 million  Americans were unemployed, claiming, “We have met the moment and we have  prevailed.” Trump bragged the U.S. leads the world in testing, then  later seemed to indicate testing was not important, and if we didn’t  test so much, we wouldn’t have so many cases — ...

This week, despite a White House model showing  ending social distancing would result in a spike of 200,000 new cases a  day and deaths of 3,000 a day, the majority of the country started to  reopen. Public health officials warned of dire consequences, with one  likening the premature reopening to genocide, but Trump triumphantly  declared Phase 1 was over, and now the Ame...

This week, with his approval dropping and  Republicans alarmed about losing the Senate in 2020, Trump shifted away  from holding daily task force briefings. Instead, he and his regime  sought to portray a great economic recovery coming soon, with the worst  of the pandemic behind us. Trump told reporters, “I see the light at the  end of the tunnel very strongly,” and Jared...

This week opened and closed with Russia: opening  with a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report reaffirming U.S.  intelligence’s January 2017 conclusion that Russia interfered to help  install Trump, and closing with Trump surreptitiously signing an unusual  joint statement with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the  pandemic. This week the country passed the...

This week Trump threw a series of shiny coins to  distract from the growing death toll and his mishandling of the  coronavirus response. On Monday, he proclaimed he, not the governors,  had “absolute authority” to reopen the country; on Tuesday he halted  funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of a global  pandemic; on Wednesday he threatened to adjourn Cong...

This week, nearly 12,000 Americans died of the  coronavirus. The U.S. became not only the country with the most cases by  a factor of three, but also the country with the most deaths in the  world. As American bodies piled up, Trump was obstinate and refused to  change his approach, instead continuing to tweet grievances and holding  daily campaign rallies masquerading as...

This week coronavirus cases and deaths in the  U.S. spiked, adding close to 200,000 reported cases, and by midweek,  more than a thousand Americans were dying each day. Trump pivoted from  denying the crisis and wanting to reopen the country, to suddenly  acknowledging the gravity and claiming if 100,000 to 200,000 Americans  die, he will have done a “very good job” — a re...

This week the U.S. continued exponential growth  of coronavirus cases, finding itself with the most cases in the world on  Thursday — surpassing Italy and China. The number of deaths likewise  continued to grow exponentially. New York was hardest hit, accounting  for roughly half the cases, but was also ahead of the rest of the  country in aggressively testing and quarantining. An impetuous Trump,...

This week the United States had the highest  spread rate of the coronavirus of countries reporting, starting the week  with roughly 2,500 cases, and ending the week fourth in the world with  more than 22,000. Countries that had early testing available like South  Korea saw their daily adds ebb to below 100, while daily growth in U.S.  cases was close to 50%. Despite Trump’s promises last Friday fo...

This week Trump finally was no longer able to  sustain a narrative minimizing the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.  The week started with 387 cases in 28 states, and ended with more than  2,500 cases in 49 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with 51 Americans dead.  Trump continued to blame everyone but himself: the Obama administration  for lack of testing, the Federal Re...

This week the coronavirus spread in the U.S.  from 15 to 387 cases in 28 states, with at least 19 people dead. The  number of cases is likely well under-reported due to the lack of  available testing kits — one of many signs that the Trump regime is  ill-equipped to tackle what is likely to become a global pandemic. The  lack of verified information, combined with the cons...

This week the coronavirus consumed the country  and the world, as it spread from continent to continent. Trump’s  strategy in recent weeks of ignoring and minimizing the virus’ import  became untenable as his precious stock market plummeted, and country by  country news spread of deaths and disruptions. The global stock markets  have lost $6 trillion in value from the outb...

This week the country strayed further from  democracy, as Trump purged the Office of the Director of National  Intelligence. The firings started when Trump learned a senior official  at ODNI had briefed House lawmakers on Russia’s efforts to interfere in  the 2020 election, with the intent to help Trump. Trump fired his acting  director, installing a loyalist with no intel...

This week, unchecked by checks and balances,  Trump continued his retaliation tour, unabashedly showcasing his will to  control the Justice Department. After career prosecutors made  recommendations for sentencing for his longtime associate Roger Stone,  which were overridden by the DOJ, a mass exodus ensued, nicknamed the  ‘Tuesday massacre’ — a nomenclature now familiar...