Latest Hit On Trump: He’s Not Capable Of Handling Ebola Outbreak Due To Old Tweets

Unhinged #NeverTrumper Gabriel Schoenfeld has a big bee up her bum over the latest (and constant) outbreak of Ebola, because Trump tweeted in 2014. So, he might do badly now! Considering how well he advised his bro Mitt Romney in 2012…..but, hey, Orange Man Bad!

Trump tweeted heartlessly about Ebola in 2014. He’s ill-equipped to handle 2019 outbreak.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in Congo a “public health emergency of international concern.” Nearly 1,700 deaths have been reported since last year, likely an underestimate. For its potential medical consequences, the epidemic is a major worry across the globe, including for the United States. But in the age of Donald Trump, the political consequences could be the more alarming menace.

Ebola is a highly virulent virus transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids, primarily through direct contact with blood of an infected individual, although recovered patients can still transmit the virus. Symptoms typically express themselves between two and 21 days after infection. They begin with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, decreased liver and kidney function and massive bleeding. Mortality rates are approximately 50%. There are no specific treatments, although a fast-tracked experimental vaccine appears effective in preventing spread of the virus.

So, Ebola is pretty bad, eh? But, Trump’s tweets from 2014, which Schoenfeld offers up a sampling

Many of Trump’s tweets advocated shutting down entry into the United States: “A single Ebola carrier infects 2 others at a minimum. STOP THE FLIGHTS! NO VISAS FROM EBOLA STRICKEN COUNTRIES!”

Some sought to undercut President Barack Obama’s decision to send U.S. forces to West Africa: “Can you believe that the U.S. will be sending 3,000 troops to Africa to help with Ebola. They will come home infected? We have enough problems.”

Thank goodness the Romney campaign always took Obama’s side, eh?

Some were directed at the American medical personnel who volunteered to travel to Africa to help contain the outbreak: “The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great — but must suffer the consequences!”

Funny, that’s what most citizens were thinking, too. So much that it was considered a campaign issue in 2014, with Republicans and some Democrats concerned about letting people in who had traveled to the effected areas. The public was worried.

Most aimed to denigrate Obama:

“President Obama strongly considering a plan to bring non-U.S. citizens with Ebola to the United States for treatment. Now I know he’s nuts!”

“How dumb is our president to send thousands of poorly trained and ill-equipped soldiers over to West Africa to fight Ebola.”

“Tremendous pressure on President Obama to institute a travel ban on Ebola stricken West Africa. At some point this stubborn dope will fold!“

It’s hard to understand how Romney lost 2012 with advisors like this, eh?

The heartless panic-monger who launched this fusillade of tweets was a private citizen. Today, he is the president of the United States with responsibility for managing a public health crisis that could arrive on our shores. Unsurprisingly, evidence of competence at this task is not easy to find.

Most citizens seemed to be saying “don’t let them in, don’t take the chance” back in 2014. But Orange Man Bad!

A single case of the disease in the United States might be sufficient for Trump to declare an unjustified national emergency, exploiting the crisis for his own political ends. With issues touching on race, immigration and germs, the outbreak of Ebola in Congo could play seamlessly into his repertoire of xenophobic demagoguery. The only silver lining, if that is what it is, is that Donald Trump’s nutter tweets from the 2014 outbreak leave us amply forewarned about how our commander in chief is likely to behave.

This is what you get in Trump Derangement Syndrome #NeverTrump World. You can bet if there is one case in the U.S., citizens will agree with Trump. Regardless, yet another case of moonbats freaking out on Trump, even before action has occurred.