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Wartime President

Calvin Trillin

July 28, 2020

President Donald Trump visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on July 11, 2020. (Alex Edelman / AFP via Getty Images)

“Trump calls himself ‘wartime president’ over coronavirus pandemic.” —CBS
“The Trump Administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing.”—The Washington Post

This self-styled wartime president’s disposed To mock all masks and states that keep bars closed. A list of acts like these we should compile, In case some day we hold a war crimes trial.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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