Trump listened to “the experts” when deciding how to respond to COVID-19 — but only the experts who told him what he wanted to hear.

Today, the White House sent out an email claiming “President Trump listened to the experts—not the media” today. Evidence suggests that he listened to a single expert who told him exactly what he wanted to hear, that COVID-19 was a non-issue. Specifically he listened to Richard A. Epstein who wrote the paper “Coronavirus Perspective.”

In the first version of this document he claimed that there would be 500 deaths due to COVID-19. A few days later he revised the document saying that he made a mistake and there would be 5,000 deaths. He later revised it again by saying there would be 50,000 deaths.

As of today there have been 80,820 deaths in the United States according to the CDC.

All hail Donald Trump; a.k.a. Donald Drumpf, a.k.a. Lord Dampnut, a.k.a. Dumbnut, a.k.a. Donnie Trumpelstiltskin, a.k.a. Donald tRUMP; our most, or perhaps least, honored (not my) POTUS and our great Bloviator in Chief!