“I’d give you examples but we don’t want to be controversial”

It needs. Laugh track.

He did inherit a gov't that was ill prepared for this, but that goes back more than a few presidents. Nobody saw this coming and our reaction to it has been an absolute fn scramble. Just like pretty much every other country.

People did see it coming. From within he dismantled much of the prep for presumably cost cutting reasons. Sort of like canceling “war games” sounds good until it’s not. There was a lot of pandemic planning thrown out the window (discarded). The Obama folks dis put a lot in place. And I mean a LOT. Local and national. But anything bammy did was bad and undone.

Nobody saw this coming is an exact Baghdad Bob repeated phrase that is wrong. It has been a certainty this would happen to anyone looking at it and is a certainty it will happen again. We can’t reframe this as Who Knew? We did know. It wasn’t if it is when. ‘I didn’t believe it” is more accurate in terms of this admin. There are a lot more things they don’t believe and they dismantled that may not haunt immediately.....

He has repeatedly said its fixed now and ready for the future. Watch the last 3 or 4 minutes of the Baghdad Bob show today. But he’s said this every day for the last week or two. It’s his repetitive game and it works with some. Orwell.

Anyone paying attention to what was happening in Asia could not reach any other conclusion besides "OH SHIITE!"

So ill prepared that he was walked through a Global Pandemic response when his administration took office.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488069-obama-officials-walked-trump-aides-through-global-pandemic-exercise-in-2017 

The stores here sold out of onions and potatoes before noon today.

The Obama Administration updated the original plan from 2005 after the H1N1 outbreak in 2010. Most large governmental agencies and local, state and federal levels were expected to participate in a nationwide tabletop exercise regarding a pandemic outbreak in April 2015.

The latest plan was updated after the Trump administration took office in 2017. It calls for coordination by the HHS of resources between state and local government and the international communities.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pan-flu-report-2017v2.pdf 

"7. Domestic and International Response Policy, Incident Management, and

Global Partnerships and Capacity Building - HHS will continue to coordinate both

domestic and international pandemic preparedness and response activities. This will

include having clearly defined mechanisms for rapid exchange of information, data,

reagents and other resources needed domestically and globally, to prepare for and

respond to an influenza pandemic outbreak."

to say that nobody knew this was coming is not true...

Watch the two part Frontline story Obama & Trump. Obama "knew" Trump would never become president and decided to belittle him at a White House Correspondence Dinner. Even the abbreviated version showed Obama unloading on Trump relentlessly. Trump had no choice but take it. Its argued he decided right there and then to run for the presidency.

Anger, Revenge & Spite are amazing motivations.

For good and ill, Trump's only agenda is to destroy everything Obama created.

Obama set the bomb on the table seemingly out of reach. He was wrong.

If Obama isn't a turbo dikc, Trump doesn't run, and the whole world is a better place.

Hope Obama's 16 minutes of mockery was worth it to him.

The top secret surplus. stock... ignored ....

In other words I agree with you that Obama did that and it was dumb and it pissed Trump off. However I think it’s a long stretch to be able to blame trumps actions on Obama. I think it does explain some of it that is true but it doesn’t absolve trump from his own actions

Spoiler alert: we are all going to get wiped out by an asteroid in an extinction level event. Calling my shot now!

(Skips political blame-game posts, waits for more experimental data, both lower-quality exigent-circumstances data now, and high-quality controlled data later).

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Much like the drunken mill-rat watches the Packers field goal attempt go wide right as the clock runs out, he punching his wife in the mouth in a rage and then shouts 'Look what you made me do!'

Either don't slap around Farrah Faucet at all or kill her. If not, you and the country ends up in a fevered, Burning Bed.

Hey 8...you know that happened after a year of unrelenting Birther Attacks publicly promoted by Trump...Trump and his peeps started questioning Obama's citizenship in March 2010, as part of his slow roll-out of his presidential aspirations...

Trump became the face of the Birther Movement in March 2011, in an interview on Good Morning America, when he questioned Obama's citizenship, and repeated his allegations on the View later that month. In early April, 2011 Trump was interviewed on NBC, and said he wasn't satisfied that Obama had proved his citizenship. Obama had the state of Hawaii release his certificate of live birth, on April 27, 2011.

Then on April 28, 2011, Obama fired back at the WH Correspondents dinner...

and in his final speech at the WH corespondents dinner in April 12016, he unloaded on Trump again...

everybody knows the WH Correspondents dinner is supposed to be fun and games...entertainment

Trump is the bigger arse in this one...intentionally and maliciously promoting a lie as the honest truth to discredit a sitting POTUS and to get recognition as a POTUS candidate himself...

and he hasn't changed since, promoting many more lies to rewrite history so he can look more favorable to himself and his supporters who willingly believe his lies...

Sure. That is all true.

Trump is an ego maniac, sideshow carnival barker who has little class or professional presence. He's a manchild.

Obama, the elite, dazzling urbanite- the most polished president I can recall dove (not stepped) into the slop with him.

We are all now poorer for the decisions these men made.