By Express-Times Letters to the Editor
Today 9:55 AM
President Donald Trump points to a questioner during a press briefing about the coronavirus May 11. AP
There’s one commonality among President Trump’s base — the inability or reluctance to parse his words for their true meaning.
When he said “John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured, I like those who weren’t captured,” it tacitly revealed he cannot differentiate between a soldier throwing down his weapon and surrendering, and a Navy pilot shot out of the sky. McCain ejected and landed in a lake, breaking both arms and a knee. He was captured and tortured for years.
Both are simply “captured” to Trump.
He recently asked health experts why the COVID-19 virus couldn’t be killed by using commercial chemicals inside the body, like they are used outside the body (on a doorknob, for example). It shows an inability to comprehend that a virus invading human organisms doesn’t sit somewhere (like on an elbow), waiting to be wiped away with a cleaning product.
After the retaliatory Iran missile attack on our troops, who were hunkered underground on a base in Iraq, Trump said there were no casualties except “a few with headaches.” Subsequently 100 soldiers were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries; 29 were awarded purple hearts for those injuries.
On Feb. 9 Trump said the COVID-19 virus was totally under control with only 15 U.S. cases. Today there are 1.4 million cases and 82,000 deaths.
Ron Pizarie
East Allen Township
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