Groveling to save lives

[Bromagia]

When I heard about trump's desire to quarantine New York, I realized what his plan was. Block New York off from the rest of the world and then let the disease run rampant in the state, killing upwards of 10% of the people who get it. Most new Yorkers would survive but it would inflict a major blow on the state in retaliation for "them not voting for me" and "Cuomo not showing me the respect I deserve."

This guy is downright diabolical. I seriously cant believe he would even consider denying aid to Americans during a disaster.

You're making a lot of leaps. It wouldn't surprise me if he was angling on the pandemic but that seems absurd.

[Rojava Free State]

I guess Trump assumes that everyone is like him. He would clearly be willing to let people die just to make someone else look bad, so I think other people are as sociopathic as him and would do the same.

Well the response by Puerto Rico reinforced that view, the local governments of Puerto Rico were quite willing to let their own people die simply so the Federal Government would fork over more money and disaster relief while secretly hoarding supplies for their own advantage.

Their idiotic actions gave Trump the excuse he needed to pull this.

Unfortunately the damage was done.

Really though for the most part I think most people made the right call to simply ignore Trump and use the fact that truthfully he doesn't have the power to make them beg.

Rosello and his cronies can never be forgiven for what they did in Puerto Rico.

[Nattily Dressed Anarchists on Bicycles]

These kinds of issues with navigating Trump's ego are why I think it's not worth trying. You could do everything he asks and on a whim he might decide that it wasn't enough.

This has basically been the experience of Governor Newsom of California, and reports are he's switching tack.