Media Usually Wrong…

by | Apr 9, 2020 | Letters to the Editor

I wonder if our lefty media ever notice that subsequent events often prove that President Trump was right all along.  And they were wrong.

For instance, back in January, he initiated restrictions for travelers coming from China and was excoriated as a racist (1) dupe because, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) assumptions, “there was no evidence that humans could transmit the coronavirus”. (2)

Fast forward to March when WHO reversed itself and acknowledged that the COVID-19 was a “pandemic” (3) and when most other developed countries had also instituted Trump-like travel restrictions. (4)  Looks like Trump was right.  Again…

And for years President Trump has railed against  economic dependence on China’s totalitarian regime – much to the dismay of liberals who feared his criticisms would start a ruinous trade war – but it took a global crisis – known affectionately as the “Wuhan Whoopsie” –  to highlight this danger (5) (6) .  The “Whoopsie” further underscored China’s blatant and callous duplicity in both initially hiding the problem (7) and, later, attempting to place the blame on the United States. (8)  Hmm… right again…

It’s as if media simply refuses to notice public opinion as reflected in a recent Gallup poll indicating a 60% approval of Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 situation.  Even some 27% of polled democrats agree. (9)

So, the press – myopically mired in attempted “gotcha sessions” – may think that they lead President Trump in the race for public acceptance, it is only because he has lapped the field.  Several times…

  1. https://www.texaspolicy.com/left-hates-travel-bans-except-when-they-keep-americans-from-work-and-school/
    1. The Trump administration on Jan. 31 announced travel restrictions aimed at reducing the number of people coming to the United States from China to flatten the infection curve of the novel coronavirus that emerged out of Wuhan. The reaction from the People’s Republic of China and the American left was immediate: harsh criticism that President Donald Trump was overreacting and that his actions to protect the American public were racist.
  2. https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-health-organization-january-tweet-china-human-transmission-coronavirus
    1. The World Health Organization (WHO) is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year (January 14)when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel coronavirus within the country yet.
  3. .https://www.foxnews.com/health/who-declares-coronavirus-global-pandemic
    1. “We have therefore made the assessment that #COVID19 can be characterized as a pandemic”-@DrTedros #coronavirus
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/07/trumps-claim-that-he-imposed-first-china-ban/
    1. The United States, however, does stand out among its peer nations in the Group of 20, the world’s financial powers. (The G-20 is composed of 19 countries, including China, and the European Union.)
    2. Only Italy and Australia preceded the United States in imposing travel restrictions — though they were announced the same day — while India and Indonesia also imposed restrictions effective Feb. 2. Saudi Arabia and Turkey followed within days, as well as South Korea with a ban on travel from Hubei province. Russia imposed a rolling series of bans by Feb. 20 and, as noted, Japan took smaller steps early on but did not have a full ban on foreign nationals until April 3. South Africa on March 18 imposed a ban on foreigners who had visited high-risk countries such as China. Seven G-20 members, including the United Kingdom, Canada and France, took no steps to block travel from China.
  5. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/486671-coronavirus-shows-donald-trump-was-right-all-this-time-about-chi
    1. Donald Trump has been insisting for years that our country has been too economically dependent on China, so it is sad that it took a global public health crisis to prove he was right all this time. When he began imposing strategic tariffs on China in response to its long history of abusive trade practices, the liberals all of a sudden became free trade fundamentalists, predicting that this new “trade war” would harm the American economy
  6. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/consider-possibility-trump-right-china/609493/
    1. And yet even as the current emergency has proved him right in fundamental ways—about China specifically and foreign policy more generally—many respectable people in the United States are letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and preferences of states.
  7. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/
    1. The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.
    2. Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.
  8. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inside-chinas-campaign-to-blame-the-us-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-03-15
    1. As coronavirus cases dwindle in China, and explode across the rest of the world, Beijing is undertaking a campaign to shift blame for the emergence of the disease to a familiar foe — the United States.
    2. The seemingly coordinated effort to, at minimum, sow doubts about the virus’s origin, and, at its most extreme, to directly accuse the U.S. military of creating and spreading the pathogen, has come from Chinese medical leaders, ambassadors and Foreign Ministry spokespersons — not to mention the hundreds of thousands of comments on Chinese social media echoing the conspiracy theories.
  9. https://news.gallup.com/poll/298313/president-trump-job-approval-rating.aspx
    1. Trump’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic may be behind his higher overall approval rating. Americans give the president generally positive reviews for his handling of the situation, with 60% approving and 38% disapproving. Ninety-four percent of Republicans, 60% of independents and 27% of Democrats approve of his response.