To the Editor:
Occasionally, on liberal websites or progressive forums, you will see the expression, “Whatever Trump touches dies.”
It’s a hyperbole.
It refers to Trump’s many business failures: Trump’s bankrupt Trump Casinos, Trump’s scamy Trump University, Trumps’ fraudulent Trump Foundation, and Trumps’ defunct Trump airlines, Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, . . .
It also refers to Trump’s numerous indicted or incarcerated accomplices: Micheal Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos . . .
Likewise it refers to the members of Team Trump who have relinquished their integrity: Press Secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, counselor to the president Kelleyanne Conway, . . .
You get the picture.
Until recently “Whatever Trump touches, dies” was a figure of speech.
But on Thursday, April 23, 2020, a date which will live in presidential idiocy, Donald Trump promoted the idea of injecting disinfectant to cure coronavirus.
So it appears that from now on, “Whatever Trump touches, dies” is more than hyperbole.
P.S. Don’t drink bleach.
Tom Jury
Village of Tamarind Grove
