Remember the Hong Kong flu?

An I'm-so-cute-and-clever reporter recently asked the president if he deserves to be re-elected, given the number of deaths from the coronavirus, noting that the number is greater than American fatalities from the Vietnam war. People can always find something as a point of comparison as if that automatically added weight to what they are implying.  No doubt this reporter thought stats from the Vietnam war added gravitas to her query. In any case, her disrespectful and rude question didn't deserve to be dignified with an answer.  But Trump answered her anyway.  Unfortunately, he didn't use the opportunity to his advantage by giving her a little history lesson, as discussed at The Daily Wire: She may have been unaware that at the height of the Vietnam war, there was something that killed more Americans than the war did, and it was a similar virus — and no one questioned whether a president should be elected or not...(Read Full Post)
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