Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Liberals claim to be appalled that Trump didn’t issue his stay-at-home protocols for the Wuhan virus back in January or early February.
What do you think the media’s reaction would have been if Trump had started babbling about a viral pandemic in the middle of his impeachment trial?
Let’s see. On Jan. 28, Trump released his long-awaited “Middle East Peace Plan,” which was immediately denounced by everyone except Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson. Still, the last 1 million Middle East Peace Plans led to tons of think pieces, analyses and arguments.
Here’s how Trump’s “Peace Plan” was reported:
“Tonight, impeached and indicted. Seems like a good time for a distraction: Their plan for peace in the Middle East.” — Becky Anderson, CNN, Jan. 28, 2020
“The Trump administration has dubbed it the deal of the century. Critics see it as a PR stunt to distract from Trump’s impeachment.” — Michele Kelemen, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Jan. 28, 2020
“Many analysts and supporters of a two-state solution to the [Middle East] conflict have called the promised rollout of the plan this week a distraction from Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial.” — The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2020
There are plenty of reasons to attack Trump for the virus sweeping our country, but the media are mad at him for not doing something that would have been absurd: shutting down the country when there wasn’t a single Wuhan flu death in the nation and the media had barely mentioned it.
In fact, the first time most news consumers heard about the latest Chinese coronavirus was when liberals attacked Trump for shutting down travel from China at the end of January.
The Times responded with an op-ed titled, “Who Says It’s Not Safe to Travel to China?” bemoaning “xenophobic rhetoric and the building of walls.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders mocked the ban at a CNN town hall debate, saying, “I don’t know you have to stop travel from China,” but Trump likes “to build walls … to separate us from other people.”
Politico cited “a growing chorus of public health experts” who warned that the China travel ban could “stigmatiz[e] people of Asian descent.”
The Nation magazine reported that the risk to Americans from the Wuhan coronavirus was “low” and accused Trump of playing to “well-worn, racist tropes that depict Chinese people as dirty and disease-carrying.”
So go screw yourselves, media.
On the other hand, Trump does deserve a lot of the blame for the Wuhan virus by keeping — wait, checking my notes — NONE of his promises on China. This, the media will never mention.
During the campaign, Trump sure talked a good game. He said, “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country.” He vowed to put tariffs on their goods and bring manufacturing home.
Then he got elected, and Jared Kushner, Gary Cohn and Trump’s other salt-of-the-earth advisers told him tariffs were a bad idea. So he imposed no tariffs for two long years and, today, almost all our pharmaceuticals, face masks and other crucial supplies are still being made in China.
On the bright side, China fast-tracked all of Ivanka’s trademarks!
Trump has allowed hundreds of thousands of Chinese students to keep attending American universities. He can’t stop gushing about the H-1B workers. In 2018, Trump tweeted a warm welcome to H1-B visa holders, promising them “a path to citizenship” and heaping praise on these “talented and highly skilled people” taking American jobs.
Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis, computer science professor recently wrote:
“Here is something you won’t read elsewhere: Silicon Valley leads the SF Bay Area in COVID-19 cases — leads by FAR ….
“Silicon Valley, of course, is home to very large numbers of immigrant engineers from China, who have the means to make frequent trips to China to visit family, especially during Chinese New Year, when the virus started to spread like mad within China and started to do so in the U.S.”
As we now know, the first two Wuhan flu deaths in America were in … Silicon Valley.
“Birth tourism” has also continued apace under Trump, with tens of thousands of pregnant Chinese ladies flying to America every year for the sole purpose of giving birth to an anchor baby, who will then be used to bring the whole family here.
There’s one way to stop it, and Trump could do it tomorrow. Sign an executive order ending the anchor baby scam. Not say he’s going to sign it, as he does whenever he wants to gin up the base. Actually sign it.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children born to illegal aliens or tourists are citizens, for the simple reason that that would be insane. The 14th amendment is about slavery, as the court has repeatedly held, not Chinese birth tourists or pregnant Mexicans.
But he won’t do it. Ivanka needs her trademarks — and Goldman might give Jared a job! Sorry about that Wuhan flu, America.
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Well, I don’t like tariffs. They’re just a sales tax. BUT!!!
She brings up the 14th amendment and anchor babies. Now, THAT’S interesting. The whole birth citizenship thing stems from a court decision interpreting the 14th amendment. Early in the 20th Century. That’s it! It wasn’t the intention of the amendment. That was for ex-slaves. So the birth citizenship nonsense could be undone in a heartbeat. ONE executive order. DONE! Why won’t he do it???
True 3rd rail of politics, even for Donald.
The Chinese were the only race excluded by name and quota back in the day.
I am so sick and goddamn tired of this continual love affair our betters have with China and their slave labor. Bring that work back here, and tell China to stick their economy up their ass. We created the monster that China is now. The Chinese “miracle” was borne from our pockets being forcibly picked by the elected trash in the halls of power being bribed to support “globalism”.
I agree, I don’t like tariffs either. In fact I say we skip the tariffs altogether and go straight for EMBARGO. Start by telling China we will no longer be doing business with them…at ALL. Then, we take about 4 trillion of the treasuries that the CCP owns and shred them. Reparations for the WuFlu, and if they don’t like it, take us to the world court. If they threaten war, and mean it, then send them a care package of about 10 megatons, and turn parts of China to glass. Start using that bloated Pentagon budget for something worthwhile. My guess is that Xi would be so scared shitless of us actually growing a pair, and meaning it, that they would back off, and they would somehow come to “agreement” on something.
Ah, to dream that we had a George Washington in the white house, and not a guy being led around by his effeminate crook son in law, and various scabs from Goldman Sachs.