EA on Monocle 24 and talkRADIO: Trump’s Failure on Coronavirus and Travel Ban

Posted by Scott Lucas | Mar 12, 2020 | 0

EA on Monocle 24 and talkRADIO: Trump’s Failure on Coronavirus and Travel Ban

UPDATE, 1900 GMT:

David Dunn, of EA and the University of Birmingham, spoke with talkRADIO’s Matthew Wright about the political dangers for Donald Trump from the Coronavirus situation and his speech on Wednesday night.

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Trump has the Midas touch in reverse. The markets crashed further because people didn’t believe him.

And they didn’t believe him because what he said was entirely implausible — that America is better prepared than everybody else.

I joined Monocle 24’s Andrew Mueller on Thursday to discuss Donald Trump’s failure to show competence, let alone leadership, in a nationally-broadcast speech on Coronavirus.

We review Trump’s bungling of measures, including a ban on travelers from 26 European countries, and look at a man — buttressed by the xenophobic advisor Stephen Miller — whose primary concern is his political fortunes rather than the welfare of Americans.

Listen from 3:00:

TrumpWatch, Day 1,147: Confused Trump Spreads Blame as Other Take Coronavirus Action

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

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