Donald Trump is not Hungry | Cesar Chelala

Of one detail we can be confident. Donald Trump is not hungry. This is what the well-liked press -the occasional purveyor of faux information- tells us. And there is no explanation not to think it now, when it tells us that the EIC (Emperor-in-Main) feasts on cheeseburgers and ice cream in his mansion of Mar-a-Lago. Food for the kings, as they say.

He now seems to be having the most effective of times, when we see him elegantly gallivanting in his golfing cart, all set to heroically surmount the deadliest obstacles. That this happening as we see the longest traces for food handouts due to the fact the Depression is of no problem to him. He only looks at the large photo: himself. Rome is burning but Nero is serene.

In simple fact, he is so serene, that he arranged a New Year’s Eve celebration at his Floridian hideaway where, legitimate to type, he remaining for Washington leaving his dissatisfied company to mingle rather with Eric and Don Trump Jr. while Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been lacking in motion. Oh, properly, one are unable to have every little thing in life…

Those people 500 company that remained at the celebration ended up not practicing physical distancing, and were being seated 10 at a desk, no masks needed. In the meantime, as reported by the Tampa Bay Moments, as this super-spreader celebration was taking spot in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom, Florida experienced a document quantity of coronavirus infections, with much more than 17,000 new scenarios.

There are now additional than 340,000 dead, an inconceivable – and unforgivable– figure for a region with the costliest overall health care program in the planet. Hospitals are overrun, basic provides are restricted, vaccination prices to have the pandemic is running way too gradual and persons are underneath unbearable tension, main some of them to suicide.

Murder costs are escalating in the nation. Murders are up by double-digit percentages not only in large towns this kind of as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, but smaller towns are also displaying the result of the pandemic. In accordance to details from the Nationwide Commission on Covid-19 and Felony Justice, murder costs and gun assault started to improve in late May well.

Whilst there is no apparent clarification for the rise, industry experts believe that that unemployment and money hardships in inadequate neighborhoods previously beneath pressure are guiding these boosts. “Unemployment and the housing insecurity that appear along with Covid, the typical pressure, the marital strife that we have found, with better rates of domestic violence and bigger prices of divorce, have all spiked through durations of Covid,” stated Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Heart for Plan Fairness, a analysis center at Yale University.

Individuals who voted for Trump hoping that some of his billions would magically trickle down to their pockets, continue being annoyed. He and his cronies created an overall economy only for the more affluent.

The U.S. stock sector ended 2020 at an all-time significant, earning the rich richer and, predictably, the inadequate poorer considering the fact that, according to the unalterable guidelines of capitalism, when any individual will get considerably richer due to eschewed government stimulus, any person else has to fork out for it.

As this is taking place, Rome retains burning. Historian Dio Cassius wrote that Nero was dressed in cithara (a forerunner of the lute and afterwards of the guitar) player’s garb even though Rome was burning. Existing times demand a unique attire. Nowadays he would be dressed in a golfing player’s outfit.

Dr. César Chelala is a New York writer.

César Chelala is a physician and writer born in Argentina and residing in the U.S. He wrote for top newspapers all more than the planet and for the principal medical journals, among them The New York Situations, The Washington Put up, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Instances, The China Everyday, The Moscow Periods, The Intercontinental Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, Harvard Global Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Annals of Inner Medicine, and The British Professional medical Journal. He is a co-winner of an Abroad Press Club of The united states award and two national journalism awards from Argentina.