Have we been "punk'd"?

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...Let's hope so...


I can't help feeling that any day now we will have people jumping out from behind the scenes, telling us it's all been one big wind up.

This morning, I woke up to notifications that Trump has decided that the USA will stop funding the World Health Organization. Simply for the reason that Trump has once again changed his rhetoric on his administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. He is doing all he can to convince the world that he is the only person who knows what he's doing. The medical experts, the epidemiologists and the research scientists know absolutely nothing about this virus. But Donald Trump does. And suddenly Covid-19 is a conspiracy theory dreamt up by the WHO, not by China (who had designed the disease a couple of weeks ago...). You really can't make this stuff up.



The man just has too much power and wants to use it to the detriment of the world's population while he is able. With any luck this farce of a presidency will be over in eight months' time.

What gets my goat the most is his genuine belief that as soon as he has changed his mind about something, what he said before - which is on record - never happened. Even if played a recording of him saying it, he would insist it is fake news. The only thing fake about the situation in the USA right now is Trump. With the elections this year, I pray that the states who swing between Democrat and Republican do the right thing for the majority this time around. The majority of the population (remember the popular vote from 2016) doesn't deserve to have someone in office who appears to refuse to look objectively on matters and who doesn't seem to engage his brain before he speaks. He wades into matters affecting other countries as though it's his right. The world, not the USA alone, has had enough.

Be kind. Stay safe.

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