https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/middleeast/trump-iraq-brain-injuries.html Trump Dismisses Troops’ Possible Brain Injuries as ‘Headaches’ The deputy commander of the American-led operation in Iraq said the Pentagon was putting service members through medical examinations to see if they had traumatic brain injuries. WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday dismissed concussion symptoms reported by several American troops after Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq as “not very serious,” even as the Pentagon acknowledged that a number of service members were being examined for possible traumatic brain injury caused by the attack. “I heard they had headaches,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland. “No, I don’t consider them very serious injuries, relative to other injuries that I’ve seen.” The comments of the president, who avoided the Vietnam War draft with a medical diagnosis of bone spurs, drew swift criticism from veterans’ groups. “Don’t just be outraged by #PresidentMayhem’s latest asinine comments,” Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, wrote in a Twitter post. “Take action to help vets facing TBIs,” a reference to traumatic brain injury.
Mnuchin Admits Trump's Budget Cuts Social Security Even as President Claims He Is 'Not Touching' the Program
“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.
“Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China. We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing. Getting along with China, getting along with Russia, getting along with these countries.” “I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.” “very much under control,” “We had 12, at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.” “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away,” “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” On Feb. 29, he said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly”
A video has emerged of Donald Trump talking about cutting the US pandemic response team in 2018 – days after claiming that he knew nothing about the disbanded White House unit. Mr Trump said of the pandemic team that “some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather then spending the money”. “I’m a business person, I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them,” he added. The US president has come under fire in recent days for his decision to disband the National Security Council directorate at the White House responsible for planning the US’s preparedness for future pandemics. The unit had been established by the previous White House administration in 2014 after the outbreak of Ebola. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eo-trump-pandemic-team-cut-2018-a9405191.html
Don't they all? This (audio)book explains a lot about entertainment and politics in the 20th C. Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire by Kathleen Sharp https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/986996.Mr_and_Mrs_Hollywood