President Trump has done a tremendous job as commander-in-chief in the war against the coronavirus. His widely criticized initial ban on non-American citizens traveling to our country from China, invoked in January, may have been the most important decision he made in fighting this deadly disease.

This is leadership that has saved countless American lives. 

Trump has surrounded himself with the brightest medical minds in the world. He is spending hours each day listening to their very candid advise. Daily, the president stands alongside his team leader, Vice President Mike Pence. They speak directly to the American people, boiling down the complex health and economic issues caused by the coronavirus, offering common sense answers the American public can understand. 

As a result, Americans are seeing a direct and accountable, solution-driven, business approach being applied to the greatest national emergency since the bombing of Pearl Harbor that forced us into World War II. The approval ratings for Trump’s handling of the crisis have skyrocketed. 

Optimal solutions are not always pretty. But in times of crisis, great leaders know these solutions must be generated. This crisis requires balancing the healthcare needs of the country with the economic livelihood of everyday Americans. Trump is focused on implementing his “Whole Nation Solution," which is about the public and private sector working hand in hand, doing everything in their power to defeat this unseen enemy.

Governors across the nation, such as New York’s Andrew Cuomo, have put aside political differences to work with the president and his team to defeat the virus. Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate have come together to work with the White House to pass badly needed legislation to keep American workers whole and keep businesses in a position to resume operations.

The Trump-hating media is still attacking the president, even when he is facing the worst public-health crisis this nation has seen in decades. Their principal effort has been to stir up and maintain a state of public fear that grips the country, while they snipe and carp at any shortcoming they discover or invent in the president’s statements.

China caused this crisis. This is a fact beyond despite. They also made it 100 times worse by hiding it for months from the world - months when the world could have been preparing for this deadly disease. Especially Italy and Spain, that have been so badly decimated that it could take them decades to recover.

The Chinese Communist Party, however, is spreading the conspiracy theory, without a shred of evidence, that the American Army infected the Chinese in Wuhan when they were there last August participating in Olympic style games with representatives of armies across the globe.

Even worse, the World Health Organization and the Chinese sympathizers in the United Nations bureaucracy are making the Chinese out to be heroes because of their puny efforts to help other countries fight the disease that they themselves caused.

China’s stated goal has been to supplant the United States as the number one economic power in the world by 2024. President Trump’s hard line polices threw a monkey wrench in their plans. The Chinese economy is back up and running and every day we are shut down is a day the Chinese are closer to their goal.   

We must support as a unified nation our president’s delicate balancing act. We must keep the country safe while simultaneously getting our great American economy back up and running sooner, rather than later.


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