Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich said that Donald Trump is no longer the President of the United States, and that he abdicated when he failed to respond constructively to any of the major crises that ravage America today.
Reich criticized in an article for the British newspaper The Guardian - under the title "Fire, epidemic and a country at war with himself .. Trump's presidency ended" - Trump's handling of the widespread protests that followed the killing of George Floyd American citizen in Minneapolis by a white policeman, He said that Trump described the protesters as thugs, threatened to shoot at them, and tweeted that, when the looting started, the shooting started. Echoing a racist statement of the late Miami police chief, which had sparked ethnic riots in the late 1960s.
Reich - who is a professor of public policy at the University of California - said that Trump is not concerned with running the affairs of the country, but rather is engaged in golf, watching TV and Twitter.
Reich also criticized Trump's handling of the health crisis in the United States following the outbreak of the Corona virus, and said that Trump's response to the last three horrific months of the outbreak of the epidemic and death was reckless, he claimed that the Corona epidemic is only a "trick by the Democrats", and gagged the mouths of health officials Public, leaving the responsibility to manage the deadly virus outbreak crisis to states.
As a result, state governors found themselves forced to search for respirators to keep patients alive, as well as providing protective equipment for hospital workers and other key workers who lacked them, and state governors had to make decisions related to closing and reopening the economy.
Trump also took no responsibility for HIV infection testing and contact with infected people, two measures necessary to curb the spread of the epidemic. His new plan to fight the virus with that mission lay with state governors, according to the author.
The former minister accused Trump of lying constantly, making fake threats via Twitter that he has no authority to implement, such as threatening to withhold funds from states that extend absentee voting, threatening to veto the decisions of state governors who do not allow the reopening of places of worship immediately, and punishing Twitter for indicating verification of what appears In his tweets.
He noted that Trump is obsessed with himself, and has shown no interest in running the country's affairs since his arrival in the White House in January 2017, and the current crises have revealed the depth of his selfishness and contempt for his job.
Reich concluded that Trump's neglect of his responsibilities goes beyond the leader’s lack of specification or lack of attention to traditional norms and roles. He abandoned the primary duties and responsibilities of the presidency at a time when the United States was experiencing a national shock, so he was no longer a president, and the sooner we stopped treating him as president, the better.