Even as life spins along and Joe Biden has been president nearly six months, the vile, infectious T-Rump virus continues to plague mankind and no known vaccine in sight, other than a way-shitload of people suddenly gaining reality perception. Anyone with walking-around sense could see Joe Biden’s European trip this week was like a hundred-trillion-percent better than T-Rump’s shameful, embarrassing escapades of years past.

Yet, he still loves him some self, and as he believes so does just about everybody — during a telephone call-in last night on Fox’s Hannity: “I’m very honored to say that my endorsement means more than any endorsement that has ever been given by anybody … The fake news doesn’t like talking about it but the numbers are really incredible… If you look at the numbers, people are liking me more now than ever before.”
Shit.

Worse, still, is T-Rump’s COVID lies:

He’s still trying to undermine what I’m doing every day. My county is at 35% vaccinated rate. I talk to people daily about why I think they, and their kids, should get vaccinated, and in one interview the former guy wrecks it. There aren’t words to describe how bad this is. https://t.co/s0Hjy3AXKg

— Dr. Rob Davidson #GetVaccinated (@DrRobDavidson) June 17, 2021

It’s pretty-well considered that T-Rump’s massive fuck-up last year during COVID’s spread cost hundreds of thousands of lives and put a brake on quickly getting a handle on the outbreak. We’ve the most virus related deaths in the world (600,000-plus at last count): ‘“The magnitude of it is just horrifying,” said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University.‘

And so it is, and the T-Rump in his psychotic disregard for life and liberty spews disaster. On the Hannity show he went deeper — via Politico last night:

“Now we have to get back and the schools have to get open — frankly, we are lucky we have the vaccine. But the vaccine on very young people is something that you’ve got to really stop,” Trump said.
“You have to get back to running your country — I mean, I don’t see reasons — and I am a big believer in what we did with the vaccine. It’s incredible what we did. You see the results.”

Trump continued with a claim he made last summer at the White House podium, when justifying a return to in-person schooling in fall 2020.

“But to have every school child, where it’s 99.99 percent, they just don’t — you know, they are just not affected or affected badly,” he said.
“Having to receive a vaccine, I think it is something that you should start thinking about, because I think it is unnecessary.”

Asshole! According to the CDC, teens need to get vaccinated as a big chunk of COVID hospitalizations are young people. As always with the T-Rump, real-world crap doesn’t matter, and only what he says at whatever moment is the truth of it all, no matter how shitty.
Bess Levin at Vanity Fair this evening once again caps the T-Rump virus:

Gven the opportunity to be of service to their country, most former U.S. presidents are happy to help. Then there’s Donald Trump.
A stunted man-child who’s never done anything without first asking, “What’s in it for me?” the ex-president has actively hurt America since leaving office in January, largely by doing everything he can to undermine democracy, whether it’s his continued attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election or telling people he’s going to be “reinstated” as POTUS in a matter of months.
Also unhelpful? His decision to prolong the pandemic by telling people not to have their children vaccinated for COVID-19.

Yes, despite regularly insisting that he doesn’t get enough credit for the coronavirus vaccines, Trump claimed during an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday that school-age children should not be inoculated against the deadly virus.
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As usual, the majority of the words coming out of the 45th president’s mouth were a lie. The coronavirus does, in fact, affect children … According to neonatologist Dr. Alvaro Moreira, MIS-C can hit seemingly healthy kids nearly a month after asymptomatic infections.
And while it’s true that children are less likely to become symptomatic than adults, more than 4 million have tested positive for COVID-19, which they can subsequently pass on to more vulnerable people, contributing to the spread of the virus.

Meanwhile, NBC News reports that “virtually all hospitalized COVID patients” are unvaccinated, and it’s not just unvaccinated adults who are at risk for severe illness.
“In our local hospitals the kids that are getting sick are the ones that are not vaccinated,” said Dr. Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Overland Park, Kansas.
Not surprisingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged children 12 and up to get vaccinated, citing the recent increase in coronavirus-related hospitalizations.

Lies before living:

Hospitals in states with the lowest vaccination rates tend to have more COVID-19 patients in ICUs, we found.

Wyoming, Missouri, Arkansas and Idaho currently have the highest % of COVID-19 patients on average in their ICUs; those states all have vaccinated < 40% of their pop. pic.twitter.com/s4X0oSR6Xj

— Aleszu Bajak (@aleszubajak) June 16, 2021

Why don’t the T-Rump just go away?
And here we are … again…

This is my favorite of the T-Rump mugs, though, ‘favorite‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in, ‘my favorite movie,’ or ‘my favorite song.’
It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like.

And aptly titled, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong (and found here), and displays the elemental form of a purloined sociopath — a bloated profile of flatulent bile and arrogant ignorance.