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Donald Trump should take a lesson from Justin Trudeau — and even Doug Ford — on coron

Knuckle Ball

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Donald Trump should take a lesson from Justin Trudeau — and even Doug Ford — on coronavirus leadership


U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on March 31, 2020, in Washington.
WASHINGTON, DC—“Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory has been won,” President Donald Trump said Sunday — continuing his gradual U-turn from earlier attempts to declare victory over COVID-19.

Trump has stopped talking about reopening the country by Easter and extended social distancing until the end of April; he’s turned from predicting minimal casualties to saying anything fewer than 200,000 deaths would be a tremendous success.

They are rare climbdowns for a president resistant to correction. But the COVID-19 crisis is exposing leaders’ false promises and blustering optimism by the day, while exposing their weaknesses and strengths.

And for America that is happening with lightning speed. By Tuesday, the death toll in the country had tripled since Thursday to more than 3,000, now surpassing the number killed in the 9/11 attacks.

While there is admiration for the leadership of U.S. governors like New York’s Andrew Cuomo and Maryland’s Larry Hogan, and Canadian leaders Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, Trump’s daily press briefings remain points of conflict and confusion. He continues to find fault in others and deflect blame from himself.

Leaders are often defined by their response to a crisis. Trump’s moment in this crisis is his mid-March insistence that: “I take no responsibility at all.”

It is at odds with what experts say is the most important thing in a crisis: be accountable.

After accountability, historians looking at great world leaders and business management consultants advise empathy.

“Deal with the human tragedy as the first priority,” Gemma D’Auria and Aaron De Smet, two senior partners at corporate management consultants McKinsey & Company wrote recently. Franklin Delano Roosevelt dictated his Depression-era radio addresses while “trying to visualize the individuals he was seeking to help: a mason at work on a new building, a girl behind a counter, a man repairing an automobile, a farmer in his field,” Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once wrote.

Empathy is not a quality Trump is known for and that has been on full display during this crisis.

Trudeau’s caring for his children while in isolation as his wife recovered from COVID-19 created a sense of shared experience. Cuomo has been a father figure for a suffering New York family.

Ford jumped in his truck to deliver a donated shipment of ventilator masks. “A leader puts himself into the action and brings the people and resources to bear,” author John Baldoni wrote in the Harvard Business Review almost a decade ago.

Baldoni and the McKinsey consultants also say leadership means taking a moment to figure out the situation before acting (“leaders should not resort to using their intuition alone,” D’Auria and De Smet write). Yet, Trump’s approach has been to improvise in front of the entire world, speculating about untested medicines and sometimes ignoring medical expertise.

Other common pieces of crisis leadership advice common in expert writing on the subject— the value of preparation, early recognition and accountability, the setting aside of partisan fights and ability to rally a team of rivals — show qualities the U.S. president has lacked.

But the most consistent piece of advice demonstrates Trump’s most obvious failing thus far: levelling with people about the scope of the challenge.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin recently wrote in the New York Times that Roosevelt followed his famous “Nothing to fear but fear itself” pronouncement with an acknowledgment of hard times that lay ahead, saying “only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.”

Celebrated moments of leadership often show plenty of resolve but few rosy projections. Winston Churchill famously offered his public nothing but “blood, toil, tears and sweat.” During the Cuban missile crisis, John F. Kennedy told Americans, “Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead.”

Cuomo’s celebrated reassurances have not been sugar-coated. On Tuesday he said he expected that the peak of the virus in New York was still weeks away and he anticipated “many thousands” of deaths ahead. Early on, the Republican governor of Ohio warned people, when there were only two confirmed cases of community spread there, to assume 100,000 people in the state had the virus.

But Trump has spent weeks minimizing potential costs. Only now, as it becomes too obvious to ignore, has he begun acknowledging the severity of what the U.S. faces. When asked why it took so long on Monday, Trump said he hadn’t wanted to panic the nation, “Those statements I made — I want to keep the country calm.”

Much expert advice on crisis management says people are calmed when leaders display understanding and demonstrate they have planned to deal with the worst. A good summary of that advice might sound something like, “Nothing could be worse than declaring victory before victory has been won.” The president belatedly offered some good advice this week. His country may be reassured if he shows he’s heeding it.
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Just for clarification.....

Is it Trump thats the fuck up or is it all his advisors like Fauci, army generals, lawyers and intelligence people????

Just want to be clear if its just him or the whole gamut?
Of course, just because Trump is POTUS doesn't mean he is responsible for anything.
Not unless it goes well, then he did it all single handedly.

So which was it?
'nobody saw it coming' - Which Trump says and therefore everyone has that excuse for being prepared
'I knew all along it was a pandemic' - Which Trump also says, so therefore he should have been preparing the country, including NY and all the hotspots
 

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Of course, just because Trump is POTUS doesn't mean he is responsible for anything.
Not unless it goes well, then he did it all single handedly.

So which was it?
'nobody saw it coming' - Which Trump says and therefore everyone has that excuse for being prepared
'I knew all along it was a pandemic' - Which Trump also says, so therefore he should have been preparing the country, including NY and all the hotspots
It doesnt matter which you look at it because no matter what Trump does, its wrong in the eyes of the left.

It would be no different in the eyes of the right if a democrat was president.

You cant make everyone happy all the time. It just seems that democrats cry the most either way?
 

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I think Trump and Trudeau are handling the crisis in a similar way. Both are waiting for someone else to figure out how to resolve the medical crisis. The difference between them is that Trudeau is also relying on other people to figure out how to revive the economy afterward, whereas Trump appears to at least understand what the important steps might be. Also, Trudeau is relying on other people to tell him what to say and not say. And also is relying on other people for absolutely everything else in connection with his so-called office (except for the photo-op part).
 

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Agreed Trump also isn't in hiding at Mara Lago like Trudeau is at the cottage. Why would he take lessons from Trudeau. What has he done differently than Trump?
 

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It doesnt matter which you look at it because no matter what Trump does, its wrong in the eyes of the left.

It would be no different in the eyes of the right if a democrat was president.

You cant make everyone happy all the time. It just seems that democrats cry the most either way?
So even a hard core Trump backer doesn't know which of his statements are true and which are lies?
 

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Agreed Trump also isn't in hiding at Mara Lago like Trudeau is at the cottage. Why would he take lessons from Trudeau. What has he done differently than Trump?
That is why the virus can spread from an Asymptomatic individual, when one does not take advice from their medical experts. No wonder the right wingers have that hatred for our PM!!
 

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Agreed Trump also isn't in hiding at Mara Lago like Trudeau is at the cottage. Why would he take lessons from Trudeau. What has he done differently than Trump?
Trump can’t go to Mara-Plague-O because it’s closed because he refused to take social distancing seriously and a bunch of people got COVID19 there.


 

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Trump can’t go to Mara-Plague-O because it’s closed because he refused to take social distancing seriously and a bunch of people got COVID19 there.


He can go wherever he wants to.
 

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That is why the virus can spread from an Asymptomatic individual, when one does not take advice from their medical experts. No wonder the right wingers have that hatred for our PM!!
Yes it can. Was Trudeau not tested after his wife got it? He doesn't have it but still in hiding. It's not hatred it's dislike, there is a difference. i have no reason to hate him. He's using the medical experts as a smokescreen. Why were the kids allowed to leave? I'm assuming they were exposed at the same time he was.
 

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Yes it can. Was Trudeau not tested after his wife got it? He doesn't have it but still in hiding. It's not hatred it's dislike, there is a difference. i have no reason to hate him. He's using the medical experts as a smokescreen. Why were the kids allowed to leave? I'm assuming they were exposed at the same time he was.
His wife and kids are in their cottage in Quebec. According to the Protocols he has to be in isolation for 14 more days. Better safe than sorry and if the telephone conferencing is even more productive, what is wrong with that?
 

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His wife and kids are in their cottage in Quebec. According to the Protocols he has to be in isolation for 14 more days. Better safe than sorry and if the telephone conferencing is even more productive, what is wrong with that?
He's already been in isolation since March 13, so he has to stay another 14 days, that's more than a month. What protocol is that? Just admit it he's in hiding?
 

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He's already been in isolation since March 13, so he has to stay another 14 days, that's more than a month. What protocol is that? Just admit it he's in hiding?
Huh?

How is he in hiding? He’s been making statements to the media daily, working with the rest of the government by phone and teleconference.

If he’s trying to hide he’s doing a shitty of it. Our PM is pretty easy to find.
 

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He's already been in isolation since March 13, so he has to stay another 14 days, that's more than a month. What protocol is that? Just admit it he's in hiding?
If he is accomplishing more by telephone conferencing and is available to answer questions on a daily basis, how is that hiding. After all travel does take a lot of one's time!! I will go with the medical experts who are advising him rather than those haters who always want to pick on straws!!

Remember that the real "hiding" was the previous PM called Stephen Harper, who rarely talked to reporters and hardly had any press briefings during the 2008 Deep recession!! Are you condemning him as well??
 
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