(Zhang Xiaofeng) Trump’s frequent “passing the blame” and blaming the media has profound meaning
(Source: Propaganda Network 2020-05-06)
The global COVID-19 epidemic continues to spread, and the United States has become the country with the worst epidemic in the world. According to the real-time epidemic monitoring system of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the end of April, there were more than 1 million confirmed cases in the United States and more than 60,000 deaths. The lives and health of the American people and the anti-epidemic measures of the U.S. government have always affected the hearts of people around the world and affected the trend and trends of the global war against the epidemic. As the president of the United States, he should naturally put the life and health of the American people as his top priority and demonstrate the courage of a leader of a major country and the responsibility of a responsible major country. However, Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo and others have blindly "blamed" China and even blatantly accused the media of "lying", which is disappointing. In fact, Trump's seemingly unbelievable moves are not just a moment of enthusiasm, but have ulterior motives.
1. Excusing wrong behavior and diverting public attention
Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, China has mobilized the whole country to implement the most effective measures and achieved results that have been praised by the World Health Organization. It has bought time and accumulated experience for the world to fight the epidemic. The whole world is suffering from the same cold and heat, and mankind has a shared destiny. As a responsible major country, China firmly advocates and implements the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind with practical actions. It has dispatched rescue teams to countries around the world to deliver masks and other relief and medical supplies as soon as possible, and shared China's anti-epidemic experience to help people around the world overcome the current difficulties. On the other hand, in the United States, when China was fighting the virus, the Trump administration watched from the other side, believing that as long as it closed its borders to Chinese citizens and stopped shipping routes to China, everything would be fine for the country. It took this opportunity to fish in troubled waters, concocting false arguments such as "Chinese virus" and "China's cover-up" to contain and suppress China, and then use the opportunity to make the United States bigger and stronger. Unexpectedly, cutting off ties with China would not stop the spread of the virus in the United States.
2. Increase chips for the 2020 U.S. presidential re-election campaign
As we all know, according to regulations, the United States will usher in a presidential election in November 2020. Trump's strongest opponent in the presidential race is former US Vice President and Democrat Joe Biden. He has claimed through the media that if the epidemic continues to spread, Trump is likely to use epidemic prevention to propose delaying the US election. According to the current development situation of the epidemic, this small probability event is not impossible. After all, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed to 2021 due to the epidemic. If the epidemic continues to spread in the United States, the delay in the presidential election will be understandable and acceptable. Biden was born in 1942, four years older than Trump, and nearly eighty years old. If the campaign is postponed, Biden is likely to become an outcast among voters due to his age.
Currently, the US presidential election campaign has begun. Trump must gain popularity for his re-election, and to win votes, he must play several cards.
The first is the "economic card".The Trump administration must strive to ensure that the economic situation continues to improve. Therefore, when the virus strikes, Trump would rather take the huge risk of the spread of the epidemic to ensure normal economic development in order to create more profits and job opportunities. As a result, Trump has repeatedly ignored the warnings of the World Health Organization and the advice of American epidemic prevention experts, tried his best to cover up the truth, suppressed the danger of the virus, delayed taking prevention and control measures such as city closures, and continued to send signals to resume work. Trump's attitude and decision-making have extremely serious consequences. In the United States, COVID-19 testing and treatment are expensive and must be borne by individuals. This has made many people afraid to go for testing and treatment because they are worried about being unable to pay for treatment. According to U.S. lawmakers, 40% of Americans cannot afford even $400, and 30 million people have no medical insurance. In this atmosphere of public opinion and social mentality, the poor and low-income people of color are the hardest hit.
The second is the "China brand".The "anti-China" sentiment in the U.S. presidential election is a "spiritual opium" that has penetrated deeply into the spinal cord of Americans, and Trump has shown it even more powerfully. Since Trump came to power, he has successively advocated the "theory of America suffering" in Sino-US w88, to the "theory of China's responsibility" and "theory of China's compensation" in the COVID-19 epidemic, allowing American voters to quietly put their votes into their ballot boxes under the control of emotions.
The third is the "media card".Generally speaking, the American media serves the democratic system of the United States. Although there are always some voices that are different from the US president, or even tit-for-tat and tense, the pattern of "little scolding but big help" between the American media and the government has never changed. However, since Trump successfully ran for president in 2016, while actively building a personal Twitter account, he has repeatedly criticized the mainstream media that opposes him, presenting a new pattern of "love and death" with the mainstream media. On the one hand, Trump once denounced the media for “producing fake news” and being “the public enemy of the American people.” He even awarded the “Top Ten Fake News Awards” on his Twitter account to the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, NBC and other mainstream media, calling them “the most corrupt and biased mainstream media.” After being criticized for his recent "disinfectant lung washing theory", he suspended the epidemic press conference for the first time, and once again criticized the media on Twitter: "If the media that distorts the facts will only ask some hostile questions and fail to report accurately and objectively, then what is the point of holding this White House press conference. They have earned a record-breaking amount. Ratings, and the American people get nothing but fake news. It’s not worth the time and effort!” On the other hand, Trump is extremely skilled in the rules of media operation, often hyping up topics to gain exposure, and the media also uses a large amount of space to report Trump’s “deviant” to gain the audience’s attention and increase the media’s popularity. Trump once revealed the secret in "The Art of the Deal": "Reporters are always hungry for good news. And the more sensational it is, the greater their interest." "If you are a little different, or a little arrogant, or if what you do is bold or controversial, your story will be in the news." In the prevention and control of the new coronavirus epidemic in the United States, Trump has repeated his old tricks and repeatedly used some media and reporters as a punching bag for unsatisfactory implementation of government affairs.
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