Biden is NOT the One.

Oh, I see, when Trump has a senior moment, it's nothing.

You do realize he's either ignorant of his own government staff or he's lying. I guess it might also be that he's in dementia, but given the volume of his lies in the past three years, it's most likely a lie.

Maybe. Sounds to me like he’s saying that because he doesn’t want to talk about it. Yes, that would be a lie. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but every politician lies. Every one.

Modly was a place holder, appointed as Acting Secretary of the Navy, President Trump nominated Kenneth Braithwaite to become Secretary on March 2, 2020. Modly was in the Navy Department and moved up. Trump did not meet the man, why should he. The Pentagon told him that Modly is a "very good man", reason enough to put him in the Acting Secretary position. Modly's sin was, in the minds of the politically correct, using inartfull language.
In the U.S. Navy the order is mission, ship, crew and it is sacrosanct. Captain Crozier violated that order. Very straightforward, he broadcast his letter through unsecure channels,
potentially endangering the Fleet in the Pacific. "We are not at war", I would ask him why then are they at sea. Answer because the U.S. could be attacked at any time. Knowing that a nuclear carrier is out of action is significant to any potential enemy that his carrier and its escorts, there are many, wold be opposing.

I would think that our Commander in Chief would want to at least meet the person who was in charge of the U.S. Navy, regardless of whether he was the permanent Secretary, but that may be a little too much for Trump to handle.

It's so cute how you twist stories so that Trump looks good in your eyes.

Here is another time line:
– On January 5, Florence holds “Hug a Chinese Person Day”.

– On January 9, NYC holds Chinatown parade with assurances of no danger from the mayor and the NY health commisioner

– On January 14, WHO declared no evidence of human-to-human transmission of virus.

– On January 15, House impeachment managers deliver the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the U.S. Senate.

– On January 15, The first person with corona virus traveled to Washington State, U.S.A.

– On January 21, Dr. Fauci makes this statement about the Coronavirus: ““This is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States should be worried about right now,”

– On January 23, At an emergency committee convened by the World Health Organization, the WHO says that the Wuhan coronavirus does not yet constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

– On January 23, 1st evidence of community transfer within U.S.

– On January 23, House impeachment managers made their opening arguments for removing the president to the Senate.

– On January 28, Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom in Beijing. At the meeting, Xi and the WHO agree to send a team of international experts, including US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff, to China to investigate the coronavirus outbreak.

– On January 29, The White House announces the formation of a new task force that will help monitor and contain the spread of the virus.

– On January 30, senators began asking two days of questions during the impeachment trial.

– On January 31, Trump declared a ban on travel to the U.S. from China, which Democrats then criticized as xenophobic for the next several weeks, press cites “experts” claiming it is counterproductive.

– On January 31, Trump administration announces mandatory quarantines in response to corona virus.

– On February 4, President Trump dedicates part of State of the Union Address to the Coronavirus issue. Nancy Pelosi tears up her copy of this address on national television.

– On February 5, Schumer tweeted, “The premature travel ban to and from China by the current administration is just an excuse to further his ongoing was against immigrants. There must be a check and Balance (sic) on these restrictions.”

– On February 24, Pelosi says to shop more: “‘Come to Chinatown … come join us”

– On February 24, Schumer gave a blistering attack in which he accused Trump of being “asleep at the wheel” and having “no plan.” He lied that the White House had significantly reduced the resources available for fighting the disease, and railed that the president “has been slow to take action to confront the virus abroad.” Huh? What are we supposed to do, send the Marines into Milan?

– On February 25, Mardi Gras was held with few people sounding warnings

– On February 26, Pence takes over task force, daily briefings begin.

– On March 1, just 42 confirmed cases in U.S.

– On March 3, NYC mayor encourages New Yorkers to go to the movies.

– On March 5, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced the “No Ban Act”, which would have prevented Trump from implementing his travel ban. It was co-sponsored by 219 House Democrats. Senate Democrats also tried to prevent Trump from implementing his travel bans, introducing legislation that would block funds from being used to enforce them.

– On March 5, NYC mayor rides the subway to assure people it is safe to do so.

– On March 11, WHO acknowledged a pandemic scale.

– On March 12, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and other democratic leaders retracted the “No Ban Act”

– On March 16, President Donald Trump asked all Americans to stay home for 15 days to slow the spread of the virus.

– On March 31, President Donald Trump asked all Americans to stay home for 30 more days to slow the spread of the virus.

– On April 7, President Donald Trump tells Sean Hannity that the Corona Virus 19 epidemic is topping in American hotspots like NYC and Detroit.

koobookie wrote: Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25th - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 13th - [Declared state of emergency]
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

"I would think that our Commander in Chief would want to at least meet the person who was in charge of the U.S. Navy, regardless of whether he was the permanent Secretary, but that may be a little too much for Trump to handle."

Why would you think that? Modly was moved up the ladder to be an interim until the Senate acted upon President Trump's nomination of Braithwaite as Secretary of the Navy, March 2, 2020, as I previously noted.

More to the point what is your problem with Modly resigning?

ramage wrote: "I would think that our Commander in Chief would want to at least meet the person who was in charge of the U.S. Navy, regardless of whether he was the permanent Secretary, but that may be a little too much for Trump to handle."

Why would you think that? Modly was moved up the ladder to be an interim until the Senate acted upon President Trump's nomination of Braithwaite as Secretary of the Navy, March 2, 2020, as I previously noted.

More to the point what is your problem with Modly resigning?

The point is that Trump claims he didn't know the Secretary of the Navy, a person Trump appointed. Several here talk about the "dementia" of Biden, which is the topic of this thread, yet when Trump has a similar moment, you give him a pass.

There is absolutely no way Trump didn't know this man that he appointed. So we are left with a few choices concerning the Presidents behavior:
1 - Trump appointed someone he never met and didn't know, which would be a gross level of incompetence shown by a President.
2 - Trump is lying about knowing the man, trying to distance himself from any responsibility for appointing a person unfit for the job.
3 - Trump is having a senior moment, and truly does not remember meeting the man he appointed to a critical position.

Good to see that you approve of Modly's remarks about Crozier. I ascertained this from your comment that your disapproval is of Trump not knowing the man, not Modly's statement. You give no other answer to a simple interrogatory.

Don't know what you do or did (if retired) nor do I want to know. if you are under the belief that a CEO personally knows all of the personnel in mid-management you are mistaken. Many people are hired on the basis of a recommendation of the immediate superior, especially for one who will be an interim employee.
The Senate evidently felt the same way. He was confirmed by a voice vote.

ramage wrote: Good to see that you approve of Modly's remarks about Crozier. I ascertained this from your comment that your disapproval is of Trump not knowing the man, not Modly's statement. You give no other answer to a simple interrogatory.

Don't know what you do or did (if retired) nor do I want to know. if you are under the belief that a CEO personally knows all of the personnel in mid-management you are mistaken. Many people are hired on the basis of a recommendation of the immediate superior, especially for one who will be an interim employee.
The Senate evidently felt the same way. He was confirmed by a voice vote.

I don't know how, from my posts, that you received the impression that I approved of Modly's actions.

This isn't some mid-management member of a CEO's company, this is the Secretary of the Navy, appointed by Trump himself. He was nominated as Under Secretary of the Navy by President Trump in September 2017 and was confirmed by the Senate two months later. He served as Secretary from November 25, 2019 to April 7, 2020.

Again, the conclusion is that Trump is incompetent, lying, or suffering from dementia.

koobookie wrote: I would think that our Commander in Chief would want to at least meet the person who was in charge of the U.S. Navy, regardless of whether he was the permanent Secretary, but that may be a little too much for Trump to handle.
It's so cute how you twist stories so that Trump looks good in your eyes.

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Could be he wanted to but was too busy saving the world.