Trump's diagnosis puts truth and reality back at center stage

"But, but, but, what about 5G? Ya that's the ticket, Trump has 5G poisoning from the Alien Reptiles, that are part of the secret government that actually were responsible for toppling the towers on 9/11, and were responsible for the murders during the Holocaust, not our savior Hitler don't ya know!?!?!?"

Truth reasserted itself. It has taken center stage back from a man who has spent months during a world-threatening pandemic telling lies that repeatedly put those under his charge in harm's way.

Nothing President Donald Trump says now can distract us from the reality of his diagnosis with Covid-19.

He can elevate a doctor who has claimed alien DNA was used in medical treatments and falsely claims that hydroxychloroquine is a cure for Covid-19; he can purposefully downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus in public; he can suggest Americans should inject disinfectant into their bodies; or claim Democrats and the media have ginned up criticism of his response to the virus just to harm his re-election chances. He can turn away from the graves of the more than 210,000 Americans who have been killed by the virus.

But none of it will work this time. Because this time truth has shown up in unfamiliar terrain -- in the person of Trump himself.

The truth is that usually during a moment like this, with the president infected with a disease that has killed over a million people, the country would want to rally around him. Just months after a contentious 2000 election, the country rushed to support President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, pushing his approval rating to a record high. That shouldn't happen with Trump because these aren't normal times. They aren't normal times because of the President and his own actions and inactions. And that makes me even angrier about all the lies he's repeatedly told and his intentional flouting of what the world's best doctors and scientists have been saying.