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For some time now, Piers Morgan has counted Donald Trump among his famous friends.

When he wasn’t writing scathing articles about how Meghan Duchess of Sussex ghosted him, he was licking the American President’s bone spurs.

Piers famously interviewed Trump in January 2018, sitting across from him, straight-faced and pandering, while he spewed unadulterated rubbish about climate change.

Then things started to get a little rocky between them in July of 2019, when even Piers couldn’t ignore Trump’s antics, describing them as “vile, repellent, shameful, shocking and disturbing”.

He seems to have continued this thread of (deserved, but hypocritical) abuse in his latest hit piece for The Daily Mail.

The piece starts with a rambling extended metaphor, comparing Trump’s response to COVID-19 to that of the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. You all know the story and can make the relevant connections, so let’s move on.

Take it away, Piers:

From the start of this crisis, President Trump has tried to rely on his usual political methodology – attacking opponents, trashing the ‘fake news’ media, blaming anyone and everyone but himself, pretending things are better than they are, and congratulating himself repeatedly for making all the right decisions.

But his tactics aren’t working this time, because Americans are dying in their droves from coronavirus at a rate faster than anywhere else in the world, and they’re seeing the stark, horrific reality in the shape of mass open-air graves being prepared and field hospitals being set up in parks.

Correct – Trump has handled the pandemic like the bumbling moron that he is. Only this time, it’s a little harder to hide the body count.

I still can’t help feeling a little queasy agreeing with Piers Morgan, but on we soldier.

This is as bad as it gets; a grim Ground Zero for most Americans who’ve never had to even contemplate such terrible hardship, let alone actually endure it.

Yet every day their President pops up for several hours on TV to pontificate about how it’s not really that bad, how things will all bounce back quickly, and how he couldn’t possibly be doing a better job.

Blah blah bloody blah.

He’s even breaking out the ‘blahs’ now.

It’s become an increasingly nauseating spectacle and last night, President Trump reached a new low with a press briefing performance that was frankly an utter disgrace.

Part of that press conference, with commentary from Channel 4 News for context:

Piers was particularly offended by Trump’s response to questions from the press:

Time and again reporters asked him perfectly legitimate questions about his administration’s handling of this crisis, and time and again Trump furiously abused, denounced and dismissed them with sneering contempt.

He ranted, raved, mocked and derided in such an appalling manner that by the time he finished, the hashtag #TrumpMeltdown was No1 trending topic on Twitter in America.

You can read the full article here. Piers summarises his sentiments as “the most undignified and pathetic display” he has ever seen “from any world leader, let alone the President of the United States – in the middle of a global crisis”.

There’ll be no coming back from this one Piers. I’m afraid your bone spur licking days might be over.

[source:dailymail]