President Donald J. Trump’s Coronavirus Hoax: The World’s Most Dangerous Hoax?

Given that he actually labeled the coronavirus health emergency as a “hoax” in his South Carolina reelection rally back in February 28, 2020, is President Trump perpetrating the world’s most dangerous hoax?

By: Ringo Bones

During one of his so-called reelection rallies in South Carolina back in February 28, 2020, President Trump actually labeled the coronavirus as a hoax and said Democrats are trying to use the coronavirus to damage him – and called that “their new hoax”. And more recently, President Trump even jokingly remarked that Hillary Clinton’s e-mails caused the coronavirus pandemic. This was after a growing furor over the Trump Administration’s lackluster response of a growing global public health emergency declared by the World Health Organization after the disease spread at an alarming rate from China near the end of January 2020.

Donald Trump has a long history of branding things he doesn’t like as “hoaxes”. Trump used the word to dismiss the Russia collusion investigation and the more recent impeachment as a hoax. Worse still, President Trump enacted an executive decision to slash the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention back in 2018 focused on eliminating the funding of Obama era disease security programs and also of the Health and Human Services. Back in 2018, the White House eliminated a position on the National Security Council tasked with coordinating a global pandemic response.

During a federal government budget proposal meeting for the 2020 US Government Budget held back in 2019, the Trump Administration sought to cut the CDC’s annual budget for the fiscal year 2020 by as much as 16-percent. On average, the Trump Administration had been slashing the annual budgets of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services by almost 15-percent on an annual basis since 2018.

Is President Donald J. Trump A Moon Landing Hoax Believer?

From Birtherism to Senator Ted Cruz’s dad assassinating JFK, is President Trump also a so-called “Moon Landing Hoax” believer?

By: Ringo Bones

Well, back in 2011, it seems that what Donald J. Trump is best known for – beside his popular reality TV show The Apprentice – was his belief on “Birtherism” – i.e. that the then US President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, as opposed to the state of Hawaii which is a part of the United States and that the NASA moon landings were a hoax and he also says that Russian intelligence might have proof of this. Fast forward to July 20, 2019 when America recently celebrated the 50^th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, the now US President Donald J. Trump suddenly went “inexplicably” quiet when it comes to the issue of whether the Apollo moon landings were a hoax. Stranger still, in a recent poll, it seems as much as 25-percent of Americans still believe that the moon landings were a hoax and 90-percent of them are so-called Millennials – i.e. born after 1982 – who voted for Trump back in 2016.

The origin of the idea of the so called “moon landing hoax” dates back to 1974 where a self published book by Bill Kaysing titled “We Never Went To The Moon” began selling in substantial numbers. Bill Kaysing’s aura of believability stems from his experience working as a technical writer at Rocketdyne during the 1950s – i.e. the company that made the Saturn V moon rocket’s F1 rocket engines. If the “secret agents” of the then Soviet Union had not manage to reveal any proof of the claim that the moon landings made by NASA were a hoax during the late 1960s onwards, then why would any rational person believe in the moon landing hoax conspiracy nonsense? If the Russians did then Trump would probably got the proof from his buddy Vlad the Dictator before 2011.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Swedish Massacre Hoax: Trump Fake News In Action?

Given his open mistrust of the “dishonest mainstream media”, is Trump’s Swedish Massacre Hoax a sure sign that he’s already out of touch with reality? 

By: Ringo Bones

With the whole world still reeling after Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre Hoax, people who are already questioning the sanity of President Trump may had earned credence of their claims with the recent “Swedish Massacre” tirade on Twitter as Trump tries to justify his anti-immigrant stance. The Swedish Massacre Hoax was apparently invented by Trump during a campaign-style rally of his supporters in an aircraft hangar in Melbourne, Florida. When former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt Tweeted: “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound.” It wasn’t long that everyone realized that Trump’s “Swedish Massacre Hoax” is about as real as his presidency. 

President Trump’s bizarre nonexistent terror attack on Swedish soil may have been due to his rejection of other more reliable news media in preference to a conservative far-right news channel called Fox News, where the night before Trump’s Melbourne, Florida rally, he was watching a documentary made by a right-wing demagogue claiming that Swedish crime rates are on the rise because of the Swedish government relaxing its restrictions in accepting Syrian war refugees in 2015. But the truth is crime rates across Sweden had been in decline since 2005. Trump’s war on the “dishonest media” has unforeseen consequences indeed. By often referring to CNN and the BBC, amongst others, as “fake news”, it seems Trump has apparently lost all contact with reality this time.