As the coronavirus pandemic began to spread across the United States, then-president Donald Trump held a meeting in the situation room and suggested sending Americans infected with the disease to Guantanamo in order to slow the outbreak, The Washington Post reports.
The report cited an excerpt from the book “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” by the Post’s Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta:
“In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as White House officials debated whether to bring infected Americans home for care, President Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on U.S. soil,” with Trump asking aides, “Don’t we have an island that we own? What about Guantánamo?”
The ex-president’s aides were “stunned” by his suggestion — and it was quickly dropped, the report says.
In the same manner, stupefied Twitter users called the former president for his “genocidal callousness.”
How does one react to this ? Does one react to the genocidal callousness or the stupidity of the planned action ?
— MaKin (@KiarKini) June 21, 2021
Most of this stuff came to light in bits and pieces as the pandemic unfolded last year. Seeing it all summarized in one place crystalizes what so many of us thought at the time: the previous administration was a cluster-*uck of unimaginable proportions at every level.
— Jill Harmon (@Harmonjs) June 21, 2021
The terrifying thing about that: literally no one who voted for him would change their vote based on that news. Over 70 million of our fellow Americans voted for that….
— M L C (@ChiCyph80) June 21, 2021
— Emolument Klaus (@runswith) June 21, 2021
I know we’re still sifting through the enormity of the collateral damage inflicted globally over the Trump years, but the fact that it’s completely ambiguous whether or not he’ll ever face justice is truly depressing.
— 🌊🚣♂️🤽♂️💦 (@YoBrohan) June 21, 2021
This is the man whose followers liken to Jesus
— 𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚎’𝚜 𝙶𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝙱𝚞𝚗 (@FreeGirlNowNYC) June 21, 2021
