Our self-congratulator-in-chief loves to say that whatever he has going is the greatest in history. His carnival barking contrasts with his desperate evasions, as when he said last week that coronavirus testing is overrated. “If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.” This reminds me of a DC Council hearing on police response to hate crimes in 2009.
I sat beside Sampson McCormick, the black gay comedian. He was not joking that day, but describing an incident in Southeast DC in