Trump and the Mouth.

I suppose I shouldn’t let the day go by without mentioning Trump’s assertion that the Chinese deliberately engineered Coronavirus in a lab as a bio weapon. I’m not sure just how effective an indiscriminate virus would be as a weapon, but let’s leave that one aside.

When asked to state his evidence for such an assertion, Donald said ‘I’m not allowed to say.’ Allowed? A week or two ago he was boasting that he was President and the President can do what he likes. So who, exactly, isn’t allowing him? Or did he mean that it is not in the national interest to reveal the source? Is this another example of Trump’s inadequate command of English, or maybe evidence of the fact that his mind is incapable of understanding the difference between ‘not allowed’ and ‘not in the national interest’?

And what of possible alternative theories? Could it be that the virus was actually engineered in America and released in Wuhan in order to discredit China? Is that ridiculous? Maybe, but there is an unofficial Cold War going on between America and China, or at least between Trump and China, and America has been regarded with some suspicion since the official explanation for 9/11 was settled on. A lot of people didn’t believe it and still don’t. Or what of Australia? They don’t like the Chinese either. Do they have biohazard labs in Australia? I’ve no idea.

All this is idle speculation, of course, and speculation is always foolish in matters of this kind. Trump might even be right about this, but there are two real problems here. The first is that we don’t really know just who is pulling the world’s strings, and the second is that Trump needs to learn to get his apparently limited brain in gear before shooting his mouth off.