Donald Trump's old tweets during the Ebola crisis are reason enough to be worried about his competency in handling the coronavirus outbreak.
A quick search of Trump's past tweets about former President Barack Obama's handling of the Ebola outbreak in 2014 reveals his hypocritical thoughts as he handles the coronavirus pandemic.
Here are the top five hypocritical things Trump tweeted.
1. Trump accused Obama of playing golf instead of monitoring the outbreak when it was discovered.
In early January, the coronavirus was already proven to be deadly in Asia. However, Trump appeared unbothered while attending rallies, making visits to Mar-a-Lago and playing rounds of golf.
Trump was quick to criticize Obama for the exact same thing.
Why is @BarackObama always campaigning or on vacation?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2011
President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2014
2. Trump criticized Obama for making Ebola worse with his response.
Trump ignored the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and allowed those who may be susceptible to the coronavirus to board commercial flights, the Associated Press reported. The CDC tried to warn seniors to not board flights, but Trump rejected the organization's advice.
Oddly enough, Trump had stricter views about passengers potentially having Ebola on airplanes six years ago.
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
How incompetent are our leaders allowing these Ebola infected people to come into our country with all of the problems and danger entailed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2014
Obama is making the Ebola problem much worse than it needs to be in the U.S. by not halting flights from West Africa. Airport testing a joke
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2014
A nurse in Dallas who treated Ebola patient Thomas Duncan was allowed to fly to Cleveland.She should never have been so allowed! The real JV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2014
3. Trump accused Democrats of politicizing an outbreak when he did the same to Obama.
Back in February, Trump spoke about the coronavirus for the first time and was quick to shoot down Democrats wanting to use this incident against him, saying politizing the coronavirus is not what the country needs. However, when Trump was a private citizen, he politized national disasters as if they were Obama's fault.
Hurricane is good luck for Obama again- he will buy the election by handing out billions of dollars.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2012
With long gas lines & total disarray from storm, the hurricane may yet be a negative for Obama.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2012
There is ZERO margin for error on Ebola. Are we confident in Obama when he can’t even make a website for $5 Billion?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
"@THEINTENSITY: The worst part is the apathy the administration has for informing the public of timely info about Ebola @realDonaldTrump"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014
John Foust is a liberal who supports ObamaCare and opposes Ebola travel ban. Send Conservative @BarbaraComstock to Congress!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2014
4. Trump criticized Obama for not having the best people working on the outbreak.
During the Ebola outbreak, the Obama administration had the CDC and its Ebola experts consult with national security experts. Trump, who appointed Vice President Mike Pence, a man without a science background, to lead coronavirus response efforts, however, criticized Obama for appointing someone with little medical experience.
Obama just appointed an Ebola Czar with zero experience in the medical area and zero experience in infectious disease control. A TOTAL JOKE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2014
The new Ebola czar will report to the WH & NSA adviser Susan Rice. More mismanagement & duplicity with CDC. Obama is terrible executive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2014
"@BreitbartNews: Donald Trump, Chuck Todd Agree: No Trust of Feds' Handling Ebola Because of Obama Admin Scandals: http://t.co/YSpj0GpfBK"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2014
5. Trump isn't responsible for the coronavirus, but Obama is responsible for Ebola.
Blavity previously reported how Trump tried to dodge any responsibility of the coronavirus, dismissing the question as "nasty" despite him disbanding the pandemic response team in 2018. In 2015, however, he tweeted the nation needed stronger leadership.
Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with.Obama's fault
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
We need much tougher, much smarter leadership – and we need it NOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2015
President Obama has a personal responsibility to visit & embrace all people in the US who contract Ebola!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2014
Though Trump has criticized Obama in the past for his response to Ebola, his actions have been somewhat similar to the former president. As he now tries to double-down on responding to the coronavirus crisis, the Senate passed a spending bill on Wednesday allocating more than $8 billion in funding to fight the coronavirus, which Trump is expected to sign.
