Fun With Numbers

This weekend, rent also came due for 51 million people who’ve lost jobs, with over 25 million facing the loss of weekly $600 unemployment benefits that expired while the GOP-controlled Senate took a three-day vacation amidst the sharpest economic plunge in modern American history – a 32.9% drop in gross domestic product, three times the previous record. At the same time, the nationwide demand at food banks has soared; an estimated 54 million people – or one in four kids, an increase of 63% – could go hungry this year without help, and food banks in L.A. are already seeing midnight lines forming where people wait seven hours for food. The lines were considerably shorter in Florida when, before golfing, Trump spoke to 14 sheriffs and a mini-rally crowd of about 27 people, though Twitter joked half had likely been abducted and brought there by armed mercenaries in unmarked vans. Trump said he was “thrilled to be back in my home state of Florida” – he was born, raised and spent 70-plus years in New York – and described a dark America overrun by “terrorists, gangs and China,” marking his 7,486th fever dream. He bragged he got “dozens” of endorsements, but it was actually 8. There was zero social distancing, also zero masks. He spent the rest of his day raving on Twitter, hawking books by John Yoo and Sean Hannity, and threatening to ban Tik Tok, supposedly because China but probably because Tulsa rally and Sarah Cooper. Noted Twitter user @WeAreAllOther, “Tick Tack makes Trumpy SAD.” It was the 742,576th time a random dude on social media showed more insight than the one inept, clueless POS to blame for all this. From the grave, George Carlin’s got his number.