I shocked myself yesterday. I’ve always paid close attention when the President of the United States came on television in the midst of a national crisis. But when Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus briefing came on, I turned my television off and went back to riding the newspapers.

It took a few minutes for me to realize what I had done. Shut off the President. And the more I continued to think about it, in spite of my surprise, I knew I did the right thing. Donald Trump is an incompetent person who is an habitual liar and who under any circumstances cannot be believed or trusted. The President of the United States.

He continues to make statements about the virus that are untrue. He continues to exaggerate. He continues to use his briefings on the nation’s health crisis for his own political propaganda. He evinces no serious and believable concerns for the health of most Americans.

At a time when America looks to Washington for national leadership, there is none. At least none that comes from the White House. We are left to hear a president speak uninformed gibberish and lie about most everything else. We are left to wait for health officials to interpret and correct what he has said.

How shameful and disgraceful. And how alarming for our beloved nation.

I’m not going to begin cataloging his lies nor to try and explain whatever motives he might have. First, because there are too many lies (check The NY Times for full coverage), and second, because his motives seem clear enough: the selfish, uncaring preservation of his self-perceived image as a smart man.

Even Fox News draws the line there.