Emily Tamkin , an American journalist who just joined the New Statesman as its new America editor, lit into president Trump yesterday, calling Trump a slowpoke or ignoramus when it comes to coping with a pandemic.

Irked by Trump's lackadaisical attitude and his reluctance to admit that the Covid-19 pandemic is a serious threat facing every American, Emily Tamkin doesn't mince words in her new column, arguing that Trump's patronage network is doing a disservice to the American people.

"Trump is not a president doing his best with a bad system and a worsening situation; he is actively making a bad system in a bad situation worse," Emily Tamkin writes.

By contrast, Peggy Noonan, who is a consevative columnist writing for The Wall Street Journal's opinion page, which has been Trump's fervent tub-thumper, struck a conciliatory tone when it comes to bleating about Trump's handling of Covid-19- some liberals would prefer to use the word bungling- in her own column published by the Journal last week. Peggy Noonan opines that " a crisis calls for reason and realism, not ‘an abundance of caution."

"Don’t panic,” in the current atmosphere, is a way of shutting up people who are using their imaginations as a protective tool. It’s an implication of cowardice by cowards. As for abundance of caution,” at this point, in a world-wide crisis, the cautions we must take aren’t abundant, they’re reasonable and realistic. Reason and realism are good," she writes.

Fox News, which is widely seen as the mouthpiece of Trump's Republican party, is also loth to apportion blame, in spite of its decision to remove Trish Regan from prime-time slot after she lashed out at Trump's critics for being agitators. Trish Regan reportedly said that fears of Covid-19 have been amplified by Trump's critics.

When was the last time Trish Regan washed her gob? Arghhh!