The president is tired of the coronavirus.

He’s also tired of Democrats, Republicans who don’t agree with him and reporters who question him, and he’s definitely tired of limiting his travel from the White House.

Trump really wants to talk about his re-election, and he’s admitted that thousands more Americans may die in the weeks and months ahead as he takes on the task of getting another four years in office. Trump wants to talk about “winning” and not “losers.”

The dead? They’re just losers who didn’t survive the purge. The important thing is that those who survive don’t starve and have jobs come November—or Trump is going to be the next Herbert Hoover.

If the Depression-era term Hooverville is updated to Trump Towers in the country’s vernacular for shantytowns built to house millions doing without, then Donald J. Trump is done.

The United States is now the epicenter of the coronavirus, with 1.2 million cases and more than 72,000 deaths. But that didn’t stop Trump from leaving the White House Tuesday and taking a victory lap at an Arizona Honeywell manufacturing plant where face masks are made. It was his first trip out of the D.C. area in more than a month, and he didn’t wear a mask while visiting the assembly line, though he’d been advised to do so. Among his base, for some it showed his courage. For others it showed it was all a hoax anyway and Trump was secretly letting them know he’s with them.

He walked the assembly-line floor with the song “Live and Let Die” playing over a loudspeaker. You really can’t make this stuff up.

As Trump readied to leave the White House that morning, he renewed his “Chopper Talk” sessions, taking questions from a small number of social-distancing pool reporters. He defended the trip and cheered on his administration’s coronavirus response. “The whole world is excited watching us because we’re leading the world,” he said.

He also took a swing at his newest enemy, the Lincoln Project. “Yeah, I saw a project, a thing called the Lincoln Project. And I would have them change the name to the ‘Losers Project.’ Because if you take a look, it’s Schmidt, it’s George Conway. The guy is—he—Kellyanne must have done a big number on him. But it’s George Conway and some other people—Weaver. Every one of them, I either defeated or they lost by themselves. But it’s a group of major losers. They’re Republican losers.”

The Lincoln Project is a group of, yes, Republicans—including the above-mentioned Republican strategists Steve Schmidt and John Weaver and attorney (and husband to Kellyanne) George Conway—announced last December with the mission of reclaiming their party from Trump. They recently produced a video entitled “Mourning in America” that decries Trump’s lack of leadership. “Trump bailed out Wall Street, not Main Street,” the video claims. “Under the leadership of Donald Trump our country is weaker and sicker and poorer.” Trump condemned the video on the South Lawn after angrily tweeting at them that morning—calling Conway “Moon Face” among other things. Rick Wilson? He was just “crazed,” and the whole group was summed up as “these loser types.”

At nearly the same time Trump was speaking on the South Lawn, economic adviser Kevin Hassett appeared on CNN and then took a few questions on the North Lawn.

Hassett had sobering news that differed from Trump’s cheerleading. The nation, he said, should expect unemployment numbers this summer rivaling those during the Great Depression (Hooverville, here we come). He acknowledged it could take years to recover—though he remains convinced the economy will snap back like a rubber band once the virus is conquered. He said he favored the first quarter of next year for such a recovery.

That time line places recovery conveniently after the November election. But that was good enough for Trump, who also said Tuesday the coronavirus task force would soon be “winding down.” Pushback from members of his own party forced Trump to deny that move Wednesday morning. Health experts predicted opening the U.S. economy as Trump plans to do could mean 134,000 American deaths by August. Trump acknowledged how out of touch he is with reality—while ineptly turning his ignorance into a boast—in a pool spray Wednesday afternoon. “I thought we could wind it down sooner. But I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday when I started talking about winding down. It is appreciated by the public,” he said. In Trump’s mind “popular” is more important than “necessary.”

Trump backed off from killing the task force, but he still kept his health experts from testifying before the House because he doesn’t like the Democrats. He despises them so much he offered support to armed protesters in Michigan who opposed a lockdown and overran the statehouse on Friday—probably making several lawmakers there rethink their “open carry” law.

The governor of Michigan “should give a little, and put out the fire,” Trump tweeted. “These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.”

The question of course is whether the Republican-controlled Senate or Trump in the White House would entertain such actions should “armed protesters” show up at either location. You don’t have to ask the Democrat-controlled House. They are for gun control.

Trump’s minions control the Senate, the White House and the Supreme Court. As the Lincoln Project suggests, this isn’t the Republican Party; this is the Trump Party. Trump has taken over the GOP and stacked it with criminal sycophants who won’t be happy until they have total control. Any real Republican still doing time in this administration has to be holding on for dear life—praying like those in the Lincoln Project (albeit quietly) that calmer heads and sounder minds may soon prevail.

The GOP used to have liberals and moderates, not just conservatives, including Rockefeller Republicans—the most liberal of them could trace their lineage to Thomas Dewey—and, some say, Teddy Roosevelt. They died a slow death. John McCain was among the last of the moderates. All of them worked with Democrats, at least some of the time, toward a common goal. Gone are the days when even Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan could enjoy each other’s company after a long workday. Trump’s party has only angry, mean-spirited and hateful adherents who, encouraged by the president, favor showing up in a statehouse armed for battle. What are they battling? Common sense and the U.S. Constitution come to mind.

Trump has worked to erase oversight by any but those who bow to him. He claims to be fighting a “Deep State” while trying to implement one. He embraces crackpot theories while trying to marginalize those who actually care about the core beliefs of the Republican Party.

For those who admire the party of Lincoln there was nothing more frustrating than watching Trump attend a town hall on Saturday. Staged at the Lincoln Memorial and broadcast by Fox News, Trump took the opportunity to compare himself to Lincoln and reiterate a sentiment he has voiced many times: No one has been treated worse than poor Donny. He even claimed he was treated worse than Lincoln himself.

Meanwhile, Wilson, Conway and others are trying to save what remains of a party that once boasted the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and, of course, Abraham Lincoln.

Trump’s response is to act like Eric Cartman from South Park.

Whether he’s shouting “Screw you guys; I’m going home” when reporters try to ask him questions he doesn’t want to answer or “Respect my authoritah!” to those in his own party who oppose his insanity, Trump continues to ravage the countryside—and has struck an unlikely alliance with the coronavirus to achieve his ends.

He’s calling and tweeting for “liberation” and has threatened to hold up federal funds to states run by Democrats. He incorrectly claims that only blue states are failing and has recently retooled his election strategy: As pointed out in The Hill, he is trying to use the coronavirus to pitch himself as the “comeback” president leading us to greatness after the virus destroyed us—never mind Trump is complicit by dragging his feet on testing and essentially taking the month of February off, thus allowing the United States to become the epicenter of the global pandemic.

The Lincoln Project reminds him of his responsibility, which is what he doesn’t want. Right now he wants to talk about his Democratic opponent.

Trump hasn’t answered questions about his own mental and physical health, but that matters little as he questions Joe Biden’s health. Meanwhile, a pro-Trump outside group is planning “to take up the allegation of sexual assault made by a former Senate staffer against Biden,” The Hill notes. The at least 25 women who accused Trump of sexual harassment and/or assault? That’s not important.

Biden has vehemently denied the accusation against him, as one would expect, but how soon before we see commercial comparisons between Biden and former president Bill Clinton claiming “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” on the airwaves and across the internet? Trump would be tickled, and he’s goading the Bernie bros to push for their guy to get the Democratic nomination, fostering division in the opposition party—as only Trump can. The Democrats, who have big hearts and no heads, actually have members considering this move. Others inside the Democratic tent are pushing for Andrew Cuomo or another outsider as a second- or third-ballot dark horse candidate at the convention this summer. If further review and investigation of Tara Reade’s claims compel the Democrats to consider alternatives, or if they keep the issue before the public, then Trump may have what he wants: the Democrats eating their own and clearing a path for him to be re-elected.

Trump is pulling out the big shovel to try to spread his rhetorical manure across the land, but the Lincoln Project’s commercial points out the obvious and is more than a mere irritant to the bloated, bloviating president. The Trump Party has no foundation other than its leader’s pestilent personality.

His is a despotic regime built on lies, obfuscation and sheer hucksterism.

Nothing pointed it out more clearly than the Lincoln Project’s video. It is an attempt to save the GOP and put the country ahead of the party, and it promotes unity where Trump will not and cannot.

That’s why he’s irritated. Those in his own party pulled back the covers, and Trump is shivering in fear at the cold reality: He’s unfit for office, and people are dying.