Posted on 04/11/2020 5:04:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - In his daily briefings on the coronavirus, President Donald Trump has brandished all the familiar tools in his rhetorical arsenal: belittling Democratic governors, demonizing the media, trading in innuendo and bulldozing over the guidance of experts.
It’s the kind of performance the president relishes but one that has his advisers and Republican allies worried.
As unemployment soars and the death toll skyrockets, and new polls show support for the president’s handling of the crisis sagging, White House allies and Republican lawmakers increasingly believe the briefings are hurting the president more than helping him. Many view the sessions as a kind of original sin from which all of his missteps flow, once he gets through his prepared script and turns to his preferred style of extemporaneous bluster and invective.
Trump “sometimes drowns out his own message,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has become one of the president’s informal counselors and told him “a once-a-week show” could be more effective. Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana said “they’re going on too long.” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said the briefings were “going off the rails a little bit” and suggested that he should “let the health professionals guide where we’re going to go.”
Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board chastised the president for his behavior at the briefings. “COVID-19 isn’t shifty Schiff,” it wrote in an editorial Thursday, using Trump’s nickname for Rep. Adam Schiff. “It’s a once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood.”
With only intermittent attempts to adapt to a moment of crisis, Trump is effectively wagering that he can win reelection in the midst of a national emergency on a platform of polarization.
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Keep it up, Donald! Do not bend to the cowards in the RINO party!!
The NY Slimes: All the lies we want you to believe!
LOL, I always said that if a President only pissed me off 30% of the time, that would be pretty good.
Mittens was my first guess POS!!
Most of the news media is a form of COVID-19 a virus of hate of what is good for the country.
Agreed.
HORSESHIT!
The same guys who hate him because he did not pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn. Especially Romney (”It was MY turn, dammit!”).
The NY Times via Yahoo! News
Now there is a combination!
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