As the public health crisis continues, the president keeps praising his administration’s response.
disappear in April!—and efforts to play down the crisis that he appears to view as a threat to his reelection could undermine his own government’s response to the epidemic. Just in the back half of this week alone, hethose infected could “go to work,” claimed Covid-19 was not much more dangerous than the seasonal flu, and theorized that the worldwide spread of the virus could actually help the U.S.
“We’re going to have Americans staying home instead of going and spending their money in other countries,” he said. Trump’s relentlessly sunny characterization of the crisis, despite expert assessments and the reality of the situation, suggests the president is still not taking this seriously enough to sufficiently combat the spread of the virus. Sure, his administration has more money now to put toward fighting it — but if Pence already has it under control, and the whole thing is actually helping the economy, why bother? Trump can insist all he wants that he and his staff have the matter under control.
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