'By invoking Ukraine, Trump indicated he continues to see the coronavirus outbreak as a threat to his presidency at least as much as he sees it as a threat to the country'
America was definitely much greater before a deadly new virus starting been spreading, undetected, in an unknown number of U.S. communities. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images President Trump had a lot to say after he toured the CDC on Friday, and very little of it will make anyone other than President Trump feel better about his administration’s response to the coronavirus.
In the last 24 hours, Trump has said he was happy that Americans would stop traveling abroad amid the global outbreak, falsely predicting it would be good for the economy. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged that “we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward,” after he and Trump had been saying the opposite. This morning, the president’s top economic advisor claimed the coronavirus was contained.
He opposed cruise ship evacuation because he doesn’t “need” more cases in the U.S. The president, who has reportedly been obsessed with how the coronavirus could damage his image, appeared to acknowledge that he was trying to limit the number of reported U.S. cases in an effort to make himself look better.
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