.MaddowBlog: In Oval Office address, Pres. Trump flubs his own coronavirus policy
testingI'm sympathetic to the fact that people sometimes misspeak. I do it all the time. But in the midst of a public-health crisis, with a president literally reading pre-written words from a screen, with an anxious public hoping to get a sense that their leaders are prepared to properly address the emergency conditions, it's not a great sign when the White House has to spend the evening clarifying that Donald Trump didn't exactly mean what he said in an Oval Office address.
What's more, the factual errors weren't the only problem with the address. The president also seemed to go out of his way to label COVID-19 a"foreign virus" -- in literally his first sentence, Trump emphasized that the outbreak"started in China" -- which served as a reminder that Stephen Miller
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