President Trump devoted Monday’s briefing of the coronavirus task force to countering the growing public perception that his administration was slow to respond to the virus that has sickened more than 572,000 Americans and killed more than 23,000.
President Trump devoted Monday’s briefing of the coronavirus task force to countering the growing public perception that his administration was slow to respond to a virus that has sickened more than 572,000 Americans and killed more than 23,000.
“We were way ahead of schedule,” Trump said at the conclusion of the video, adding, “I don’t mind being criticized, but not when they’re wrong.” The video was not the only bit of notable choreography. Moments after the briefing began, Trump called Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading expert on infectious diseases on the task force, to the podium to clarify remarks he had made during an interview with CNN. Fauci told host Jake Tapper that if social distancing restrictions were put in place earlier in the U.S., lives could have been saved.
“The first and only time that Dr. Brix and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a shutdown in the sense that, not really shutdown, but to really have strong mitigation, we discussed that obviously there would concern by some that in fact might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendations and went to the mitigation,” Fauci said.
“I retweeted somebody,” Trump said, adding that he was “aware” of the hashtag, then contradicting himself, saying “told about that” later.Polls show that public approval of the president’s handling of the coronavirus response effort continues to fall. A Morning Consult poll released Monday found that Trump’s net approval rating has fallen 18 points since mid-March.
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