President Trump told communication screen host Greta Van Susteren thursday that he believed his handling of the coronavirus pandemic had been “formidable” and “phenomenal,” despite overwhelming general sentiment to the contrary, which he attributed to poor “public relations. “”
Trump repeated his common statement that the virus would soon be defeated, saying the United States was “turning the corner of COVID,” the Centers for Disease Control reported on Thursday 1224 new deaths for a total of 196277 deaths in the United States.
Trump once promorated his ban on China as evidence of a “great” reaction to the virus, claiming he had stored 2. 5 million lives, a figure for which he could not provide a source, calling it “my opinion” and adding that it was “according to many people. “
Overall, Trump said he hardly regrets his reaction to the virus, and said he had done a “phenomenal job” at all until “public relations,” in what he said “my other people have been outperfied. “
“No matter what you do . . . they say, “Well, that wasn’t enough,” Trump said, ignoring the complaint as an impulsive opposition reaction and a “standard rate for Democrats. “
Trump cited the immediate progression of a vaccine as an example of his good luck with the virus, CDC Director Robert Redfield and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci say a virus may not be available until 2021, contradicting Trump’s significantly faster schedule.
Trump has targeted his Democratic counterparts, calling H1N1’s reaction from Obama’s leadership a “total disaster” and saying Biden’s management would have a vaccine for “three or four years” because they “couldn’t get anything from the FDA. “
“The mask factor is critical,” said Olivia Troye, a Republican and former coronavirus killer for Vice President Mike Pence who backed Biden as president on Thursday, calling Trump’s early opposition a “damaging” mask to the reaction to the coronavirus and announcing the effects of “persistence. “politicization today. ” If we had gotten ahead of ourselves on the curve and under pressure on its importance, we could have particularly braked the differential. “
56%. That’s the percentage of Americans who disapprove of Trump’s control of the coronavirus in the RealClearPolitics average, to the 42% who approve it, particularly below its coronavirus peak at the end of March, when it had 51% approval and 45% disapproval.
In May, Columbia University found that if social estating measures had been put in place a week before March, 36,000 lives would have been stored, while two weeks earlier 54,000 people would have been stored.
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I’m a journalist in the workplace of the press that covers politics and the 2020 elections. In the past I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine. I attended Vassar College and London
I’m a journalist in the workplace of the press covering politics and the 2020 elections. In the past I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine.