Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Mark MazzettiPresident Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington after a Sunday trip to one of his golf resorts on Dec. 13, 2020.
“They’re Democrats! They’re against me!” he said, convinced that the government’s top doctors and scientists were conspiring to undermine him. “They want to wait!” His concern? That the man he called “Sleepy Joe” Biden, who was leading him in the polls, would get credit for a vaccine, not him. The administration had some positive stories to tell. Trump’s vaccine development program, Operation Warp Speed, had helped drive the pharmaceutical industry’s remarkably fast progress in developing several promising approaches. By the end of the year, two highly effective vaccines would be approved for emergency use, providing hope for 2021.
His own bout with COVID-19 in early October left him extremely ill and dependent on care and drugs not available to most Americans, including a still-experimental monoclonal antibody treatment, and he saw firsthand how the disease coursed through the White House and some of his close allies. With the pandemic defining the campaign despite Trump’s efforts to make it about law and order, Tony Fabrizio, the president’s main pollster, came to the Oval Office for a meeting in the middle of the summer prepared to make a surprising case: that mask wearing was acceptable even among Trump’s supporters.
Kushner had some reason for optimism. Trump had agreed to wear one not long before for a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after finding one he believed he looked good in: dark blue, with a presidential seal. After he recovered from his bout with the virus, some of his top aides, including Kushner and Jason Miller, a senior campaign strategist, thought the illness offered an opportunity to demonstrate the kind of compassion and resolve about the pandemic’s toll that Trump had so far failed to show.
Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, briefed the president this fall on a Japanese study documenting the effectiveness of face masks, telling him: “We have the proof. They work.” But the president resisted, criticizing Kushner for pushing them and again blaming too much testing — an area Kushner had been helping to oversee — for his problems.
All for years have been that way if he wasn't playing golf he was visiting his Communist leaders
He wears glasses?
He doesn't know how to rise to the top because he thinks he's already there. Yes, famous, but for what?!
He failed from the very beginning. He has ZERO leadership skills.
He was always like that. People who knew Trump knew about is inability to 'rise to the moment.'
Sure showing your bias tonight,
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