POLITICO Playbook: Trump confronts a dire forecast he can’t spin away

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Even the rosiest of scenarios have 50,000 Americans dying from coronavirus. That’s roughly the American death toll of the Vietnam War.

is joining the Trump campaign as director of rapid response for Spanish-language media. He was previously a staff writer at The Blaze and a regional fellow at the National Review Institute in Dallas. A native of Miami, Sopo comes from a family of Cuban-American exiles, and he will focus on trying to reach America’s diverse Latino communities.The president will participate in a phone call with military families on the coronavirus response at 2:30 p.m. in the Oval Office.

Is there any equivalent example in American history of a president confronting a grave domestic or international crisis with a similar combination of impetuosity and self-reference?Trump has gone from shocking his own health experts with a prediction that church pews would be filled and the country ‘raring to go’ by Easter to extending the national shutdown through April.

 

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This should be a bi-partisan opportunity to keep politics out of this global health problem as much as possible.

During the initial '15 days to stop the spread', the number of Corona infections in the US went from less than 500 to more than 180,000. Does Trump really believe that another 30 days of his incoherent ramblings and total lack of leadership will change anything for the better ..?

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