Shout or stay silent? Trump team splits over coronavirus surge

The Trump White House has a new internal battle: how much to talk publicly about a pandemic that’s crippling huge swaths of America.

The brewing internal fight shows the extent to which the White House has lost control of its messaging on Covid-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — as the majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the virus, according to interviews with a half-dozen current and former senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House.

Now, Trump aides are trying to decide whether to put the national spotlight back on what they have spent months arguing is a series of state and local issues — that had previously been relegated to the vice president’s office. The coronavirus void at the White House — after a historic stretch of briefings by the president himself — is highlighting the holes in Trump’s latest approach as he focuses on other matters while blaming the media for focusing on the coronavirus.

The CDC has held a three briefings since mid-March — though the agency’s director recently promised to reinstate more regular briefings. The latest briefing by the White House coronavirus task force took place Friday at the Department of Health and Human Services. Pence also visited the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Tuesday to offer remarks and answer reporters’ questions.

The government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is viewed by some White House aides as an expert who promotes too much fear-mongering, even though he’s an icon in public health circles and generally seen as trusted by the public in surveys.

Please no resurrection of Trump led media events!

Why are the choices shouting or silence? Is there any chance of even-keeled complete sentences forming cogent thoughts?...Sorry, I know that's way too much to ask for, forgot the waking nightmare of reality for a second there...so, silence, I guess?

Definitely stay silent... No one is going to notice overrun hospitals and hundreds of daily deaths in GOPs largest states

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