Why Trump Just Can’t Quit His Daily Press Conferences
The president loves his briefings, even though they appear to be doing his country and his standing more harm than good.
President Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings, the administration’s single most consistent and long-running response to the pandemic, have been a failure of moral and public-health leadership from the start. But after a particularly rough series of briefings last week, it seemed that the White House had finally come to understand that the briefings were also failing to help Trump politically.
In this administration, that’s a far graver sin. “What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,” . “They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not
