Why Has the President Gone Silent?
The White House insists that Trump is working, but there’s little evidence that’s the case.
Updated at 6:06 p.m. ET on October 2, 2020.
It is a peculiar calm in the midst of the wild storm. Even as the nation descended into a frenzy over President Donald Trump’s positive coronavirus test, there was silence from the one reliable source of noise for the past five years: the president himself.
At 12:54 this morning, Trump tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive. Since then, there’s been no word from the president himself, although . The White House says that Trump has mild symptoms, and during a
