1. Jack Holmes, the Politics Editor at Esquire, who regularly homes in on Donald Trump’s wrongdoings, is one of my idols. I hope my honorable Mentor won't label him as a Chinese propagandist but becomes his idol too.
2. One of the big rules for anyone speaking at the president's daily I'm in Charge and I'm Doing Something But Anything That Goes Wrong Is Not My Fault exhibitions is to mention his travel ban. El Jefe did move early to ban travel from China on January 31, even after the World Health Organization downplayed the effectiveness of travel restrictions the day before. Everyone from the vice president to the actual experts, like Dr. Deborah Birx, now knows they must say the president took Decisive Early Action before they can get to what they actually want to tell the public from the White House briefing room. Never mind that the ban did not apply to some 40,000 people who came to the United States from China after it went into effect, any of whom could have been carrying the disease. That's the problem with a pandemic: Americans in China—or Europe—can catch the virus and bring it back with them.....
However many people die, the president will say the number is lower than it could have been, and it would have been even lower if not for those very nasty governors. (You're not supposed to ask if it would have been lower if someone else were the president.) The goalposts will shift continuously as the field of play is remade until the president can argue he won the game. That's why we need people like Paula Reid to ask the same question, over and over again. It reminds us where the lines are.
Source: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32140800/trump-outburst-press-conference-briefing-video/
2. One of the big rules for anyone speaking at the president's daily I'm in Charge and I'm Doing Something But Anything That Goes Wrong Is Not My Fault exhibitions is to mention his travel ban. El Jefe did move early to ban travel from China on January 31, even after the World Health Organization downplayed the effectiveness of travel restrictions the day before. Everyone from the vice president to the actual experts, like Dr. Deborah Birx, now knows they must say the president took Decisive Early Action before they can get to what they actually want to tell the public from the White House briefing room. Never mind that the ban did not apply to some 40,000 people who came to the United States from China after it went into effect, any of whom could have been carrying the disease. That's the problem with a pandemic: Americans in China—or Europe—can catch the virus and bring it back with them.....
However many people die, the president will say the number is lower than it could have been, and it would have been even lower if not for those very nasty governors. (You're not supposed to ask if it would have been lower if someone else were the president.) The goalposts will shift continuously as the field of play is remade until the president can argue he won the game. That's why we need people like Paula Reid to ask the same question, over and over again. It reminds us where the lines are.
Source: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32140800/trump-outburst-press-conference-briefing-video/
