{"id":44922,"date":"2020-04-19T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44922"},"modified":"2020-04-19T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T20:13:21","slug":"even-trumps-friends-think-his-behavior-at-coronavirus-briefings-is-asinine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44922","title":{"rendered":"Even Trump’s ‘Friends’ Think His Behavior at Coronavirus Briefings is Asinine"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several weeks Donald Trump has been serving as the host of a daily reality TV program known as “The Coronavirus Task Force Briefings.”<\/em> Trump envisions himself as the COVID-19 pandemic’s Pat Sajak, spinning a Wheel of Falsehoods<\/em> and propaganda. He has turned what was intended to be a platform for disseminating life and death information into a petty, partisan, political charade.<\/p>\n

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No longer able to bask in the glassy-eyed adoration of his cult disciples at mass rallies, Trump is callously exploiting a public health crisis in order to advance his own reelection prospects<\/a><\/strong>. He has cast himself as the star of the daily briefings despite the fact that, due to his ignorance and ego, he has nothing of value to contribute. Consequently, he wastes the time of the public and the press by upstaging the experts so that he can disgorge more lies, brag about imaginary accomplishments, and yell at reporters.<\/p>\n

Trump’s narcissism always gets the best of him. He can’t hold a thought in his orange-glazed noggin that isn’t laser focused on his own self interest. But his efforts to exalt himself are failing bigly. His approval ratings are sinking<\/a><\/strong> during a national disaster, a time when any other leader would be enjoying a “rally round the flag”<\/em> bounce. And he’s reduced to having to boast about his TV ratings<\/a><\/strong> because the American people aren’t buying his lies<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Even worse, many of Trump’s closest allies are straying from the Trump dogma. Rupert Murdoch’s conservative Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled “Trump’s Wasted Briefings<\/a><\/strong>“<\/em> that said “If Mr. Trump thinks these daily sessions will help him defeat Joe Biden, he’s wrong.”<\/em> GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia is warning that the president should “let the health professionals guide where we’re going to go,”<\/em> and that the briefings have gone “off the rails a little bit.”<\/em> Trump’s chief Senate bootlicker, Lindsey Graham, said that Trump “drowns out his own message,”<\/em> and suggested that he appear once a week rather than every day. Even a reliable Fox News Trump-fluffer, Brit Hume, responded harshly to a Trump tweet about the briefings, saying that…<\/p>\n

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This is a ridiculous tweet. He could get his views across without bragging, endlessly repeating himself, and getting into petty squabbles with the junior varsity players in the WH press corps. And he could stop talking much sooner to give Pence, Fauci, Birx and Giroir more time. https:\/\/t.co\/ui7sN3WgGx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n