Trump’s Coronavirus Minimizing Is Aging Into a Full-Blown Messaging Failure
As the coronavirus threat grew more serious, Trump kept leaning on upbeat assurances and dismissal, a posture that was starting to look wildly out of step with the public-health reality. By February 20, his earlier comments about warmer weather and the virus fading had become an obvious liability. The gap between the president’s tone and the emerging risk was becoming a political problem as well as a public-health one.
First recorded Feb 20, 2020·Meaningfully updated Feb 20, 2020
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Trump’s Coronavirus Minimizing Is Aging Into a Full-Blown Messaging Failure
As the coronavirus threat grew more serious, Trump kept leaning on upbeat assurances and dismissal, a posture that was starting to look wildly out of step with the public-health reality. By February 20, his earlier comments about warmer weather and the virus fading had become an obvious liability. The gap between the president’s tone and the emerging risk was becoming a political problem as well as a public-health one.
As the coronavirus threat grew more serious, Trump kept leaning on upbeat assurances and dismissal, a posture that was starting to look wildly out of step with the public-health reality. By February 20, his earlier comments about warmer weather and the virus fading had become an obvious liability. The gap between the president’s tone and the emerging risk was becoming a political problem as well as a public-health o…
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