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At a White House briefing on March 17, Trump said he had seen the coronavirus as a pandemic long before it was called one, a tidy little revision that collided with weeks of public minimization and mixed signals from his own team. The line mattered because it was aimed at rescuing his judgment after the country had already entered emergency mode.
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At a White House briefing on March 17, Trump said he had seen the coronavirus as a pandemic long before it was called one, a tidy little revision that collided with weeks of public minimization and mixed signals from his own team. The line mattered because it was aimed at rescuing his judgment after the country had already entered emergency mode.
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At a White House briefing on March 17, Trump said he had seen the coronavirus as a pandemic long before it was called one, a tidy little revision that collided with weeks of public minimization and mixed signals from his own team. The line mattered because it was aimed at rescuing his judgment after the country had already entered emergency mode.
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