On Sunday, the Trump campaign made clear that the disinfectant affair would not disrupt its plans. Biden’s 2020 bid by highlighting all that he had “forgotten” as a candidate, with corresponding video clips of momentary flubs and verbal stumbles: “Joe Biden forgot the name of the coronavirus.” “Joe Biden forgot the G7 was not the G8.” “Joe Biden forgot Super Tuesday was on a Tuesday.” Biden: presenting him as a doddering 77-year-old not up to the rigors of the office - and setting off on the kind of whisper campaign that does not bother with whispers.Ī Trump campaign Twitter account on Saturday celebrated the anniversary of Mr. Still, for weeks, the president’s political team has been strikingly explicit about its intended messaging against Mr.
Trump’s stark pronouncement - on live television, amid a grave public health crisis, and leaving little room for interpretation - was at once in a class of its own and wholly consistent with a reputation for carelessness in speech. Biden Jr., now the presumptive Democratic nominee, among many others. Bush, former Vice President Dan Quayle and Joseph R. Insinuations and gaffes have trailed former President George W. Trump’s record of false or illogical statements, which has invited questions about his intelligence. No modern American politician can match Mr. Hogan said, “You know, I can’t really explain it.” Trump’s virus leadership, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that it “does send a wrong message” when misinformation spreads from a public official or “you just say something that pops in your head.” Asked to explain the president’s words, Mr. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican who has been willing to speak skeptically about Mr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator, told CNN on Sunday, adding, “I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need, when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night.” “It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,” Dr. Some at the White House have expressed frustration that the issue has lingered. The reaction has so rattled the president’s allies and advisers that he was compelled over the weekend to remove himself from the pandemic briefings entirely, at least temporarily accepting two fates he loathes: giving in to advice (from Republicans who said the appearances did far more harm than good to his political standing) and surrendering the mass viewership he relishes. It is more difficult to insist that the man floating disinfectant injection knows what he’s doing. Trump’s typical name-calling can be recast to receptive audiences as mere “counterpunching.” His impeachment was explained away as the dastardly opus of overreaching Democrats. Trump’s performance that evening, when he suggested that injections of disinfectants into the human body could help combat the coronavirus, did not sound like the work of a doctor, a genius, or a person with a good you-know-what.Įven by the turbulent standards of this president, his musings on virus remedies have landed with uncommon force, drawing widespread condemnation as dangerous to the health of Americans and inspiring a near-universal alarm that many of his past remarks - whether offensive or fear-mongering or simply untrue - did not. “I’m not a doctor,” he allowed on Thursday, pointing to his skull inside the White House briefing room, “but I’m, like, a person that has a good you-know-what.” “A very stable genius,” he ruled two years later. “I’m, like, a very smart person,” he assured voters in 2016. "President Trump’s self-assessment has been consistent. The following is an essay from the New York Times by Matt Flegenheir.
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