The Wall Street Journal becomes the latest news outlet to criticize President Trump's performances at the daily coronavirus task force briefings.
President Trump opened the daily briefing of the White House coronavirus task force with the news that “I had a very good telephone conversation — extremely good — with Senator Schumer a little while ago” and praising the “tremendous spirit to get something done” on the part of Senate Democrats and Republicans.
Recently, a number of news outlets have begun to question the value of the briefings. On Thursday, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, which has been a reliable Trump supporter since he took office, joined those questioners.,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote that “sometime in the last three weeks Mr. Trump seems to have concluded that the briefings could be a showcase for him. Perhaps they substitute in his mind for the campaign rallies he can no longer hold because of the risks.
During the briefing held on April 2, Trump demonstrated the blurring of lines between politics and public health, telling the nation “this is not the time for politics,” then condemning “endless partisan investigations” of his administration. “Not only do these televised coronavirus sessions veer toward the misleading when Trump is at the microphone, but they’re also incredibly self-serving and very long—most Hollywood movies run shorter than Trump’s briefing, which clocked in at 2 hours 11 minutes,” Politico’s media critic Jack Schafer wrote. “The complainers are also right when they note Trump is using the pressers as a replacement for his political rallies, put on hold by the virus which make them too dangerous to convene.
“The health experts often have interesting information, so we’re very interested in that, but the president himself often does not,” Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington bureau chief for the New York Times told the Washington Post. “If Mr. Trump wants to make his briefings more helpful to the country, here’s our advice. Make them no more than 45 minutes, except on rare occasions,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote. “Let Mr. Pence lead them each day, focusing on one issue or problem. Mr. Pence can take the questions, and Mr. Trump can show up twice a week to reinforce the message.”
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