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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTen minutes at the teleprompter: Inside Trump's failed attempt to calm coronavirus fears
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-teleprompter-speech/2020/03/12/81bc8a3a-647a-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
By Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey
March 12, 2020 at 7:57 p.m. EDT
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Even Trump a man practically allergic to admitting mistakes knew hed screwed up by declaring Wednesday night that his ban on travel from Europe would include cargo and trade, and acknowledged as much to aides in the Oval Office as soon as hed finished speaking, according to one senior administration official and a second person, both with knowledge of the episode.
Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser who has seized control over some aspects of the governments coronavirus response, reassured Trump that aides would correct his misstatement, four administration officials said, and they scrambled to do just that. The president also told staffers to make sure other countries did not believe trade would be affected, and even sent a cleanup tweet of his own: The restriction stops people not goods, he wrote.
Other administration officials rushed to alert the public that U.S. citizens would be exempt from the travel ban, after scores of Americans, upon digesting Trumps speech, phoned government offices and raced to airports in Europe out of concern that they would not be able to fly home.
Trumps 10-minute Oval Office address Wednesday night reflected not only his handling of the coronavirus crisis but, in some ways, much of his presidency. It was riddled with errors, nationalist and xenophobic in tone, limited in its empathy, and boastful of both his own decisions and the supremacy of the nation he leads.
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By Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey
March 12, 2020 at 7:57 p.m. EDT
<snip>
Even Trump a man practically allergic to admitting mistakes knew hed screwed up by declaring Wednesday night that his ban on travel from Europe would include cargo and trade, and acknowledged as much to aides in the Oval Office as soon as hed finished speaking, according to one senior administration official and a second person, both with knowledge of the episode.
Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser who has seized control over some aspects of the governments coronavirus response, reassured Trump that aides would correct his misstatement, four administration officials said, and they scrambled to do just that. The president also told staffers to make sure other countries did not believe trade would be affected, and even sent a cleanup tweet of his own: The restriction stops people not goods, he wrote.
Other administration officials rushed to alert the public that U.S. citizens would be exempt from the travel ban, after scores of Americans, upon digesting Trumps speech, phoned government offices and raced to airports in Europe out of concern that they would not be able to fly home.
Trumps 10-minute Oval Office address Wednesday night reflected not only his handling of the coronavirus crisis but, in some ways, much of his presidency. It was riddled with errors, nationalist and xenophobic in tone, limited in its empathy, and boastful of both his own decisions and the supremacy of the nation he leads.
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Ten minutes at the teleprompter: Inside Trump's failed attempt to calm coronavirus fears (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Mar 2020
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LiberalFighter
(50,779 posts)1. Apparently the stock traders didn't get the message.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. They got the message... the country is rudderless
LiberalFighter
(50,779 posts)2. I'm wondering how long his message would had taken to read if
it was read at a normal pace? I bet Obama would had used better and more perfect words. [Using Trump talk there]
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)4. When an evil stupid con man pretends to be president