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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,736 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 02:50 PM Apr 2020

White House moves to refocus Trump after bleach controversy at coronavirus briefing

Like an SOS distress signal emanating from deep within the White House, the daily coronavirus briefing was on, then off, and then on again.

Monday morning’s whiplash — a news conference scheduled, canceled, and rescheduled all over the course of five hours — was a stark reminder of the challenges of trying to restrain a president who doesn’t want to be controlled.

Yet in the middle of a pandemic that has killed more than 55,000 Americans and claimed millions of jobs, White House officials and other informal advisers had attempted in recent days to do just that: to convince President Trump that speaking to the public about the health and medical implications of the virus is potentially too damaging to be worth the risk.

After a firestorm last week following Trump’s dangerous suggestion that injecting bleach or other disinfectants might cure the novel coronavirus, White House officials, with the president’s blessing, held no briefings over the weekend. Monday would have marked the third straight day without a formal news conference until Kayleigh McEnany, the new White House press secretary, announced in a Twitter “update” that Trump would be holding one after all to discuss “additional testing guidance” to begin safely reopening the country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-moves-to-refocus-trump-after-bleach-controversy-at-coronavirus-briefing/ar-BB13hJTb?li=BBnb7Kz

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White House moves to refocus Trump after bleach controversy at coronavirus briefing (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Impeached and Imbleached...and still they toil for their titular catastrophe incarnate. Newest Reality Apr 2020 #1
We should all take to the streets and yell "Let Trump Speak!" "Let Trump Speak!" BComplex Apr 2020 #2
It seems as though Chainfire Apr 2020 #3
What are Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2020 #4
Doesn't "re"(focus) SheltieLover Apr 2020 #5

BComplex

(8,017 posts)
2. We should all take to the streets and yell "Let Trump Speak!" "Let Trump Speak!"
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 03:05 PM
Apr 2020

The more he talks, the fewer republicans will be elected in November. We need to wear MAGAt hats and take to the streets. Ok. Maybe not the hats.

Chainfire

(17,467 posts)
3. It seems as though
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 03:09 PM
Apr 2020

Trump can jump off of the Empire State Building and bounce back with little damage. The Republicans have given him a thick mat to land on. One day he will find the correct color or Kryptonite to remove his powers. Hopefully the rest of us won't die before his search is completed.

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