To reverse slide, some Trump aides hope for a return to coronavirus briefings

[applegrove]

To reverse slide, some Trump aides hope for a return to coronavirus briefings

By Kevin Liptak, Pamela Brown and Jim Acosta, CNN

Updated 5:21 PM ET, Fri July 17, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/trump-coronavirus-briefings/index.html

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(CNN)His poll numbers have cratered. Cases are surging. A large majority of the country says he's actively impeding efforts to contain coronavirus.

What's a President to do? For some aides, a solution lies in a return to the daily coronavirus briefings that punctuated the earliest days of the pandemic, a once-nightly ritual that ended when President Donald Trump made an offhand suggestion that ingesting disinfectant might help treat the disease.

Not everyone is on board, Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway acknowledged on Friday. But she is.

"The President's numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day-by-day basis about the coronavirus, just giving people the information," Conway said. "I think the President should be doing that."

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[Iliyah]

1. WHY? . . .

They won't let Dr. Fauci speak and the rest a bunch of liars.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Much higher? BS, Kelly 'Con'way. Why don't you go 'con' someone else w/ your nonsense and BS,

you pathetic mouse, opps, I meant rat...go nibble some cheese somewhere.

[louis-t]

3. She wants him to say all is well. It's under control.

We flattened that curve. It's going away like magic. Pay no attention to that freezer truck.

[Blue_true]

21. Something along those lines.

Oh, the kids dropping like flies in school? They are so happy to be back that they couldn’t handle the excitement.

[Patterson]

4. Isn't that what started the slide?

[tanyev]

10. No kidding, that's what I was going to say.

And the more he sidelined the experts to blather on and on himself, the lower his numbers went.

[WyattKansas]

12. And the stupid just keeps flowing out of them.

Maybe they can't take it anymore and want him to self destruct sooner.

[Squinch]

5. Please, oh please, oh please! Those briefings showed his stupidity in a way that even his

fans found undeniable.

That's when his slide started.

Please! Bring the briefings!

[Nevilledog]

9. +1

[SouthernCal_Dem]

16. yep. nt

[tblue37]

19. Also showed how nasty he is for low-information middle of the road voters. nt

[Mike 03]

6. Trump was incapable of grasping that most Americans wanted daily coronavirus briefings, but

we wanted the CDC doctors and scientists giving them, not Donald Trump. When he was criticized and ridiculed, he called the whole show off instead of getting a clue that he himself should step aside and let the doctors speak.

[0rganism]

7. dunno if that toothpaste goes back in the tube so easy

> What's a President to do?
at this point, maybe start planning an exit strategy that leaves him playing golf instead of doing time... oh wait, does he do planning? even for things that haven't happened yet?

[EllieBC]

8. Well we could use some more SMH moments every day.

Do these fools not understand his daily bullshit us what caused this slide? Do they live in the real world at all?

[dalton99a]

11. Yeah, let the asshole run his mouth for three hours every day

[RockRaven]

13. They're delusional if they think his numbers will be helped by more public talking about covid

It was his ignorant nonsensical babble about coronavirus which largely led to his numbers tanking in the first place. Repukes bought his BS for a while, but as reality deviated more and more from his rhetoric, they started falling away. And he can't help himself -- he will spout obvious, easily debunked garbage which will not be tolerated by Americans who are well aware of hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

What the briefings WILL do, which is likely their real reason for resuming them, is to feed the Dotard's pathetic insatiable need for attention. He can't do rallies without getting embarrassed about his small crowds, and even FOX called "bullshit" on his Rose Garden campaign rallies. So covid briefings it is...

[fleur-de-lisa]

14. Please proceed.

That’s worked so well for Dump in the past.

[Journeyman]

15. Well, this is good -- his campaign has come around to repeating past failures . . .

so yes, let's do this for awhile, then maybe try for another rally in the midst of a hot spot.

To paraphrase a stable political genius: What have they got to lose?

[LisaL]

17. During which he can tell us everything we ever wanted to know about

dishwashers?

[central scrutinizer]

18. Please, proceed

Don’t take away his shovel

[Blue_true]

20. Please proceed, Dumbass.

His slide started with his daily briefings, when millions of Americans who didn’t follow that asshole saw him nightly.

Trump is incapable of preparing or even reading briefs. He is just going to make a fool of himself and make Joe look more and more like the ONLY choice on November 3.