The point is not to highlight the contradiction between Trump's public and private rhetoric. What matters is his dishonesty about a life-or-death crisis.
In April, the day before he was to encourage schools to open, not for this Fall, but to finish out last Spring.
"This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance.... This rips you apart. It is the plague."
And, then there was this.
With Stephen Colbert, Woodward shared a related recording from the same day in which Trump said, "Bob, it's so easily transmissible, you wouldn't believe it ... I mean you could, you could be in the room ... I was in the White House a couple of days ago, meeting with 10 people in the Oval Office and a guy sneezed -- innocently. Not a horrible ... you know, just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, OK? Including me, by the way."
Three days before the Republican made these comments, for example, the president assured Americans that the virus would "soon be in full retreat!"
Four days after the Woodward conversation, Trump effectively endorsed civil disobedience in states taking aggressive steps to prevent the spread of a virus the president privately referred to as "the plague."
In April, the day before he was to encourage schools to open, not for this Fall, but to finish out last Spring.
"This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance.... This rips you apart. It is the plague."
And, then there was this.
With Stephen Colbert, Woodward shared a related recording from the same day in which Trump said, "Bob, it's so easily transmissible, you wouldn't believe it ... I mean you could, you could be in the room ... I was in the White House a couple of days ago, meeting with 10 people in the Oval Office and a guy sneezed -- innocently. Not a horrible ... you know, just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, OK? Including me, by the way."
Three days before the Republican made these comments, for example, the president assured Americans that the virus would "soon be in full retreat!"
Four days after the Woodward conversation, Trump effectively endorsed civil disobedience in states taking aggressive steps to prevent the spread of a virus the president privately referred to as "the plague."
The point is not just to highlight the contradiction between Trump's public and private rhetoric. Rather, what matters is the president's fundamental dishonesty about a life-or-death crisis.
