Trump is a hyper-political salesperson, not a leader. That reality should be obvious, but it comes right to the front with his stunning reversal yesterday, as captured in this article entitled, "Trump Made To Accept Reality."
Even if you're too ashamed to read the article, read just this part here detailing Trump's meeting with Fauci and Birx:
"A President, who a month ago was predicting a miracle that would just make the virus go away, was presented with cataclysmic figures that 2.2 million Americans could die if he indulged his itch to start reopening the economy in the coming week."
"We showed him the data. He looked at the data and he got it right away," Fauci told CNN's John Berman on "New Day" Monday. "It was a pretty clear picture. Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, 'Here are the data. Take a look.' He looked at them, he understood them and he just shook his head and said, 'I guess we got to to do it.'"
BUT THIS IS WHAT THE PUBLIC GOT:
"The President appeared at a Sunday evening news briefing in which he rattled off multiple false statements, called corporate CEOs to the mic to praise his leadership and falsely and personally attacked journalists who asked him tough questions.
He also bizarrely appeared to accuse health workers of stealing surgical masks amid huge shortages brought on by terrible conditions in hospitals and accused states of "hoarding" ventilators. Trump also boasted about his own TV ratings."
AND WHEN HE GOT TO THE BAD NEWS, HE EVEN DELIVERED THAT WITH THIS SPIN:
"Trump predicted his decision would save hundreds of thousands of lives, in an apparent moving of the political goalposts to account for the fast worsening US pandemic.
"2.2 million people would have died if we didn't do what we are doing," the President said.
"If we can hold that number down ... to 100,000, it's a horrible number, maybe even less ... we all, all together have done a very good job," Trump said."
