It took a surge of nearly two million coronavirus cases over the last month — and the spate of devastating polls that ensued — for President Trump to finally begin acknowledging the reality of the coronavirus pandemic
"It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better," Trump read grimly from a script during a subdued news conference on Tuesday, looking up from the podium to concede the gloom didn't exactly come naturally:"Something I don't like saying about things, but that's the way it is.
Trump defends solo news conferences without Fauci or BirxArmed with those and similarly concerning internal poll numbers, Trump's political advisers and White House aides have urged Trump in recent weeks to take surging cases of the virus more seriously, warning him that his political prospects were increasingly linked to his handling of the pandemic.
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