Trump abandoned the vaguely presidential tone he displayed yesterday for his usual mix of false claims and self-promotion
Photo: Getty Images For the first White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing in weeks, the president was cautiously praised for his “somber” tone while reading directly from his prepared statements. While his “wish her well” message to alleged sex trafficker and former acquaintance Ghislaine Maxwell was questioned for a slew of reasons, his admission that the pandemic will “probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better” was commended as “realistic.
But for day two of the revived exercise, the president did not live up to the circumspect hype — as is normal following past temporary changes in the president’s tone. Though Tuesday’s briefing also contained his usual grab-bag of factual errors, Trump’s Wednesday appearance returned to the self-promotional false-claims hour that caused news networks to stop airing the briefings in their entirety in April. Below are some of the more egregious statements made by the president on Wednesday.
Trump says he’s done more for Black Americans than any president with the “possible exception” of Lincoln. The successor to the nation’s first Black president appears to have forgotten about his tax cuts which have disproportionately hurt African-American households, as well as ignoring the entire Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Wednesday was quite a day for ahistorical claims on race by 2020 candidates: In a town hall, Joe Biden said Trump was the “first” racist president, overlooking the 12 American executives who have personally owned slaves, among other noted bigots-in-chief.
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