Some allies worry President Trump is damaging his reelection prospects with his dominance of the briefing room during a public health and economic crisis
Donald Trump’s top aides are fiercely debating a question their boss rarely confronted during his decades of jousting with tabloid newspapers, starring on reality TV shows and running a media-soaked presidential campaign: whether there’s such a thing as too much Donald Trump.
And health experts — including on his own staff — have watched in horror as he’s promoted untested cures for the deadly virus and retweeted calls for the firing of top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. The evolving approach was on full display Friday, when the daily coronavirus task force briefing lasted less than 30 minutes and Trump declined to field questions from journalists in the room — a first for his own coronavirus briefings.
“I do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “But I’d like them now to look as it pertains to the human body… I’d like to look as it pertains because maybe there’s something there.” Recently, several White House aides began urging the president to make the briefings far shorter and to only approach the podium to deliver announcements or tout victories, while leaving the technical aspects to the numerous health officials who typically join him at the dais. One Trump adviser said the ideal briefing would be 30 minutes long: 10 minutes for Trump, 10 minutes for his health officials and a final 10 minutes for questions.
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