Trump only started taking the coronavirus seriously when he saw a Tucker Carlson monologue on Fox News that said 'This is real', report says
President Donald Trump was finally persuaded to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously after watching Fox News host Tucker Carlson talking about it on his show last week,
Carlson's monologue — in which he said bluntly of the epidemic "this is real" — is said to have changed Trump's mind.In the opening monologue of the show Carlson — a staunch supporter of Trump who has advised him in an informal capacity — offered a thinly veiled critique of the president and those like him who'd sought to downplay the impact of the disease.
"Maybe they're just not paying attention, or maybe they believe they're serving some higher cause by shading reality. ... And there's an election coming up. Best not to say anything that might help the other side. We get it. But they're wrong."Commenting on the 500 cases which had at that point been recorded in the US, he said: "The real number is without question far higher than that; soon we will have a better sense of just how much higher.
Carlson's stark warning about the likely impact of the disease contrasted with the approach taken by other Fox personalities, who'd spent weeks claiming that the disease was being exaggerated by Democrats and media as part of a plot to damage Trump's presidency.
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