Thread by @ChrisMegerian

“Some people say don’t wear a mask,” the president says. So much for that message.

This is from the ABC News town hall that’s airing now.

“There are some people who don’t think masks are good,” Trump says. So I guess we’re all done with promoting masks.

There are nearly 200,000 people dead from covid. Asked if he can think of anything that he could have done better, Trump says no.

The president is talking about a “herd mentality.” I assume he means immunity?

Scott Atlas has said he’s never encouraged that. But the president just said Atlas has suggested we could have done that “from the beginning.”

The president is saying how New York was safe under Rudy Giuliani but it’s unsafe now.

Crime is lower now than it was then.

He’s taken a question about how to address racial injustice and rambled his way to discussing how there should be “retribution” for the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s officers.

The president keeps talking about how police do a great job “but there are chokers” who make bad decisions.

Every president lives in a bubble to a certain extent. But it’s particularly pronounced with Trump, who limits most interviews to friendly talk show hosts and rarely attends an event that isn’t packed with rapturous supporters.

This town hall is something very different for him.

Here’s just one example

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1306042734139133952

“Please stop and let me finish my question sir,” one voter just told the president.

“I have it all ready. It’s a much better plan.”

The president is basically saying he has a secret health care plan that’s awesome but he’s not ready to share it with voters.

It’s striking how little new the president has to say. He’s mostly recycling the same things he’s been saying for months or years.