"I don't want to cause a panic" is such a perfect distillation of the shittiness of Trump's leadership during this crisis.
Like, there's middle ground between "it will go away on its own" and "EVERYBODY PANIC" and Trump is just too insanely stupid and self-absorbed to find it.
So he chose the "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes" approach, and when people could see that their eyes were not lying, they panicked. And he spends months not getting how this contradiction is hurting him.
It just can't be pointed out enough that during this pandemic, the biggest concern the President of the United States has is its effect on his re-election chances.
Definitely talking to the people with their fingers on New York's pulse, good job.
He blocked me but maybe @jwpetersnyt would like to know that Gina Anders, the Republican businesswoman he interviewed who still likes Trump, is not your ordinary suburban GOP voter! Come along to a couple of links I found in 5 seconds on Google! 1/x
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Here's a story from a West Virginia paper two months ago that IDs Anders as a zealous Tea Party type who, while living in the area, founded something called the Liberty Political Action Committee.