Confirming @jonathanvswan great reporting in here about yesterday’s task force tensions. The president wasn’t supposed to do a briefing today, but has told several advisers they are free tv and high ratings for him. https://t.co/f43f8h5uNc— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 6, 2020
The only Trump statements that should have been quoted from this briefing are, “What do I know? I’m not a doctor” and that he does these briefings not to inform but for the “free airtime and good ratings.” Instead, we get the familiar “feud” framing. /1 https://t.co/a7Bz3rFKKS— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) April 6, 2020
Year three of media handing over live TV access to a president who has systematically used that privilege to undermine faith in the news media, frequently through false claims. https://t.co/K834vIGFk8— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) April 6, 2020
Reporters, when the President interrupts your question, interrupt him back, and when he bellows, EXCUSE ME over and over again, wait until his last EXCUSE ME, and interrupt him again. Don't worry about endless Fox News hit pieces on decorum, hold him accountable, it's the job.— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) April 6, 2020
Or, better yet, stop attending and broadcasting the damn shitshows:
It should go without saying that the President shouldn’t get two hours of free live airtime every day to just ramble his way to reelection, but I’ve given up hope now of cooler heads prevailing.— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 6, 2020
BONUS:
Trump: “What do you have to lose [by taking an unproven drug]?”— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 6, 2020
President of the American Medical Association: “You could lose your life.” pic.twitter.com/AAFkJyDomr
