Trump’s Attempt at an Un-Trumpian Image

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"The new era of briefings began with a series of concessions that would have been unthinkable earlier in the month. It’s almost as if someone handed the president his own folder labeled Things Trump Will Never Say and forced him to recite them anyway. The pandemic, he said, “will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better.” This was “something I don’t like saying about things,” he added, which isn’t true at all: The president takes undeniable relish in limning the disasters that await the country should it be swinish enough not to reelect him. No one thinks of Donald “American Carnage” Trump as President Pollyanna. What he means is he dislikes speaking negatively on matters that he is personally involved in, and predicting bad news about the virus implicates him in the bad news. This was a first.

Most unexpected, the president has taken to carrying around a mask in his coat pocket. “Whether you like the mask or not,” he advised, “they have an impact.” He even suggested that his own vacillation on the topic of masks has been a result, as his detractors say, of following the science."

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Trump’s Attempt at an Un-Trumpian Image