Daily White House Briefings May Soon End

After a ton of criticism regarding the factual legitimacy and inconsistencies of Trump’s daily press briefings on the coronavirus, CNN reported that there is apparently serious pushback within the White House to end these briefings.  

Not long ago, Trump had bragged that these press briefings were rated number one on television. That boast seemed like it not only betrayed the president’s shallowness, but his seeming indifference towards the victims of the Covid-19 crisis.              

Again, Trump has received a hell of a lot of criticism, especially when he seemed to promote questionable solutions and medical procedures that were, according to him, potentially very helpful to combating the coronavirus.              

This came to a head earlier in the week when Trump made strange sounding claims about putting a light inside of the human body and watching the injections of disinfection to combat the coronavirus. There was massive outrage by professional medical experts and the media, as well as those opposed to Trump more generally, when he did this. The concerns ranged from him not being qualified as an expert, and potentially promoting solutions that could in fact prove harmful for anyone who took this at face value and attempted it.              

I myself got in some arguments about this with some Trump fans on my personal Facebook page. There was some name-calling on the part of a couple of Trump fans, who called me “absolutely nuts” on one case, and a “moron” in another.

But one guy, an old high school classmate who seems to have a lukewarm support of Trump, responded without insults, and stated that he does not know how Trump's words seemed to be taken as promoting injecting Lysol as some cure to Covid-19. And so I responded to him, trying to remain respectful. This following was my response:

I stated that Trump suggested injecting disinfectants as a possible for the coronavirus. Afterward, he claimed that he was being sarcastic. "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen." So my question is, which one is it? Is it your interpretation, that it's not such a ridiculous idea. Or is it what Trump is now saying, that he was being sarcastic? You can't have it both ways. And clearly, people will take him seriously. So was he suggesting something that is sound, medically, or was he being sarcastic? Another question: would it not be better simply to step aside for once, and let people who are truly qualified as experts in the field finally actually have a say? Or does it always have to revolve around him? If you are surprised that people mock him relentlessly, it seems to me an obvious reaction to someone who claims to always be right, can never admit to making a mistake (I literally can't think of one instance when he did that), and hypes himself and his abilities to such preposterous levels that it is almost begging people to prove him wrong. And whether or not you are willing to admit it, he has been proven wrong quite a lot now. Even his political allies will admit that he plays fast and loose with the truth.