It鈥檚 all on-again-off-again in the White House of an angry Trump
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US President Donald Trump was so angry at the media, and so sore from ridicule over his suggestion that coronavirus patients be injected with disinfectant, that he abandoned his daily briefing on Monday. Well, for a couple hours anyway.
In a confusing series of announcements, the White House scheduled a press conference with Trump for Monday afternoon. Then scrapped it.
Then put it back on.
In the end, Trump held forth in the Rose Garden. It was by his standards a largely drama free event, where he pronounced America鈥檚 pandemic and economic crisis were poised to bottom out and predicted an 鈥渋ncredible鈥 recovery.
鈥淓very day it gets better,鈥 said the Republican president, whose reelection campaign has been upended by the sudden crisis.
This was Trump鈥檚 latest attempt at damage control after criticism 鈥 even from some in his own party 鈥 that the daily briefings were too combative, turning into miniature versions of his now suspended campaign rallies.
On Thursday, he sparked a public relations disaster when he suggested people could possibly inject disinfectants to fight the virus.
A barrage of scorn, alarm and criticism ensued around the world.
The next day, an angry Trump left the briefing without taking questions. Over the weekend, no briefing was held. Then came Monday鈥檚 mixed message.
鈥淲e like to keep reporters on their toes,鈥 White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah tweeted, with the light-hearted addition of a winking emoji.
There鈥檚 been no such humor coming from the Oval Office 鈥 except, possibly, for the sarcastic kind.
Trump has been incensed by unflattering newspaper reports about his work habits and frequent use of the sometimes two-hour briefings to praise himself, while battering rivals.
After his disinfectant comment he claimed it was sarcasm aimed at journalists during the press conference, although he鈥檇 clearly been talking directly to his medical advisors, not the journalists, and there was no sarcasm apparent in his voice.
Over the weekend, he also used the sarcasm defense to explain a bizarre tweet in which he told journalists whom he believes treat him unfairly to give back their 鈥淣oble Prizes.鈥
When the Twitterverse lit up with questions about why Trump was misspelling the Nobel Prize, which is not even awarded to journalists, and whether he really had meant to say the Pulitzer Prize, the president complained: 鈥淒oes sarcasm ever work?鈥
Early on Monday, Trump kept up the anti-media tweet storm, writing: 鈥淔AKE NEWS, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!鈥
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