Three months and 80,000 deaths later, President Trump returns to the coronavirus spotlight.
The optics and the mood of the briefing had also changed. Trump was no longer flanked by the doctors and public health officials leading the response, who had joined him at many of the earlier daily sessions. Instead, he took the dais alone. Asked where both of the top doctors involved in the response, Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci, were, he said Birx was"right outside" without mentioning Fauci or addressing why they weren't also taking reporters' questions.
Trump had mostly stayed away from discussing the pandemic in recent weeks, even as the number of cases surged. White House aides hadto keep him distant from the response, hoping that by keeping him out of the day-to-day public narrative, the administration could"depoliticize" the pandemic, a senior administration official said this month.
But some advisers, such as White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, argued that Trump should be more visible on the issue, saying his approval numbers had fallen since he"His approval rating on the pandemic was higher when he was at the podium — it was 51 percent in March — and I think people want to hear from the President of the United States," Conway said last week in response to a question from NBC News.
." He advised Trump to"rise above" and speak past the reporters in the room."Talk personally. Show you care," he wrote.The White House has been hoping to find a middle ground between the freewheeling, hourslong events in April and Trump's relative silence over the past months, an outside adviser said. With the pandemic dominating Americans' daily lives, Trump's move to mention the crisis only in passing has appeared out of touch, the adviser said.
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