Trump Says Everybody Enjoyed His Coronavirus Briefings
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I don’t know about you, but after a long day at work, I love to sit down in front of the TV at dinner time and watch the President of the United States discuss how the coronavirus is sweeping across the country killing people.
I really enjoy that.
And it appears I’m not the only one. In speaking with the New York Post, Donald Trump says “everybody” enjoyed his White House coronavirus briefings — including himself — and vowed they will be back, just not daily.
So, EVERYONE else enjoyed hearing the President telling us that we should think about injecting our bodies with bleach and then hitting it with a powerful light.
Then Trump, ignoring the 70,000+ people that are dead, said that his briefings are great for TV ratings. “We set every record with those press conferences. Six million people all the time. You know we had tremendous numbers, literally, it was in [Fox News host] Bret Baier’s slot, and we did like 30 in a row,” Trump said. “I heard, is this true? It was the highest-rated hour in cable television history. That’s what I heard. I don’t know if that’s true.”
As for his clashes with Reporters, Trump says he enjoys sparring with reporters in the White House briefing room and that he believes “everybody” likes watching it, even senior citizens who his advisers began to believe were being turned off by hostile exchanges.
“I was told that some people didn’t like the combative attitude so much. And I can a little bit understand that. But I would say from the standpoint of watching it and wanting to watch, that would be more interesting than having boring questions asked. “
He singled out two CBS News journalists as people who particularly irritated him — Weijia Jiang and Paula Reid — during the briefings. “It wasn’t Donna Reed, I can tell you that,” Trump said, referring to the film and TV star best known for playing Mary Bailey in “It’s A Wonderful Life” and later starring as the mom in an eponymous family TV sitcom of the ’50s and ’60s. “Paula Reid, she’s sitting there and I say, ‘How angry. I mean, what’s the purpose?’ They’re not even tough questions, but you see the attitude of these people, it’s like incredible.
Reid responded to Trump on Twitter:
