President Trump had a lot to say after he toured the CDC on March 6, and very little of it will make anyone other than President Trump feel better about his administration’s response to the coronavirus. At a press conference in an empty CDC lab in the agency’s headquarters, the president compared the federal government’s failed efforts to boost U.S. testing for the coronavirus to the phone call which got him impeached, claimed he had “a natural ability” to understand the outbreak, attacked the governor of the worst-hit state, implied he was superficially motivated to keep the number of U.S. cases down and asked about his Fox News ratings.
New York Magazine: Trump call coronavirus testing as ‘perfect’ as Ukraine call
US President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper that displays a headline "Acquitted" as he arrives to speak at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 6, 2020 in Washington, DC.
