From Luke Darby :
Limbaugh’s not alone in claiming that news outlets are trying to use the pandemic to smear Trump—the president agrees. On Wednesday morning, hours before he held a news conference about the country’s coronavirus response, Trump tweeted, “Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!”
At a rambling and medically uniformed press briefing, Trump downplayed the outbreak, saying that it was “a little bit like the flu…and we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner,” even though it will be some time before a vaccine for the new coronavirus is available. He defended his decision to make multiple massive budget cuts at the Centers for Disease Control, hobbling the agency’s preparedness to handle an outbreak. “I’m a businessperson,” he said. “I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them.”