During Monday’s
Coronavirus briefing, the president talked over reporter Paula Reid – a pattern he seems to follow when talking to female journalists Coronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump seems to have misplaced an entire six weeks recently: he is yet to account for what he did in the first six weeks after the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the US.
Yesterday, the CBS reporter Paula Reid was determined to ask him about it at a
White House press conference. “How do you close down the greatest
economy in the history of the world when, on January 17, you have no cases [of Covid-19 in the US] and no deaths?” he replied. “On January 21, you have one case and no deaths. Think of that, we’re supposed to close down the country?”