https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465 ... For six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administration’s own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak — resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Members of Congress have grilled top officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield over the government’s biggest mistake: failing to secure enough testing to head off a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. But many current and former Trump administration officials say the true management failure was Trump’s. “It always ladders to the top,” said one person helping advise the administration’s response, who noted that Trump’s aides discouraged Azar from briefing the president about the coronavirus threat back in January. “Trump’s created an atmosphere where the judgment of his staff is that he shouldn’t need to know these things.” Interviews with 13 current and former officials, as well as individuals close to the White House, painted a picture of a president who rewards those underlings who tell him what he wants to hear while shunning those who deliver bad news. For instance, aides heaped praise on Trump for his efforts to lock down travel from China — appealing to the president’s comfort zone of border security — but failed to convey the importance of doing simultaneous community testing, which could have uncovered a potential U.S. outbreak. Government officials and independent scientists now fear that the coronavirus has been silently spreading in the United States for weeks, as unexplained cases have popped up in more than 25 states. “It’s a clearly difficult situation when the top wants to hear certain answers,” said one former official who’s briefed the White House. “That can make it difficult for folks to express their true assessment — even the most experienced and independent minds.” While Trump last week allowed hospitals and labs to start developing their own coronavirus tests, wrongly blaming Obama administration regulations for a delay, the same move could have been made weeks ago had the president and his advisers felt it was necessary, said two officials.
This is trash journalism. The attribution is fuzzy -- no named sources -- and it doesn't even say under the condition of anonymity due to x circumstance. It's like we have come to expect this type of trash. Plus, what is this supposed to do? I wonder if the response would have been better if we weren't going through that impeachment circus! This is trash!
Somewhere on NEWS I saw him saying “we will keep folks on ship with tested positive, to keep the numbers low.”
Maybe he meant to contain the virus, reducing its spread
politico is fake news
😂 after all the other failed attempts I was sure they will try to pin this on Trump too.
Trump's behavior reminds me alot of why the Chinese officials fudged their numbers and kept quiet about the outbreak when it started... The guy on top doesn't want to hear bad news so they all just sweep it under a rug and pretend it's not there hoping it'll go away. ... and now we have the same results; wide uncontrolled spread. I hope Trump isn't thinking of quarantining cities like China did. That won't fly here.
This is because Trump cares more about the stock market than people’s health.
Better than Bernie Sanders who would undermine our entire economy and financial system.
There will be no economy left once trump is done mismanaging covid19 and we go into deep recession
Well Bernie isn’t the one in office so there is no solid data. We have data on Trump and the mismanagement stated in this post.