“President Donald Trump is moving to repair a damaging media narrative as coronavirus infections spiral back out of control just over 100 days before November’s general election” Politico reports.
“Trump, whose poll numbers have suffered as he has been hammered for the administration’s stammering response, is setting in motion a new White House communications effort focused on the pandemic and seeking to shift attention to crime in major American cities.”
“In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, Trump repeated his claim that the United States is ‘doing very well’ combating the virus compared to ‘most other countries’ — even as spiking caseloads put the U.S. far ahead of other industrialized nations — and touted the ‘Tremendous progress being made on Vaccines and Therapeutics’ to treat the highly infectious disease.”