“The idea that President Donald Trump has turned some new leaf and is now maturely leading the fight against the pandemic is yet again being exposed as a pure political play by his own behavior” CNN’s Stephen Collinson writes.
“Trump on Monday launched a fresh push to get states to quickly reopen their economies, ignoring the fact that his previous advice on such lines helped spark a surge of cases in the Sun Belt.
Then the President retweeted a video in which a group of doctors make false claims about the virus, including one who says “you don’t need masks” because hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug pushed by the President, is a “cure” in combination with several other drugs. Multiple credible scientific studies say the treatment is ineffective against Covid-19. The video, which went viral on YouTube, was later removed by Facebook and Twitter because it spread misinformation.”