“Trump and his doctor have been frank in admitting that the disease he has contracted often runs an unpredictable course and that his condition over the short term is of concern. At the same time, he and his campaign want to present the president as largely unaffected by the virus and on the brink of being back to normal” writes Philip Bump in the Washington Post.
“To do so, it seems, they engaged in a bit of trickery, both traditional and digital. We’d been warned so often in the months leading up to the election about ‘deep fakes’ showing Trump or Biden engaged in some inauthentic behavior. We should also remember that Trump’s campaign itself has often shared misleading or altered digital media.”