“The president restarted the press briefings last week, after having asserted to his aides that the resulting three months of political floundering had vindicated his instincts to ‘control the agenda’ and to flood the media as much as possible. His return to the lectern, he predicted, would help his poll numbers” reports The Daily Beast.
“But while the early results suggested that maybe Trump could keep a lid—even if just for a couple seconds—on his self-destructive impulses, increasingly, the worst fears of the president’s staff are being realized. ”
‘”When he started doing them again [starting last week], my thought was, ‘Oh, great, this fucking shit again,’’ said a senior administration official who works closely with the White House coronavirus task force. ‘And now we’re all talking about demon ejaculation.'”