.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump touts virus testing policy that does not exist
But that wasn't the only relevant detail that Trump flubbed yesterday. As part of the same Q&A with reporters, the president was asked about his new policy on flight restrictions from Europe, which won't apply to Americans returning home from abroad. A reporter noted,"Can't an American still bring back coronavirus?""Sure. But we have them very heavily tested. If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we're testing.
This may have sounded vaguely reassuring, and the president delivered these comments with great confidence, as if he were certain in his response. That's a shame: as Rachel noted on the show last night, the policy Trump described is"not true at all."added overnight,"The president claimed that anyone who wanted to board a flight to the United States must first test negative for the virus, although there is no such policy.
I'm always curious in situations like these how and why Trump managed to get something like this so terribly wrong. Did he simply invent a policy that he thought sounded good and present it as if it were real? Did someone tell him such a policy exists? Did he see something via conservative media he didn't fully understand?
Whatever the explanation, such casual misstatements of fact -- during a crisis, about matters of public health -- further undermine the credibility of a president who didn't have credibility to spare.
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