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Cooper: Trump has to battle media in battling coronavirus

The New York Times / President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room on Monday on the coronavirus.
The New York Times / President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room on Monday on the coronavirus. The New York Times / President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room on Monday on the coronavirus.

If President Donald Trump appeared today to announce a cure for the coronavirus, the national media would fault him for keeping them in the dark, for taking a victory lap by making the announcement himself or by saying the announcement was timed so the roaring economy wouldn’t falter.

We exaggerate a little, but not much.

If one constantly stayed tune to the national media, one would not think Trump had done anything right about the virus.

But national experts praised his early bans on travel from China and Europe.

Indeed, former White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson said Trump’s “quick and decisive actions” are likely to keep the virus from spreading in the United States as it has in other places.