Latest from Anne Gearan
The president invites big business to work on the virus response; they get a plug, and he gets a lot of praise.
- Mar 31, 2020
Trump’s sarcastic response to Mitt Romney’s negative test for coronavirus follows years of bad blood
Trump’s feud with the Utah Republican dates to 2012 but took on new vitriol with Romney’s vote for impeachment conviction.
- Mar 25, 2020
Political appointee Lana Marks told staff she would not have conracted the virus because it could not survive the Florida heat.
- Mar 20, 2020
The president says China could have stopped the illness but didn’t, attacks reporters and doubles down on the term “Chinese virus.”
- Mar 19, 2020
President Trump said his description of the outbreak as the “Chinese virus” was not racist, merely descriptive, and accused China of disinformation.
- Mar 17, 2020
American officials brace for “more suffering and death.” In Europe, additional countries close their borders to combat the pandemic.
- Mar 14, 2020
The president said he might be tested “fairly soon” but questioned the need to do so because “we have no symptoms whatsoever.”
- Mar 13, 2020
“I’m not concerned,” the president said about the interaction, his latest coronavirus close call.
- Mar 12, 2020
The president’s handling of the crisis, including a surprise decision to ban travel from Europe, is drawing warnings that isolationism will only harm an already fraught situation.
- Mar 12, 2020