On Thursday, writing for The Bulwark, conservative columnist Priscilla Jensen savaged President Donald Trump for his inability to lead on the coronavirus pandemic.
“For only the second time, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office Wednesday night, in an attempt to convey gravitas and determination in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic now affecting the United States,” wrote Jensen. “But if he was aware that he needed a drastic change of course after a disastrous six weeks of underplaying the looming pandemic, he didn’t get the reset he was thinking of.”
Trump’s travel ban, Jensen wrote, made no sense, “blindsided” European leaders, and needlessly antagonized allies. And his promise that health insurance companies would cover treatment for free took them by surprise too.