Sunday, June 28, 2020

President Trump flip-flops on saying he pushed for less coronavirus testing














The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a pocket Emergency Card on Crisis Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) which I blogged about back on May 30, 2014. On the rear at the bottom it says in red that:
“CONSISTENT MESSAGES ARE VITAL”

Instead during the current coronavirus pandemic crisis the Trump administration has flip-flopped. A recent example concerns testing. During his speech at the Tulsa, Oklahoma rally on June 20, 2020 President Trump stated:

“So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’ “

Then on June 21, 2020 at USA Today an article by Jeanine Santucci said that trade adviser Peter Navarro had said the statement was in jest: White House adviser says Trump’s call for less coronavirus testing was ‘tongue in cheek.’

But on June 23, 2020 Trump was quoted on Twitter in replying to Weija Jiang as saying: ‘I don’t kid.’

Finally, on June 26, 2020 at Politico an article by Jordan Muller reported Trump says push for less coronavirus testing was sarcasm. What does he really think? Who knows!

The image of flip flops was adapted from one at Wikimedia Commons.

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