WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday used the daily White House briefing to air a taxpayer-funded promotional video praising his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak and slamming his critics and the press.
In a highly unusual move at a briefing meant to inform Americans about the pandemic, the lights in the briefing room dimmed for a video running more than 3 minutes that was a montage of officials offering laudatory comments about the president and of Trump discussing his steps to contain the virus. “Everything we did was right,” Trump said, complaining at length about negative press coverage.
He said of the video, “I’ve think I’ve educated a lot of people as to the press.” It amounted to a telling demonstration of the