How the Press Memory-Holed Trump’s Pandemic Train Wreck

He caught hell at the time for mismanaging Covid. But now we indulge Trump’s fantasy that his presidency ended in February 2020.

Oct 21, 2024

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by Timothy Noah

Donald Trump flanked by members of the Coronavirus Task Force, speaks to the media in the press briefing room at the White House on March 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. — Win McNamee/Getty Images

I’m happy as the next guy to mock Donald Trump’s increasingly addled verbiage along the campaign trail, but it’s Trump’s momentary flashes of coherence that worry me most.

I’ve written previously about Trump’s plans—as revealed in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership (much of it repeated in Trump’s Agenda 47 videos…

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