President Trump's coronavirus briefings are making a comeback.
Trump told reporters on Monday that he'll start holding daily coronavirus briefings again, likely starting on Tuesday.
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Trump described the briefings as a "great way to get information out to the public as to where we are with the vaccines, with the therapeutics, and generally speaking where we are," saying they'd take place in the previous "good slot" of 5:00. The briefings will resume at a time when the U.S. has been breaking records for the number of new COVID-19 cases.
The New York Times previously reported that some Republicans had privately pushed for more coronavirus briefings led by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. "The more they turn the briefings over to the professionals, the better," Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) told the Times.
As The Associated Press' Jonathan Lemire notes, the White House coronavirus briefings were previously ended not long after President Trump floated the idea of injecting disinfectants to cure COVID-19. At the time, Axios reported that Trump's advisers "told him he's overexposed and these appearances are part of the reason polls aren't looking good for him right now against Joe Biden."
-
Political cartoons for November 29Cartoons Saturday's political cartoons include Kash Patel's travel perks, believing in Congress, and more
-
Nigel Farage: was he a teenage racist?Talking Point Farage’s denials have been ‘slippery’, but should claims from Reform leader’s schooldays be on the news agenda?
-
Pushing for peace: is Trump appeasing Moscow?In Depth European leaders succeeded in bringing themselves in from the cold and softening Moscow’s terms, but Kyiv still faces an unenviable choice
-
Judge halts Trump’s DC Guard deploymentSpeed Read The Trump administration has ‘infringed upon the District’s right to govern itself,’ the judge ruled
-
Trump accuses Democrats of sedition meriting ‘death’Speed Read The president called for Democratic lawmakers to be arrested for urging the military to refuse illegal orders
-
Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymanderSpeed Read The Texas congressional map ordered by Trump is likely an illegal racial gerrymander, the court ruled
-
Trump defends Saudi prince, shrugs off Khashoggi murderSpeed Read The president rebuked an ABC News reporter for asking Mohammed bin Salman about the death of a Washington Post journalist at the Saudi Consulate in 2018
-
Congress passes bill to force release of Epstein filesSpeed Read The Justice Department will release all files from its Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation
-
Trump says he will sell F-35 jets to Saudi ArabiaSpeed Read The president plans to make several deals with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week
-
Judge blasts ‘profound’ errors in Comey caseSpeed Read ‘Government misconduct’ may necessitate dismissing the charges against the former FBI director altogether
-
Ecuador rejects push to allow US military basesSpeed Read Voters rejected a repeal of a constitutional ban on US and other foreign military bases in the country
