Imagine being more worried about the stock market than a predicted pandemic

Coronavirus

One consistent picture that emerges right now is that Donald Trump is more concerned[1] about the stock market drop[2] than he is a predicted pandemic.[3]

Gunjan Banerji, “Stocks Suffer Biggest Weekly Losses Since 2008,” Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-markets-head-toward-correction-territory-as-coronavirus-spooks-investors-11582864550

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary,” February 28, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html

Dana Milbank, “For Trump, a reckoning has come,” Washington Post, February 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/28/trump-reckoning-has-come/

Paul Waldman, “How coronavirus has deeply flummoxed conservative media,” Washington Post, February 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/28/how-coronavirus-has-deeply-flummuxed-conservative-media/


David Brooks


  1. [1]Dana Milbank, “For Trump, a reckoning has come,” Washington Post, February 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/28/trump-reckoning-has-come/; Paul Waldman, “How coronavirus has deeply flummoxed conservative media,” Washington Post, February 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/28/how-coronavirus-has-deeply-flummuxed-conservative-media/
  2. [2]Gunjan Banerji, “Stocks Suffer Biggest Weekly Losses Since 2008,” Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-markets-head-toward-correction-territory-as-coronavirus-spooks-investors-11582864550
  3. [3]Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary,” February 28, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html

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