Trump Press Briefing Meltdown: Claims ‘Total Authority’ Over States, Shows Campaign-Style Video

President Donald Trump had a televised meltdown on Monday, claiming total authority as president and playing a video montage in an attempt to prove that media played down the potential severity of the coronavirus outbreak early on.

The fit was likely in response to a New York Times report published on Saturday headlined, “He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus.” The article states Trump “was warned about the potential for a pandemic … [but] internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.”

Trump began by showing a montage of TV news clips to reporters in the briefing room in an attempt to show that the outlets were equally guilty of trivializing the issue in January, February and early March.