Trump Propaganda

Trump is spreading propaganda by means of his (for now) daily press briefing. He babbles about generalities, touts "new medical breakthroughs" that are completely bogus (like chloroquine, which is effective against malaria, a parasite-based disease and in no way related to disease spread by viruses), and glosses over the failure to provide protective equipment for health care personnel like gloves, masks, and respirators. But as Charlie Pierce says, in an article at Esquire entitled "It's Time to Quarantine the Crazy Coming Out of the White House":

"But the presser didn’t go zooming off the rails until a “reporter” named Chanel Rion from One America News, the outlet that the president* watches when Fox News gets too Chomsky for him, chimed in from the izonkosphere.

On that note, major left-wing media, including some in this room, have teamed up with Chinese Communist Party narratives and they're claiming you’re a racist for making these claims about Chinese virus. Is it alarming that major media who just oppose you are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels, and they work right here in the White House with direct access to you and your team?"

Charlie points out that the problem is that someone insists on telling Trump the place and time the briefing is to be held.