You are distracted. The consistent message from Trump, Pence, Fauci, Birks, Azar and others is the protective measures and the behaviors we all should adopt in the face of COVID-19. Those have never changed and they are mentioned with almost every public statement. If you wish to be distracted by old news about campaign rallies or whether containment was the objective or ever happened, that's on you. All that stuff is irrelevant to what we all have been told to do.
I wouldn't call Wednesday night a train wreck, but I certainly see how those so predisposed would. True, Trump was subdued and dower. He read from a less than well written script. He didn't read it well. He clearly said American Citizens were an exception to the travel ban, yet others either ignored that exception or simply didn't hear it because of TDS. I don't know if the word "only" was in the transcript or not as he spoke about trade. That was in the part of the speech about exceptions to the travel ban. I think he was saying that trade was also an exception. I agree, the word "only" was a flub that needed to be cleared up.
It's absolutely laughable that many Democrats and others are making a big deal out of a his label of this as a "foreign" virus. It IS a foreign virus. It originated in China and is now centered in Europe because the virus migrated through human travel. You do know how the virus travels, right? The vector is all incoming to the US not out going. Realizing that this virus comes for overseas and is foreign is necessary to understand the reason for travel bans.
Finally, Trump once again Wednesday night emphasized the role each of us, individually, play in fighting the virus. That wasn't a train wreck message either.
