In addition to the usual rambling and nonsense, President Donald Trump’s daily briefings of efforts to contain and combat the coronavirus have featured another regular bit that has begun to reoccur with dreadful predictability.It goes like this: The president is asked a question by a reporter. The president then insults that reporter. Within two minutes, the reporter’s name begins to trend on Twitter. Articles are written, and at least some cable news channels focus their coverage of the press conference not on the number of ventilators that governors have managed to squeeze out of the preside…
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