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For any copyright, please send me a message. Donald Trump has built his formidable career in public life atop one fundamental insight: What passes for reality in American society is far more malleable than most people are inclined to believe. The mogul became a great businessman by playing one on TV. He turned himself into a viable candidate for the presidency by having the audacity to present himself as such. And throughout his first term in office, Trump has overcome indisputable evidence of his own gross malfeasance through sheer force of mendacity (along with a little help from his friends). The president’s “fake it till you shake it” strategy has gotten him out of one improbable jam after another. In collusion with Fox News and congressional Republicans, Trump transformed his campaign’s manifestly unsavory contacts with a foreign government into a tale of FBI overreach; his well-documented attempts to engineer legal troubles for his domestic political foes into a story about a “witch hunt” over a “perfect phone call”; and a historic rebuke by members of his own party into “total exoneration.” Thus, from one angle, the fact that Trump is trying to bluff his way out of an incipient pandemic makes sense. But from every other angle it’s batshit insane. The Trump administration’s own health officials have declared the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (a.k.a. COVID-19) “inevitable,” and implored Americans to prepare for the possibility of “severe” disruptions to everyday life. In Japan, the virus’s arrival has already led Shinzo Abe’s government to shutter all schools for as long as a month. In Italy, efforts to contain the bug have paralyzed the commercial center of Milan. And on Thursday, for the first time, an American who did not travel to an afflicted region was diagnosed with the ailment. Faced with this set of facts, a rational administration would be crafting its messaging around the assumptions that (1) things are going to get worse before they get better and therefore (2) it’s best not to set the public’s expectations for how comprehensively their president can’t shield them from harm too high. But Trump’s White House has done the opposite. On Monday, the president declared, “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” before advising his supporters that the “Stock Market [is] starting to look very good to me!” This proved to be poor investment advice. And yet, three days, hundreds of new coronavirus cases, and a couple thousand-point declines in the Dow Jones later, Trump reiterated his triumphalist message. “The risk to the American people remains very low,” Trump said on Thursday. “We’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum … We’re going to be pretty soon at only five p
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