Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer offered advice Tuesday to President Trump, who announced the day before that he will reinstate his coronavirus briefings amid a further spike in COVID-19 cases across the globe. country.
Fleischer, a Fox News contributor, told “Outnumbered” that instead of holding briefings on the coronavirus, the president should spend the next few weeks holding events across the country “highlighting what his administration is doing to show how much he cares and that he is aware. “
“We had very successful briefings, we had a lot of people watching, a record number of people watching,” Trump said after a meeting of the Oval Office with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, the leader of the House Minority Kevin McCarthy, Republican California, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday. “In the history of cable television, there has never been anything like this.”
“Frankly, much of the country has been fine, as many people don’t say, as you understand. But we have had this big outbreak in Florida, Texas, other places. So I think what we are going to do is get involved and start doing briefings, ”Trump continued. He said his first briefing would be Tuesday at 5 p.m.
Trump said the briefings would be a “great way” to obtain information on the status of coronavirus vaccines and therapies. The White House said the briefings will be brief, but that the president will answer questions.
“Unless and until the president communicates effectively in the crown, much of the country is not going to hear anything he wants to say about the economy or public safety,” Fleischer said. “Corona remains the number one problem on the minds of most Americans, so he has to deal with that first hurdle well to get to the other problems.”
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He went on to say, “I don’t like going into the meeting room because I think the meeting room turns into a fight and that doesn’t help anyone.”
“I think this administration has done a lot,” he continued. “They have sent so many doctors, so many nurses to understaffed areas and so many masks, so much equipment to hot spots across the country.”
He then noted that he believes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are “doing everything they should be doing, but the president you’re not getting the credit. “
“What I would do instead of going to the meeting room is for the president to go to warehouses where trucks are rolling with medication for hot spots. Give a 15-minute speech there, say goodbye to the trucks, ”Fleischer said. “Go where the nurses are being redistributed. Thanks to the nurses.
He explained that it is important “to put the president in the center of the action” and that “the action is not in the meeting room.”
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“Action is what this administration is really doing across the field,” Fleischer continued.
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
