<p>President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he would be canceling &#8212; or, at least, limiting &#8212; his daily coronavirus briefings after a week of brutal clashes with mainstream reporters, a dustup with CNN, and an incident that saw members of the media wrongly portray a question, asked by Trump himself, as a suggestion that Americans should inject themselves with bleach or other disinfectants.</p>
<p>In a tweet Saturday night, Trump lashed out at members of the media who, he claims, have rendered the daily briefings pointless with their confrontational attitudes.</p>
<p>&#8220;What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, &amp; then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,&#8221; Trump complained on Twitter. &#8220;They get record ratings, &amp; the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time &amp; effort!&#8221;</p>
<p>Friday was Trump&#8217;s shortest presser of the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; a mere 25-minute briefing with no question and answer period. The president clearly cut the briefing short after finding himself under a deluge of criticism for allegedly suggesting that Americans inject themselves with bleach or other chemical disinfectants to fight the virus &#8212; a &#8220;suggestion&#8221; that was either a question about complex UV and disinfectant treatments on which the president had been counseled, or a &#8220;sarcastic&#8221; remark to a reporter, as the president later claimed.</p>
<p>Either way, the suggestion, which went viral, caused a media frenzy, with outlets reporting on an increase of calls to poison control (which was, apparently, unrelated, and part of a long-term trend completely unrelated to the president) and issuing dire warnings against drinking Clorox.</p>
<p>The incident clearly troubled Trump, who called time on the press conferences after, <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-daily-coronavirus-briefings-809becf3-9913-4b71-9f92-1930ad1d29b0.html">Axios says</a>, consulting with &#8220;three or four&#8221; White House officials who pressed Trump to either shorten or end the briefings altogether.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve told him he&#8217;s overexposed and these appearances are part of the reason polls aren&#8217;t looking good for him right now against Joe Biden,&#8221; the outlet reported Saturday. &#8220;Another source close to the deliberations said there simply isn&#8217;t enough new material to justify Trump appearing before the press every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Seniors are scared,&#8221; a source told Axios, referring to senior White House advisors. &#8220;And the spectacle of him fighting with the press isn&#8217;t what people want to see.&#8221;</p>
<p>Instead, reporters will likely receive a short briefing from experts &#8212; perhaps daily, or perhaps several times per week &#8212; and Trump&#8217;s appearances will be sporadic and unannounced, and limited to announcing victories. It&#8217;s also possible that the briefings could tighten up, instead of being &#8220;freewheeling,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/white-house-briefings-coronavirus/index.html">as CNN describes them,</a> lasting for minutes rather than for hours.</p>
<p>No final decision has been made, White House sources cautioned Axios, and Trump likes the briefings &#8212; he&#8217;s often spoken about how he&#8217;s now getting &#8220;Bachelor-like&#8221; ratings on Twitter and elsewhere &#8212; but Axios does say that the White House was considering ending the daily briefings even before Thursday&#8217;s incident as a way of demonstrating to the country that things are getting back to normal, that life in the White House is &#8220;slowing down,&#8221; and that a daily medical and technological briefing are no longer necessary.</p>
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