Donald Trump has lamented his lack of popularity compared to members of his White House Coronavirus Task Force like Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Deborah Birx in an extraordinary press conference, apparently overlooking the fact that more than 150,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 on his watch.
The president also defended Texas doctor Stella Immanuel after a video he retweeted in which she alleges a cure for the virus exists and is being suppressed was taken down by Twitter, describing the physician and pastor – who believes that alien DNA is being used in pharmaceuticals and who counsels against sex with demons – as “very impressive”.
While Trump was back promoting hydroxychloroquine, his attorney general, William Barr, was put to the sword by Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives as he sought to champion his tenure and answer criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of heated Black Lives Matter protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd.