THEY CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES: The unbearable pettiness of the Washington press corps

Our not intrepid press corps nearly operates on the premise that the president came late to the crisis when in fact he was on it from moment one, as soon as the truth of it emerged from China too late. The WHO, NIH, and CDC were each wholly unprepared, having spent their billions on social justice projects and studying drunk monkeys. Not one of those three agencies saw the virus as a potential pandemic — not in December or January. Trump did. It is those institutions and the irresponsibility of previous administrations who bear the blame for the shortages of medical equipment and supplies, Gov. Cuomo in particular.

But every question from this press corps is meant to impugn the president's handling of this global event. These people make fools of themselves day after day and are apparently too dim to realize that fact, so they show up the next day and embarrass themselves again. They ask questions that simply cannot be answered at this point. They ask for speculation, then attack him for speculating.

They can't see it because they actually live in a self-created bubble. They reinforce each other and can't see that they are presenting themselves as fools.