Watching the Tuesday evening news conference by President Donald Trump about the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic was a vivid demonstration of failed leadership and communication.
This dearth in leadership and communication is not only relegated to the United States. In the initial period of the COVID-19 outbreak, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party chose to obfuscate the truth behind the severity of the outbreak and prioritize its legitimacy and position of power.
Trump's obvious poor grasp of details and inability to put together a coherent and confident message to the American public in the midst of perhaps the greatest crisis the United States has faced in the post-World War II period contrasted drastically with his White House coronavirus task force, which includes Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the task force; Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of the task force.