The president’s false account of his trip to a secure bunker is part of a larger effort to downplay or whitewash the administration’s handling of the George Floyd protests.
The slow release of statistics on the virus’s effect based on race was an early flare that the response to the disease would follow familiar racial lines.
In their statements, however, was an implicit recognition that they had failed during their own tenures as president to solve the problem that has plagued the country throughout its history.