Bob Woodward
It's "not an agenda," the famous Watergate journalist told MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Trump fired back after being told voters were "tired of the chaos," according to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
"That's a pretty good job we're doing," he gloated. Twelve months later, the US coronavirus death toll has passed 510,000.
Newly released recording reveals Trump's strange disconnect about a pandemic he called a "monster" and a "scourge."
"I don't know, to be honest, whether he's got it straight in his head what is real and what is unreal," the journalist told Anderson Cooper.
The president is on record as telling reporter Bob Woodward he downplayed the threat.
In an appearance on "The Late Show," Bob Woodward shared a new recording that revealed the president's private alarm over the virus.
"Each time I convince myself that this president cannot be worse, I'm proven wrong. Seemingly, there is no bottom for this man... and now my dad is gone."
The president received a near-instant fact-check after likening his response to the coronavirus pandemic to the late British leader's wartime comments.
The president told journalist Bob Woodward in July that he'd actually give himself an A-plus "if we come up with the vaccines and therapeutics."